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The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1906-08-16
Roots For Stock.

A writer In the Rural New Yorker
mentions The excellence OF beets, par
tcularly the sugar variety, for all
Kinds Of stock. including, also, poul-
try. lie recommends Golden Tank
ard as the best Of the mangel wurtz-
els, and Lanes Imperial Sugar as
tho most satisfactory of the sugars.
lie would plant some Of each, but
most Of tho former The objection
TO this crop, the writer says, is the
amount of labo. required to keep
them free from weeds the early part
of The season Some hand wedding
win be necessary. Unless this labor
is al hand q, the critical time beets
VIII be disappointment and a fail
IRE. Any land that will grow good
corn viii grow beets. but q friable
loan is best. IL Should he very rich.
II a heavy dressing OF stable manure
has been applied the year before It
will DO hAtter Plant in drills twenty
TO tbiS;y inches apart, using from
tTelss to twenty seeds 10 the foot.
Ir Virginia this seed can be put in
no~. BE sure the land is put in the
best OF condition. As soon MS the
young plants have started so the
rows are visible cultivation should
commence. | have sowcd plaster
over the rows befogo the seed came
mp, 80 could SEQ where not to culti-
vate and thus gained time. They
should receive constant attention so
as TO keen the soil loose and free
frou weeds. When about two or
three inches high they should be
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1906-08-16

Many things work together for
good roads. The bicycle craze, while
it lasted, encouraged highway i'm
provement, the automobile is doing
the same and the general increase Of
carriage travel for pleasure has its
part. But, after all, the improve
rnent depends on the farmer, who is
not moved by automobile influence
He Is affected by more practical in
terests, and when he is convinced
that his business prosperity depends
on having better roads he proceeds
to build them, as the people OF Craw-
ford County are doing in order to af-
ford easier access to their new cream
cry. Good roads and prosperity go
together Indianapolis Star.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1906-08-16
A LAMB THAT LOVED OLIVE.

A few years ago my little siS-ycaT'
old was presented with a young lamb
which was brought up by hand, and
which soon became great pet. He
quickly grew to love Olive and her
little brother, and was often let out
OF the pen where the sheep were
kept to become IN interested partici
pant in all their romping games.
AS the warm days OF May came on
1t became necessary TO drive the
sheep to distant pasture, but Olive
pleaded so earnestly for her pet that
she was finally allowed to keep hin
at home. About the same time Olive
and her brother began to attend the
district school. The lamb. MISSING
both his four-legged and two-lesged
friends. Immediately became very
lonesome and inclined to stray from
home. so that 1t was thought best to
tie him to an apple-tree not far dis
tant. But poor Dickany rebelled al
this indlgnlty and bleated incessantly.
One day he broke his rope. and we
found him In the back room chewing
his cud and peacefully standing py
olives old familiar dress, which hung
low down upon nail.
This gave us an idea; and, when
Dickany went back to the apple-tree,
the dress went too. and was hung on
a branch whe~e he could reach IT,
After this the lamb stopped bleat'
ing and led very quiet and happy
life, wearing his rope with patience
In school hours. and bounding and
jumping with Joy when the children
returned at night. ~ -Christian En-
deayor World
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1906-08-16
Air in Poultry Houses.


Ventilation is one of the most i'm
portant things to be considered in
the poultry house during the winter.
The average poultryman, especially
If in a cold climate, is much given to
thinking his fowls will freeze unless
they are kept so that not a bit of air
enters the house. Except in the very
coolest sections one need not fear
getting too much air into the house
by any reasonable method of ventila-
tion. If the house is so constructed
that the air must come in through
doors or windows, it is a simple mat
ter so to protect the fowls while on
the roosts' that they will not catch
cold.
During the day when they are
moving about they are not likely to
catch cold unless a decided draft of
air blows over them for some time;
it is at night when the trouble is
likely to Eesult. and a few curtains
of burlap or old carpet so hung that
they may be drawn in front of the
fowls and come foot or two above
their heads will be all the protection
needed, especially if the birds are Civ
en- warm supper to so to bed on.
In this respect do not forget the hint
given some time ago to feed the fowls
shelled corn heated in the oven and
given to the birds as warm as they
can swallow it without its burning
them. 1t is surprising what 4 lot of
heat this will give the fowls and how
nice and comfortable they will be
through the night. ~ indianapolis
News
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1906-08-16

