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The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1906-08-02
Cooperating CIT and Hen.

A new form OF cooperative home
making was discovered the other day
in barn at Rogers Park. A Nal
tese cat and a brown Leghorn hen
were in partnership in a manger
Between them they have three white
kittens and eleven eggs, The hen
was sitting on eight OF the eggs and
one of the kittens and the cat was
lying on the other three eggs and
coddling the other two kittens when
the novel menage was discovered.
When the hen goes TO eat the cat
tries to keep all the eggs warm.
When thefcat goes to seek food she
leaves her kittens in charge of the
hen, Apparently the kittens are
three or four days old, and the eggs,
It Is judged, have been in incubation
for longer time. Mr.. Touhy won
derB whether the cat or the chickens
viii be more surprised when the lat
ter break forth from the egg-shells.
rs-Chicg 30 Tribune.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1906-08-02
Author of Leather stocking Tales.

He had little systematic education.
His character was developed and
affirmed before his mind was either
trained or stored. His taste natu-
rally suffered. Taste is the product
of tradition, and of tradition he was
quite Independent, quite ignorant.
Fortunately, he was also ignorant
of its value, and when at thirty he
began to produce literature his
energy was unhampered by diff
dence. But it was inevitable that
the literature he produced should be
extremely unliterary, and noticeably
so in proportion to its power. His
talent was not distinctly a literary
talent. He had not even a tincture
of bookishness. or the art of litera-
ture he had perhaps never heard. 1t
was quite possible in his day--singu-
lar as 1t may seem in ours--not to
hear of 1t. He left school early and
was a sailor, a man of business, a
gentleman of more or less leisure
enough, at all events, to encourage
temperament that was aristocratic
and critical, and not in the least
speculative. adventurous, and aes-
thetic.-From Cooper" by w. G.
Brownell, in Scribner's.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1906-08-02
The Travelling Salesman.

Better than a letter from your
wife, sweetheart or even President
Roosevelt, is a letter from your firm
increasing your salary" was the in
teresting comment of II. j. Williams,
of La Crosse, sitting in the lobby OF
the Kirby House. II just received
such an epistle this morning, and l
feel like a prince. Had l received
a notification reducing my stipend
| would not have been greatly sur
prised, because my sales recently
have been nothing to brag of, and IL
the firm thinks by giving me a finan-
cial lift my results will be more no.
ticeable, it won't be disappointed,
because / am going to start out to-
day and work like major and prove
to my people that am worthy OF the
confidence shown me. There are
times in the life of travelling sales
man, when, no matter how hard he
tries, he doesn't do enough business
in a day, or even a week, to make
him feel like thinking of his occu-
patton. And then again, the re-
verse takes place, but between these
two we manage to even up the
| sales.
"Persistency is what wins with us
fellows. No matter how angry your
customer gets after the fifteenth OF
twentieth refusal to give you an
order and you are not convinced he
needs something in your line, adopt
the schoolday proverb and try again
Your pluck may elicit his admiration
unless he throws you bodily out Of
the store. and nine times out OF ten
pyou land him. Milwaukee Evening
Wisconsin.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1906-08-02
blind Men Successful Fisherrncp

Three blind men fished skilfully.
side by side, in launch off Anglesea,
drawing in black bass and founders
at the rate OF one a minute. They
never missed bite, They never
failed to land a FISH. Only the cap
tain had to bait their hooks for them
but then the captain bats the
hooks of all deep-sea anglers as a
rule.
The sightless trio, smiling, said
that blind fishermen were not rare;
that in the institution where they
lived full third of the inmates
fished.
They pointed out that fishing is a
sport singularly suited for the blind.
TO sit still, to catch fish by feeling
them on the line, is, indeed, the only
sport where the blind are at no dis
advantage. Ely fishing, of course, is
beyond them, on account of the diff
fculties of the cast.
Side by side in the rocking launch.
hauling in the bass and founders
briskly, their faces growing redder
and redder with sunburn, the three
blind men fished and smoked and
chartered, and at the days end 1t
was found that they had severally
caught more fish than any other man
aboard. rd.--Chicago Chronicle.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1906-08-02
WeaIth's Drawback.

Senator, how does it seem now
that you have attained wealth and
infiuence?"
Well" replied Senator Badger,
with far-away look in his eyes, Its
relieved me of a lot of worry, but
it's getting mighty tiresome trying
to make fork take the place of a
knife. Milwaukee Sentinel.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1906-08-02
couldn't Say Things.

Mrs. Church-Did your husband
play golf while you were at Pine
hurst?"
Mrs. Gotham-"Only one game
He said that vas the hardest he ever
played in his life"
How so?"
"Why, he played with a minister"
--Yonkers Statesman.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1906-08-02
As It Was in the Beginning.

