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Omaha daily bee., 1906-10-21

this brkly
four miles his should be high and gentle
changing lead without effort The ro should be true
straight with action attractive and speed
equal twelve miles These magnificent horses
shown in the last ridden Omaha and this
made the the popular of the week In judging
the of the saddle horse should be required back
readily change easily from gait another and to stand quietly
for the rider to mount and dsmount Horses in this class may
either long short tails
The roadster will the best shown ring
Chicago entries
the finest
Omaha exhibitors
Omaha admirers
of tails The heavy harness horses divided into two
horses horse need not be of solid
usually supposed. quality style action
II is required quietly and
When showing this kind nothing but
park should be road horse. the horse
conformation ability draw the
prescribed vehicle and without effort road
horse without being held:
The the distinct
light the
division The gig horse horse The
should exceed sixteen hands and quality
and action Mr. Hal McCords Rajah
he has the being
driver with plenty of
The division includes
The division this will hard
Omaha daily bee., 1906-10-21

LII kinds of horses shown at the Horse Show and
there is to be the sort of horse which will peas
everybody Some like the high school horses anC
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1906-08-09
BUYING BY AUCTION.
It is Easy, Says a Youth, When You've
Learned the Trick.

"You never bought anything by
auction?" exclaimed the experienced
youth. "Best place in the world to
furnish studio, once you get them
trained. l trained them with my
table. That is, they found out they
couldn't monkey with me. 1t was
like this; You see, l thought would
buy a table first, a centre table, and
drape a couch and few other things
around it as l got them. l picked
out the table l wanted at the auc-
tion room.
How much are you willing to
pay for it?' they asked.
II looked it over.
"'About six dollars 1 answered
briefly.
81 made a mistake when / said,
About That's what cost me three
weeks getting the table.
II went around the next day They
put up my table. l bid to six and
stopped. Somebody else ran it up
to seven and a half. ! went home
and concluded / would have to pick
out another table, since that was
gone.
THE next week I went back for
the other table. had not been there
ten minutes when they put up the
same table. 1 was little surprised.
but as l still wanted it I bid right
along till got to my price, Sc, then
| quit. 1t was knocked down to
somebody else.
"Well, l went back the third week
to get a table. AS soon as they saw
me they put up my table. bid on
it. Somebody ran it up to five.
Five and half I said, and they
knocked it down to me. c vt it, you
see, at half a dollar less tt an I had
started out to pay, and it served
them right.
After that they treated me
square. You see that brass lamp?
A beauty, isn't it? Worth all of Sc
If it is worth a cent. Guess how
much l paid for it? One dollar!"
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1906-08-09
QUICK WIT OF YANKEE GUNNER.
An Incident of Dewey's Fight III
Manila Bay.

A group of army officers were dis
cussing the difference in naval smart
ness between the British and the
American bluejackets as shown dur
ing the recent visit of Prince Louis
of Battenberg. A lieutenant who
saw service in the Spanish part of
the war in the Philippines told this
to point his moral:
"You remember how Dewey filed
in squadron formation past the
Spanish ships, firing as he went The
big guns were firing in order, each
one in it's turn.
Nov, maybe, you know how they
load big gun-first, the projectile,
which is rammed in tight; then. two
bags of powder. The proiectile is
ground exactly to fit the bore. The
least obstruction puts it out of At.
"The crew of forward S-inch
gun had fired early in the action.
swabbed and loaded again. In clean
ing they missed a burned bit of can
vas sacking which holds the powder.
so the projectile didn't fit, but
they didn't find out until they'd
showed in the powder sacks behind
it, They stuck an inch beyond their
proper place, and it was impossible
to close the breech and, of course, to
fire that shot.
There was only one way OF get
ting the load out. This was to haul
the muzzle close inboard and send
sailor with a twenty-four-foot
rammer to shove it out. 1t would
have taken a quarter of an hour.
The gun crew stood to undergo the
disgrace of losing their turn and
of going out of action at a vital mo-
ment
"The gunner in charge, without
the slightest hesitation, yelled:
Bill, give me a needle
He whipped out his sailor knife.
ripped open the butt of the nearest
sack and took out a double handful
of powder. He sewed up the rip,
closed the breech, and said:
Allow 1900 yards on that shot
--letergon
ne shot struck the hull of the
target ship, and the gun was behind
It's turn by only two or three sec
onds
II believe this story is true. I
heard it from the gun crew the week
after the fight. And the question
is; Would any gunner except a
Yankee have had the savvy to solve
the problem in two seconds of think.
ing?"
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1906-08-09
WORDS OF WISDOM.