II have noticed that when the
green leaves have appeared. and
have lifted themselves a little above
the soil, it often happens that bit
of soil adheres to them and seem to
weight them. But, as the plants go
on growing, they cast off these
5pecks Of earth and push on valiant
ly. Some Of my seed must have been
dead, for though they had abundant
time for sprouting, they did not all
appear; they lay there inertly amid
the earth.
Which things have been a Kind
Of q parable to me. Though the liy-
ing seeds in their growing have car
ried on their leaves some of the soil
as they grow they are fingiug il
off, while the de9l seeds are help
less under the e,rth. A Christian
may be carrying some mean and un-
seemly earthliness. But II he be
really athrill with the new life and
growing he viii be quite sure to
slough it off in time. Lei me be
patient with him and give him a
chance God does The hopeful fact
is that he is alive and growing
Dead seeds are powerless. So are
dead souls. DIR. Wayland IIoyt.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1906-08-16
A PLEA FOR GARDEN WALLS.
Or at Least Hedge, 20 Give Ono o
Bit of Outdoor Privacy.

There are two ways of getting out
door privacy at home. If your house
is placed on hillside, you may build
retaining wall, and so provide
yourself with q terrace which lifts
you above the surrounding country,
but such roofless outdoor rooms will
be few compared with those obtained
by building a wall or planting
hedge on the level ground
The mere mention of wall dis
turbs the equilibrium of many Amer
leans; one or two actual walls have
stimulated the pen to action, and
fears of the "revivals of feudalism'
have appeared to warn us that such
treatment of our grounds would place
us in most precarlous condition;
but there is the hedge, and If the
differences between mineral and veg
etable matter will produce such
calamity as "feudalism," let us by
all means keep to the vegetable and
have the hedge.
If your hedge is properly planted,
with the trees not more than one
1901 apart, your boundary VIII, Ill
time, be almost as protecting as a
wall. The evergreen is preferable,
for then you may have winter gar
den. Nothing can exceed in beauty
the deep green hemlock.
The desire for a garden is too old.
even though comparatively new in
our country. to be called a fad. You
can leave part of your grounds open
to the public gaze, and there indulge
in lawn and such flowers as will
give education and pleasure, but IL
you want a garden to live in and
enjoy, and not to show to the world
as a rare exotic, the first thing to do
is to enclose your space. The gar
den should be quite as personal an
affair as the house.-Atlantic Month
lv
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1906-08-16

owing to the rapid growth of the
United States, the English language
Is now spoken by more persons than
use any other civilized tongue. To-
day 130,OO0.000 people speak Eng
llsh, 100, 100000 speak Russian (for
not all the people OF the empire talk
the national tongue), 75,000.0Oo use
German, 70.0O0,0O0 employ Span
ish. including the inhabitants OF the
Latin-Amerlcan Countries, and 4o,-
100000 speak French.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1906-08-16
rail Docking Still Essential.

II is difficult to convince an old
horse breeder, who has been accus-
.omed in early life to raise sheep.
that acquired characteristics are
transmitted At what date the prac-
dce of docking tails of lambs was
drst practiced is unknown, II was
great many years ago, yet the tails
OF lambs from those ancestors, whose
tails have been docked for genera
uons. do not seem to have dimin-
shed any in length. The docking
process is just as essential now as
when it was first practiced. d.-Boston
Cultiyator.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1906-08-16
Possibilities Of Dry Farming.

Estimates of the amount OF land
that can be reclaimed by irrigStion
vary all the way from 5O,O0O,OOO
acres up to 12J,0O0,OO0 acres, with
the weight Of authoritative opinion
decidedly favorlng the lower figure.
Yet If one per cent Of the money now
being expended for irrigation works
were made available for tho eGuca-
tion OF the people who ought to be
Interested in dry farming, 1t Is prob
able that FIVE hundred million acres
OF land-perhaps more than that
could be reclaimed from it's present
unproductiye, and comparatively
worthless state Just as rapidly as
settlers. whether native born. or i'm.
migrants from foreign countries,
could be taken to Century.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1906-08-16
Demand Registry Certificate.

that is claimed to be registered the
purchaser should demand the certifi-
cate of registry and have the trans
Ter of ownership made with pen and
ink on the back of the certificate.
This transfer should give the name
of the purchaser and date of the
transaction, and should be signed by
The seller
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1906-08-16

A hog, belonging to w. II. Wyer,
which escaped on Nantucket in Jan
uary, was captured after thirty-five
days of freedom. Day after day the
animal was hunted by men. boys
and dogs without success. only to be
ignominiously taken while sleeping
In an unused shed.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1906-08-16
VITAL QUESTION.