Nanny" said Pickaninny Jim,
as he watched the meteors falling,
docs you see all dat brighteness
comm down."
"Yas, indeed"
'I know what makes it. De cullud
angels has been put to work sweepin'
up de golden city. Washing
Star.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1906-08-02
The Honest Salesman.

"But why do you call this ham.
mer the Happy Thought inquiries
the customer. 81 see nothing out OF
the ordinary about it; it seems to be
no Improvement over any other ham
mer."
1T isn't, SIR" replies the sales
man. 1T is simply called the Happy
Thought because you never have It
when you need 1t"
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1906-08-02
Reassuring.

Mr.. Neryey.-"I suppose you know
the object of my call, sir. To ba
brief, want to marry your daugh-
ter"
Mr.. Roxley-"Er? What? I'm
surprised that you should think OF
such a thing. The ideal"
Mr.. Nervey- Nonsense, You're
prejudiced against the girl She's
all right Modern Society.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1906-08-02
A Lesson in Honesty.

"The clerk gave Maggie half a
yard more ribbon than she asked for.
and she chuckled all the way home"
why didn't she tell him about
it?" =,
"Oh, she thought she was getting
the extra amount for nothing, until
she found she'd made mistake. too"
What was itY'
"She'd paid for the extra half
yard Detroit Free Press.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1906-08-02
Useful Citizens.

The Lady Why don't You go to
work and earn your liying?"
The Tramp--"Axin' yore pardon,
ma'am, but of sieh gents as me went
ter work dor'd be more work fer tn
undertakers."
The Lady--"Why. how's that?'
The Tramp--"De noospaper Joke
writer's would starve ter death.
ma'am. We all has our uses In dis
world. ma a'am. ."--Chbsago Newz.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1906-08-02
Natural Mistake.

We stop on the sidewalk and look
at the man who is digging the mar
row, deep, long excavation.
us somebody going to establish a
cemetery here?" we asked in sur
prise.
"What?" replies the man with the
spade. "Nawl" This is the base
ment for the new Vestibule Apart
ment House. Puck.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1906-08-02
He Has.
savoir-faire

"Pa, what does savoir-faire
mean?"
well, l don't know that can ex-
plain it exactly, but the man who
can looked tickled and interested
when somebody starts to tell story
that he has heard about twenty times
before has it, all right. Chicago
Record Herald
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1906-08-02
Knew His Place.

what did you think of your
daughters graduation essay?"
IL didn't permit myself to think
about It," answered Mr.. Cumrox. II
simply did my duty and admired it."
Washington Star
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1906-08-02
Can Out-Throw Mother.

Mike--"Kin yure wolfe cook az
good as yure mother used. to, Pat?"
Pat-"She can not; but OF niver
mintion ut. She kin throw consid
erable betther. Judge.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1906-08-02

Excessive use of drugs Is the cause
of death of 20 per cent. of the popula-
tion ce Austria, according to official
statistics, while "A per cent of the
medical profession in that country die
Of heart disease.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1906-08-02

DR.. TIL. Mortensen, of the Zoo
logical Museum of Copenhagen, is
in Washington to study the fish in
the National Museum.
The trials of electric locomotives
within the Simplon tunnel have
given a speed of forty-three and
three-quarter miles an hour, which
would reduce the passage through
to about seventeen minutes.
The range of years over which
cancer is likely to occur is practi-
cally the same in both sees-forty-
six-sixty-four-but the mean age OF
incidence of the disease is $50
years in males and 49.9 years in fe-
males.
The latest theory about appendi-
citis is that advanced by DR.. Alex
ander Schmidt, of Altoona. who be-
lieves IL may be caused by the min
ute metallic particles that get into
timed food when the can opener is
applied.
A writer in the American Ma
chinist stated recently that a steam
pipe of six inches diameter was COW
cred with a wooden box of twelve
inches diameter which was filled with
a sawdust mortar, one barrel of
lime in five of sawdust. Before COW
ering the pipe-nearly 700 feet in
length - 1t condensed 1440 pounds
of water hourly; after covering 1t
condensed 1875 pounds hourly.
1t is at last definitely settled that
the six new battle ships decided upon
by the French Government to rival
the Dreadnought, are to have a per-
manent protection of a special kind
against torpedoes. M. Bertin, Chief
Construction Engineer to the French
| Fleet, has made the announcement
\ to the Academy of Sciences. The
! protection is to consist of internal
| armor-plating inside the vessel at a
certain depth below the waterline.
But nothing very heroic is claimed
] lOT lub SySIeul. L he nOSJ expected
is that a battleship even badly hit
| by torpedo can be kept afoat.
/ The diamond has now to yield its
place as the hardest substance
known. The title henceforth belongs
to the recently discovered metal
known as tantalum, which cuts it.
self but diamonds only wear out
their own edges against 1t. The ex.
pertinent was tried of working a
diamond drill continuously for sew.
enty-two hours on a sheet of pure
metallic tantalum one twenty-fifth
of an inch thick-hardly thicker,
therefore, than a sheet of substan
tial note paper. The speed of the
drill maintained night and day wa!
5000 revolutions minute. At tn,
end of the test the sheet of tanta
lum, so far from being perforated
was only slightly dented but tn,
diamond in the drill was worn t
a stub.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1906-08-02
Dan Boone, Jr.

