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The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1904-08-17
WHOLESALE MARKETS.

Baltimore. Md.-FLOUR-Firm and
unchanged; receipts, 2,623 barrels; ex-
ports, 3,a65 barrels.
WHEAT-Easier; spot, contract,
o3ssMo3H; spot No. red Western,
95}sGo5H; August, o3BMo3H; Sep
tember, o4A@o4H; October, o5N@o6;
December, oSH; steamer No. 2 red,
86H@86A.
CORN-Dull; spot, 56H@56N; Au-
gust, 5oH@56A September, s76s7N;
year, 40; steamer mixed, s3X6s3N.
OATS-Unsettled; old, No. white.
48a4SH; old, No. mixed, 43HMA.
RYE-Firm; No. 2 Western, 73M
BUTTER--Steady, unchanged; fam
cy imitation, I7GIS; fancy creamery.
IS1ss@Io; fancy ladle, I4@Is; store
packed, Io0I2.
EGGS-Steady, unchanged, IN.
I II + + - Steady, unchanged;
large, 8H@8A; medium, $500; small,
o0oH.
New York-FLOUR-Receipts, 14.-
9o5 barrels; exports, 2,526 barrels; firm
but inactive; winter patents, 485@
5.35; winter straights, 4.5o@475; Min
nesota patents, 5.25@5.65; winter ex-
tids, 3'35B30o, Minnesota bakers,
3.8504.3o; winter low grades, $3.50
$40.
RYE FLOUR-Firm; fair to good.
4.1s@4:4o: choice to fancy. 4.4o@465.
c o RN M ZEAL Steady; yellow
Western, I.ro@I.r2; city, I.I2@I.I5;
kiln dried, 3oo@3.Io.
HAY-Dull; shipping, 62H; good to
choice, o2H.
LARD-Wcak; Western steamed.
us. refined, easy; continent, 7.35;
South America, 7So; compound, szs6
6H. '>'
POTATOES-Easy; Long Island,
I.5o@2o 90; Jersey and Southern, 1.so
OILS: Southern sweets, 3.so64. 50.
PEANUTS - Steady; fancy hand.
picked. 6N: other domestics, $4,000.
CABBAGES-Quiet; Long Island
and Jersey per barrel, 250so.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1904-08-17
COMMERCIAL REVIEW.

r: G.. Dun & Co.'S weekly Review
of Trade" says:
Labor controversies are the most
serious drawbacks to recovery in bus
mess, most other important factors
tending toward improvement. De-
spite some reduction in the yield OF
wheat, crop prospects are most en-
couraging, and the loss in quantity OF
wheat promises to be fully Offset by
higher prices, so that the agricul-
tural communities will be in position
to purchase commodities freely.
Delayed orders for iron and steel
products are being placed, and al
woolen mills there is a notable in.
crease in activity. Railway earnings
IN July were only "a per cent. smaller
than year previous. and at many
cities there is evidence Of returning
confidence. with little improvement
IN mercantile collections. But sever
al strikes in progress and others un-
der consideration mitigate against a
resumption of normal assumptions OF
trade and manufacture.
Failures this week in the UniteJ
States are ago. against 22o last week,
23r the preceding week and 1873 the
corresponding week last year. Fail
ures in Canada number I8, against I8
last week, 20 the preceding week and
10 last year.
Bradstreet's says: Wheat. including
Hour. exports for the week ending
August ! aggregate r,37o.Io8 bushels,
against I,6I3.265 last week, 3oAo.62o
this week last year, 4,21. .36, in 1909
and 8,S3I,Ioo in 1901 From July
TO date the *
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1904-08-17

Don't use oil less than $50 test
Don't help the chick out of the shell.
Don't fail to Ill the lamps every
evening,
Don't set the incubator near the win
dow.
Don't use the same wick for more
than one hatch.
Don't worry with moisture gauges
or hySrometers
Don't turn nor cool the eggs after
they are piping.
Don't neglect cooling the eggs; II
makes strong chicks.
Don't try. to-hatch duck and hen eggs
In the same incubator.
Don't trim the wick with scissors: +:
scrape Off the charred part with a
match.
Don't think you are smarter than the
manufactures of the incubator, for you
have lot to learn.
Don't leave the large ends of the
eggs pointing in different directions: {:
have them all pointing one way.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1904-08-17
Rye or Turnips After Corn.

