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The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1906-07-05
.EPW0RTH LEAGUE LESSONS
SUNDAY. JULY g.
The Claim Of the Church Upon My
Life Cor. 8. lois.

The church has valid, indlvislble
claim upon those who profess to be
followers of Christ, and has a stand
ing and imperative commission to de-
mand that all others yield themselves
to Jesus Christ and formally Join his
army for their own good and the CON
quest of the world for their Lord.
The church brings great privileges
and immunities to the Christian;
shall we receive, and give nothing
back? That is what makes the Dead
Sea dead--it Is ever receiving and
never giving. Cannot | live a Chris
tian life and not be a member of the
churchY' is sometimes asked. II Is
the testimony of multitude of OBJ
servers and watchers over souls that
almost, II not quite, invariably those
who undertake the business of Chris
tianity without going into the church.
and becoming a part of it, make a
dismal failure. God added to the
church daily such as were being
saved was said Of the first revival
movement under the apostles. It is
as natural for the truly converted TO
join the church as It IS for the little
child TO run into its mothers arms.
Then you were shocked and eX-
claimed, "What an unnatural child!"
If a young Christian does not find
himself feeling like uniting with the
church he would do well to examine
himself and seek for the reason lie
will be pretty certain to discover that
the secret lies IN the fact OF a failure
TO make a full surrender to Jesus.
Some will lay the foundation OF re-
ligious performances. and some will
build their hopes upon keeping the
commandments, saying with the rich
young man, "All these have / kept
from my youth up" In vainl Hear
Paul: "Other foundation can no man
lay than that is laid. which is Jesus
Christ" Even relationship to the Wis
ible church will go for nothing un-
less there is a real building on Jesus
Christ "All other ground is sink
ing sand" But if on Christ. then
the divine ACKNOWLEDGMENT "the
Lord knoweth them that are his"
The divine purpose and ideal for
us is holiness, and Acts !. s promises
us even that power" the power To
be holy. Otherwise we shall be poor.
halting witnesses, but poorly endur-
ing the searching cross-eXamination
Of the world Our work on earth.
opening the kingdom of heaven for
others, is for eternity. SO we will
rejoice when Jesus counts us in, when
he says, Go ye into all the world and
preach the gospel to every creature"
and especially since he says that he
who has all power will be with us 10
the end OF the world
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1906-07-05
Farm and Garden Notes.

sheep, like clover, enrIcnes the
ground that grows it.
Do not feed the sheep too much
corn, especially the breeding ewes.
Dry soil is one of the first reuui-
sites for successful sheep farming.
Sheep have excellent digestion, and
hence they utilize feed to the fullest
degree.
One of the very best feeds for
ewes with lambs is oats and wheat
bran mixed.
Keep the floor of the sheep quar-
ters dry, and to this end use plenty
of bedding.
Sow parsnips and satisfy now for
next winters use. They require the
entire season to develop.
When bringing oleanders out of
the cellar, cut them back q little be-
fore they start into growth.
Growing chickens should be fed
three times a day. just what they
viii eat up clean, no more.
The object of caponizing is to i'm
prove the quality and increase the
quantity OF the flesh of fowls.
Continue to plant all the hardy
vegetables. May is the month in
which to sow the tender sorts.
Plant some flowers in the veget-
able garden. 1t is as important to
please the eye as the stomach
Tobacco stems covered with straw
are an excellent preventive OF insect
breeding when the hens are sitting.
The grass upon the lawn has made
sufficient growth to be cut. Now
across one week and lengthwise the
next
1t is the nice appearance of goods
that sells them. Nice. large, fat.
plump fowls always bring the best
prices.
Throwing food on the ground is
wasteful. A clean board is much
better. Feed no more than is readily
eaten up clean.
In arranging the poultry house, so
far as can be done, II Is always best
to have the doors and windows facing
the south.
Short-legged fowls fatten quickly;
long-legged ones are hard to fatten.
Those first hatched fatten quickest
ir. brood.
The most important thing connect
ed with the work of the sheep breed
ers In the selection OF rams from
which to breed. Never under any
consideration breed from scrub, a
grade or an inferior ram, for in do
Ing this you do your flock aad your
self an irreparable injury.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1906-07-05
NEW GOWN CAUSES A BUZZ.