Jaw, is dat all you shot?"
The Sportsman-"Naw. I've got
10 git a wagon an go back for de
bears an things. New York Jour
nal.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1906-08-02
THE FACTS ABOUT COBALT
WHAT IT Is AND WHERE FOUND.

No Great Demand For the Mineral
Heretofore, Hence II Has Not Been
Extensively MIned---M. Edison's
Discovery May Create a Demand
For ---0rlsInal Form Of the Mineral
and How II Is Obtained The Form
In Which II Appears in North Carolina
and the Localities Where II Is Found
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1906-08-02

Grass widows means in reality
courtesy widow. from the French
word grace"
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1906-08-02

The latest theory about appendi-
citis is that advanced by DR.. Alex
ander Schmidt, of Altoona, who be-
lieves It may be caused by the min
ute metallic particles that get into
timed food when the can opener is
applied.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1906-08-02

Still Praying For a Man.

She's got brand.new auto cap,
She's got some auto clothes;
She's got a pair of goggles, and
A smell-guard for her nose.
She's got a veil quite big enough
For a mosquito bar;
And now she's praying for a man
Who's got an auto car.
--Yonkers Statesman
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1906-08-02

The trials of electric locomotives
within the Simplon tunnel have
given a speed of forty-three and
three-quarter miles an hour, which
would reduce the passage through
to about seventeen minutes.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1906-08-02
P6pdIar Soisqoe

DR.. TIL. Mortensen, of the Zoo
logical Museum of Copenhagen, is
in Washington to study the fish in
the National Museum.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1906-08-02

The range of years over which
cancer is likely to occur is practi-
cally the same in both sees-forty-
six-sixty-four-but the mean age of
incidence of the disease is $50
years in males and 499 years in fe-
males.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1906-08-02
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BY JOSEPH HYDE PRATT
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1906-08-02
White Cobalt.


bait arsenic sulphide of a silver gray
to steel gray color, sometimes with
a tinge of red or violet 1t is of a tin
white color and also massive, when
the color is apt to change to steel
gray or a grayish color. 1t is as hard
as steel and about 6.5 in specific
gravity. 1t is known also as tin
white cobalt and gray cobalt.
These minerals have not been
found in any large masses, but are
more apt to be more or less spar
ingly disseminated through rocks
and also through veins containing
other minerals. These minerals
in decomposing would form carbo-
mates, sulphates, and oxides and CO.
bait, which would be entirely differ
ent in appearance from the minerals
from which they have been derived.
The more common alteration prod
uct would be the oxide and this is
apt to be found largely mixed with
other minerals, so that little or none
of it has been found in the free state.
The principal sources of this OK
lido of cobalt are in association with
the mineral psinlomelane, one of the
manganese ores and that variety
known as wad, or bog manganese.
In certain localities this wad or bog
manganese contains considerable CO.
bait oxide, when 1t is known as
asbolite. These minerals are in
color iron black, steel gray, and re-
sembling somewhat a soft amorphous
variety of graphite or black lead
for which they have at times been
mistaken.
Asbolite: This is also known as
black cobalt, earthly cobalt and CO.
bait oxide. It contains sometimes
as high as thirty-two per cent. Of
cobalt oxide.
The North Carolina Deposits.
In North Carolina mono Of the sui
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1906-03-31
CAR HAS
RESIGNATION.
Count Witte Is Down and Out
as Premier
ILL HEALTH GROUNDS
Reactionist May Succeed Him as Prem
Ter Of Russia--witte Is No Longer
Active His rail- Would BE
Regarded as Catastrophe.

st. Petersburg, March 3I--Since the
sitting of the council Of Che empire Mar.
10, at which Premier Witte made an
enigrnatical statement which was inter
preted by many members of the eoun-
| ell as a virtual declaration that hid
career as premier was ended md that he
would be succeeded by Privy Councillor
Kokoysoff. former minister Of finance,
the premier has not attended tile ses-
sions Of the council and his continued
absence adds color to the ruinors of
has retirement at an early date.
The Associated Press il positively in
formed that the premicr's resignation,
based on the grounds Of ill-health, IL
before the Emperor. ss
This, however, is not admitted at the
premier's chnncclery. The general be-
lief in high quarters Ii that, ii Count
White retires, it will not be NJ Kokov-
soft, but NJ. Goremykin, former minister
Of the interior, Of Gen. Count Ingatieff
leader Of the reactionary party, who will
succeed him. The combination Of the
reactionarics II understood to be Nj
G.orernyi<in for premier and Gen. Inga-
| tietf for minister Of the interior
lii moderate circles the fall Of Count
Witte At the present juncture would be
Regarded al catastrophe.
The incident in the council OF the
empire referred to in the above dispatch
was in connection with project for
the. olution Of the agrarian troubles BY
the purchase Of lands from the large
proprietors through the peasants banks
ksnt the esale to the peasants on long
Nfm instslment paymcntsl aa saa
NsA fi3et7s III
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1906-03-31
Wornan's Trials.

