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The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1906-02-21
THE BLESSING OF COLD.
Belief Expressed by DIR. Robert Peter In
the Healthfulness of Low Temperature.

Belief Expressed by DIR. Robert Peter In
the Healthfulness of Low Temperature
In the Medical Era, DR.. Robert Peter
maintains that cold is a blessing when
you learn to endure it. He points out
that its endurance can be acquired
gradually IL begun early in the season.
He does not believe in coddllng the
body with woolens. Better keep
blood in circulation by outdoor exer-
cise," says he, $50 that if heavier
clothing should really be needed the
body will not require its encumbrance
too much"
Graduated baths, with friction, he
tells us, will harden the body very
much, especially when followed by vig-
orous exercises in graded temperatures.
II know a man." says he. "who is
always astir and who wears not even
shirt, but only blue jeans and blouse,
all the year round. He has his win
dows open all the year round. day and
night, no fire, and thoroughly enjoys
it. While this is an extreme case, it
shows how one can inure himself to
cold"
DR.. Peter expresses the conviction
that the subjects of ventilation and
heating, which are important factors
In the winter months, are not as well
understood as they might be, and he
attributes much of the illness during
the inclement part of the year to the
foul air and fuel gases, TO which the
l.. Q..I TIL fn nrsn
mainly due. According to him condi-
tions should be reversed, and it would
be wiser to camp out and bas,; in the
winter sun and to stay at home in
the summer shade.
"As to ventilation" says he, "it can
never be overdone, and especially is
this true at night. Our bedrooms
should be well ventilated. One-third
Of our lives is spent in them. A bed
room with southern exposure is prob
ably best in winter and Ii is cheer
and godsend. 1t Is death to germ life.
1t will cut short a cold Or catarrh and
the white plague cannot lurk there.
As we need the shade in summer. we
need the sun in winter,
Alier cohsiueTatiOh OIL fHe ulet'
which should be more stimulating at
this season of the year, the author
emphasizes the fact that the respira-
tory organs mostly stand the brunt of
the winter diseases. The doctor be-
lieves that we must look to the circu-
lation to help us out in our prophy-
laxis. "After cold is once contracted,
however" he says. open the food
gates of elimination and equalize the
circulation. A good physlc or a Turk
ish bath may restore conditions"
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1906-02-21

the exact reproduction of the original
encampment The latter plan has the
most followers just now. and will prob
ably be adopted. 1t Will not be hard to
arrange the camp in the form 1t as
sumed when the Colonial troops settled
down to await the coming of spring.
II has also Leen uggested that each
State undertake 70 restore that portion
In which its owA soldiers lived. These,
however, are questions for the future.
Valley Forge is twenty-four miles
from Philadelphia. Washington's
headquarters is still preserved. The
building Is of brick and bears the
marks OF the Revolutionary era IN
scores CT ways. The antique door with
massive knobs and locks and the win
dows with small. square panes show the
antiquity OF the structure. The main
hall, furnished with an old settee. leads
to reception-room, and back o. this is
the room where Washington estab-
lished his business office. These two
rooms have new floors, but the floors
In all the other rooms of the building
are the same that were there when
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1906-02-21