l nave been sowing rye now for two
years. sow it in the corn field in
September as soon as I can get the
corn in shock. cultivate. then follow
with the grain drill. putting on about
two bushels of rye to the acre. Last
summer ! sOwed some COW horn tur-
nips In the corn at last working in
turnips July. They made good
growth. Sowed rye alongside OF the
turnlps in October. We hauled our
fertilizer out Oh the turaips and rye
last winter. The year before what
land had sowed in rye we manured
In the winter. 1t grew nicely In the
spring. We pastured 1t some. then
plowed 1t down for corn again. 1t be-
Ing cold and wet summer, the corn
was not large crop. We had heavy
hailstorm a few days before 1t came
out In tassel. which put 1t back. did
not use and fertilizer when sowing the
rye. although l believe 1t would make
a stronger growth In the fall. We
plowed 1t under. what stock did not
eat. the last week in April and first OF
May for corn.--John Il. Zook, In the
American Cultivator.
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Age Worth of Seeds.

The seeds of some vegetables are
worthless after they are two years old,
while the seeds of other plants i'm
prove with age until a certain period.
For instance. the seeds of artlchokes S
are good until they are three years old
asparagus, four years: beans. two
years; kidney beans. one year: beets,
ten years; broccoli, four years; cabbage,
four years; carrot, one year; caull-
Hover, four years; celery, ten years;
corn, three years; cucumber, ten years;
egg plant, three years; endve, four
years; kale, four years; leek. two
years; lettuce, three years; melon, ten
years; pea, two years; pumpkin, ten
years; radish, four years; satisfy. two
years; spinach, four years; squash,
ten years; tomato, two years, and tur-
nips. four years.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1904-08-17

by which you can earn a living, and
you shall learn as much music as you
want to- We will make either a singer
or an actress of you, or both, I'll be
bound"
Amadie tried to express her graft
tude.
You don't owe me any thanks" said
he. "You will be sure to earn all you
get from me, to say nothing of what
you have already earned. Come to me
when your week Is up at the variety
shop, and I will advance you a weeks
salary, and my wife will talk to you
about wardrobe and other matters"
SO Amadie Flessell by improving a
chance to make herself useful. gained
a chance for herself. and she-also i'm
proved that chance to very good pur-
pose, indeed. New York Weekly.
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Sweet Potatoes and Melons.

such plants AS sweet potatoes and
melons can endure longer periods of
dry weather than some others, but
much depends on the work of the
grower. No weeds must be allowed to
grow near plants in the rows, as more
moisture is taken from the soil by
weeds than by some crops. Cap.
Dage plants should be worked often.
as they thrive all the better by fire.
quent cultivation. and it should be the
rule to Kill every white butterfly, as
they are the parents Of the cabbage
worms. Much of the injury from
d'ought could be reduced If the farm.
or would keep the surface soil always
loose.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1904-08-17
Poultry Hints.


Small fockS are most profitable
If you set duck eggs under hens. set
them on the ground
One fowl with scurvy legs is apt to
impart the disease to others.
Let the old and the young fowls have
as large a range as possible.
When hen Is fed in food she does
not require it is simply wasted.
hen likes TO scratch. and she
should be given the opportunity.
The character of the food has much
to do with the quality of the egg.
Tobacco stems covered with straw is
an excellent preventive of insect breed.
ing.
Feeding broken oil cake to fowls
twice week will often promote lay.
in..
Clean the eggs as soon as gathered.
Shells are porous and If dirty talnt the
meat.
For layers, pullets hatched after the
middle Of May will not be so prof.
table.
Avoid in and in breeding, that Is
breeding from stock too closely re-
lated.
once well started, 1t Is compare.
lively easy to keep the young chicks
growing
Nothing Is more conducive to the
health or the fowls than plenty of
pure air.
Geese should have plenty Of pasture
and pond, when they will cost but
very little.
Good care at all times and under all
circumstances Is prime necessity In
breeding fowls.
Set the hens In place by them
selves. See that the nests are clean
and free from lice.
If large size and weight are desired
select large hens, but the male should
be active and vigorous.
Never grease sitting hen. for II the
grease gets on the eggs 1t will close
the pores and prevent Matching.
Poultry keeping can be made auxili
ary to other pursuits without infrlng.
Ing upon the time of the keepers.
A mixture OF three ounces of sweet
oil. one ounce of sulphur and twenty
drops Of carbolic acid will cure scaly
legs on fowls.
One OF the best feeds to give fowls
intended for exhibition is fiaxseed
meal with other grains. 1t makes
! them look sleek and glossy and clears
the skin. SuniOwer seed may also be
given two or three times week to an
advantage.
From this time on especially sitting
hens should not be fed while on the
nest. They need all OF the exercise
they are likely to get. Too c0nsta nt
sitting makes them OF bad disposition
and difficult to manage when they
come or with brood.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1904-08-17

