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The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1906-12-20
Kentucky's Good Old Corn Bread.

Land of the luscious, indescribable
and ever conquering corn bread.
Ken.ucky, we hail thee! Other
States have their corn bread, but no
corn bread on earth ever reaches
the right spot in the hungry mans
makeup like that of old Kentucky.
Corn bread is the Kentucky house,
wife's monument See the genuine
corn bread anywhere, or even the
imitation, and the mind must instinc-
lively go back to old Kentucky, with
all its treasures and traditions OF
corn bread making. This. verify, Ia
"a land of corn and wine; land OF
bread and vineyards. See the Ken
lucky household gathered about hos
pitable tables to realize the truth OF
Victor Hugo:--"Oh, the love of a
mother. love no one forgets; miracu-
lous bread which God distributes
and multiplies; board always spread
by the paternal hearth, whereat each
has his portion, and all have 1t en-
tire. Louisville Herald.
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pranks outside. A great silence iaiis
upon the children, and one by one
they are called up and examined by
the saint. This part of the evenings
business is carried on with the great
est seriousness and decorum. Simple
religious questions suited to the age
OF each child are propounded. after
which it has TO sing hymns and re-
cite prayers. II the ordeal Is success
fully passed the angels present 1t
with nuts and apples. II 1t falls 1t has
to stand aside. When the examination
Is ended the devils are called In.
They are not allowed to approach
the good children. but may tease and
frighten the naughty ones as much as
they like. They do this at first as a
matter of duty. Duty Is followed by
the pleasures whose anticipation. had
caused them to enlist--pleasure
which consist in pursuing the larger
girls with the attempt to blacken
their faces. Their whole appearance is
Intended to be grotesque and farcical.
For the entire evening they are allow
ed full license in the villages, though
in some CT the towns the festival has,
for good reasons, been prohibited.
|. For weeks before the eve of ST. Mich
olas devii may occasionally be seen
at the window Of some cottage where
the children are supposed to be naugh-
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1906-12-20
DISTRIBUTING CENTRES.
Cities From Which the Great Volume
of Printed Matter is Sent Out.

A striking example of the great
volume of printed matter which the
Postofice Department is called upon
found in report recently issued by
the department.
OF printed matter, designed for
general distribution, 2S,0O0,000
pounds were shipped in one month
last year by publishers at the rate of
a cent a pound at the 100 largest
postoffices in the United States, the
total amount of such shipments hav-
ing increased from 296,000,000
pounds in 1896 to 45O.0O0,OOO in
1900.
These shipments of printed mat
ter, collected and transmitted by the
Postoffice Department, constitute a
very fair guage of the distributing
points of news and literature in the
United States, and the relation which.
they bear to each other is peculiar
and has little reference to popula-
tion.
New York stands at the head with
more than twenty-five per cent. of
the whole shipments of the country.
Chicago follows with about two-thirds
of the shipments of New York. Then
follow st. Louis. Philadelphia and
Boston, in the order named, Boston s
shipments seeming unduly low, and
then Kansas City, Cincinnati and
Augusta. Me-. the shipments of Au-
gusta seeming unduly high.
Minneapolis. San Francisco, Pitts
burg, Detroit, st. Paul. Cleveland
and Milwaukee follow--all of them
minor but populohs cities-and then
come Springfield, Ohio, and Elgin,
ILL.,, two small places, Springfield be-
ing notable on account of its output
of agricultural machinery, and Elgin
on account of its manufacture of
watches and its shipments of con-
densed milk.
Baltimore comes next, then Dem
yer. Omaha, Des Moines, Atlanta.
Lincoln, Nashville, Louisville, In
dianapolis and Washington. Bangor,
Me-, exceeds Buffalo; Dallas, Tex.
exceeds New Orleans. Brooklyn has
shipments little larger than those Of
Waterville, Me-, and Rochester, n.
Y; Williamsport, Tex, and Menu
phis. Tenn, have about the same
shipments.
Albany. N. r., and Providence, y.
l., are far down on the list. Newark.
N. u. is still further down, and
Charleston, s. c.. ranks below Rn-
cine, Wis. II is estimated thut It
would take $4,000 postal cars to car
~ these second-class mall matter
phipments. y ~
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1906-12-20
The Curse of Pockets.