on account of its averaging one ounce
of water and other foreign matter per
pound which they have to remove.
The price of crude oil changes with
the market. 1t Is sometimes as low
az $1.25 a pound and again the price
will run as high as SO per ponnd. The
storekeepers in the local towns ship 1t
in three-gallon cans In its crude form
to the chemists in New York and other
Eastern cities, selling it at an advance
of about twenty five to thirty per
cent. more than they paid for 1t.
The wholesale chemists refine 1t and
sell 1t as essential oil Of wintergreen.'
This Is the natural oil.'' Artificial
OIL is made by purely synthetic pro-
cess in the laboratories. Chemically,
1t is exactly the same and being pro-
duced at less expense sells at much
lower price. The price of the natural
oil, as quoted by a wholesale chemist,
April 1905 was $3.50 per pound, while
the artificial oil was quoted at seventy
five cents. These were prices on oil
sold in small amounts. In twenty-five
pound cans the price was S1.S5 for the
natural oil, and the artificial oil sold
for fifty cents In flve-pound bottles, or
forty-two cents in fifty-pound cans.
Larger quantities were sold at corre-
spondingly lower figures.
1 was told that a birch tree twelve
inches in diameter yields 1925 worth of
crude oil. Taking this as the average
price per pound of thirteen fluid ounces
and considering twelve inches as the
average size of the trees felled for the
purpose, the average tree will yield one
pound of oil. l was unable to get
statement as to the amount Of Clipped
bark obtalnable from a single tree, but
since vat full, equivalent to thirty
six cubic feet, yields one and one-half
pounds of oil, and an average tree
yields about one pound, it is safe to
say that the bark from the average
| tree will fill the still two-thirds full,
! equivalent TO twenty-four cubic feet of
Clipped bark which yields one pound
| of oil.
Deducting twenty cents, the price
paid per tree to the owner of the tim
ber, from the price realized on the oil
it will produce, or say S2.20, the profit
to the producer of the crude oil is 50
per tree or per pound of thirteen
ounces. When it is considered that
two thirds of twenty four hours, or six
teen hours are spent in distilling one
pound of oil, besides the labor and
time involved in telling the tree. chip
ping the bark and feeding the fire, the
actual returns are not great. When
two or more stills are in operation at
the same distillery, as is usually the
case, the question OF time involved is
not of as great weight, since it takes
no more time to distill three pounds of
oil from three stills than it does one
pound from one still, but the larger
distlllery entails greater labor to chip
a larger amount of bark and to keep
the vats full and the fires fed, Usu-
ally, however, the labor in the process
involved is not considered by the dis
tiller from its economic standpoint. =
Forestry and Irrigation.
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slons valuable enough. Heaven avert
the bad consequences of these things!
december 22.-Lay excessive cold
last night. My eyes are started out of
their orbits like rabbits eyes, occa-
stoned by great cold and smoke. What
nave you got for breakfast. ladsT Fire
cake and water, SIR The Lord send
that our Commissary OF Purchases
may live on frecake and water until
their glutted stomachs are turned TO
pasteboard.'"
lie continues in this strain day after
aay, telling Of deaths, of meals passed
Ny because there was nothing to eat,
oi wholesale designations of officers, OF
MS learning to darn stockings and
MAKE them look like knit work" On
January /. 1878, he writes: "New Year.
am awe; am wellv' aud. indeed, 1t
was wonderful thing. and cause for
exclamation.
washington, himself. gives some evil
sence IN MS writings. In September,
MI, "nen on the way toward Valley
porse' ne wrote: "At least one thou
SAND men were barefooted and per-
Lo.neu the marches In that condition" !"
VI another day he said: "pew men
nave more than one shirt; many only
ALL" 'ioie nohe a.
"hen the dreary winter was at its
nelgnt under date of February l8.
l71s, Washington wrote; "
Ior some days past there has been
'ess 'uhn famine In the camp.
nrt OF the army has been n week
out any kind Of flesh, and the rest
or four days. Naked ana starv.
ns .ney are. we cannot hut aan,re
lncomparable patience and adeI,tv
q soldiers that they hava ~ rot y hasr
Pis excited by their sufrer, irvr n os s,' =, !
~ mutiny and dispersion" =
must remember tho, Nv
command at this time numbsrsS
|. IT.
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after a visit TO the quaint little house
in which Washington made his head
quarters, the most astonishing thing
about the encampment Is that cen
fury and q quarter of effort by the ele-
ments has failed to make any impress
on the solid earthworks. The rifle pits
are filed with dead leaves, trees have
grown on the hills that were once
cleared of timber in order to give the
sharpshooters a view of the points in
danger of attack, and some of the ad-
vanced posts are dlstinguishable only
because of the signs describing them;
but the lines of trenches are as plain
ly discernible as though Washington's
army had only just marched out of the
camp.
Fort Huntington, with its fringe of
tall trees, stands grim as ever in the
foreground as one looks down from an
angle of the intrenchments, and 1t re-
quires little Imagination to see the
mouths of the cannon pointing out Of
the embrasures and the CLEAN of the
sentry's bayonet as he parades behind
the wall. From this angle the valley
stretches in peaceful beauty, two or
three old-fashioned houses the only
structures in sight, and the white col
umn erected by the Daughters of the
all around, the most conspicuous mark
on the pastoral landscape.
With map of Valley Forge encamp-
ment. made in Washingtons time.
Revolution to the dead. who lie buried
every point can be located, every fort
traced, even the positions occupied by
the various state troops definitely fixed.
There are several schemes of restora-
tion, from an active military post to
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1906-02-21
NOVELTY IN ELEVATED ROADS.