Most people in love act as If it
were an exquisite torture.
A lie can travel a mighty long dis
tance without getting lost
If he wasn't married a man could
have lot of fun being rich.
The particular curse of mice is
they make people keep cats.
A woman calls hat sweet when 1t
has a lot of mangled birds on it.
It's very unlucky to propose to a
girl unless you want her to accept
you.
An unpleasantness in your own
family is scandal in anybody's
else's.
A nice thing about being terribly
unpopular is t means you have lot
of money.
About the meanest man is the one
who won't fib to a woman to make
her happy.
The man who writes articles on
how to make money gets mighty lit
tie out of it.
It's really remarkable how popu-
lar you can make a thing simply by
preaching against 1t.
This is such a nice world that when
you get well acquainted with it you
stop worrying about the next.
If you buy a house the taxes go
up; II you sell it there is a real es-
tate boom right after you do it.
A horse doesn't know much not to
run away when the fellow behind
with his girl has only one arm to hold
him.
You can generally tell by the color
of a girls hair what kind of ribbons
she runs through her clothes that you
don't see.
II the baby lets the family get in
little sleep between 6 a. m. and
breakfast its mother will tell how
good it was.
After a girl has broken her heart
five or six times over a man her par
ents won't let her marry, they don't
worry SO much about whether she
will die from it.-From Reflections
OF Bachelor" in ths New York
Press
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1906-08-09

yearly for life insurance premiums.
The rate of the tax last year was
twelve cents on the pound for the
firN taxable $4,000 and twenty-four
cents on the pound for all exceeding
that amount-respective two and
half and five per cent. The mum
Der of income taxpayers is about one
In 100 of the population. They have
more than doubled In the last ten
years, and in that time the receipts
from the income tax have increased
by ia per cent. The Government
officials think that their returns are
remarkably complete, and do not be-
lieye that there is much, If any, eva
sion of the law. Inspection officers
verify returns at the taxpayers dom
icile, and the commissioner can COM
pei the production for their use of all
books, balance sheets, stock sheets
and other evidence of the taxpayers
income. The knowledge that Shis
will be done If necessary and the pen
alties attached to refusal have had
a wholesome moral effect, while the
NoiS anu MOlh VI luG
inspectors, who also give instruction
to taxpayers when necessary as to
the keeping of simple forms of ac-
count which will facilitate the making
of returns in correct form, and the
system of revising anu checking by
comparison in the commissioner Of
fee, have made the law very eff
Client in its practical workings. The
land and income tax act has been
in operation since 1897, and has
therefore had ample time in which
to be thoroughly tested. The .arge
landholders, naturally enough, do not
like the graduated land tax, but
there seems to be no dissatisfaction
with the income tax, in either prin-
ciple or practice.-Florence Finch
Kelly, in the Independent
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1906-08-09
THE EX-MESSENGER BOY.
In England He Has Developed Into
Very Serious Problem.