A tailor who had received an order
for suit of clothes was asked by
the customers wife for an interview.
II want to ask you as a special
favor she said, mot to put any poe
kets in my husbands clothes"
why not?" asked the astonished
tailor.
Because they are responsible for
his looking so shabby so much of the
time" she explained. "He wears his
clothes for weeks without pressing
because he says 1t is too much trou.
BILE to change the things in his poe
kets to another suit. He says that
half the men who go round in seedy
clothes do SO for the same reason.
If that is so. just leave out the poe
kets and they will have no excuse for
shabbiness."
That is new point of view" said
the tailor. II will see about it."
But when the suit came home II
had the usual number OF pockets. -
New York Sun.
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ty or their elder sister is known 70
be particularly attractive. II Is PROOF
Of the sound nerves of the children
that no harm comes from the ordeal.
When st. Nicholas has left the chill
dren return to their own homes but
they do not believe that the generosity
OF the sanity bishop has been ex.
hausted After saying their prayers
and going to bed they place dishes or
baskets upon windowsill, with their
names written within them, and in
these their parents deposit small pre-
sents, which their little sons and
daughters fancy he has brought.
In many places the bugbear over
shadows in Importance both the
Christ child and st. Nicholas. He ap
pears under different names and In
different gulses. In Lower Austria he
is the frightful Krampus, with his
clanking chains and horrible devils
mask, who, notwithstanding his gilded
nuts and apples, gingerbread and toys,
which he carries in his basket, is the
terror of the nursery. In Hanover,
Holsteln and Mecklenburg he is
known as Clas. In Silesia his name
is Joseph.
Sometimes the bugbear was a fe-
male. In Lower Austria she was call
ed the Budelfrau. In Suabia 1t was the
Berchtel who chastised children that
did not spin diligently with rods but
rewarded the industrious with dried
pears, apples and nuts.
The female bogie survives, espec'
tally in Russia and in Italy. In the
former place she is known as the
Baboushka, in the latter as the Bef
ana. Befana is corruption of Epiph
ania or Epiphany. For it is on Epiph
any, Jan 6, that the Ttlanians make
presents to their children in com
memoratlon of the gifts given by the
three wise men to Christ on that
date.-New York Herald.
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horns or pigs SHOUTS or such other
fantastic devices as the ingenuity
of boyhood can devise. They are girt
with chains. which they shake or rat
tie furiously. 1t is thought much bet
ter fun to be devil than an angel,
hence the number of the former Is
only limited to the number of boys
who are able to command the neces-
sary regalia In the twilight OF the
evening of December the good bish-
op and his suite begin their round
Of visits. 1t is the season for juvenile
parties, and almost all the children
of the village are collected in few
separate houses. each of which st.
Nicholas visits in turn. He enters
with the two angels, while his swar-
thy followers are left to play their
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1906-12-20
A Surprise For Father Christmas.

Dear me, how very strange this isl
SO Father Christmas cries.
Whose can these small red stockings
be,
This very curious size?
"While travelling round the world.
I've seen
OF stockings, many score,
But never till tonight have found
Such tiny ones before"
Gladys was tucked up fast asleep;
Her doll, too, was in bed;
But Dolly's eyes were open wide,
And she heard what he said.
She sat right up and called dolls
talk
On Christmas night, you see)-
"They are mine. those stockings;
Gladys
Has hung them there for mel"
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1906-12-20
Commas.

Mr.. and Mrs. Comma celebrated
the seventy-fifth anniversary of their
marriage a few days ago, and the
funny papers at once got busy with
their name. The Washington Post
remarked that 1t was "a pretty long
sentence for two commas" and The
Boston Transcript adds the happy re-
Election that 1t was no doubt "a bliss
full period" This is fairly good
pointing" These Commas have
been bracketed together so long that
we express the hope by way OF q
that nothing Will - their happiness
or bring It suddenly to a full stop.
Columbia State.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1906-12-20
Lobsters For Bouleyardiers.