Several of the larger cities in the
United States are in need of an ele-
waited railway to accommodate the
heavy railway traffic in the more dense
ly populated sections which the sur
face lines are unable to handle. Be
cause of the unsightllness of elevated
railways at present in use, their fur
ther use has been discontinued in IA
vor of the underground road.
An Ohio engineer has invented an
elevated railway built on entirely new
ideas. This structure is made of u
serieo of individual posts, firmly set
in the ground and imbedded in cement
to make them permanently rigid.
These posts are formed of number
of tubular sections united at the joints
by collars, the latter made with sockets
which receive the supporting braces.
Upper and lower tracks are supported
by these braces. the whole being fur
ther braced and supported by span
mechanism. All of the braces. arms
and other parts are made of tubes or
pipes. The rails are carried on the
outer extremities of the horizontal
crossarms. and are arranged in parallel
pairs one above the other, so that an
upper and lower rail constitute a
track for ear. All the central posts
are equipped with lateral arms for one
or more lines OF ears at each side. 1t
is claimed that by this construction it
is possible TO build an elevated struc-
ture which will stand perfectly rigid
and which needs no special provision
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1906-02-21

rhe American chameleon. n small
lizard (Anolis carolinensis), inhabits
various parts of the Southern United
States. The little animal has the re-
markable habit of quickly and COM
pletely changing its colors, varying
from brown 10 yellow or pale green.
Its food consists of insects. The little
animal is perfectly harmless 10 higher
forms of life, is often kept as a pet,
and has been Worn attached to chain
as an ornament.
The toes are provided with adhesive
pads, which enable the lizard to run
upon smooth vertical substances st,
Nicholas.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1906-02-21

battle to spur men through the siousns
of despair. There was nothing but 10
lie there on the unlnviting heights
along the Schuylkill and freeze and
starve, many to the very death, Others
pulling through with tortures worse
than death. And after months OF
that, the band of patriots, on June l9'
1777, followed General Washington In
pursuit of CORVALLIS. leaving literally
a trail of blood from bare feet! 1t was
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1906-02-21

the house was occupied IS the com
mander-in-chief's headquarters. A mar
row door leads to brick-hoorec
kitchen with roomy fireplace and Q
log wing which was built after Wash
ington took possession. 4 steep STONE
stairway leaus from the kitchen to S
cellar which was built by the owner OF
the place, John Potts, as place Of
refuge for his family in case of surprise
by the Indians.
TIL, iuildlng is full of interesting
relies. including the old furniture. the
window seat, under which the STATE
documents were kept, the cupboard
full OF relics picked up on the old camI
ground. and the clock which hung ir
Washington's office.
A narrow road leads to the place
where McIntosh's men were encamped
and then runs parallel to the river
to the remnants of the old intrench'
ments and breastworks. These are In
some places marked by ridges OF
broken stone. but for a long distance
the earthworks are still intact and are
flanked by trees which have grown
there since the Continental soldiers
abandoned the place.
The fertilization known as the Star
Redoubt is near by. A line of breast
works extended along the ridge Oh
which the forces under Muhlenburg
Weeden, Patterson, Learned, Glover
and Poor were encamped, and another
line protected Wayne and Scott. AL
these points are embraced in the terri
tory which the association wishes to
include in the national park.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1906-02-21

