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The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1904-10-26
God Only Is Perfect.

Perfection, in every absolute sense, can.
not be found among men-it abides only
with God. Man, at his best, is not free.
An heir of immortality, he is imprisoned
into time. Candidate for sainthood, he
has a heritage of sin and corruption from
the generations of the past. Called to do
all things through God strengthening him,
he finds that the spirit is willing but the
flesh is weak. Countless perils menace the
voyage of the perfectionist. Presumptuous
sins often have dominion over him. when
he thinks it is not robbery to be equal
with God and share with the absolute the
attributes of divinity. Spiritual pride
leads him to moral ruin when he is per-
suaded to forget the hour of prayer be-
cause of his conceit that with him every
breath is a prayer. The Man of Nazareth
was so far from this vanity that He spent
whole nights in communion with God on
the mountains and in solitary places apart
from His companions. The perfectionist,
again, is deceived when he materializes the
things of God, by asserting for the saints
below an earthly empire over disease and
death and by claiming part in the politi-
cal rule of the qnicL-coming Christ in u
millenial reign at Jerusalem.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1904-10-26
Alcohol and Lunacy.

The municipal authorities of Glasgow re.
Gently appointed commission to inquire
into the alarming increase of insanity
caused by alcoholism in Scotland The re.
port OF this commission brings to light
some striking statistics. In the case OF
the Glasgow district asylums and the oh.
servation wards of the poorhouse, of 565
admissions during twelve months no fewer
than $50, or thirty.three per cent, were di.
rectly traced to alcohol. In most OF these
cases the patients had been comparatively
well to do and prosperous, so that the dis.
ease could not be ascribed to bad home
conditions or poverty The reports of the
Royal Edinburgh Asylum show the same
alarming growth of alcoholic insanity Sta.
tistics for the whole OF Scotland during
1902 showed lG,6jS insane persons, an in.
crease OF $40 over the preceding year. The
number of patients discharged as recov-
cred during the year was 1920. In Argyll,
where the highest proportion OF lunacy
prevails, there are sl2 lunatics per 100000
OF the population.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1904-10-26
One Thing We Can DO.

Each one in any given place has a re-
sponsible share in every others good work
in that place. In some things we do our
part with our hands; in other matters we
Apostle John said about evil deeds is as
true of good deeds: "He that giveth him
greeting partaketh in his works"
By our well wishing we become partakers
in what others do. John said the same
thing in the next Epistle: ''We = ought
to welcome such, that we may be fellow;
what we welcome in our hearts when we
hear of tin all this we have share
How wide reaching, then, are the opportu.
mites OF even the most secluded! How
great is the work in which even the least
can be engaged! As we hail any good in.
coming, or speed any good outgoing, we
enter into the prophets work, and shall
receive prophets reward. Let us take
heart and do our share.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1904-10-26
Increasing Gods Opportunities.

Some one has said that "each human life
is another opportunity for God to display
His grace and power" So it is, and the
thought will grow upon you as you medi-
tate upon it. Just think, 81 am Gods op.
portunity" Isn't it wonderful? Isn't 1t
glorious? When we look at others whom
God has richly blessed and honored in ser,
vice we can see how it is. but do we ever
think of ourselves as Gods opportunity?
Every one that responds to Gods call,
"Come! gives God larger place in the
world.
Every one who obeys Gods command,
"Go!" assists God in gaining larger place
in the hearts of men. Every regenerated
heart, and life is new garden in which
God plants His seeds of love and grace; a
fountain out of which flow constant
streams of healing power.
Take it home, dear young friend, and
say to yourself, Il am Gods opportunity"
Be that and your life will become unutter-
ably grand and your experience unspeai.
ably sweet.-A. w Spooner ID. ID.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1904-10-26
Pennsylvania DOG and Cow Story.

Ben Record owns COW which he
believed to be one of the best mixers
in all this country until few weeks
ago. when she began to fall on sud.
denly. The shortage became more
and more noticeable until the animal
developed into third class strip
per-"
Mr.. Record also keeps full.blooded
terrier pup, whose rapid growth and
portly appearance has occasioned re.
mark, although the dog seldom ate
anything that was offered TO him by
the family. Both mysteries were
cleared up the other evening, how
ever, when Mrs. Record went to the
barn to milk. for there lay the cow
contentedly chewing her cud. while
the terrier pup. his feet spread far
apart, leisurely extracted the precious
lacteal fluid so much desired for max.
ing ice cream or constructing pump
kin pies. Since the discovery the COW
has become reinstated In the good
opinion of the family. but the terrier
takes his milk after II has been
skimmed.-Punzsutawney Spirit.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1904-10-26