very serious IfODIem.
The Postmaster-General's recent
appeal to employers to give prefer
ence to ex-telegraph and messenger
boys must draw attention once more
to one of the principal causes of the
"unskilled unemployed" difficulty,
says London Modern Society. There
is no reason for the promotion of
all the telegraph boys when they are
no longer boys. Nor has their train
ing in the Postal Service taught
them anything but habits Of cleanli-
ness and the use of their legs. At
sixteen or seventeen the boy is
turned loose with no special aptitude
and, having earned a decent wage
hitherto, he expects to do as we'll
with equally unskilled labor as a
man. Hence the crowds clamoring
about the dock gates
But the evil spreads far beyond
the postal service; for the short
sighted British parent of the less
provident classes jumps at the pros
pect of the boys addition to the
household budget. Therefore the
boy, so soon as he is free from
school (and often before that), is
set to run errands. to sit on the tail
of van, to perform any one of the
hundred odd jobs that bring in
boys wage-but cease when the boy
reaches adolescence. A typically
modern instance is that of the golf
caddie. He is on the links in his
thousands every day OF the week,
and makes a good thing of it-for
a year or two. But the caddie who
has become a man has learned no
trade, no handicraft The royal
game of golf may have rejuvenated
many old men, but 1t has certainly
ruined thousands OF boys.
Indeed, the case of the caddie Is
peculiarly typical of this evil of early
wage-earning. For the caddie lives
an easy and healthy life in the open
air; he earns good wages--for a
boy--and, in spite of all regulations
10 the contrary, may depend upon
generous perquisltes. But what is
to become of these thousands OF boys
when they have to face a mans re-
spohslpiiities Win no training TO
help them? We suspect that large
percentage take the course that is
practically but temporary refuge
for the unskilled-and enlist And
here we may find the explanation OF
the dismal figures supplied by y re-
cent Investigator, who found that
about sixty per cent. of the mals
"casualsV In our warehouses; are
"old soldiers
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1906-08-09
Boys Adventure with a Bear.

A black bear that had strayed
from the Turtle Mountain reserva-
tion invaded the farm of John Dun
lop at Marysville. The neighbors
were summoned and among the
party was Frank Munier, a fifteen
year old boy. who was mounted
and had a shotgun with which he
shot the bear. @
He secured rife from one of the
men and managed to infiict a NOR
tai wound on the bear, which
charged HIM The pony got away
and Munier had to run for his life.
but the bear fell dead Just before
1t reached the boy. corrs-
spondence st. Paul Dispatch.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1906-08-09

call It. Poor Billl He was a good
seaman, too. But marriage undid
him. They say his wife takes on
awful"
DO you mean to say" I remarked,
that you've let that man go to the
dogs just because of his mother-in-
laws remains being lost in a tin
bucket?"
Twizzle looked at me with renewed
suspicion. What of it?" he de-
manded
took him to one side and spoke
In his ear. A grin overspread his
heavy visage, and the bartender was
called into consultation. Its a
scheme" said the latter. genially.
Twizzle swore with vociferous jub.
ilation. IF there's anything I cher
ish," he said, boomingly, ITS the
thought of fooling that ma of Bills
wife"
Two weeks later I went down to
see Twizzle off for Shanghai. He in.
troduced me to his mate, somewhat
pinched-looking seaman. "Bills been
suffering from the loss of his mother.
in-law," Twizzle explained.
'I hope it's all right" said.
The captain of the Dom Paul took
me into his cabin. "He found her
in tin pail in the Bowhead," he told
me with prodigious solemnity, "just
where he lost her"
Funny he shouldn't have found it
before" l remarked.
You never can tell what moth
er-in-law will do" was the response.
Put them ashes looked wonderful
natural. San Francisco Argonaut.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1906-08-09
sparrows Beaten by a Hen.