Love of finery is the same In q"
worldly ranks of womanklnd for W.
know already that the ColoneFs lau'
and Judy OGrady are sisters uhue.
their skins, and so an observer wa
not surprised last night TO see u''
eager attention Il new frock causeu :.
the Washington street section OF wv
Syrian colony. The warm evening, w
rlares the New York Press, found aov'
steps thronged with swarthy moine,'
In sloyenly attire absorbed In waion
Ing their begrimed offspring at pay,
There was hardly the lifting OF a neau
when fire engines dashed by. But y
girl came by, and iol every daushIs'
of Eve Strengthened to gaze. lns
Syrian beauty was arrayed In cos'ly
gown Of flowing material. The zen
stared only at the pretty face. but Wv ,,'
dark-eyed mothers. who momenlarn,
forgot their little ones. craned necks y
view the silk cloth OF brilliant nur'
Really, from the nudgng ana on;
half suppressed comment one wou%
have thought an Easter parade OK "e''
bred folk was under way
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1906-07-05

BILE ones, and corn and oats were
high that season. Our friend had
numbering to do that winter, kept
four horses and fed them raw pota-
toes twice each day. He was careful
to wash the potatoes we'll, as the grit
would make the teeth and mouth OF
the horses sore. These teams did
good winters work, were in excellent
order in the spring, their hair sleek
and the animals very healthy.
We keep eight heavy horses on our
farms, and each year feed them more
or less potatoes, and we are satisfied
they are pretty good food for them
to work on. After they become ac-
customed to them they will eat a
peck night and morning raw, and by
feeding oats or corn at noon they do
well. keep healthy and are usually in
good spirits for business. We have
sown some seventy acres to grain,
and are finishing planting about
eighty acres of potatoes this spring.
Our horses have done this work fed
on potatoes night and morning, as
above stated, usually raw or un-
cooked Our experience satisfies us
1t is better to cook the potatoes, and
we are planning to do this in the
future. BY so doing, with the addi-
ton of few shoots, we expect to
have a fair feed for horses.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1906-07-05

Any Austrian believer in post
rortem glory, provided he is not a con-
victed criminal and can pay the sub.
scription 10 the Universal Memorial
Insurance Society,"" may secure the
erection Of monument or mural tablet
70 his memory after his death. This
novel Insurance company, which has
just issued It's prospectus, provides me.
MORALS 70 its pollcyholders who die
after reaching the age Of fifty, In deslr-
able sites in Vienna. the prominence OF
position being graduated according TO
the amount OF the premium. Thus, By
paying on the highest scale, one may
insure statue In the Stadt Park or
other public garden In central Vienna:
the two next classes Of policies provide
monuments in less honorable posi-.
tlons; and the fourth class Is for mural
tablets. A polleyholder dying before
he Is fifty forfeits his premium. On
the death OF an insurer committee
meets and decides the character and
site for the monument, taking into
account the class OF policy held by
the deceased. To provide data for
their decisions, the insured have TO
send In annual reports specifying any.
thing noticeable they have achieved.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1906-07-05
Erndicatinc Horserndlsh.

VIII some of the readers of the
Tribune Farmer inform me how to
get rid OF horseradish?-L. r., Mid
dleburg, Vt.
Answer-There is no special
method of getting rid of horseradish
which Is distinguished from other
methods OF eradicating perennial
weeds. il is a very troublesome
weed when it becomes established in
the field, and one can kill it out only
by persistent cultivation. No plant
can grow which is not allowed to
make green leaves, and if cultivation
is frequent enough to prevent the
growth of the tops, the roots are
bound to die. Put your field in a
hoed crop and keep it cultivated
throughout the season. and the
horseradish will have to go.-John
Craig, Cornell University.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1906-07-05
An Army Of nrltish rrnnn..

A committee appointed by the Brit.
ish Parliament to investigate the tramp
problem in England estimates that in
seasons OF depression there are $4,000
tramps in that country, and that 1t is
never less than half that humber.
Tramps are everywhere and Constitute
an eyesore. They are considered to be
vehicles of infectious diseases Legls
lation by Parliament to regulate and
mitigate the evil is recommended,
though no solution. of the problem
short of finding employment and pay
ing better wages is regarded as posi-.
BILE.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1906-07-05
Attractive Farms.

