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The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1906-11-08
TnouGilr AND M......

I'm not what people say am, I'm not
| simply do my work upon scientific
plan.
/ let my head save hand and foot, 7 bring
my brain in play;
And still / am lazy chap, so all my
neighbors say.
But don't care, let en- talk. aud keep
about my work
That is, | keep my brain hitched up and
never let it shirk.
Each morn when get out of bed sit
right down and think:
| think how this or that should go before
] eat or drink.
think up some good, easy way TO do this
thing and that.
And after thinking hard a spell / have it
Instead of delving into it and working
hard all dav
] simplify it fifty fold by thinking out
way
And, best of ALL sometimes find by think.
ing long and deep
There's many Jobs that once | thought
were pretty midding steep.
! do not need to do at all which I'd have
gone and doue
Had not sat and thought 'em out before
they were begun.
And that's the way find it now, the more
| sit and think
The less hard work have 20 do but get
my food and drink
So if you sec me sitting here beneath this
tree each day,
And my good wife is washing clothes not
very far away.
Pray don't misjudge for ! shall be lost
deep in thought TO see
How she can get those washings out with
less of drudgery.
I'm not what people say I am, I'm not a
lazy man;
! simply get through life upon a scientific
pan.
Joe Cone, in the New York Sun.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1906-11-08
Making the Shy Girl Talk.

The girl who knows herself to be
tongue-tied, though she regret it.
need not despair of popularity. No
body is socially more disagreeable
and more dreaded than a woman who
talks too much, monopolizing the
conversation, and giving no one else
a chance to speak. People fly from
this over-gifted and aggressive talk
er. A mere chatterbox is equally
disliked. a good listener is always
sure of appreciation. If you can but
master the fine art of listening to
each person with an air of deep in
terest, just as IL there were nobody
else at the moment in the wide world,
and as IL your greatest Wish were to
understand what the other is trying
to tell you, you will have the effect
of taking well. All that is really nee
essary is not to let your attention
wander, and at the right moment,
in the right place, make some brief
rejoinder in affirmation. You need
never fear that you will be thought
too silent If you listen well and say
yes or no at proper intervals. A good
listener is never bore, while a great
talker frequently gains that unhap-
py distinction. Girls are sometimes
tongue-tied because of Indifference.
A bashful manner, up to certain,
point, is very attractive, says Wom-
ans Life. But when it has to root
in a hampering self-consciousness
which makes one awkward and
clumsy or surly or defiant, it is a
fatal handicap.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1906-11-08

At no time in the history of war
has the question of color received so
much attention from military men as
within the past ten years. That the
value of approximate invisibility has
been fully recognized by our powers
that be is fully shown in the passing
of the blue uniform and the advent of
the Give drab and khaki. A writer
in Harper's Weekly makes some very
interesting observations on the ques-
tion of color invisibility as it con-
Germs uniforms. Accumulations of
clear atmosphere are blue, he points
out; and the brighter the sun and
the greater the distance of the object
the bluer it appears; also, the blue
ness is in proportion to the density
of the object. From 22O0 to about
1900 yards, khaki in close formation
gives exactly the effect of the blue
uniform, because of the banked up
atmosphere before it. Moreover,
given distance greater than 1900
yards and clear day. and it is all
one whether massed troops wear
green, blue, olive drab, yellow, Khaki
or black. Red and white are about
the only colors to remain uncon-
quered by the atmosphere against
a green or earth background; and
when against the sky, red still flaunts
but white goes out like the blowing
out of candle. This is probably
the reason for the cavalry guidon
having the red on top, and for signal
survey stations using red and white
flags against a ground background
and red and green against the sky"
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1906-11-08
Successful Momnn Farmer.

The proprietor of the famous Win
throp Gardens, in Holliston, Mass,
is woman. who from a farm which
several years ago cost only few hun
derd dollars is to-day drawing en-
annual income of several thousands.
Her name is Mary e. Cutler. This
scientific farmeress practices inten-
sive farming of the diversified type,
cultivating, besides the ordinary
crops, shade trees, garden flowers
and vegetables. Miss Cutler is en-
ployed as a special lecturer by the
Massachusetts State Board of Agricul.
ture.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1906-11-08
Don'ts About JeweIry.

