The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1906-06-06
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
n experienced farmer ON the
oi.o,t for n farm SHES at the

Nv and thin, and will cost more than
y crops will ever be worth III fertllz-
&c of various kinds.
woods tell him a whole story at
,rce glance. If the leaves OF the
o,tsfoot rear their hoav, heads, he AT
nco .suspects the presence of thick,
,,otv blue clay. hard to drain and oul-
xHivate S
80 sandy soil myrtle. the heaths and
t ormentilla tell of peaty land valuable
prly for summer grazing; sleeps cor
n al .sneaks of iron. the valerain and
E rrnculous of marsh, while veronica,
Y lone the hybrid poppy and other sinh
K ar plants are sure signals OF chaIk
~ Ind lint below the surface.
III Tor those who have eyes to see
| +hem kindly nature hangs out signals
q ~ ali kinds. She only asks that men
" .,.n nse their eyes. says Pearson's
n #,yee,ly. If they can. and do so, she
M ,rn never betray them. She has bonl
X GOOD and bad signs, which are as plain
q IN their way as red or green lights TO
|& In railway engine dTlNe"'
ror Instance. what is called the low
# corntry of the Northern Transvaal is
N portly healthy. partly feverlsh. In
n. one spot YOU may camp in safety for
W month. in another not a mile away
Fl me dreaded fever will seize you in
M single night. .
tn unpducated eyes there seems little
& or no difference in the outward aspect
H of the two places, but your old pros
. hector is never caught camping on
NJ feyer ground. He knows the fever tree
.4 foo well. The fever tree is an odd and
4 sinister looking piece of vegetation,
NJ with twisted, greenish trunk and
+. branches. and grows only in those spots
"a where fever mist hangs at nightfall.
n So TOO. IN Florida, when a hunter is
81 traversing the immense swamps-
y 'hammocks." as they are called-which
n cover huge tracts in the southern part
n of that State. he searches for a spot
Al where pine trees rear their tall heads
"A among the expresses and gums. There
ID he can camp and sleep in safety.
Fl though to spend Il night but a few
N hundred yards away from the pines
N might mean bone racking dose of
# ague.
Many an Australian explorer has
n been saved from a horrible death by
n thirst because he has known the water
N malice. This tree, though it may stand
"A in the midst of n burning desert. in
II variably tells of water below the sur
u face. Ii the traveller be not too far
II gone to dig, he will find the precious
n fluid below the mallee's roots.
n The old shepherd crossing Dartmoor
h or one of the Scottish moors travels
"a with dry feet, while the stranger is
y perfectly certain to tumble knee. per-
n haps waist, deep into horrible black
compound of mud and water. The
shepherd avoids the bogs, because he
has learned to read natures danger
Il signal He does not walk on places
where the sphagnum coTers the sur
face, and SO avoids the pitfalls hidden
beneath its pale green fronds.
Most Of us know something of
weather sgrs, those warnings which
are hung out for all to read in the
sky, and yet how many never notice
them at all, so that when there comes
really great convulsion of nature
they are caught unprepared.
That awful cyclone which over
whelmed .he grea, seaport of Gal
weston three years ago, was heraded
/ by an immense groundswell, which
was seen forty-eight hours before the
tempest broke.
The Mississippi storm of 1874, Which
Is generally supposed to have been the
worst gale that has ever been recorded
A and the result of which was to wipe
I out nearly twenty settlements, flood
'f'pROO square miles of land and perma
lily change the course of the great
r. was preceded by strange an}
Me time ineXplcable moaning
n, which went on for three days
seemed to come from the upper
although all below was still. The
Nns heard it and left for the hlgl
Hd; the whites heard it, stayet
4e they were and were drowned.
the winter British Columbia and
NC western slopes of the Rookie!
times visited by a strong east
EYlnd, which, blowing off the warm
surface of the Japan current. will rap
idly melt the mountain SHOWS, causing
sudden disastrous floods.
But no lnhab bitant of the slopes Il
ever caught unawares, because TO
many hours before the warm gale ther,
appear over the heads of the mountains
long lines and bands of the so-calleI
Chinook clouds. These are a Ger
tall sign of the hot wind, and ar
never known 10 fail.
Desert dwellers are never surpriset
Dy "khamsln," or dust storm, unles
II comes too quickly to be avoided
BEFORE such visitation the horizol
changes color, and according to til
color, which varies from dull yellow +
deep red, so will be the strength an,
fury Of the storm
AS strange a danger signal as ma,
De found on the surface of this plane
is the so-called "Quesbrada Encar
tada," the enchanted ravine of tn
uloa Valley, in Honduras, Of which a
account, written by Mr.. George Byro
uordon, who visited the place, is to b
round IN the memoirs of the Peabod
Museum.
When rain is approaching ther
comes from this ravine a melodiou,
whlstling sound, which varies in II