The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1906-09-20

NoAipPoNN as an amateur DdIlDOH.-Ac
lanta Journal
Now that the eagle is declared to he
practically extinct in the United
States, why not have the great Amer
lean hen suppant that bird as a ma.
tional emblem, suggests the Atlanta
Constitution
According to the Wall Street Jour.
nal the individual who insists upon
doing as he pleases regardless of the
rights of others or the laws of the
land is an anarchist. The only ex
ception is; Amy rich man.
The Louisville Herald says Don't
is very good word used at the right
time and in the right place, but the
right time and right place for its use
are not to be found every moment
Education by negation is never as
happy or as successful as education
by affirmation.
Political and commercial relations
with the countries of Latin America
VIII be what ever cur people see fit
to make them, maintains the New
York Sun. The United States can
win and hold their friendship and
their esteem; and can also win and
hold their trade, now worth 100000,
900 year. and destined soon to pass
the billion dollar mark.
Observes the New York World: Ap.
parently the fan follows the flag. The
baseball interest in Hawaii can hardly
be second TO that in Wappinger's
Falls, near the Hudson. In that greay
ly favored village on a recent Sun.
day the demand for carriages in
which to follow the home team to
Fishkill caused vehicular famine and
led to the postponement of funeral
Remarks the Milwaukee Journal:
The tip is primarily an expression OF
feeling of patronizing superiority OF
the man who gives it over to the man
he gives it to. Nobody ever thinks
Of giving tip TO an equal. 1t is only
to those one considers beneath him
that one dares 10 offer tips, and he
gives them less in gratitude for SER
vices rendered than in order to in
dulge his own feeling of superiority.
The Pan-American Conference has
agreed en- the "Drago doctrine" and
will send it to The Hague, where the
international Court Of Arbitration will
not adopt it. The doctrine is. in eff
feet that a nation may nct collect the
debts of citizen from another nation
by force. Considering the character
OF most international claims, such a
law would work little injustice. But
it will not soon have the chance to
work either justice CT injustice, says
the New York World,
The Albany Journal declares an.
archism is not yet a menace to our
institutions, but it Is time to take the
necessary steps effectually to prevent
the possibility of its ever becoming
menace. If more men of prominence
will take up the subject for public
discussion it should not be long be-
lOlt Aht N~Oitslt tES WNhlu lttl llStll
impelled to enact law which would
be in all respects reasonable and con.
sistent with American principles.
Admiral FOu.nier was reported by
the Petit Parisien to have "pronounc.
ed the death sentence of battleships"
as result of what was learned at the
recent manoeuvres off the French
coast To him was attributed the re-
mark that fleet worth S00.O00,O00
francs aud as big as the British Med
iterranean feet could have been sunk
by ten submarines worth trife like
15,000,000 francs And hence, as you
could buy twenty-five of these weap.
ons of the poor, and the brave, for
the price of one battlcship, why not
begin layll lg down whole swarms OF
submarines?
According to the Buffalo Courier,
hardware manufacturers receatly
traced forty freight shipments from
Richmond to various points in the
Southern States. The average mum.
ber of miles travelled per day by these |
shipments was 61.61, and the average |
mileage per hour was 2.57. The |
quickest time was made by a shipment |
from Richmond to Olmstead, KY, a |
distance of 797 miles in six days. The
slowest time was from Richmond to
Easton, Md, 20 miles in seven days.
Manufacturers are gathering eyi
dence with the view of bringing the
subject to the attention of Congress
Three scientific gentlemen have
Just announced discoveries which
bear upon three of the most import
ant subjects that could engross the
mind of man-the production of food
without cooks, the stimulation of ideas
and the prevention of gray hair
Though widely separated, these sa.
wants are really working in common.
as is easily perceived by noting the
subtle connection between their dis.
coveries, observes the Washington
Post. The abolition of cooks would in
stantly exhilarate mankind to such an
extent that genius wculd flash in all
directions and the sense OF renewed
youth would tend TO keep the hair un
faded. II was not ON this theory, per
naps, that these explorers of the un
Known worked but one theory il