How sweet in lifes weak, feeble breath.
To never fear the sting of death,
But silently await the Power
That takes us at the given hour,
And look to heaven, mans greatest prize
Where tears can never dim the eyes
How sweet to know that all is well.
When one can easily foretell
The joyous welcome that's in store
When landing on the other shore.
Here countless thousands gladly sing
Sweet praises to the Christ their King.
How sweet to think when suff ing pain,
The soul is free from every STAIN
That in the coming of the dawn,
You're nearer to the Master drawn.
Where sorrow shall forever cease,
And love reign out In perfect peace
How sweet the though that night or dty.
Whene'er we humbly choose to pray.
That every honest spoken word
Is sympathetically heard,
SO quickly does it reach the ear
OF Him, whom mortals all should lea
How sweet to know that after al.
lhe power of Satan can't enthrali
a single soul, who will but try
Ills wicked ways to e'er defy.
liu: Ii his company you keep.
're"'rc eternally to weep.
George Mckenzie
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1904-10-26

nr,son doors for those IN cant,v,ty. buf
supposinq the hands of the Lord he mar.
alyzed how can He do those things? We
are the voice of Christ. Christ wants to
publish abroad TO the end of tho earth the
message of Gods love and the way of sal.
vation. but ii the voice be silent, how can
lie do it?
We talk about the mercy of God having
no limitation. We talk about the bound.
less pity of God. and we do well. but the
pity of God and the mercy of God have
their limitations. Not according to the dis.
torted Calvinism which our fathers believ.
led. Gods mercy is infinite: Gods pity is
boundless: His love extends. to all men
that we believe; in that declaration we
glory; we count it the very flower and cor.
onatiou of our religion And vet Gods
mercy is limited. His compassion is bound.
cording as we are willing or unwilling is
the limitlessness of the love OF God.
Let us take a homely illustration. Here
is a friend-a man whom Won have always
known, classmate it may be in school. an
associate in busincss-and he has fallen
upon evil times and everything that he
spent his life in accumulating is gone. You
are rich, YOU are perfectly able to put that
man on his feet again: to give him a sec.
ond chance and another start; you are
Gods elected minister for that purpose.
But you don't do it. God is kindly dis
posed to that man; God would help that
man, and He has put YOU in a position to
help him. You are His hands; you are
Gods ministering agency. but YOU limit
Gods goodness, don't YOU?
God is very pitiful, very pitiful. Rich
men can feed poor men, but they don't do
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1904-10-26
.EPWORTH LEAGUE LESSONS
OCTOBER THiRTlETH.
Around the World: Our New Pos
essions-Hawaii, Alaska, Philip.
pine Islands, Porto Rico.
Psa 81. 1-12

What expansive power has the Cos.
pei of Christ. To-day the sun is ever
shining somewhere on Christian fields
CT victory. The flag OF this Christian
rejublic spreads its protecting folds
over the cross OF Christ in all parts
OF the world, and in our own new is
land possessions the Gospel may rul
and be glCritied with rare advantages.
Out OF the Golden Gate at san
Francisco and a sail OF over two thous'
and miles west southwest, through the
briny deep, brings us to the famous
Hawaiian Islands. Once they were
the home of fiercest cannibals. Bru
tality and tyranny were rampant
The men said: Our women would
never work if we did not beat them,
After we have killed two or three and
eaten them the rest are quiet and
good for a time
Strange indeed Is the story of an
early missionary there. He tells how
the wife of o1e chief, during his abb
sence, murdered all his other wives
Such were the deeds OF blood and
terror prompted by their system OF
polygamy and savaglsm.
How is 1t now? Missionaries no
longer needed? It scarcely seems
possible. No longer is heard the wild
shout of the war dance, but their
grassy hillsides resound with earnest
prayers and sacred songs. These
transformed peoples are now sending
happy, self-sacrificing missionaries to
other islands in that vast South Sea.
In one glorious revival there Titus
Coan baptised seventeen hundred and
five natives of Hawaii in single day
Some one said to him, Titus Coan,
why didn't you put this excitement
DOWN." No which he replied, Il didn't
get it up" Evidently it was the genu'
inc work of the Holy Spirit.
Alaska was once regarded as little
less than one immense iceberg. BY
many its purchase by the United
States was regarded as a piece OF
monumental folly. For 1t we PAID
seven millions of dollars-a very
moderate price in view of its actual
worth. But what of Chrlst's kingdom
in this Icy region.
1t began with a native. He strayed
into British America. There he was
educated and brought to the Saviour
in a Methodist mission. Returning to
Fort Wrangel he hired dance hall,
changing 1t into a schoolroom and
preaching place. Seeing his inspired
earnestness, a few white men and
wives OF army officers rallied to his
support. Not many converts were
won. but a standard was raised against
further degradation.
AS one reward for our humane de-
liverance OF Cuba from Spanish cruel
ty this tropical land gladly came under
the protecting folds OF the Stars and
Stripes. She seems ripe for the Cos
pei. It's Joyous sound can reach every
inhabitant without serious opposition.
The Rev. DR.. Charles w. Drees has
supervision there and reports the out
look as very hopeful.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1904-10-26
Tho Crusade "A Brief.

