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The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1904-09-21

sacred pages and covers which had given
throw away.
Were there ever a sadder story? II
makes one weep to think of it. And yet it
is the story of a thousand homes in this
community, Of a hundred thousand homes
in this city. II is what some of you are
coming to- dear friends, unless you take
warning. Let this Bible give you such a
warning tonight. May it ever be warn.
ing to every family of this church.
As often as the eyes of those worshiping
here shall rest upon it, may it speak to
them its solemn message with a voice that
cannot be drowned-let not the fire burn
low on your hearthstone, but keep up the
touch with the church. Suffer not your
family altar to become ruin. Have a.
family Bible and use it. Take care that
mildew spots, like those which 1 find here
that are always signs Of disuse. are not al
lowed to mar it. Read the Old Book to
your children. Read it to your own soul.
Without it your home life will grow. hol-
iorate, your own soul shrivel up and die.
Thus this Bible shall stand as memo
rial to typically deteriorated New York
home, and as a warning to the families
that have not likewise deteriorated but
shall it not also be at the same time
memorial to something hlgher ana more
inspiring--to the glorious character and
ministry of the word of God as an abiding
and ever expanding power among men?
Here is a fountain that was long sealed,
but it has begun to flow, and its streams
shall water not one home but thousand.
This book so seldom used before snail be
opened with every recurring service within
this house of prayer to be read, expound-
ed and applied to the multiplying hun
dreds that shall worship here. This Bible
was disowped, desecrated, cast out as rub.
bish into the street, only to be recovered,
honored. set in a high place, elevated to a
public throne from which it will issue
verdict of condemnation upon this home
and every home in this city that has
turned God from it's door, but will speak
comfort, hope and strength to those with
in which the word of God dweiis and exer-
cises its heavenly dominion. While this
book shall utter its admoniton, then, let
it also speak forth its word of encourage
ment and triumph, telling all who shall
henceforth behold it that the word of God
liveth and abideth forever; that however
much men may attack it and seek to de-
stroy it, it shall come out of every battle
a thousand fold stronger than before, and
light circle that extends far beyond its
former perimeter OF influence.
"a glory gilds the sacred page,
Majestic as the sun:
1t gives light to every age;
1t giveth, but borrows none."
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1904-09-21
Bit of Fine Philosophy.

Why do you not go away oftener for
rest and change as ked one friend of an
other, feeling little anxious over the
crowded days that seemed too busy and
burdened.. Don't you care to goE" she
questioned further. Don't you like to
visit about and take diverting little Jour.
neys?'
"Oh, yes, like it, was the answer in A
tone both brisk and blithe, but YOU see
don't have to go looking about for what |
like, because | always like just what /
have"
Could there be finer philosophy of sweet
content and resolute cheerfulness than
this! 1t came warm from trusting heart.
1t was the outcome and expression in
speech of devoted life and loving spirit.
10 have what we like, though we spend
unmeasured time in cropping and grasping
after 1t, may be among the impossibiities,
but to like what we have is among the at.
talnables, else why the command: BE con-
tent with such things as ye have The
truest, happlest contentment cannot fill the
heart II there Is a constant revulsion
against life's conditions and a loathing OF
what is outwardly borne with submission,
says Young People. There must be some
liking of what we have if we are going to
walk worthy OF our vocation" and unto
all pleasing" To like what we have. we
must guard against too constant compari.
son with what We have not. Then if the
work set for our doing is not in itself the
pleasantest or most congenial, let Us get
the joy out of the doing of it. The con.
sciousness of doing our best is enough to
give a certain buoyancy and brightness to
life, even il the task is not what might he
chosen. The delight of accomplishing is
in itself reward, and this makes it easier
to like what is done,
The search for what we like may be a
trultless quest and waste of time, but
liking what we have conserves our store Of
happiness and is the safer and surer way.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1904-09-21