for military use. With good military
roads the japanese could have reached
the Yalu River in three weeks instead
Of three months, and a decisiv, battle
with the Cars forces along the rail.
way could have been fought long be-
fore the commencement Of the rainy
season. But without such roads, the
movements of an army are extremely
slow and difficult.
The same difficulty was the most
conspicuous feature at the time Of the
Boxer uprising. The whole civilized
world was kept in suspense for many
weeks by the lack of suitable roads
for the advance Of the allies on Pekin
In Europe the building of roads oc-
cupfes high place in the minds of
statesmen and military leaders. They
would no more think of neglecting the
preparation of roads for military use
than the recruiting of men or the man.
ufacture OF guns. Nearly all the lead.
ing European Powers pay out large
sums for roadbulldng and largely
with a view to possible need in time of
war.
In the early history of our own
country the need OF military roads oc-
cupled large place in the public mind.
Most of the statesmen of that period
are on record as heartily favoring ap.
propriatlons by Congress for building
national highways, which in time of
need could be used for military pur-
poses. With this idea in view the Ma.
tiOnal Pike was constructed. and IA doZ-
en- other great roads were authorized
by Congress, and millions Of dollars
were spent in their construction. Sew
eral Of the roads planned. but never
finished were in the South. The bad.
ness of roads was one of the greatest
obstacles with which the armies had TO
contend during the Civil War.
That the United States ought to be
well supplied with the best of high.
ways, which in case of need, can be
used as military roads, seems too evi.
dent for question. Yet the construc.
ton of such highways appears for
more than half century to have oc.
cupied scarcely any place in the minds
of statesmen. This apparently anom-
alous situation is, however. easy to ex-
plain. In this country we have be-
come so accustomed to looking on the
building Of roads as the duty of the
farmers that the whole matter is left
to be worked out by local communi.
ties The idea seems to be that the
farmers should build the roads for the
Government to use as it may have
need
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1904-08-17
About Wood Ash.

Wood ashes not only contain potash.
but serve to loosen stiff soils and per-
form valuable service as a chemical
reagent. This is due to the large pro-
portion of lime contained Ia ashes
about thirty-fve per cent-which is
in the best form in which it can be
used. About 100 pounds of potash is
the proportion to ton of wood ashes.
while 700 pounds Of lime accompanies
1t. These proportions may be more or
less, according to the kind of wood
from which the ashes are obtained.
Ashes are worth only SO per ton. ae-
c0rdins to the above proportions. so
FAR as the actual potash Is concerned,
though the lime and other substances
contained possess value, the phosphOr-
ic acid ranging from two to five per
cent.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1904-08-17
WORLD OF LABOR

Brotherhood of Carpenters and Join
ers now has I,7oI unions chartered.
In the Government factories of Rus
sia wages rarely exceed 20 shillings
a month.
A new departure is to be made at
the Pembroke dockyard by the EN-
ployment OF women as tracers.
Plumbers are perhaps the best paid
OF any mechanics in the City Of Mex
leo. They get from So TO 81 a day.
More than 500 Japanese laborers
have just landed in Mexico under con-
tract to work in the coal mines.
Canadian manufacturers claim that
places for 6.7I7 working men, women
and boys are vacant in their factories.
Recent reports from the Mendocino
(Cal) lumber regions are to the eff
feet that all the camps are being rap
idly unionized.
ceive 4 900 per thousand for all the
Chinese coolies shipped to the South
Africa mines.
San Francisco (Cal.) team drivers
receive IS, $3.50 and 81 day for driv-
ing one, two and three horse teams.
respectively.
NC NoitHuiiDCIidHu kEHB.) lOdl
Cancellation Board has decided to
make no change in the rates OF wages
for the next three months.
Practically no interest or concern
is shown in labor circles over the for
nation OF the new organization of en-
ployers Of various lines.
The first organization Of coal min
ers in this country was In 1861 by some
miners who came from England and
settled in the Bellevue district Of H.
linois.
4 An attempt on the part of the So
cialistic faction in the Chicago (Ill)
Federation OF Labor TO control the
semi-annual election resulted in SER
ious disturbances.
Germany has devoted E7so. ZOO. 900
to her standing army in as years.
prodigious sum withdrawn from pro-
ductive work in industry and COM
merce
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1904-08-17