Don't wear quantity of jewelry.
Don't wear precious stones in the
morning. Diamonds, emeralds or
any other kind are out of place at
the breakfast table.
Don't, at such time, wear any
thing except what is actually neces-
sary to fasten collar, cuffs or waist
belt.
Don't, in the evening, mix your
Jewels. II a gold necklet is worn,
the earrings should correspond.
Don't wear any jewels which do
not harmonize with your dress, says
Woman's Life.
Don't be dissatisfied with your
trinkets because they are not costly.
Jewelry to be well worn need not be
expensive, but must be chic.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1906-11-08
Has Too Many Love Letters Now.

Hear the plant of the romantical-
ly inclined girl-"What are we COM
ing to, anyhow? Is romance to be
ended in the garbage can? For two
years have been saving up all of
Jimmies letters and Georges letters,
ana now that 1 am engaged to Jack,
l have decided some night to / cad
them all and then burn them
cept Jacks. But how? Last year
father decided to cut out the big log
fires VIC used to have and burn gas
and electricity instead. What IAN l
do? Throw the letters in the garbage
can? l won't! What are we com
ing to, anyway"
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1906-11-08
Annthcr Ii,cly Manhnttan.

Manhattan, Ney., is about what
San Francisco must have been in the
days of 40 said y. J, Blackwell. of
Chicago, at the schlitz. The vet
eran prospector who rocked cradle
IT, placer mining in 1S49 is the..
brimful with stories OF the old dav.
The tenderfoot Is ;hsre, as blissfslly
Ignorant as OF yose ON all things von-
nected with gold digging. But there
is \ now class present which was an
known in the days OF old. vhis is
the young graduate or the scsoo of
mine cns,nccr.ag. who knows the
theoretical side thoToughls. snd with
a little expc-:s..ce will make the vet
Grams hustle.
Tho town Is tho most democratic
on Garth, for the rich man OF to-day
may be poor tomorrow, and vice
versa. Gambling is rife. ard many
n mans newly snia,.c pils finds its
way into the hands OF the pfofess,ou-
al gamblers. s.''---Milwauikee Sentinel.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1906-11-08
Like a Dog Watch.

Mamma had not noticed the clock
striking during all the afternoon,
and thinking perhaps 1t had stopped,
she asked little Rita TO go into the
hail and see II II was running. After
nasty survey OF the long pendulum
swinging back and forth. Rita ran
back and announced: ''Why, no,
mamma, ii isn't running. It's stand
ing still and it's wagglng its tail. -
Harper's Weekly.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1906-11-08
Natures Part.

Two young women of type which
is by no means uncommon We're gaz-
ing together upon the tranquil beau
ty of an English landscape.
"Oh, don't you love nature?"
asked one. turning with clasped
hands to her friend.
"Yes, indeed was the response,
in tone of gratifying intensity. ut
adds so much!"
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1906-11-08
SAND CASTLES.

For I note you sitting there
BY the pleasant tide,
Charlie Rocks. or Lord de Where,
Lolling at your side;
And your costume is as short
As / ever knew
And you're faithful 20 the sport
Quite the summer through.
Dear, do not recollect,
In those days of old,
You were such an architect
As l now behold;
Castles-Yankee, English, French,
Plan you; gilded, tall
Sure, misfortune cannot drench,
Shall not drench them all.
Edwin l.. Sabin, in The Bohemian.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1906-11-08
BE Above Them.

Do not allow your thoughts to lin
ger on an injury you have received
or on provoking words that have
been spoken to you. Learn not only
to disregard acts of petty spite, but
let them gradually cease to be the
subject of your thoughts, and they
will finally die out of the mind com
pletely. Life.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1906-11-08

carefully protected by bright and
cheerful thoughts, of which there
ought to be bountiful store in ev-
eryone's possession. Bright compan-
ions are cheaper than drugs and
plasters. The morbid condition of
mind produces a morbid condition of
body, and If the disease does happen
to be in the system 1t receives every
encouragement to develop. - New
Haven Register.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1906-11-08
TSkSlAlFS@
s 11&oEYf+k

Captain-"What is strategy in
WARP" Sergeant-"Well, strategy is
when you don't let the enemy dis
cover that you are out OF ammuni-
tion, but keep right on firing"
What do you consider the most
memorable occasion in your career?"
"Once, at an evening performance"
answered the great tenor, with emo
tion, "all the boxes were occupied
with mutes. / shall never forget that
night. Minneapolis Tribune.
Man at the Desk-"No, sir, don't
want it. / haven't any time to talk
to you, either" Caller with pros
pectus of new book My dear sir
that won't be necessary. I'm willing
to do all the talking. Chicago Tri-
bune
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1906-11-08
Yellow Gowns on Red Haired Girls.