It is worse than irony to be praying
"Thy kingdom come" while in the nation
we are turning out annually 81 800 900 bar
rels OF liquors, supporting 100000 prosti.
tutes and 10000 saloons.
The Danish Government, in filling posi-.
tions on the State railways, will henceforth
prefer men who can prove by documentary
evidence that they have been total abstain.
ers for at least one year past
A prominent physician in France writes
that alcoholism is making deplorable raw
ages, while tuberculosis carries of more
than 10000 victims every year. and saps
the strength OF 10000 in addition.
Is it right to license a man to make pau.
pers and criminals, and then tax sober and
virtuous people to pay rates to keep theml
A circular has been issued by Paris ply
sicians taking the radical ground that alco-
hol is never and never. can be OF amy use
whatever TO the organism.
In Russia the Minister OF Finance has
ISSUED an order that hats must be dofied 10
bartenders in whisky shops. as they are
Government officials. This is an hoaor
that the American barkeeper does no. re-
ceive.
According to the American Grocer's
compilation one-iourth OF all the pcouie OF
the United States drink alcoholic bcver-
ages, and the total drink bill OF intoxicants
for 1903 was u, ,S5i .6S3,37s. or an annual
expenditure for cash driaksr ef s02ic. -.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1904-10-26
CHRISTIAN ENDEAVOR NOTES
OCTOBER THiRTlETH.
allow Giving Reacts Upon Me-
Prov. $40, 10; Cor. e.6.11.


Prov. 3:e, 10; Cor. e:6.11.
Scripture Verses.-Gen> 2s:20-22;
Lev. 1890; Prov. 1925; Matt. 5:23,
"a; 25:37, 40; 1875; Mark. 9:41; 2
Cor. SO; Col. 3:17; 8 Peter 4:9, 10.
Lesson Thoughts.
We hear 1t said that at takes
money to make money; in other
words, large investments earn large
profits. This is even more certainly
true in the matter Of Christian Civ.
ing, though 1t defeats its own object
If the gift Is for gain.
Exercise, while 1t demands strength
from the muscles, at the same time
gives back to them more strength
than it takes. So we grow rich by
giving.
Selections.
Addison once said that charity Is a
virtue of the heart and not of th>
hands. That is true, and so we need
not worry If we have little to give,
provided we have great will to give.
Some one has said that even a
drop of water, if 1t is given in love
and unselfishness. will become for
lue SlNGT llNluS IOuIldlu Ill IdTd-
disc. It is certain that nothing we
do will bring us such precious and
eternal results as what we give.
There is a capital story of man
named Pyrrhus, who once found
good man captive in pirate ship
He took compassion on him and
bought him, and with him bought al.
so the old mans goods that had been
seized by the pirates, several barrels
Of pitch. The old man saw that Ply.
rrhus had done this out of pure
philanthropy and goodness of heart,
and showed him a great treasure
I hidden in the pitch, a treasure that
made Pyrrhus enormously wealthy.
God does not always reward giving
in just this way, but he always does
reward it in some way.
Who shuts his hand hath lost his
gold,
Who opens it. hath it twice told.
Prayer.-O thou who art the glver
of every good and perfect gift, teach
us how to give; not grudgingly, or Of
necessity. for thou lowest a cheerful
giver. Help us to realize that we
are stewards of thy bounty, that what
We have is not our own, but is given
to us in trust. Accept us first, we
beseech Thee; and bless us and all
that we give Of interest and activity,
Of money and Of mercy, in the love
Of Jesus Christ who gave himself for
us. Amen.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1904-10-26
An EntsrprIsIna sIeuth.