II farms are not too large there
will be fewer neglected fields. bad
fences and weeds and the land will
be better plowed and narrowed and
cleaned in after culture, timely har-
vested and we'll secured, the profits
being large proportionally. II Is only
where farming is conducted on a
moderate scale, generally, that uni
yersal neatness, taste and finish
throw around the whole scene a sort
of rural enchantment which attracts
and impresses every beholder and
such condition is most easily ac-
counted for, as the whole is under
the farmers eye, within his means
and managed chiefly, II not exclu-
sively, with his own hapds.-The
Epitomist.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1906-07-05

There was considerable written a
few years ago about cement and
gravel floors for poultry houses and
raking OFF the litter to the same every
morning or late years there has
been more in the poultry papers
obout board and plank floors. Eight
gears ago we built a poultry house
sixty by thirteen feet OF lumber, put
ting on a shingle roof, partitioning
into five apartments, with a board
floor and boarding up four feet be-
tween apartments, and then screen
wire to within a foot of the roof,
leaving three feet for a hall through
the building, with screen doors from
this hall into each spring door, the
doors shutting themselves as you
leave the pens. The fowls are fed
and watered from the hall, pens con-
tain dust boxes, chaff and straw,
perches are movable, and platform
,or droppings.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1906-07-05
"Practice Rotation of Crops"

That a proper rotation or crops is
essential to success in farming is evil
denced everywhere. for there is no
land that is proof against depletion.
Some soils hold out longer than 9TH
ers, but the ultimate end is failure
if we persist in continual cropping
with one crop. We rotate, primarily,
to prevent this depletion of soil fer
tility and if legumes figure largely
in the rotation, considerable nitrogen,
the principal and costliest plant food,
Is added. Then we rotate to secure
better distribution of labor and
stockmen rotate to secure q variety
of feeds with the least damage to the
soil Another advantage of rotation
Is the getting rid of insect and weed
pests. Potatoes have several insect
pests that are peculiar to potatoes.
and II we change them TO a new loca-
tion, we are apt to get rid of them, or
most of them on that crop and by in
cluding other crops in the rotation
on the infested ground we can get
rid of them there
Different crops feed differently,
and by rotating them any one partic-
ular plant food is not exhausted, as
may be the case in single crop farm.
Ing. Some crops require more nitro
gen than others, some more potash
and some more phospbates. / have
heard the expression THAT land will
not grow tobacco, because it has been
in 1t so much" Yes, but | proved
when | rented it that it would pro-
duce a good crop of corn and other
things in the way of feeds, so I pro-
ceedei to rotate and feed stock
1t is probably in the tobacco dis
tricts that the worst effect of lack
OF rotation and diversified farming
Is found. Tobacco is very hard on
land, and it needs q rest more than
any other crop. 1t requires a very
strong soil, and the tendency is to
crop field that is found to produce
fine crop of tobacco too much. We
find many instances where sucn land
has been in tobacco until It is worn
out, at least as far as that crop is
conceTned, and greatly depleted in
the elements of fertility for other
crops.-E. w. Jones. of Kentucky.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1906-07-05
TORTURE RELICS ON SALE.
Drunkard's CIoaE, Iron Foot and a Foor
squeezer.


Several torture relies were put up for
auction at Stevens, Covent Garden,
London. some days ago but they did
not excite much competition. There
were 10 eager calls, even for hang
mans rope. A paltry IS. was all that
was given for one which had been used
by the renowned Berry, says the Lon
GOn Daily News.
An iron screw, or foot squeezer. was
bought for 81, and the same figure was
paid for set Of double stocks. and
also for what is termed a "drunkard's
cloak"
The last named is one of those in.
struments of old which was intended
TO put the delinquent to shame. 1T is
shaped like Il huge pail, and the
drunkard who was to be disgraced
was fastened into it with only his head
visible through narrow aperture at
the top. The cloak gave the 'wearer
the minimum of room, the hands being
practically pinned to the sides, and
walking was only possible in kind
of shufiiing movement,
Other articles sold were an ancient
whipping post with shackles from OK
ford. two sets Of shackles which were
used in old Newgate Prison, ancient
branding iron and an iron boot" into
which the victims naked loot was
placed and boiling oil poured in, all OF
which sold at 12s, each.
An ancient chair from the Castle of
Noremburg, in which people were se-
cured for torture, fetched 1885,, and an
iron torture collar with spikes, 21s
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1906-07-05