LET me tell you how to keep the
house on $40 week" began the To-
cal economist.
Nonsense" replied the practical
man. "Thc house don't eat. Tell
me how 10 keep my family on $40 a
week and will listen TO you. Chi
cago News.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1906-08-16
CHRISTIAN ENDEAVORAOIF,
AUGUST NINETEENTH.
What Is the Sin Of Phariseelsn,
Luke II: 42-44.

GuNC lis fE-ff.
Phariseeism is form without suA
stance, the one tenth without "A.
nine tenths.
In condemning Phariseeism Chri,
did not condemn forms; we mns,
have the clothes, but we need q bod,
inside them.
The Christian fears fame. m,
Pharisee fears neglect. The latte,
seeks the chief places; so does m.
former-that he may place Others 4
them.
Hypocrisy is the most dangerm,
OF sins, as 1t is so often concealel
from men, and especially from Inc
hypocrite himself.
Suggestions.
1t is not praying till we cease h,
think Of men that hear us, and thlnl
only of the listening God.
1t is not giving till we begin IA
long to do good with our money, ani
cease to desire to get good from h
1t Is not Christian service If va
work for Christ on condition that IA
will work for us.
The only cure for Phariseeism /,
self-surrender, which instantly gain,
all that hypocrisy thinks to gain.
A Few Illustrations.
Phariseeism is an ornamented bor
empty--and opaque; sincerity is
full boX-made of glass.
Phariseeism is shout against a
cliff expecting back the echo.
Phariseeism is a tower with a do
cayed foundation; and the higher HI
goes, the greater is its peril.
The hyprocrite is Il chameleon. tax.
ing his color from the changing cir.
cumstances around him.
Questions.
Ir my worship in the Spirit and IA
truth?
Do those nearest me believe most
in me?
Would I be willing that my most
hidden acts should become the most
open?
Quotations.
All false pretences like flowers fail
to the ground nor can ANY counter
felt last long Cicero.
He is already half false who spe.
culates on truth and does not do #
F. w. Robertson.
No true man can live half life
when he has genuinely learned that
it is only half life. The other hall
the higher half--must haunt him.
Phillips Brooks.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1906-08-16

How many answers have been
missed simply because we did not
follow our petition with a heaven
ward eye and with the calm w&
ings OF expectant faith, Remember,
when you pray, go at orce from the
footstool TO the tower.-J Vaughan.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1906-08-16

The coach IN which the lord mayor
OF London rides on state occasions
has been In use since the year 1857.
St. Tammany farmer., 1906-07-28
LIGHTHOUSE A WONDER. !,
New Building on Diamond Shoals
Coast Embodies Very Latest
Ideas in Construction.

The new Diamond Shoa1s lighthouse
will not only safeguard a dangerous
coast, but will be in itself model In
construction. Livingston Wright, in
the Technical World Magazine, de-
scribes it as follows:
''The lighthouse Is to have eight DIFF
ferent floors, besides the lantern gall
lery and watchroom. The first will be
equipped with three lifeboats, with a
crane for hoisting or lowering on the
outside. The second floor will be de
viled into four rooms, and contain tho
fog signaling apparatus and two oil
engines. The third floor will contain
the hoisting engine for operating tho
crane, two large provision rooms, and
bedroom. The fourth and fifth floors
will each have two bedrooms. .
writing room, and bathroom. One
half Of the sixth floor will be devoted
to the dining-room the other half to
the kitchen, pantry and refrigerator.
The seventh floor will have double
sitting-room or library and a laundry.
On this floor also will be placed a tank
holding 1000 gallons Of fresh water.
The eighth floor will be properly
equipped for the lighthouse service
room. The ninth floor will contain the
watch room and will have a gallery
extending all the way around 1t. The
floor above this will contain the light
itself, visible In storm or calm for
about 20 miles"
St. Tammany farmer., 1906-07-28
IN THE PUBLIC EYE.