In the State OF Virginia during the last
few months the Anti-Saloon League has
closed no less than 900 saloons.
In Maine, Kansas and North Dakota
they have prohibition by State law: in
thirty-eight other States they have it by
local option.
1t is recognized that the hope of the ma
tion lies IN preventing the formation Of
drinking habits through education OF the
rising generation.
The action OF alcohol on the nervous sys.
TEN is one of its most important and most
unfortunate characteristics. 1t ia this ac.
tion which leads to the Craving" for drink,
Tine United States drinks enough liquor
each wear to iioat all her battleships.
There ale $50 towns and cities in the
State oi Illinois in which prohibition has
been enacted into law. All the State OF
Iowa hut twenty-five cities 10 still prohibi
tion.
Il is strange that proiessedly religion,
bodcs OF men can see no wrong in manu-.
featuring liquors which have been proved
TO be the greatest enemies to humanity-
morally, socially, physically and spirit.
ual'y.
The amount the liquor business draws
from legitimate trade, il spent in dry
goods, grocery, hardware and furniture
stores, would require sl0O, 700 900 more Of
raw material for manufacturing, aud give
employment to i,25o.00o men.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1904-09-21

The burner of lamp should be es-
pecially looked after, but this is the
part most often neglected. The fine
holes in it. or the "gauze" through
which air is admitted to the flames,
should be kept entirely free from OH
and dust. The little machinery which
moves the wick up and down must
also be cleaned out when necessary.
If the lamp is large brass lamp with
tube for ventilation running clear
through the fount OF the burner, so
that air ascends to the wick from be-
meath, be careful to examine this
space. for it is likely to become
choked with dust and burned.off par
ticles of the wick.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1904-09-21
Alcoholism and Heredity.

IN well-known but slightly sensational
medical journal, The London Lancet,
rather surprising opinion Is advanced by
G. Archdall Reid. He is satisfied that a
predisposition to drinking Is not inherited
from incorporate parents He argues IL
this fashion: If offspring are affected,
then, in time, the race grows degenerate
and finally becomes extinct. On the other
hand, if they are not, then the power Of
resistance becomes developed and strength
ened, and later generations crave liquor
less than did their ancestors. The latter
rule explains to Mr.. Reid the present eX
istence of old races like the Jews, Greeks
and the nations of Southern Europe, who
for ages have had alcoholic beverages,
Younger stock, like that of Northern Eu,
rope, having had less time in which to ac
quire resisting powers, might, on the Other
hand show a greater susceptibility. In
other words, he holds that alcohol, as well
as disease, is the cause of an innate immu
nifty against itself.
To this doctrine much dissent has been
expressed. A resident OF Buffalo, Law.
renee lrwell, declares that If a distinct
craving for drink is not transmitted tc
children, there is at least an inherent sus.
ceptlbilty. a writer in The Medical Rec
ord denies that the people of Southern Eu'
rope are to-day abstemiOus. He then re-
marks Mr.. Reid cannot prove tSat ti@
children OF hlbtual drunkards are nor
mally developed both mentally and physi.
cally. When drink is INDUCED in to exces:
through successive generations it results
in insanity, paralysis, idiocy or cerebra,
defect of some kind. The theory that in a
drinking nation the unfit are weeded out
and that among the survivors a consider
able degree of immunity to alcohol Is es
tablshed is plausible and probable. The
craving for drink, may not be directly
transmitted, but the children OF drunken
parents or one drunken parent will in all
likelihood inherit some physical or mental
defect or both, which may OF a certainty
be put down to the drinking habits OF their
progenitors.'
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1904-09-21
Alone With God.