The common conception Of life is
false The vast majority Of people are
laboring under a deluslon. You stand
where the tides Of humanity roll swlft
aud strong you see men accumulating
colossal fortunes at bound and living
in dazzling splendor; you notice the
sleek, fat and pleaSure-lovlng cpl-
cureans at the clubhouses; the coarse.
amorous Falstaf's at the social fuuc-
tons. the Ceopatras, the Salomes and
society queens whose studied grace and
wine flushed cheeks entrance but to de-
stroy and you say: This is life. life
at high noon and high midnight of the
twentieth century. G. G. Green
wood.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1906-07-05
RAKING GRASS AFTER MOVING.

Some persons advise raklng after
each moving. do not. because the
clippings drop into the grass and form
mulch, which consider OF great ben.
eht. They also help TO feriiiize the soil.
The lawn that Is not moved often
enough will not look well after you
have been over 1t with the mower be-
cause there was growth enough to par
TALLY hide the sward upon which IL
falls. This Will wither and turn brown
In day or two and greatly detract
from the beauty OF the lawn. But IL
you keep your lawn we'll mowed-and
that means going over II at least three
times week In ordinary seasons-the
amount clipped on at each moving will
be so slight that there will not be
enough OF II to show. Let the knife
blades be set high enough TO leave at
least two inches Of the foliage. e.-Outlng
Magazine.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1906-07-05
Cnlturc of Sweet pofntoes.

Contrary to what the uninitiated
may suppose, the sweet potato is by
20 means difflcult to grow. Given a
'andy loam-one not too rich, or, at
least, on which too much fresh ma
uure has been applied, this tending
to induce a heavy growth of vine
at the expense of the tubers-it can
be easily raised and made to Yield q
large crop. The first requisite is to
plow the land well, turning very
thick furrow, and then with a two
horse plow throw it up in long, large
ridges, After that 1t should be pull
verified and finished thoroughly. fol-
lowed by marking It out In rows
about three and one-half feet apart.
In these the plants. already started
In a hotbed, should be set about
eighteen inches apart. Good. stocky
plants are safest to bank on, and that
they should have a fair chance there
should be no guesswork about seeing
TO it that the soil comes in close CON
tact with their roots They should
be placed at a reasonable depth and
1"N HN4' - Ntyt thS Iuota ulppeu III
rich mud and stirred about so as to
set as much of the mud as possible
to adhere to them, the soil then be-
Ing pressed around them when then
ere set out. Watering also is some
times advisable, especially In late set
ting. After that it is only necessary
to cultivate sufficiently. to keep the
weeds down and tho ground mellow.
That no weeds at all may thrive close
to the plants, the earth there should
be hoed occasionally and the vines
then lifted up that they may not take
root. Big Stem, Jersey and Cedar
vile are some OF the varieties Jf
sweet potatoes that have been found
satisfactory. Fred o. Slbley.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1906-07-05
Soft Food or Grain First.

1t is now generally conceded that
soft food or mash, as It is usually
called, should not be fed to laying
hens until near the noon hour, I'M
less, perhaps, in very small quanti-
Hes-just enough to partially satisfy
their hunger.
Experience has shown that hens,
when given a full meal early in the
5ay, will have no desire to scratch
but will stand around, content to
wait until the next feeding time.
while on the other hand, those that
are given only, say, one-fourth of
full meal, will begin at once to scratch
and hustle for any grain that may
&c concealed beneath the litter of the
scratching shed.
We would suggest the following
rules, varied, of course, TO suit chang
nE conditions:
Grain scattered in litter for first
'eed; mash at noon, and whole corn
ate in evening.
Endeavor to keep the hens busy,
'or it is the busy hen that keeps filed
.he egg basket.-Home and Farm.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1906-07-05

If the spirit of the age is incorpor-
ated and conclsely expressed in any.
thing, IT is in the automobile. declares
the Automobile Journal. There Is
speed, mechanical genius and compact
ness. 1t constitutes, IN fact, the
triumph OF the application OF scientific
principles to practical Purposes. and IL
that Is not the spirit of the age, ons
may well ask what Is?
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1906-07-05
His Perfect Na,uraIness.