a march that never stopped until the
surrender at Yorktown.
For details of their suffering one can
look here and there into the old diaries
of the brave men who spent the win
ter there. Surgeon Waldo, of the
Eleventh Connecticut Militia, wrote:
December 1S.-Unlversal thanks
glving-a roasted pig tonight! The
army are poorly supplied with pro-
visions. owing. it is said, to the neglect
of the commissary of purchases. The
Congress have not made their commits
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1906-02-21
MAX climbed Tree.

A mink when put to 1t climbed a
tree, as was clearly demonstrated by
Leo Duchesneau. at Keene. N. H. He
chased the animal some distance, and
al last the sly fellow took refuge In an
elm. The boy secured the treasure
with the aid Of his rife.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1906-02-21

g II T A 7 N l. Y
there n e v e r
was a more
fearful epoch
In the history
of the nation
than that of
Valley Forge.
The new gov
ernment hung
by a thread.
the thread of
single III a II,
George Wash
iurtOn. There
was no CLAM
our of glory to
lig h t e n the
burden of suf-
fering, no ex-
element II
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1906-02-21
THE ATHENAEUM PORTRAIT OF
WASHINGTON.

After painting the crowned heads of
Europe, Stuart confessed that he lost
his self-possesslon when Washington
first sat for him. The first attempt
was failure. He afterwards painted
several portraits, of which this is un.
questlonably the best
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1906-02-21

The shield emblazoned with the stars
and stripes of the United States Is
slightly followed out to fit around the
top of a twisted paper case for sweet
bread and cream, or a chicken or mush
room pate. These are shown by caterer
and confectioner for use on Washing
tons Birthday.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1906-02-21

that time it has been rebuilding three
great institutions of higher learning,
whose combined number Of students
aggregates 10,45S men and women, and
whose total wealth is estimated at $780,
600 600.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1906-02-21

for expansion or contraction in its
framework and track and has tight.
joints In all temperatures.
Furthermore. 1t occupies the mini
mum Of surface room possible In an
elevated road and," being tubular
throughout. obscures light less and is
less Objectionable to the eye than any
other now In use ANY speed can he
attained with perfect safety.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1906-02-21

See rhe hero ~hom it gave US
Numbering on morher'o
breast;
For the arm he stretched 10
5oVe US,
Be its morn forever bIeSrh.
-OIlNsr Ee7a'H /7oh7e5;
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1906-02-21

The port Of Melbourne. Australia. II
In such bad condition that Il viii cost
$o5O00o to put II In shape.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1906-02-21

pand, but should the gas become ex-
tlnguished by gust of wind or other
wise the band Immediately contracts
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1906-02-21
Washlngton's headquarters at
Valley Forge.

Welcome 10 the day return
ing
Deorer still oS oaco tIo0I,
While the torch OF Faith IS burn
ing,
Long as freedoms oltor5 GLOW!
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1906-02-21

Washington and Baron Steuben Walking
Through the Camps at VALLEY Forge.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1906-02-21

General Huntington's Head
quarters.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1906-12-07
DO YOU KNOW DESIGNS
OIL Different Bills?
Very Few Are Able to Correct
lY Describe Uncle Sans
Cash.
ARE BUT FEW EXPERTS
Aside from Employees in the National
Treasury and Mints Not Many
Are Able to State Differ
ence in Bills.
ARE BUT FEW EXPERTS
From the Washington Star.