In suggesting gowns for red
haired girls nowadays no great at
tention seems to be paid by modistes
to what reasonably might be sup
posed to be the main point to consid-
ered-the color" complains a girl
with brilliant tresses, who thinks the
dressmaker will let the Titan beauty
venture abroad in any color but yell
low doesn't know her business. The
discovery that red hair and yellow
are quite compatible was made by
her on a sailing trip. She says a
storm came up and a red-haired girl
put on yellow oilskin jacket and
blossomed forth a beauty, and, in
spite of the terror and excitement of
a storm at sea, the other women on
board uttered exclamations OF de-
lighted approyal.-New York Press.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1906-11-08

Dolly, dear, you recollect,
How with childish hand,
We. fair castles, would erect
On the level strand?
You, in saucy pinafore,
I, with urchin spade,
Wondrous castles, those Of yore,
BY some wave laid low.
Back that was, full twenty years
Pardon, il you willy,
But you're partial, it appears,
To the pastime still.
True, no longer have you me,
Dolly, for your mate,
But You have a Wis a Wis
Whom you higher rate.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1906-11-08
A Custom of Turkestan.

When Turkestan girls become en-
gagged it is the custom of the fiance
to pay her parents a sum of money
If she jilts him later the parents must
return the money.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1906-11-08
Character Told in Household China.

If, as Howells says, the selection
of china is the index of a woman S
character, some former nistresses of
the White House had complex minds,
observes the New York Press. In
the basement of the mansion the Wis
itor may see sample of every set of
table ware used since Abigail Adams
hung her laundry to dry in the East
Room. The most ornate set was the
choice of the young daughter-in-law
OF President Van Buren,. From the
few pieces now on exhibition, 1t
would seem that all Americas S flora
and fauna were depicted in. detail.
Mrs. Hayes china was the most cost
ly ever used in the White House, as
every piece was hand painted and the
work of selected artists in the French
factory at Sevres.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1906-11-08
No politics can move me-
Kaze all / wants a tree
On de green side er q river
Whar de fish bite free.

Atlanta Constitution.
$50 she is engaged to that funny
little Sir julius! Yet once she told
us she could never marry a man
under six feet!" "Ah, we'll; l ex.
pect she consented to q twenty-five
per cent. discount fer cash The
Bystander.
And did you attend the concert
last night?" "Oh, yes. Your daugh-
ter sang with much feeling" Thank
you, I'm so glad to hear you say
that" Il noticed that when she
wasn't polJing her back hair she went
lingering her belt. Chicago Rec
ord-Herald
She had no murder in her eyes,
No rage her being seemed to fill;
And yet this maid, to your surprise,
Was dressed to kill.
milwaukee, Sentinel
Teacher-"Have you looked up
The meaning of the word imbibes,'
Fanny?" Fanny-"Ycs, ma'am."
Teacher - We'll, what does it
mean?" Fanny - TO take in"
Teacher-"Yes. Now give a SEN
tence using the word Fanny
My aunt imbibes boarders '--Wo-
mans Home Companion.
"Can you tell me the way to the
nearest drug store?" asked the stran-
ger There amt no drug store near
here" replied the polite native of the
Kansas prohibition town, but II
you're merely passin' through and
won't say anything about it, guess
can do somethin' fer you if you'll
step in the house a minute. Chi.
cago Record-Herald.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1906-07-07
TRAGEDIES THICK
IN SOUTH CAROLINA
Vegroes Kill White People In
sLower Carolina.
FOUR WHITE MEN ARE SHOT
A Series of Tragedies Take Place in
the Southern Part of South Carroll
na-AIl Happen Independently OF
One Another.