Thi. is the quiet hour in which I sit
alone with God, writes Charles Edward
Martin, in the New York Observer. He
hears my whispered plants and listens to
my love. He maketh me happy in my love,
which ever goeth out to Him as quietly
and constantly as the river flows or the
star shines.
This is the hour that talk with the low.
ing Father about myself, of victories won
in the open field, when He was my deliv-
erer and my strength, and of the sorry
failures and defeats which were mine
when / sought safety within unstrength.
ened ramparts of my own construction. !
acknowledge His marvellous strength and
own my own wavering weakness.
l was too impetuous, too impatient. l
would rush headlong and needless, follow
ing my own plans to my own shame and
dishonor. 1t would seem that could not
wait. But | will now learn the value of
time-the wisdom of taking time to do all
things in obedience to His plans, and to do
hem well.
In this quiet hour I will tell Him all.
But l will not speak of my plans. Alas
sor me! / have too many plans. l will
amply and humbly ask for His love and
guidance just for to-day. Tomorrow 1
may be with Him in paradise / will say:
"Ah-wise One, all-loving One, Thou who
makest and warmest the affections Of the
human heart, / submit myself to Thee.
By Thy grace I live, and by Thy myster-
ious quickening will i ply my task with
owing faithfulness and care. Let Thy
owe and if go be, Thy approval, be my re-
ward. O, teach me to understand Thy
owe! Make me to love Thee more and
more. Make me as Thou wouldst have
ne, dear Father, and l shall be satisfied.
Thy ways shall be my ways. Widen my
narrow thought. Unchain the self. made
letters that cramp and fret my heart.
Teach me that true and fasting happiness
,ometh only with those things which are
pleasing unto Thee. Lead me in those
holy footsteps that bear the print of the
naiI,v
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1904-09-21
Siege Better Than Assault.

A pastor whose church has recently been
blessed with large accessons said the other
day that he had learned that sometimes
the largest results come from giving per.
sons time to think over leisurely and quiet.
ly their personal responsibility for con.
Tossing Christ before men, says the Con.
gregationalist. As he has met individuals
or written letters, or talked with groups
OF Sunday.school scholars, he has sought
simply to press home the duty of keeping
the great question in mind, He has not
pushed hard for immediate or hasty deci
own great desire, has given il time to
grow in its own way. Sometimes we are in
too great hurry to get our friends over
the line. The human soul is so delicately
organized we must give it time to find and
express itself never relaxing, to be sure,
field clear for the Spirit of God to work.
too
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Egg Lemonade One egg: one or two
tablespoons sugar; juice of half TO one
lemon; one cup of milk. Beat egg till
lemon colored and thick; add sugar
and beat again. Pour into delicate
glass, crate nutmeg over the top and
serve. II the stomach is very delicate
use the white of the egg only.
Endive salad-Arrange a head oe
well-washed endive in a salad bowl,
adding five radishes that have been
pared and cut into dice, and four hard
cooked eggs that have been cut length
wise into quarters. Just before serving
mix half a teaspoon of salt, half tea
spoon of paprika and six tablespoons
of olive oil; when thoroughly blended,
add flavorlng of tarragon vinegar;
pour over the salad and toss lightly
with silver fork. Garnish with whole
radishes cut to resemble flowers.
Caullflower 'and Beet Salad-Boil a
head OF caulifiower in piece of fine
cheesecloth, until tender. Remove from
the fire and break into fiowerets.
sprlnkllng with n tablespoon OF lemon
Jhiet' Nh'h WIN neatly IN n
dish. adding two tablespoons of cold
boiled beets cut into dice, table,
spoon of chopped parsley and tea
spoon OF finely minced wild sorrel.
Mix them lightly with a French Dress
ing, and garnish the base OF the salad
with border of boiled carrots and
beets, cut into fancy shapes.
Huckleburry Loaf Cake-sift two
cupfuls OF -four with two heaping tea
spoonfuls OF baking powder and a
quarter teaspoonful OF salt Cream
a cupful OF butter with two cupfuls
Of powdered sugar stir in the beaten
yolks OF four eggs. a half pint OF
sweet milk, half seaspoonful each OF
powdered nutmeg and cinnamon, and
the stlffened whites OF the four eggs
added alternately with tho slfted
-four. Last OF all stir in lightly 4,
quart Of huckieberries thlckly dredged
with -four. Turn into a creased mold
with . funnel In the centre and bake
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1904-09-21
For Porch Chairs.