Few mothers have triumphed over
more difficulties in the rearing of
their families than Nellie, a little
on the bank of the Chicago River,
near North avenue. Besides the per-
lis of steam and street cars, of heavy
traffic and deep bitches, Nellie has
been forced, literally, to ght for the
protection of her brood ever since
world three weeks ago In that
time she has killed twenty sparrows,
members of a colony Sc mingly en-
tered into a pact to destroy her off,
spring. The birds have killed four
of Nellies chicks, half of her family.
War was declared between Nellie
and the sparrows the morning the
little hen proudly came from her
nest with her eight tiny chicks. The
trouble started over a dish of corn
meal provided by bridge tender for
the hen and chickens. The sparrows
wanted the meal. and to get it made
concerted attack on the hen and
chicks. Nellie killed four sparrows
in the first battle, while the birds
took the lives OF two little chickens.
The scrimmage ended with the
sparrows in fight, but a guerrilla
warfare has followed. The spar
rows have succeeded only twice in
their efforts to isolate Nellie's young
ones, but on those occasions quickly
beat the little chicks to death with
their wings and bills. The chickens
have now reached an age to be able
to fight back when attacked, and the
sparrows are giving up the light
Chicago News.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1906-08-09
West Virginia Bear Hunt.

A large black bear caused quite
an excitement in this section last
week. He was first discovered near
Aleck Parks residence with an air
of bravery not altogether lovely.
Aleck has two fierce dogs that
chased him up against the garden
fence, and, as is often the case, no
gun could be found loaded. and after
tossing the dogs around over the
meadow with apparent ease he
crossed over to near Harper VOL
ford's on the creek and made his es-
cape in the jungle, hotly pursued by
a dozen or more men and dogs with
short breath and fast beating hearts.
Hampshire Review.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1906-08-09
Queer Names For Horses

A turf critic Who learned to read
and write before he learned to race.
once made bitter enemy of a highly
respectable Texas sportsman by hav-
ing fun with the name he gave his
pet two-year-old flly. The filly was
the foal OF the pet of the ranch, Lit
tie Pearl, cld the sire was Gallcntry.
The Texan called the offspring Little
Pearls Gallantry. The first and
only tlrle Little Pearls of Gallantry
started the Young critic took occa-
sion to chide the gentleman who
hung that title on the flly. In the
course OF his playful tart remarks he
unGertook to name the future pro-
duct of the ranch whence came Lit.
tic Pearls of Gallantry. Among the
names he suggested were Little
Things to Think About, Little Jars
of Marmalade, Little Bales OF Timo-
thy, Lizzie is lily Hat on Straight.
Big Bill ''ith the White Hat, and
such. The Texan could not have
been more aggrieved had he been ac-
cused of cheating.
The combination of the names of
sire and dam often result in beauti-
full II meaningless names, but eye.s
more frequently in laughable or alb
surd groups of letters. s.-Springfield
Republican.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1906-08-09
Flying Squirrel Came Down Chimney.

A flying squirrel recently came
down the chimney, a la Santa Claus,
at William G. Leavitt's home in Nor.
way. He got into the SCOT on his
passage down and got out through
the fiue into the room. He looked
black, and at first was called black
squirrel. He was rare looking ami
NAL. He did not appear to be much
frightened and was easily caught.
Kennebec Journal.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1906-08-09
EPIs oD e.

Though noon glory be withdrawn,
Grateful was the radiant dawn.
Master Of the subtlest art,
Hope has gladdened soul and heart;
Folly more than Truth was wise,
While she dwelt in Paradise.
Better far my flag halfmast.
Than that Love had never passed.
F. Robbins, in Lippincott's $
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1906-08-09

Drafts over deep wells are usually
due to changes of temperature or
barometric pressure, air being forced
in as the pressure rises and drawn
out when the barometer is falling.
But two wells in the Vicksburg jack
son limestone OF southern Georgia
have shown the strange phenomena
of a continuous in-draft. This has
been Investigated by Mr.. S. w. Nc
Calie, who has found rapid subter-
ranean stream at depth of about
12O feet, and it is supposed that the
air is sucked in by friction and car
ried along until the water rises as .
large spring.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1906-08-09
Big Yen Prefer Comfort

The Tailor and the Cutter says
that tall and well-developed nen
are often clumsy and Indifferent In
matters of dress, preferring comfort
to style. Consequently. very few big
men appear to the best ADVANTAGE.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1906-08-09

For its white population. South
Africa is perhaps the greatest market
In the world for musical Instruments.
1t spends for them $1.000.OOe
year, half OF which is for pianos.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1906-08-09