Savannah, Ca, July Elm the lower
part of South Carolina there were
several tragedies during the past two
days. Negroes were quick to shoot
and stab and all escaped arrest.
Hugo s. Egelmitch, young white
man, was shot and instantly killed by
Dan Finnick, negro, at Moland.
1t was stated that Egelmitch and
some other white men were at work
with several negroes. Finnick cursed
one of the younger white men and
Egelmitch is said to have told him that
he could not afford to let a negro run
over him. The next day Egelmitch
met Finnick, and another negro, on
the road near Moland, and Finnick,
without saying word to him, it is re-
ported, raised his gun and fired. The
discharge entered Engelmitchs breast
and killed him instantly.
Charles Harrison, ii years old, son
of G. M. Harrison, of Beaufort county.
was taken to the Park View sani-
tarium at noon Thursday. 1t was
stated at the sanitarium that he can
not recover. Young Harrison was shot
by Julian Mortimer, negro, according
to the boys father, who with two
aunts, accompanied him to Savannah.
Young Harrison and the negro went
out in the corn field to shoot crows,
rain came up and they sought shelter
under a shed. The boy said that
Mortimer told him if he touched the
negro's gun he would shoot him. Har-
rison told his father that he did not
think the negro was in earnest and
laid his hand on the breech OF the
gun which was leaning against the
wall. AS soon as Charles laid his
hand on the gun, Mortimer grabbed
it and fired. The discharge entered
the boys groin at close range. The
father heard the shot and was attract
ed to the shed by his sons cries. He
ran out and the negro escaped.
D. Green, negro, had his throat
cut and was stabbed in the breast and
back several times by Moss Riley,
also a negro, at Lassiter's mill, near
Purrysburg. Green is expected to
die. Riley escaped in boat.
About mile from HardeesvilIe, a
young son of Lewis Smithers was shot
by Henry Hodges, a negro He will
probably recover.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1906-07-07
Commanded for Heroisn,.

Washington, July 6.-The secretary
Of the navy has sent letters of com
mendation to William Kelley, cox
swain, and William Kinner, boat
swain's mate of the U. S. S. Columbia
for gallant conduct and heroism in the
rescue of shipmate at Guatanamo
Bay, Cuba. On the morning of May
25th. when the Columbia was at an.
chor in the United States naval sta
tion there, ]. Turgeon, a seaman, ac-
cidentally fell overheard, and was rem.
dered unconscious. Seeing the man
in peril, Kelley jumped over the ships
side from the upper deck and with the
assistance of Kinner succeeded in say.
ing his life.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1906-07-07
Mutiny in VIadivostok.

London, July 6.-The correspon-
dents at Toxic of the Daily Telegraph
reports of the Asiatic Steamship
company's steamer Colonia, which left
Vladivostok on account of the disturb
ances there, and which has arrived at
Nagasaki, reports that all shops and
houses in Vladivostol1 were closed by
police order, and that on June 80 thir-
ty ring-leaders of the rioters were ar
rested, and eight big cases of dyna-
mite seized by Cossacks.
The same correspondent states that
the Russian volunteer steamer Kitai,
laden with military stores, struck a
mine in Possiet bay and sank.
The executions in Harbin in con-
nection with the revolutionary move
ment, the correspondent further says,
number six hundred.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1906-07-07
House Passed 4.5O1 Bills.

Washington, July Ga detailed
statement of the work of tie house
of representative during the first ses-
sion of the fifty-ninth congress just
closed, has been given out by Win
thrcp c. Jones, tally clerk, and shows
that there were 4,5O1 bills passed by
the house and 3G2 left undisrosed of.
The word bills" is inclusive OF bills,
simple joint and concurrent resolu-
tions. The total number of laws en-
acted by this congress is given Off
cially as 1899 while the fifty eighth
congress in both its first and second
sessions enacted a total of 2160 laws.
These are exclusive OF the public and
private resolutions, Of which 'there
were "a enacted at the session just
closed and SO in the two sessions of
the preceding congress.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1906-07-07
Bryan Was Only Guest.

London, July 6.-William ]. Bryan
Friday lunched with Major John H
Beacon, the United States military
attache, so that War Secretary Hal
dne and Mr.. Bryan could meet. No
other guests were present. Ambas
sador Reid and Mrs. Reid gave a
luncheon at Dorchester house Friday
to a large party of visiting Ameri.
cans, including Paul Morton and Mrs.
and Miss Morton, Bishop William P
Lawrence, of Massachusetts, and Miss
Lawrence, John w. Yerkes, commits
sioner of internal revenue, and F. o.
Keeler, former governor Of Connect.
cut, and D. o. Mills.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1906-07-07
Judge Fulton Shoots Parker.