In the japanese army every soldier
carries with him kettles which are
made Of paper, the invention OF one
Daiju. The Eette is made of ordinary
thin Japanese paper. 1t is filed with
water, and then water Is poured over
II. 1t Is hung over the fire. and In ten
minutes the water is boiling. The
kettle can be used eight or ten times.
and the cost OF Ii Is about two cents.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1904-08-17
Curious Contest For a Bride in Tibet.


Among some OF the wilder Tibetan
tribes in the Koko-nor there Is a curl
Gus marriage ceremonial function.
This consists in placing the girl. on
her wedding morning in the upper
part Of tree, while her male relatives
remain on the lower llmbs-or else in
the back part of her fathers tent or
hut. while these same relatives guard
the entrance-in each case the latter
being armed with lolo thorn sticks.
The groom, when these preparations
have been completed. rides up and
announces his intention OF seiZing the
bride. This requires fOrtitude. for the
relatives beat him numerically when
lie attempts to reach the woman. II
he manages to elude his assailants and
touch the toes of the woman, she Is
his. he is welcomed into the family and
cOmpllmented on his ardOr. Should
he fail. lie suffers not only the lncon-
venience OF being wifeless, bur the loss
Of cattle and other presents given dur
ing the negotiations. BY the sale Of
II girl to one man. however the father
does not relinquish his claims upon
her, but may sell her to other sultors
who come afterward, until she may
have half a dozen husbands. Book.
lovers Magazine.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1904-08-17
To XIII InseCts.

There Is no necessity for buying ex-
pensive carbolic acid to be used as an
insecuclde. The ordinary crude car
Dolic acid Is not only cheaper, but
much better than the refined for the
purposes Of the farmer. It will, like
Kerosene, easily emulsify with a solu-
ton of hard soap.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1904-08-17

To grow large beets use lime on the
soil. Experiments made demonstrate
ed that lime gave better results on
Deets than did some of the best pre-
pared fertilizers. This does not apply
to sugar beets, but to those grown for
stock and for the stable. As lime is
cheap. farmers should give it q trial
On beetS.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1904-08-17
HAPPINESS.

would not care to sit upon
A throne IL none could share
The glory of my state with me
Or shout in thankfulness to see
Me Wisely ruling there.
/ would not care for millions If
! ne'er might hear the praise
Ot others who accounted me
Their grandest friend and happily
Trod newer, fairer ways.
/ would not care 10 gaze upon
Earth's grandest scene, 10 see
Another fair day dawn il there
Could be no others who might share
1t and be g.ad with me.
S. L. Klser.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1904-08-17
Sowing the Crops.

-Four times as much can be grown
on an acre OF land by the use Of wheel
hoes and hand seed drills than when
the land is cultivated by horse power
as both the rows and the plants can
be closer together. Whether the hand
system will pay depends upon the
kinds OF crops grown and the location
OF the farm to markets.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1904-08-17
A Famous Crank.

Buda-Pesth has lost one OF its best.
known cranks, man who always went
barefoot and bareheaded. His favor.
lite occupation was to offer medical ad.
vice to famous persons who were III.
This being rejected. he wrote long dia.
tribes against human folly and printed
them.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1904-08-17

NJ. Augustin Camel. OF Copenhagen.
a merchant and member OF the State
Council. who fitted out several Polar
expeditions, including DIR. Fridthjof.
Nansen's expedition through Green.
land and Captain Hougaard's Arctic
expedition with the DIJmbhna. has Just
died. --------r
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1904-08-17
Judging Ages Of Animals.

At the Smlthfeld and Birmlng CHAM
shows the following rules govern the
Judgment OF the age Of animals:
Cattle having their central perma-
nent incisors cut will be copsldered as
exceeding one year and siT months.
Cattle having their General perma-
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1904-08-17
To Rid tho Ants.