The bitter trailin woman's life Ia 70
be childless. VINO can tell now hard the
struggle may have been enc she learnt TO
resign herself 70 her lonely lots The alb
sence Of this link TO bind marital life
toge Their. the absence of this one pledge
to mutual affection Il a common disap-
pointEnents Many unfortunste couples
become estranged thereby. Even II they
do not drift apart, one may read the whole
extent oil their disappointment Ii the eyes
Of such childless couple when they rest
on the children OF others To them the
largest familydoes not seam too numerous.
In many cases Of barrenness or child
lessness the obstacle to child-bearing Is
easily removed by Che cure Of weakness on
the part Of tho woman. Or. Plerce's Fa-
yorite Prescription has been the means OF
restoring health and frultfnlness TO many
a barren woman, 10 the great joy OF the
household. In other, but rare cases, the
obstruction 10 the bearing of children has
been found to be Of surgical character,
but easily removable by painless operative
treatment at the Invalidsi Hotel and Sur
gical Institute, Buffalo, M ", over which
DIR. Pierce OF the vFavOrite Prescription
fame pregidcs In oil cases where chill
dren are desired and are absent, an effort
should be made TO find out the real cause.
since 1t il generally 50 easily removed by
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1t has 10 itS credit hundreds OF thousands
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Or. PieYce's Pleasant Pellets are the
best and safest laxative for women.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1906-03-31
PENNSYLVANIA SUIT FOR
HAIRLINE STRIP OF SOIL
Wants Title to ll,s4l-lSi, booths of
an Inch Of Land at the New
Terminal Site.

New York, March 81 Expert cngi.
neers have discovered that the Penn
sylvania Railroad company is in danger
OF possible injunction for trespass dur
ing the course Of the work on the great
excavation for The depot and tunnel ter
minal Recent surveys Of the land
bounded by Eighth and Tenth avenues
and Thirty-first and Thirty third streets,
where the excavation is being made,
brought TO the attention Of the engi
neers that a portion Of the territory
expressed by the fraction eleven thou.
sand three hundred and forty ono hun.
bred and fifty-one thousand two hun.
dredths Of an inch had not been trans
feTred to the company when il acquired
the title TO the land Reference TO the
records soon led to the further discovery
that The remaining portion, not owned
by the Pennsylvania company, was the
property Of John Watts dc reyster Toll
er, Minnie y. Toler, Julia Ann dc Pey.
ster Grenvillc r. Strong, Emily b.
Strong, Dudley B. Strong and numer-
.ous other heirs OF James Bo0rman. who
died in 1856 and left them considerable
property in the section. $1,000
Suit has been brought a4ainst The pen
sons iIalned FOR the peffeefion 81 The
tiiie to this piece o. land which fhe
Pennsylvania coyets The strip extends
west from Che middle 81 the block OH
Eighth avenue, between Thiry.iirst and
Thirty .econd streets, for 100 fest. be.
ing almost IN the dead center Of what
will be the eastcfly end OF the Depot.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1906-03-31
STARVATION, cAEEIBALIsM.
Horrible Stories from the Arctic--Whele
Tribes Wiped Out.

\ ST. Petersburg, March az Horrible
accounts are reaching st. Petersburg Of
cannihalism and starvation among the
tribes inhahiting the frozen Arctic plain
Of the Chukchis peninsula, at the extreni
ity OF Asia. Most Of the reindeer died
OF starvation during the winter Of 1909
8, leaving the inhabitants without means
Of communication or food.
Members Of the 0mclons and Ololyo
tribes, when facing starvation, assem-
bled in council and decided that moth
ing remained but death. They agreed
chat each head Of family should kill
his wife and children and then commit
suicide. The 1Tfbcsinen gathered on q
plateau. and in The darkness Of the
Arctic winter the Spartan decision was
executed, not 4 single member Of The
two tribes surviving
More revolving still is the story Of
what occurred IN a family Of the Yuka-
hir tribe. A mother and nine Of her
children having died Of hunger. the faith
er, daughter and a nephew lived upon
the remains, and when they were con-
sumed the father murdered the nephew.