Knoxville, Tenn, July 6.-Sam Par
ker, young Attorney of Helenwood,
Tenn, was shot and fatally wounded
when he alighted from a Cincinnati
Southern train at Helenwood Thurs
day evening by Judge J. E. Fulton,
a prominent attorney and politician of
Scott county. The cause of the ira
gedy is reported to be jealousy over
woman. Fulton used a shotgun in
firing at Parker and a dangerous
wound was inflicted in the abdomen.
Fulton is under arrest. A special
train IS carrying a specialist from
Somerset, KY, to Parker's bedside. He
is one of the best known college ath-
letes of the south, having played for
three years on the University of Ten
nessee baseball and football teams.
Parker died Friday morning.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1906-07-07
1855 Settlements Effected.

San Francisco, July 6-The Call
says that one hundred and sixty-six
settlements that have been effected by
fire insurance companies indicate that
in the business section of San Fran
cisco more than 100000 will be paid
in coin to fire losers on the face of
the adjustments made on losses that
have already come before committees.
The average adjusted loss in the 166
instances mentioned is $S4,325, the to-
tai payments geing $14,O0O,0OO. The
round value of the 166 properties is
given at $19,OOO,0OO by the adjusters.
Consequently the reduction for earth
quake damage and for all causes in
the adjustment is S5,0O0,OOO.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1906-07-07
Lenation Is Elevated

Constantinople, July 6.-Mr. Jay
secretary of the American legation,
has presented to Foreign Minister
Tomfil1 Pasha, a note announcing the
elevation of the legation to the rank
of an embassy and saying that so soon
as the new credentials are received
by Ambassador Leischman the change
will take effect. The note also ex-
presses the hope that the decision of
the United States government will be
recognized as fresh proof of the friend
ly relations existing between the two
states and the esteem felt for Turkey
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1906-07-07
The Badge of Honesty

Is on every wrapper of Doctor Pierce'S
Golden Medical Discovery because full
list of the ingredients composing it is
printed there in plain English. Forty
years of experience has proven its superior
worth as blood purifier and invigorat-
ing tonic for the cure of stomach disorders
and all liver ills. 1t builds up the rum
down system as no other tonic can in
which alcohol is used. The active medic
inal principles of native roots such as
Golden Seal and Queens root, Stone and
Mandrake root, Bloodroot and Black
Cherrybark are extracted and preserved
by the use of chemically pure@ @triple
refined glycerine. Send to DR.. r. V.Pierce
at Buffalo, n. Y, for free booklet which
quotes extracts from well-recognized med
ical authorities such as DrS. BSrtholow,
King, Scudder, Coe, Ellingwood and q
host of others, showing that these roots
can be depended upCAl for their curative
action in all weak states of the stomach,
accompanied by indigestion or dyspepsia
as we'll as in all bilious or liver complaints
and in all wasting diseases where there
is loss of flesh and gradual running down
of the strength and system.
The VGolden Medical Discovery makes
rich, pure blood and so invigorateS and
regulates the stomach, liver and bowels,
and, through them, the whole system.
Thus all skin affections, blotches, pimples
and eruptions as well as scrofulous swell
lingS and old bpen running sores or ulcers
are cured and healed. In treating old
running sores, or ulcers, it is well to in
sure their healing to apply to them DR..
Pierce's All-Healing Salye. If your drug
gist don't happen to have this Salve in
stock, send ffty-four cents in postage
stamps to DR.. r. V. Pierce, Invalids' Hotel
and Surgical Institute, Buffalo. n. Y, and
large box of the SAIL Healing Salve !"
viii reach you by return post.
You can't afford to accept secret nos
trum as substitute for this nom alcoholic,
medicine OF KNOWN coMPosITIoN, not
even though the urgent dealer may
thereby make little bigger profit.
DIR. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets regulate
and inYigorate stomach, liver and bowels.
Sngar-coated, tiny granules, easy to take
as candy
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1906-07-07
Assessed on Franchises.

Sacramento, Calf, July G-Both the
Western Union and the Postal Tele-
graph companies have been assessed
here on their franchises and both are
making a fight before the local board
of equalization on the ground that if
Sacramento can enforce the payment
of tax on franchises every city, town
and hamlet in the country where they
have Offices may do likewise and thus
burden the companies beyond faan-
cial endurance. The assessments
here are as follows: Western Union,
100000; Postal, $4,000. Phe con-
tention is made on behalf of the com
panies that they are operating under
federal franchises and therefore are
not amenable to laws imposing fran
chise tax in cities and towns.