To get rid Of ants, mix equal parts
OF sugar and borax and sprinkle
shelves and floors. They will eat so
much Of the sweet mixture that the
borax will kill them.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1904-08-17

German iron and steel exports for
the irst quarter Of this year show
considerable dlminution compared
wikh the exports OF the same period
during the two preceding years.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1904-08-17
When an Iceberg TurnH Turtle,

Think of sections bigger than Rhode
Island being torn from a glacier and
swept Off into the ocean, to be ferried
1000 miles on the bosom of the Labra-
dor current until the heated waters
of the Gulf Stream cause them to van.
lsh from human ken! Then can one
form the idea of the immenslty of the
ice area discharged from the Green
land seas each year. Thousands of
miles Of valley are constantly empty
ing their contents into .he bays and
iiords Of the north waters, whence the
tides hurry the detachments southwark
to cumber the wide Atlantic.
The disposition of icebergs to turn
turtle Is one of their most dangerous
propenslties. 1t arises from several
causes. When they start out from
Greenland their bottoms are heavy
with the detritus gathered in their
glacial period. and this drops at inter-
walls as they move south. causing their
centre Of gravity TO change and the
berg TO assue new positions. The
scientific theory of the formation of
the vast submarine plateaus which ex-
tend from Labrador to Fundy and are
commonly known as the Grand Banks
of Newfoundland Is that they are the
products Of the deposits of bergs dur
ing countless ages.-Leslle's Magazine.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1904-08-17

The German Government Is endesyor-
Ing to promote the health and happi.
ness OF the labcrer Of that country by
building suitable sanitary houses for
him to 1--we In
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1904-08-17
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S. MQMISBi{E'
9T~~S V%
In military Operations.

o difficulty Of military op.
erations in the Far East
Is more conspicuous than
that caused by the almost
entire absence OF roads fit
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-10-26
Anacostia and Vicinity.

Albert Watkins. seven years old. whose
home is at No. 220 Jackson street, Ana
costa, was yesterday afternoon removed to
the contagious ward in Garfield Hospital
suffering from a case of diphtheria Dr. }.
A. Watson issued the necessary certihcate.
Miss Bertha Roth of No. IA Monroe
street. Anacostia, has gone to visit reia-
tives In Philadelphia and Media, Pa, where
she will remain several weeks.
The annual inspection today at the nome
of Mr. Andrew Loeffier, at Petworth, or De
Molay Mounted Commandery, NO: .,
knights Templar. is under the supervision
of Mr. Adolphus GUIDE of Anacostia, who IS
the commander of the troop. A NUMBER Oh
local members of the commandery assem-
bled to participate. among them being
Messrs. J. w. Tolson, j. Il. Minnix ana
w. N. Freeman.
Electa Chapter, No. 2. order of the East
ern Star of Anacostia, met lase evening IN
the Masonic Hall, at Jackson and PIERCE
streets, where an exhibition OF degree
work was carried on during the session.
There was a large attendance or members
of other chapters and an interesting socidi
session was held and refreshments served.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-10-26
Bryan Quotes Bible in Speech.

A dispatch from Kendallville, Ind, last
night says: William ]. Bryan started upon
his second tour Of Indiana today and deliv-
cred a speech here. He said:
For the benefit of our silver democrats
let me refer to Bible incident. 1 quote
Scripture because l have lever found any
other book that contains as much truth as
the Bible, nor have 1 found any other book
in which truth is so we'll expressed. / re-
call the plan adopted by Solomon to ascer-
tain the real mother when two women
claimed the same child.
1.-THE wise man proposed that the child be
divided, giving half to each woman. The
woman whose child it was not consented to
the division, but the woman whose child 1t
was said No. let the otEer have it. but let
the child live
''She knew that If she suffered Ii to be
cut to death she never could see 1t again in
this world, but that If 1t lived even in the
possession of another she might still hope
to press it to her bosom again.
Eight years ago there was a contest In
our party and some who claimed to have
democratic principles better than we have
were willing to have the party divided and
a republican President elected. Now 1t is
our time to be tested. / hope 1 speak for
all who voted for me when / say that we
would rather surrender the organization for
this campaign than to permit the enemy to
win a victory through our division. We
are not willin., that the party should die"