George Westinghouse, the inventor
Of the air brake, has been described %
- hundred horsepower man.
Mayor Schmttz, Of San Francisco.
when first elected three years ago was
leader Of an orchestra IN q theater.
Mayor Ekers, Of Montreal, Is ad-
dressed personally as your worship"
and In the third person AZ "his wor-
ship"
Twenty-Five years ago Secretary Taft
was law reporter for the Cincinnati
Times and later for the Cincinnati
Commercial. ~
President Diaz returned from hunt
ing trip the other day with thres
mountain cats and II deer. Mextco's
president is only Is.
Ambassador Whitelaw Reid sent
check from London recently for tho
Miami university library fund. IN
honor Of the fftieth anniversary of
his graduation In June
Former United States Senator Poi
fer. Of Kansas, has not disappeared.
He Is only In retirement compiling
summary Of the Congressional Aec-
ord from its beginning, classified by
topics.
Bob Taylor, the ex-governor Of Ten
nessee, who has just won United
States senatorship at his party's pri-
maries, was the author Of the remark
about Mason and Dixon's line that II
was "the line Of demarcation between
hot biscuit and cold bread."
Former Congressman Jefferson "A.
Levy, Of New York, has received re-
production Of Paul du Bois' statue.
military Fortitude," presented BY
f'rance last September. It II in return
for the statue Of Thomas Jefferson.
presented by him to the French nation.
al museum at Algiers.
Judge ]. T. Fleming, Of Oklahoma,
Is unique. He served In the confeder.
ate army, voted the first time in his
life for Grant, and the last time for
Harrison. He believes that every union
soldier should be paid pension of $50
. month, inasmuch as they saved the
greatest union Of states on earth.
St. Tammany farmer., 1906-07-28
TRADE AND TRAFFIC.

The trade OF Chill II almost entire
" in the hands Of Europeans.
France imported 100000 worth Of
apples from Canada last summer and
tall.
In 1904 Denmark sent TO England
over 5000 tons Of butter, valued at
$45, 900 900.
It Is thtimated that 1,0OO, 900 tons az
steel rails for 1907 delivery ere under
negotiation, and that fully half that
tonnage has already been placed.
It Is said that the hides Of American
live cattle sent to England to be killed
and eaten are by prearrangement Ill
sent back across the Atlantic, there to
be taansd. and. mayhap, reshipped to
England as leather or In boots and
shoes.
Shipments Of anthracite coal during
May amounted to 1884 .320 tons, against
6,OO6, ,1bS tons In May last year. For
the year. to date, the shipments aggrs-
gate 19.709, ,783 tons. contrasted with
24,S72,954 tons In tho corresponding
period last year.
St. Tammany farmer., 1906-07-28
WAS MUSIC LOVER.
A PET RATTLEsNAKE THAT
LEARNED THE MANDOLIN.
Played Himself to Sleep with the Ex-
uuisite Music He Produced
Explanation Of the
tSnakeophone."

A few years ago / had a pet rattle
snake which was very fond of music,
says a writer in the Chicago Inter-
Ocean. In the first place he was at
tracted to me while was playing the
mandolin one afternoon. He was so
charmed by the music that he went
into! a trance and was able to secure
him and put him into a cage. He after
ward had this habit to quite a degree
whenever he heard music.
In short time let him out OF the
cage, for he had grown quite fond OF
me and would crawl upon my shoulder
and go to sleep whenever played. He
seemed to fully appreciate the nature
of the music, for il 1t was sad piece
he would droop his head and his body
would be convulsed with at of Sob
bing. But II, on the other hand, the
music was a gay and lively air, he
would keep time by waving his head
back and forth, and 1t seemed like he
fairly danced to the music.
One day / had been away from
home, and upon returning I heard
some most exquisite music proceeding
from the house. Upon entering, fmag-
St. Tammany farmer., 1906-07-28