The head waiter of the Cafe de
Paris is going over to spend month
In New York for the purpose of
studying the method OF preparing
American dishes. He will make a
special study of broiled lobster and
cocktails. Henri, with his pink whis-
kers--one OF the sights Of Paris---is
known to all wealthy Americans who
visit Paris. Paris Dispatch to New
York American. e, y. --..-------- Y
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ing by being shot through the throat.
1t is estimated that the apple crop
in the United State this year will
amount to more than 36,000,000 bar
rels.
In West Bridgewater. Mass, re-
Gently the first church wedding in
forty-four years took place in the
Unitarian church.
In the west cloister OF westmin-
ster Abbey is a gravestone to John
Broughton, once champion prize
fighter of England.
A New Yorker, a youth in his
teens, is reported to have sued
young woman of the same city, al
leging breach of promise and asking
100000 damages.
The Government of Victoria. Aus
tralia, has appropriated $25.O00 for
the making of roads by prisoners
through the bush" in unsettled
parts of the State.
Pethick Lawrence, husband of one
of the "suffragists" imprisoned in
London, promised to subscribe SO
day to the woman's suffrage fund
for every day his wife remains in
| jail.
Taponaca nhfIJran hooiu n fn
school when six years old. During
the first four years they learn Jap
anese and Chinese; in the next four
years every child has to learn Eng
lish.
William Pinckney Whyte, United
States Senator from Maryland, who
recently celebrated his eighty-second
birthday, has never been inside a sa-
loon, never smoked and never rode
in a cab.
Denmark, famous for her great
expectation of butter, has 500 cows
TO every 1000 of her inhabitants,
and If five heads are counted a fam
lily there are two and one-half cows
to every family.
Up in Vermont they killed bur.
| glar who had $11S.20 on his person,
and after paying his burial expenses
and erecting a monument to him,
turned $63 and the twenty cents in.
to the town treasury.
Major John S. Horlbeck, of
Charleston, s. c., is said to own the
largest bearing pecan orchard In the
world. He has more than sixty acres
in bearing trees and his main grove
consists of $50 acres.
The neatest town in the world is
Brock, in Holland. So tidy are the
Inhabitants that they will not allow
horses in the streets. 1t contains a
population of 200, and the chief in.
dustry is the making of Edam cheese.
German firms are building very
! large gas engines, one having just
been built of 1000 horse power for
a mining company, and number of
1900 horse power tandem gas en-
gines and 1900 horse power gas dy-
namos are reported.
In Turkey there are 1900 schools
in which girls receive education.
There are forty secondary schools
having 5000 girls on their rolls. The
learning of the Koran is compulsory.
and arithmetic, geography and ele-
mentary science are taught.
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God Rest You, Merry Gentlemen!

(OId English CarOI.)
God rest you, merry gentlemen.
Let nothing you dismay,
For Jesus Christ our Saviour
Was born upon this day,
To save us all from Satan's power
When we are gone astray;
o tidings of comfort and joy,
For Jesus Christ our Saviour
Was born on Christmas Day.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1906-12-20

A Silesian court recently sentenced
to prison for two months man who
had failed to cheer the Katass during
the military mansuyors, .---.---'
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1906-12-20

In Turkey there are 1900 schools
in which girls receive education.
There are forty secondary schools
having 5000 girls on their rolls. The
learning of the Koran is compulsory,
and arithmetic, geography and ele-
mentary science are taught.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1906-12-20

iE jolly, potbellied, roist-
ering old Santa Claus is
in hot water. Preachers
and parents are rising
up against him, declar-
ing that he is a fraud
and as such ought to be
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1906-12-20

A New Yorker. a youth in his
teens, is reported to have sued
young woman of the same city, al
leging breach of promise and asking
100000 damages.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1906-12-20

The Government of Victoria, Aus
tralia, has appropriated $25.000 for
the making of roads by prisoners
through the bush" in unsettled
parts of the State.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1906-12-20

In the west cloister OF Westmin-
ster Abbey is a gravestone to John
Broughton. once champion prize
fighter of England.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1906-12-20

Pethick Lawrence, husband of one
of the 'suffragists" imprisoned in
London, promised to subscribe G10
a day to the woman's suffrage fund
for every day his wife remains in
jail.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1906-12-20