Nothing is more wonderful about our
Lord than His perfect naturalness. His
absolute balance, His reality, reason
aDleness. artlessness, completeness.
Nothing excessive. nothing wanting;
nothing artificial, nothing unsymmetri-
cal; no underdolng, no OVERRIDING. The
goodness Of Christ was Ike the sun
shine, the breeze. the dawn, like the
sweet summer rain braided with the
ralnbow.-William L. Watklnson.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1906-07-05
Potatoes as Horse Feed.

II you are raising potatoes and
have more culls and small ones than
YOU can find use for, the following
from the Tribune Farmer may give
you a valuable hint:
| noticed an inquiry in your valua-
BILE paper OF June /. relative to feed
ing potatoes TO horses. Our expert
ence may be of interest TO the
brother wanting information. Some
few years ago one OF our neighbors
harvested a large crop OF potatoes,
and from some cause there was quite
q percentage OF small, unnerchanta-
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1906-07-05

Cornered but not defeated automo.
bilists now quote Nahum the Prophet:
"The charlots shall rage in the streets;
they shall jostle one against another
In the broad ways; they shall seem like
sorches; they shall run like the light
ling" Still the man with the egg
wagon refuses to be consoled. Louis.
ville Herald.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1906-07-05
a Glorious Gin.

What glorius gift conscious exist
ence Is IN ITSELF Heaven must essen.
tally consist in the absence of what
ever distnrbs the quiet enjoyment OF
that consciousness-in the intimate
conviction OF the presence of God.-
BlancO White.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1906-07-05
CHRISTIAN ENDEAVQR NOTES
JULY EIGHTH.
ForeiVlng and Being Forgiven.-Matt.
6:14, IS.


6:t4, IS.
If a man prays the Lords Prayer
with an unforgiving heart, he prays
that he may not be forgiven.
Those that say "Ill forgive, but |
will not fcrget," never forgive.
Why does Gods forgiveness of us
follow our forgiveness of Others?
Because the humble and loving may
safely be pardoned.
Why cannot God forgive those that
do not forgive others? Because they
cannot receive a blessing they know
nothing about
Suggestions.
Il takes two to make a quarrel but
not to make a forgiveness.
Never be satisfied with your own
way Of forgiyng until you would be
satisfied if God should adopt 1t to.
ward you.
Those that are themselves most in
clined to certain sins often seek to
atone for it by bitterly condemning
others for the same sin.
If it IS easy to forgive the wrongs
done You but hard TO forgive the
wrongs done God you are safe in
this matter
Illustrations.
A forgiveness that does not forget
is Ike those half erasures that rend-
er the error more conspicuous.
A Christlike mind is like the
ocean, that closes over a cannon ball,
and is as IL it had never fallen
there.
Some men are mirrors TO an insult
and reflect It back; others are SEN
sitive plates. and record II in per-
manent photographs others are flour
escent plants, and are merely excited
to radiance
Forgiveness that covers only part
Of the wrong Is like two fingers given
in a handshake.
Questions.
Is there any one whom / have not
forgiven?
Has God been abe 80 forgive all my
sins?
Quotations.
May ] tell you why It seems TO me
a good thing for us to remember a
wrong that has been done us? That
we may forgive it.-Charles Dickens.
Only the brave know how to for.
give; II is the most refined and gen.
erous pitch Of virtue human nature
can arrive at.--Laurence Sterne.
Let no one -e3pair OF Gods Mercies
10 forgive him unless he be sure that
his sins be greater than Gods Ger.
cies.-Jeremy Taylor.
He doeth well who doeth good
To those OF his own brotherhood;
lie doeth better who doth bless
The stranger in his wretchednessi
Yet best. oh! best OF all doth he
Who helps a fallen enemy"
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1906-07-05

A pheasant has built her nest on ono
of the butts of a military rifle range
at Ticehurst. England. She has not
been hit yet, and evidently does not
expect to be, the soldiers doing their
best to justify her confidence.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1906-07-05

Some queer recent judicial decisions
in Victoria are mentioned in the Aus
tralian Review of Reviews. A man
who embezzled some money from a
bank has received a sentence of nearly
three years Imprisonment, while II
man who murdered his mother by stab
bing her to the heart received only one
year, and another man who shot his
sister and killed her was sentenced to
only two years, and Immediately after
that a man who wrote letter to an
other man threatening to kill him re-
iyed three years Imprisonment.