A man who was wanted" by the
police had been photographed in ak
different positions. and the pictures
we're duly circulated among the police.
The chief OF police In country town
wrote to police headquarters OF the
city In search OF the malefactor a
few days after the set OF portraits had
been issued as follows:
Il duly received the pictures OF the
six miscreants whose capture is do
sired. ! have arrested five OF them,
and tho sixth Is under observation and
viii be secured shortly
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1904-10-26
Mo Doubt Of Thlefs Destination.

A London jeweler recently had a
Thermometer stolen from his shop,
ard the next day he affixed the fol-
lowing notice TO his door: "Will the
misguided individual who took the
thermometer without leave the other
day please return the same? He has
made mistake. II can be OF no use
to him in the place to which he is
going. as It only registers 125 degrees
of heat"
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1904-10-26
n i.A
To Business Men.

II what you sell is for the good OF the
community, why do you let others sell that
which harms the communityg
The more decent all lines OF trade are the
better for yours.
Ii ten decent business men allow one bad
fault IS ity
Whose fault is it ii a saloonkeeper gets
$40 out OF a mechanic before he gets 70
your store? He's broke. What do you
get:
Ii you have dry goods or groceries or
boots and shoes to sell to wage earners, and
the saloons of your town get, hold OF these
wages first, where are youy
Saloons cannot exist ii decent business
men protest.
As decent business men. why doa't you
protest?-Dial OF Progress.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1904-10-26

Those rash men, young and old, who call
on God and heaven to behold them holy
now, perfect and sinless, at the ultimate
the Bible and nothing in experience. to
justify their arrogant professions. The in.
stincts OF humanity make US recoil with
horror from conditions that are fixed and
unyielding. The uncertainty of the future
IS the star OF hope in human life. Who
can covet tie religious experiences OF him
who stands still at the summit. simply
waiting, but not advancing, because pro.
gress is impossibley
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1904-10-26
Ever Onward and Inward.

We are commanded to be perfect, to
love God continually, to rejoice evermore,
and in everything to give thanks. And
reason is in accord with revelation in en-.
joining this duty. Mans pathway is ever
ly infinite possibilities of future achieve.
ment invite him to press on with unweary.
ing footstep,
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1904-10-26
Remarkable Trlplets.

Triplets were born recently to Mr..
and Mrs. l. Goldfaden Of Cleveland.
A remarkable fact about the newly
arrived, In addition to their unusually
great weight. is that they divide up
"a pounds evenly among them, each
tipping the scales mt exactly eight
pounds. Two are boys and one is .
girl.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1904-10-26

We Christians are mystics. We do not
bark back into an inner recess OF our
souls and then come forth and declare to
men that we have had revelations and in
spirations. We do say again and again
that God is our home because of this sense
OF divine love and care that has been
aroused within US. We are ready to stake
all we are upon the validity OF this inner
witness
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1904-10-26

care these masterpieces" asked a tour
ist in a Florentine gallery, adding, II must
admit that do not see much in them my.
self" "These pictures, sir" was the an
swer, "are not on trial; it is the visitors
who are on trial" is the critics who are
on trial, rot the striptures.-New York
Observer.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1904-10-26

Abundant life and not abundant thought
is what we ask for from the power and
content OF Christianity lte priority OF
life and not OF thought is the program OF
Jcsus
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1904-10-26
THE GREAT DESTROYER
SOME STARTLING FACTS ABOUT
THE VICE or INTEMPERANcE.

Come In and Look-you viii Not BE
Expected to Buy wofui Tales That
Make No Impression on the Liquor
Dealer-yisions of Desolation.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1904-08-12
PUTS PLANTS TO SLEEP.
Danish Professors Experiments Bring
Coco Tasults.

Danish Professors Experiments Bring
Coco .2asuits.
Several horticulturists, acting on a
discovery made by DR.. w. Johannsen
OF Copenhagen, have subjected a mum
Der OF plants. notably lilacs, lilies of
the valley, azaleas and dentzias, to
the yapor of ether and chloroform.
BY such means period Of reposo like
that which occurs during the winter
months was brought on. and conse-
ouenuy the production not only Of
flowers but of leaf buds and leaves
was much advanced. AS an instance
OF the success of the experiments the
case OF NJ. Leblanc may be mentioned
lie chloroformed some plants of aza-
lea mOllis, exposing them to the action
OF the vapor for about forty-ej jght
hours They We're at once removed
to a greenhouse at q temperature of
G5 degrees. From March ) the f1a &
ers began to expand little ana at
tained to their full dimens - on
the Sth. whereas plants ss0wn for
comparison were not expanded until
March 81.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1904-08-12