An economical, as we'll as perma-
nent, method of reseating porch chairs
that must withstand more or less ex-
posure to rain is TO take stout drill.
ing or ticking and cut it lengthwise
into two-inch strips. Double these,
turning in raw edges, and either
overcast closely or stitch on ma
chine. Next ill in the vacancy with
pieces, ranged side by side. Across
these draw others in an opposite d.
rection, much after the principle OF
stocking darnlng, securing all tightly
at the ends, SO that they will not Slip.
This will be found more comfortable
and resist wear and tear much better.
than If one straight piece of goods is
used for the purpose.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1904-09-21
Tho Way Of Peace.

In proportion as the perfect obedience OF
The life OF Christ comes, through humility
md prayer and thought, to be the constant
aim Of all our efforts; in proportion as We
try, God helping US, to think and speak
and act as He did. and through all the
hearts, we shall, with growing hope and
with a wonder that is ever lost in graft
tude, know that even our lives are not
without the earnest of their rest in an
eternal harmony; that through them there
is sounding r,ore and more the echo of
faultless mu. 4, and that He who loves
that concord, lie who alone can ever make
as what He b. Is us be. will silence in Us
every harsh sld jarring note; that our SER
vice, too, may blend with the consenting
praise of all His saints and angels, Fran.
els Paget.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1904-09-21
Payday and Drinking.

The Massachusetts, Bureau of Labor sta.
tistics has published report on the loss Of
time due to drunkenness in which there is
shown great decrease in the proportion
of absences of work Immediately following
pay day. The special agents visited Alb es
Establishments and found absent on Monday
but 5ll of 39,76l males over sixteen years
of age employed on the previous Saturday
The per cent. is l29. The employers whc
have changed the pay day from Saturday
to the middle OF the week report great
improvement in this respect The man
who knows that his position depends on
his reporting for work on the morning i'm,
mediately following pay day appears far
more likely to keep sober than when fuil
day or a day and a half intervene.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1904-09-21
EPWORTH LEAGUE LESSONS
SEPTEMBER TWENTY.FlFTH.
City EvanseIizaton and Home Mis-.
sions. Acts 8. 4-S.

In our lesson we learn that Philip
went down to the city of Samaria and
preached Christ unto them" To use
a commercial phrase, he had an eye to
business, the business of his Master.
Where was Simon the sorcerer?
Evidently Philip took little notice OF
him. This is where he displayed his
wisdom. Some there are who contend
that we should send out strong men
to argue down the infdels. Had
Philip adopted that plan, think you
that the people with one accord would
have given heed to him? He took
direct course to the heart, and there
by superseded the sorcerer. The sun
gives us each day one big object les
SON 1t does not argue with artificial
light anywhere. 1t just shines. That
is all. To its own mission OF shining
it gives itself and wastes no energy
in trying to convince others OF its
high superiority. So completely does
ii flood the world with its brilliant
beams that men turn out the gas, say
ing there Is no further need of you
now. We have the sun. So with the
Christian. 1t is his shining, the CIV
ing himself wholly to his mission,
that counts for most. Let your light
so shine. True living is the unanswer-
able argument.
At the foundation of all city evan.
gelizatlon there must be love Of God
and love of men.
Love for ones country is richest
when it springs from love of the peo-
pie who inhabit 1t.
Patriotism is love OF country in
action, bent on defending and build
ing it's invisible walls of purity and
power.
Everything that Christ did had in it
the sacrificlal element. For the ex'
ercise OF this quality with the same
spirit our cities afford fruitful field,
Work for the salvation of men and
women in our cities is apprenticeship
for a higher lifework in that city
whose Builder and Maker is God.
In the city, side by side, are seen
the foulest iniquities and the most
heavenly deeds of charity. Such eX'
tremes are common there. The or
ganized advance of our Home Mission
ary Society is very effective. Legacies
of conquest they protect. Christ they
labor to enthrone. The support OF
every Christian a loudly imperative
Besides this organized effort there is
also for each one an individual ana
personal work COR each one 70 10
Each is to build o"er against his own
home
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1904-09-21
English Legal TeehnieaIItles.