A process of producing morphine
directly from the poppy is announced
by the American Department of Agri-
culture
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1906-08-09

IL is estimated that the corn-stalks
grown on single acre will yield
about one hundred and seventy gal
Ions of commercial alcohol.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1906-08-09
kasa10 RI
AmascIEsNES5Ell ~

A scientist says that automobiling
will cure insomnia.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1906-08-09

DR.. Wolff, a well known authority
on the subject. calls attention to the
high mortality from cancer in the
beer drinking districts of Germany.
He instances Bavaria and Salsburg,
both great beer drinking-centres
Both OF these districts show high
mortality among cancer patients.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1906-08-09

The new method of producing gen.
eral anesthesia proposed by Schnei-
derlin of Berlin, consists in giving
three hypodermic injections--two
hours, one hour and half an hour
before operation--of scopolamine
with some morphine. Unconscious
ness continues some hours after the
operation.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1906-08-09

According to the American Manu-
facturer, the coal deposits of North
America are estimated to contain
nearly as much as those of Europe,
or 6S1, 1,00O,00O,O00 tons, but even
this gigantic figure is completely
dwarfed by Asia's wealth of coal, as
to which it is at present impossible
to make an even approximate esti-
mate. China more especially seems
to possess inexhaustible supplies, and
a German scientist has put the coal
deposits of the province of Shansi
alone at 1900, 100000, 900 tons.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1906-08-09

The recent discovery by Mr.. Allen.
a Dublin veterinary surgeon, that or
dinary turpentine is an antidote to
carbolic acid has aroused great inter-
est, A well known chemical expert
in Dublin tested the efficacy of the
antidote on a dog A dose of car
bolic acid was first administered, and
when all the ordinary symptoms of
carbolic poisoning had been devel-
oped, oil of turpentine was applied.
and the dog recovered within a short
time.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1906-08-09

Loss of sleep proves to be the curl
Gus effect that may limit mans
Notwithstanding. DR.. Bullock
Workman mentions that in his camp
in the Himalayas at 1888 feet,
members of his party were kept
awake by lack of breath, and on doz-
ing off would suddenly awake gasp
ing. He concludes that inability to
sleep may itself be sufficient to keep
climbers from going beyond twenty
three to twenty-five thousand feet.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-08-19

hearts Of kings the constant fear Of death they
will at length cause the abolition Of monarchy
A mad idea that, which they continue TO enter
tain only by reason of their profound and I'M
penetrable ignorance The lessons Of the past
have taught them nothing. At their bidding the
lives of all regning monarchs have been va
riously attempted for three-quarters OF cen.
tury, and many have been slain. In spite of
that throne has been vacant long, but they
nevertheless persist in their blind purpose, ana
in order to retain their confidence, in order TO
obtain money, | am at intervals obliged to give
them a victim"
Francine remembered at that moment the am
bition and hopes of her lover, and was curious
'Supposing hesitated-"supposing you
were iillled, would Nihilism then die out?"
He shook his head. my people would not
want a leader long; there exists a man who is
most anxious to step into my shces"
"Jibaloff," said Madame.
The Count nodded. eyes, Jibaloff. All, bah
he would suit them too, for he is more blood
thirsty than l. He would arrange for whole
sale executions"
"Jibaloff should be here soon," observed Mad
anne
"He will not arrive until tomorrow, 1 am
much mistaken" said the Count; "his yacht was
only seen off Napoli this morning"
do you think he will bring the treasure"
"Why else should he come? Depend upon it,
he has had it with him all along. In any case,
not a step shall move without it, and he un-
derstands that the division this time is mine
But 1 do not fear; he has too much to lose by
failing in a jot of his obligations"
Desire changed color a little at this. "How
long do you think he will stay, grandfather"
she asked,
"a few days. Why?"
ooh, nothing"
"You had an object in asking the question; tell
it me-"
II don't like him.
"Fie on you. Your own father! unnatural child
that You are-hnl ha! hal"