"Pessilnistic theorists delight in at.
tempting to prove one phase of thei1
pessimism-that some of US never learn
the simplest things in life, nor observe
SO as TO remember the most common
place things of everyday occurrence,
SAID a bank ashier to a Star reporter
and sometimes l am inclined to think
they are not far from being right.
1T can be proved this way: Ask the
average man to tell you off-hand the
face design of the 50-cent piece and he
will hesitate, while its diverse will
completely floor him. / have tried il
hundreds OF times and the answer re-
ceived are o amusing, yet these sill
Yer pieces are almost constantly il
hand.
Try this on even cashiers in bus
mess houses and in restaurants, with
men n women who make their liv-
ing by handling money and changing
1T, and o will be amazed at the re-
suits from this source, for these peo-
pie ought to know to the minutest par
ticular every detail of the coins anC
the bills they handle, but they don't
They will miss one or two of the face
side details n about half of the OBJ
verse. And when it come to a descrip-
ton of the bills the average man is Ia
mentally at fault as to the fact of the
bills OF the lowed denominations, prac
tically at sea as to the diverse anG
wholly at sea on the larger d~enonina-
lions. OF purse they know the bills
and coins when they see them. but they
can't describe them if they faced a
Jail sentence. just try it.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1906-12-07
q. SPECULATION ( ,!..,,.
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NlNH1 BklIHN KllH15 EL5fRg1n

Copyright. 1903, by w. r.. Hearst)
"Digby. how about that BIZ of Caus-
IONS; due today, isn't it?'
YES, sir
do?"
"Ies. sir"
"THllen Sc that YOU do it! l have my
doubts about Causton's."
"Doubts, sir. why, they're as sound as
"Don't think sol and what's more, Dig
by, | have n shrewd suspicion that your
faith in Causton & Co. isn't altogether dis
interested"
MIR. ilunter-I'-
ooh. I'm not quite blind, Digby-I know
that YOU are friendly with Sav.lle Caus
ton-that he has a fair daughter-that You
visit his house at Bayswater-thrce and
three easily make six, my friend!'
Hugh Digby, managing clerk to Hunter
& Crane, colonial bankers and agents,
hardly knew how to parrYhis chiefs in
situation. There was n certain amount of
truth about it, which really made eXplana-
ton all the more difficult and embarrass-
ing. Hunter was not by any means q man
easy to get on with. Middleaged, Grabbed
and of 4 sourly suspicious disposition, he
looked upon nearly everybody with whom
he came in contact as having sinister de-
Signs towards himself. This was especial
~ The case with regard to his manager,
Dlgby, but he knew the ~latter's value.
commercially and awaited himself of it
Cor all it was worth. Hugh Digby was, in
addition to being q smart business man,
y kind-hearted. generous fellow OF about
thirty, and liked by everybody.
Some twenty years or so before the date
of this story the two men met at an up
river garden party. One of the guests was
Z Mss Esther Walrond. whose beauty and
persona! charm attracted the attention of
more than one of the many gentlemen
present. Both Hunter and Causton We're
no exception TO this general feeling of
male admiration for the lovely Esther,
while each seemed to read instinctively
.he others state of mind on the subject
and to jealously resent it.
From the very first. however. Saville
causton, brighter, more lovable, and de-
cidedly better looking than his rival, made
The running IN the race for love. Before
The people dispersed for return to town-
almost, indeed, before the sun set upon
Cliveden woods-the young stock broker
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1906-12-07
Knew Somethinn.

At a Sunday school service a clergyman
was explaining to Il number of smart lit
tie urchins the necessity of Christian pro-
fession in order properly to enjoy the
blessings of Providence in this world, and
10 make It apparent to the youthful mind
he said:
"For instance. I want to Introduce wa
ter into my house l turn it on. The pines
and every convenience are in good or
der, bat l get no water. Can any of YOU
tell RE why / 10y get any water?"
He expected the children to see that 1t
was because he had not mace a connec-
ton with the main n the street. The boys
looked p~erpleXed. They could not see why
the water should refuse to run into his
premises after such faultless plumbing.
Can no one tell mo what l " neg
lected?' rc.'erated the good man, looking
at the many wondering faces bowed down
by the weight OF the problem.
Il krow," saueaked "a little ~5-year-old.
You don't pay up::'