lie, Boston.
For the abb
rouna-trip
Afe authorize
direct lines,
pa rail, ss7.7
md lines, ss7.d
| and rail o
altimore or
o. s45.51. D,
[l2 and 1a, 1sl
/ to be good Il
ler than Aug,
fgust 20 and
|fhe Joint ager
| lllmit--By dep
e e joint agent
. % and upon p.
p,) cents at tn
F'on for leavin
Cd to a date
u &c, 1904.
lelave. knight
cisco, Cal, So
reign Grand I
CAL,
for the abo|
: round trip ra
re authorized
an Francisco,
'rs and fifty
round trip. u
'' 10 September
''"'t-All tick
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1904-08-12
TIE STOUT WoMAN's REVENGE.
ingenious Way Of Using "Tr'xc' tc
Get Even.

Ingenious Way Of Using "Tr'xie' tc
Get Even.
It was rainy, sloppy day. In a
Lexington avenue car man gave up
his seat to an old woman who had just
clambered aboard and could not reach
he hanging strap. That is, he IL
tended to give up the seat to her, BIZ
! stout woman sitting beside bin
grabbed a sixyear-oid girl who was
standing at her knee and lifted ncr
nto the seat.
Il intended my seat for this lady
said the man." helping the old women
70 get further away from the crow'.
at the door
"My child has paid her fare" snap
ped the stout woman. THE seat ceas-
ed to be yours when you gave it up"
ooh, never mind; l would as soon
stand" said the old woman.
tits selfish wonea like you that
3revent men from giving I'D theii
eats in ears to others Of your seH,
aid the man. who was evidently III
he mood for a discussion; and talae.
o that every body in the car couic
lear him. The woman flushed a1lo
turEed to the girl.
tTriSie," she said, you may knee
On the seat if you want to, and looh
out OF the window
Trixie did, and for the next five
hlocfs wiped her muddy shoes on the
self-sacrificing mans trousers. The
tout woman smiled She was re
.erged.-New York Press.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1904-08-12
NOTICE OF PAVING DIST RlC
NO. 10. WEST SIXTH
AVENUE.

The tax books for the collection VI
the special assessment upon the ieai
property in paving district NO. lo 1of
the purpose of grading, curblng anu
paving, have been placed IN my
hands. All owners of real estate IN
that district are required to pay their
assessments to me on or before TIE
llth day of September, 1904.
If such payment is not made, ac-
ton will be commenced at the end
that time for the collection OF SAID
assessment and for legal penalties
and all costs.
Given under my hand this llth day
OF August, 1904.
RALPH ROBINSON,
Collector.
S. Sept. lid.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1904-08-12
WITHDRAWAL NOTICE.

Notice is hereby given that f-
Stoyeken has withdrawn from 'he
firm of the Union Electric copmah,
and the remaining partners, A. N
Brown and ]. ID. Morton Will cohliil"e
the business.
y. r. BROWN,
f. STOyEkEN,
J. d. MORTON.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1904-08-12

There will be a special meeting OF
the building committee, trustees ard
stewards Friday evening at 8 O'Clock
OF the Hawley Memorial M. E. church,
South, at their place of worship, cor
ner Seventh and Hickory. A full at
tendance is desired.
T. w. VAUGHAN, Pastor.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1904-08-12
NEW SLEEPING CAR SERVICE
VIA IRON Mo~.,:eiN RCU':

Commencing August Sth, the Iron
Mountain Route will establish through
daily sleeping car service between
New Orleans and st. Louis. via. Val
ley Route and T. p. on the following
schedule:
Northbound.
Leave New Orleans 6:35 .. m.
Leave Pine Bluff 4 AS p. m.
Arrive ST. Louis 1.35 a. m.
Southbound.
Leave ST. Louis 500 D. IN.
Arrive Pine Bluff 1880 a. m.
Arrive New Orleans S:55 a. M.
For reservations apply to local
agent.
H. c. TOWNSEND, G. P. & 4. A.,
st. Lous. Mo.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1904-08-12
TWO SMALL HOUSES FOR SALE

On Third and Tennessee. Houses t.
be moved off at once. Give us AZ Of
er.
COTTON BELT SAVINGS AMI
TRUST co. dti
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1904-08-12
VISIT THE WORLDS
FAIR, cOLORED MASONS

On Augusi-lath the Iron Mountain
will sell round trip tickets to st,
Louis for $S15, good for one week
No change of cars.
-
:. 7. w. HOWE Act,