German firms are building very
large gas engines, one having just
been built of 1000 horse power for
a mining company, and a number of
1900 horse power tandem gas en-
gines and 1900 horse power gas dy-
namos are reported.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1906-12-20
Q HZNGy
RWORTH KNOWINCE

A soldier in the Philippines is re-
ported to have been cured of stutter-
ing by being shot through the throat.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1906-12-20

In West Bridgewater. Mass. re-
Gently the first church wedding in
forty-four years took place in the
Unitarian church.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1906-12-20

Denmark, famous for her great
expectation of butter. has 500 cows
TO every 1000 of her inhabitants.
and If five heads are counted fam
lily there are two and one-half cows
to every family.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1906-12-20

japanese children begin to go to
school when six years old During
the first four years they learn Jap
anese and Chinese; in the next four
years every child has to learn Eng
lish.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1906-12-20

Up in Vermont they killed bur.
glar who had s11S.20 on his person.
and after paying his burial expenses
and erecting a monument to him,
turned $50 and the twenty cents in.
to the town treasury.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1906-12-20

1t is estimated that the apple crop
In the United State this year will
amount to more than S6,O00,00O bar
rels.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1906-12-20

The neatest town in the world is
Brock, in Holland. So tidy are the
Inhabitants that they will not allow
horses in the streets. 1t contains a
population of 1900, and the chief in.
dustry is the making of Edam cheese.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1906-12-20

William Pinckney Whyte, United
States Senator from Maryland. who
recently celebrated his eighty-second
birthday, has never been inside a sa-
loon, never smoked and never rode
in a cab.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-11-25

of 25,Ooo of their ancestors had once reigned
supreme.
The Utes had ranked among the bravest
or the Indian nations, and were exceeded in
ferocity by the Apaches only. Jim Bridger.
the famous early western scout ussd TO tell
stories of how in the battles with the
whites and with the Cheyennes and Co.
manches, Ute warriors used to deliberately
sacrifice their lives in order to secure tacti-
cal advantages through which their fellow
tribesmen might eventually win their bat
ties.
This mad love of fighting really caused
the defamation in the ranks Of the Utes
When the Union Pacific railroad was
taken across the plains in the years be-
tween 1860 and 1875. it was the Utes who
bravely fought the invader. They had the
vain hope that by checking the work they
could keep the plains to themselves and it
took the most constant activity on the
part of United States soldiers to prevent
the massacre of every -palecace conneced
with the work.
AS long the white men kept away the
Utes stuck to Colorado, but in the early
seventies there was a division which sent
many to Utah.
sprang the utes who, during the last few
weeks, have been causing some ANXIETY
But how pitifully short they fall of their
ancestors.
Terror of the West
An Indian uprising used to strike terror
lHTouSH tHe west BEFORE It's suppression
1t meant inevitably many lives taken but
the worst the present savages dare has
been to steal and kill cattle in defiance of
the law. On a pretext such as theirs
that they were forced to leave the reserva-
ton and go elsewhere lest they -starve-
the Apaches, the Sioux, the Arapahoes the
Comanches or the Cheyennes would have
spread a revolt that would have converted
the disturbed district into a shamble for
time. Other tribes would have flashed
to their rescue, and in the olden days it
would have taken some such sturdy In
dian fighter as Gen. Miles to go out and
restore peace.
But the romance is gone now The In
dian is reformed. The Carlisle and other
Indian schools have taken many braves
Off the trail And others who scorn
chances Of education have nevertheless
been able to learn the lesson of fear, and
shrink from hopeless conflict with Uncle
Sans soldiers.
In the talk of peace parleys 1t is signifi-
cant of the degeneration and changed con-
ditions that the Utes turn to a Sioux,
American Horse, to represent them in
their conference with the government.
Three decades ago American Horse was
one Of the boldest leaders the warlike In
dams had. Often he fought the soldiers,
and many a white mans scalp took its
place at his belt But he has learned the
lesson Of the times. and now conducts
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WARS OF THE REDSNN
Two Centuries of Struggle
Closes With Ute Uprising.
NO FIGHT LEFT IN POOR LO
Terrific Perils That Once Assailed the
Western Paleface.
UTES THE LAST WAR TRIBE
Day Of Sitting Bull, Crazy Horse,
Geronimo, osceola and Black
Hawk Has Passed.
Written for the Star.