In English courts the solicitors
must always appear in their robes. A
London newspaper of recent date con
,ains the following: 81 can neither
see you nor hear you,' said Judge
Edge to Mr.. Turner, solicitor al
Clerkenwell county court, when that
gentleman. who was unrobed. rose tt
oppose a barrister's application te
have a case adjourned. Mr. Turner
began to put on his robe, but Judge
edge interposed. Now. that will do,
he said. I will not have this court
made a robing room OF. Next case.
Mr. Turner protested that it was an
injustice to his client. but the Judge
ordered him to be silent"
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1904-09-21
THE GREAT DESTROYER
SOME STARTLING FACTS ABOUT
THE VICE OF iNTEMPERANce.
The Subject of Saloon Compensation-
what the United States Supreme
Court Has DecIared-The Opinion of o
Distin1uI ed Jurist OF Ohio.

Jhe SUBJECT OF saIOOn toupenshtoh-
what the United States Supreme
Court Has DecIared-The Opinion of o
Distinguished Jurist OF Ohio.
In some States where the destruction of
the saloon is sought by legislation, defend
ers OF the saloon advocate compensating sa.
loonkeepers for the loss of their business.
But those friends seem to have overlooked
the fact that the saloonkeeper has engaged
in a business which he knew, or might
have known, was liable to be outlawed at
any time. The United States Supreme
Court declared.
by the general concurrence OF opinion
OF every civilized and Christian commu-
nifty there are few sources of crime and
misery to society equal to the dramshop
where Intoxicating liquors in small quanti'
ties TO be drunk at the time are sold in
discriminately to all parties applying. The
statistics of every state show a greater
amount Of crime attributable to this than
from any other source. The sale OF liquor
in this way has therefore been at all times
considered the proper subject OF legislative
regulation. For that matter, the sale by
the glass may be absolutely prohibited. 1t
is a question of public expediency and pub
lie morality and not OF Federal laws. There
is no inherent right of citizen to sell in
toxicating liquors by retail. 1t is not q
privilege of citizen OF the State or of a
citizen of the United States. - Justice
Field. For United States Supreme Court,
November, 1890 in Christensen Case.
According to this decision a saloonkeep.
er has no vested right of selling liquor and
when he starts in the business he takes all
the risks
In discussing this matter distinguished
jurst of Ohio has aptly said
There is no valid reason why compensa-
tion should be made. God never gave the
devil any compensation for curtaing him
in the exercise of any of his assumed priv.
leges, because the devil never had any
right to take the privileges in the first
place. The law of God nowhere recognizes
the principle that a man committing, or
about to commit, an injury to the public
health, public peace or public morals, must
be compensated if he is prevented from
committing the injury; and If no such
principle is acknowledged in the moral law
why should it be recognized in human
laws? Do you pay the thief for what yor
deprive him OF when you drive him from
your house and thus thwart his criminal
purposes? Have you not a right to pre-
vent an injury without compensation to
the one intending to do the injury? Must
men be compensated for the surrender Of
any evil practice?"
Why not require the saloonkeeper to
compensate the members of these men's
families for all the woe, poverty and dis
grace he has caused by his death.dealing
busness?-The National Advocate.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1904-09-21

San Francisco has the terrible FAC. to
face that there are over 5000 saloons with.
in her city limits-one saloon to every l2j
OF her population--and what Is the worst
feature, many of the saloons have grocery
stores in front, and children who go for
home supplies are only separated from tho
evils OF the saloon by a swinging door, and
learn all manner of wickedness from their
earliest youth. Recently the commission.
ers of the city have decided there shall bO
no further increase in the saloons, and also
that if any saloon goes out of existence no
other can resume business on that site.
Through these laws San Francisco hopes
to have less than 10000 arrests yearly. over
half of which are directly accountable to
the liquor traffic.