common, everyday, homely charities,
which the average philanthropist fails
to heed, Mrs. Ryan's thoughts have
not been found wanting. There ara
two beds at St. Vincent's hospital, for
instance, reserved especially for sick
and worn-out telephone operators. The
chief operators Of every telephone ex-
change are notified regularly that such
provision has been made for the care
of the telephone girls, and when the
two beds are full, Mrs. Ryan's purse
is ever open to supply more II needed.
If Mrs. Ryan hears of q boy or girl
who has shown any talent and has
not the means of developing it. her
handsome, motherly face brightens
with one Of her happy smiles as she
says: Il am so glad can do this
little thing for some other mothers
boy" It Is always "a little thing"
that Mrs. Ryan does, whether It be to
build q church, a hospital, school,
or help the i'll in body or mind. It's
always "a little thing for the hands
which give a million dollars year
for good work to spend long hours
making baby clothes for some little
one whose mother finds life a poorly
fed, overworked, back breaking prob
lem. It's "a little thing" to take .
worn-out shop girl away from her
drudgery for month or two Of rest
and comfort where Gods air Is pure
and undefled. It's a little thing" to
send some young boy with hard
cough and red spots on his cheek bones
out into the eternal sunshine Of the
southwest for a new lease Of life. It's
"a little thing" to go out personally
and hunt employment for the support
er of some family, to provide COM
forts and necessities for families In
want, to make employment for men
and women unified for the response
bilities which have fallen upon them.
It's "a little thing to educate ambi-
tious boys and girls, and to do all these
tlittle things, with just one supula.
ton: ''You won't say anything about
it, except sometimes remember me in
a little prayer"
In the big public subscriptions
where donors names are advertised
for what they have done. Mrs. Thom-
as F. Ryan's name is never seen.
Avoiding always publicity, she is the
same quiet, retiring, great-hearted
woman who came to New York the
girl wife OF Tom Ryan, a clerk with
nothing but baby and genius for
making money, 81 years ago. There
St. Tammany farmer., 1906-07-28

inc my surprise to see my pet snake
playing Yankee Doodle" upon the
Mandolin. He was using his rattles
for pick and was "fingering'-which
in this instance might be called "head-
ing"-the instrument with the sharp
part of his head. It was quite laugh
able to see his head bobbing back and
forth over the frets: but what was
strangest of all, he never made mis-
take, even in a most difficult passage.
After a while he played himself to
sleep and took him and put him In
his cen.
One day he hit upon quite a novel
way Of making music. He went out
into the yard, where there were two
small shrubs growing about foot
apart, and, wrapping himself around
oee Of them, he stretched himself over
to the other and wrapped himself
around that one also. Then he beck
oned to me with his head, but it was
quite while before could UNDER
stand what he meant. At length
made out what he wanted, and taking
smooth stick from the yard I went
to him and commenced to strike him
gently. He drew himself up tighter
still and then the vibration of his body
which my stick was making began to
be heard. He seemed to be highly
pleased, for he waved his head with
glee. Finally he found that by con-
tracing and relaxing his body he
could make different sounds.
One morning while was playing my
"snakeophone" he began to expert
ment in making different sounds. In a
short time he had learned how to run
the scale, and in about an hour he was
able to play "Blue Bell" in very
heartrending manner. Such fine liquid
sounds cannot be produced by any
thing else in the world that know Of.
It Is source Of much pleasure to me
that I have graphophone record of
the fine work of my snake. which is
now dead.
Ny pet met his death in very pe-
culiar manner. took him with me to
near by town to hear an Italian harp
which was to be played by an expert
performer. He enjoyed the music very
much until the man began to play I'll
Trovatore" and then saw that he was
going into a trance. tried my best
to keep him from it, but could not. I
took him home In that condition and
he never came out from under the in
fluence. He died very peaceful death
and I buried him In the family lot In
the graveyard. ##
St. Tammany farmer., 1906-07-28

for its theme and that only motive that proplng the
living thing the unho rapacous desire gain dol
lar to keep from letting one go.
The nsoence of people who feel the power money they
by foul fair bad of decency
OF those creatures who trying get any the
that have incidents getting frequent appearance
in the police
The nsolence of money goes spirit the E
norant into anarchy.
The with and the power that it gives him, who
to do good things mode about hundred Of the other
kind
The with the automobile and the of fortune
who shouts Hi M at the pedestrian break policeman
when he's arrested for peedw infringement and shows his
tempt for people court of the best the nonce
and growing aristocray money that any could
The world follows the fashion
think for themselves and it's the fashion who
gets money Reverence the gets money
the utter obiteration Of the human feelings ]