Written for the Star -
The American Indian has seen his last
days as fighter.
The pathetic crunbl:ng of the Ute upris-
ing shows that Uncle Sam need no longer
worry over that former cause of peril and
death-the Indian war
From the days when King Phillip, in
Massachusetts,, organized the first great up
rising of the redskin, through two and a
half centuries down to the present day, the
red man was the most consistent foe that
Uncle Sam had to deal with
Wars came with Britain, Mexico, Spain
and an internecine struggle threatened the
national existence. but these wars, though
far more important, lasted only briefly,
while the conflict with the Indians was al
most continuous.
There was never security, for as fast as
one tribe would be pacified another broke
out.
In the early part of the contest the Indian
had to be forced out of the east by the con-
stantly increasing white population, then
he was pushed west and made hundred
year stand before finally conceding defeat
In the last quarter century his outbreaks
have been sporadic. The Ute uprising is
the first threatening move that has attract
ed an attention in decade. Its futility
shows that the government has succeeded
In cajoling and frightening out of its wards
the old, bold, fearless spirit that rocked
nothing of consequences or final vengeance
If temporarily damage could be done to the
hated paleface.
Bravest Of Nations.
The pacifcation of. the Utes quells the last
Of the great war-like tribes. They held out
longest against the government and it was
not until 1889 that they agreed to the OPEN
ing of their reservation in the choicest part
Of Colorado's hunting grounds. In that
year Chief 1gnacio and more than a thou
sand of his followers coded their rights to
the government in exchange for $4,000 a
year and rations. They withdrew to small
farming reservations set aside for them in
La Plata and Archuleta counties
This act meant the remuneration Of the
rights to ground over which a proud tribe
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How to Keep Furs Clean.

Keeping white furs clean is like keeping
linens looking fresh, for both need mucn
attention and frequent cleansings. OF
course, If women can afford to have fur
riers do this work they need not be so
particular about preventing their NUTS,
collarettes or capes from getting soiled.
but when the cleansing must be done at
home too much care cannot be taken to
keep them clean, for the process of cleaning
ermine, coney, angora or any of the white
furs, real or Imitation, Is long, tedious
one. that takes much strength To begin
with. they must be put out on a line and
We'll summed and aired for day or two,
then they must be whipped gently yet
flies when they are pounded.
When the loose dirt is out the furs may
again be hung on a line in the sunshine
while bath of white sand and furrfer's
sawdust mixed half and half. is heated
in an oven. When hot the pieces must be
put into this cleanser and the sand and
sawdust rubbed well into the fur. The
sand when hot loosens the grease and
dirt from the fur and the sawdust absorbs
It, If after one such rubbing the fur does
not look as clean as is desired the process
should be repeated. When the dirt Is out
the garment or muff must again be pound
ed with rattan stick to get out the sand
Following this beating the fur should
be placed In pan filled with cornstarch
or plaster of paris, which must be rubbed
thoroughly into it. After either whitener
furs must again be put out of doors and
whipped with stick to get out the white
dust, for If not shaken or beaten the plas-
ter Of paris or cornstarch win rub on on
the clothing. which is unpleasant.
With chinchilla little can be done toward
cleansing, except a gentle beating with a
rattan stick And this whipping must be
lightly done. for the skin is so fine and
tears SO easily that woman cannot be
too careful in the beating and the best
plan is to have them cleaned by a furrier.
Beaver. mink and many Of the furs
with heavy skins are cleaned exactly as
are the ermine and other white pieces.
with the exception of the final rubbing
on of cornstarch or plaster of paris. The
first beating to get out the dust, the
airing and bath of white sand and sawdust
must be given these furs to properly
cleanse them. Pony coats may be success
fully cleaned in the same way.
With the heavy long furs, such as
Alaska sable. raccoon and opossum. the
airing and pounding with a heavy rattan
stick are essential. but the hot sawdust
and sand are omitted for the use Of a
comb with short teeth, known as
curriers' comb"
Sables, like chinchillas, must be care
fully treated. and the safest plan is to
send them to an expert when they need
cleaning.