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The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1907-09-05
A Point of View.

Miss Marie Corelli has been repri-
manding her erring sisters with a
good deal of severity In the pages of
Harper's Bazaar. She has had so much
fault to find with them that her
seedlings have lasted for weeks. She
has stood them in corners, with their
faces to the wall, and lectured them
on the foolishness and the naughti-
ness of their ways. With a rod in
one hand and a dunce-cap in the
other, she has meted out discipline
to all.
Especially has Miss Corelli chidden
and slapped those perverse women
who want to play an open game in
politics, who seek that forbidden
fruit, the franchise. She says they
scream, and yell, and brandish UNI
brellas-which is certainly very
wrong; and that they are "libelous
caricatures of effeminate men,"
which is certainly much to be re-
gretted She points out to them that
vote apiece is no great thing after
all; for that, as matters now stand,
she has SCl1 or fifty male voters at
her beck and call, ready to do pre-
cisely as she bids them.
This statement throws a lurid light
on English local politics. What are
our American bosses compared to
this leading lady? What are our
shackles compared to this unques-
tioning submission? What are
our stupidities compared to the en-,
feebled intellects of those forty or
fifty obedient Saxon voters? Miss
Corellis whole view of the situation
is unusual; but then one must admit
that her experience is unusual, too.
"The clever woman" she says, "sits
at home, and, like meadow spider,
spreads pretty web of rose and gold,
spangledwith diamond dew. Flies
or men-tumble in by scores, and
she holds them all prisoners at her
pleasure with silken strand as fine
as hair. Nature gave her at birth
the right to do this; and, II she does
1t well, she will always have her web
full"
1t is very interesting; especially
when one remembers that the mea-
dow spider eats her flies. and. later
on, eats her spider husband. too. 1t
sounds like the kind of thing that
Madame de Pompadour might have
thought, but would have been far
too clever to say. 1t is the novelist's
outlook upon our simple workaday
world. Does 1t ever occur to Miss
Corelli that an unpretending woman
might feel herself entitled to her own
vote, without having the faintest am
bition TO control fifty male voters; or
that a woman of ordinary parts
might tind captive flies the least In
spirIting OF companions
Repplier. in Life.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1907-09-05
ABOUT DOGS.
Two Stories by Miss Singer, OF Louis
vile. Ky.

Two Stories by Miss Singer, of Louis
vile, Ky.
A coup OF good stories relating
dogs are told by Miss NJ. E. Singer
OF Louisville, KY, as follows:
I'VE had { dog Jack. who was fol
of accompanying us to church Sun
day mornings. One Sabbath, not
desiring his presence. we tied him
up. On the following Sunday he
was not TO be seen until after church
was out; then he met us in great gl -.
A wee. la r he was chained up Sat
urday night, but after the first time
this was also impossible, for 10
could not be found; yet always he
was first to meet our gaze upon leav-
ing church the next day. How r,
knew Saturday nights from others l
know not, unless 1t was the same way
that he always knew Sunday morn
ings and the hour for church.
My father owl ed a hunting dog
which, in great many ways, dis
played a knowledge that seemed
almost equal to human intelligence.
Whenever my father took the rifle
down and began to make prepara-
tions for hunt the dog would show
his appreciation of the sport by
jumping and barking and watching
every movement. On one occasion
ms father, accompanied by a neigh
Dor, started on his usual huntin,' OK
pedition. Ny mother, being busy =
short distance from the house, led
left her infant in the cradle asleep;
the dog, although eager to go with
the hunters, lay down beside the
cradle taking the role of protecto.
without being bidden to do so. Who
my mother returned the dog boundt
through the door and soon disap-
peared through the timber to join
the hunters. Forest and Stream
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1907-09-05
Teaching the Baby to Walk.

Unless the child shows some incli-
nation to stand on his feet by pulling
himself up on your lap, or by some
piece of furpiture, it is not wise to
urge him, says Mariana Wheeler,
the leading American authority on
babies, writing in Harper's Bazaar;
but IL he takes the initiative then a
moderate amount of assistance can
be given, such as by placing the
hands around the child's chest to
assist in steadying him, or by lifting
him so that the feet touch a table,
chair or any fiat surface. Then allow
him to give light springs or jumps
from the resisting body, supporting
him so that only about one-half his
weight rests on his feet This is
good exercise, and enables the child
to gain confidence without forcing
him in any way A little later, when
he has learned to stand firmly on
his feet and shows desire to take
steps by stretching his hands toward
you, take them in yours and let him
take two or three steps, no more.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1907-09-05
Poor American Women!

"The man in America may correct
his wife when he can, just as the
mother may correct her daughter
when she dares," walls Mr.. Henry
James in Harper's Bazar; but no
more man may correct a mere women
in any contingency whatever, since
this undermines the whole theory OF
queenship at which we have already
glanced. He has abdicated his right
to take his stand on what pleases
him, and can accordingly but shift it
all ruefully, in the service of his
mate, to those perilous lodges which
represent all the admonitory margin
now left him. In societies other
than ours the male privilege OF cor
rection springs, and quite logically,
from the social fact that the male is
the member of society primarily act
ing and administering and primarily
listened to-whereby his education,
his speech, his tone, his standards
and connections, his general 'compe-
tence,' as / have called it, color the
whole air, react upon his companion,
and establish for her the principal
relation she recognizes. The ques-
tion of her speech-as the simplest
Observation-Disclosures, for instance, my
whole contention with light; Just as
the question of her talk follows it
very close. Supreme thus in any
atmosphere of the liberal education
the law that the man claiming to be
accepted as civilized shall speak as a
gentleman, and vital therefore the
testimony he so renders.
at is from his maintenance of 1t
that the woman, as a social creature,
gets her lead and her cue and her
best sanction for her maintenance of
hers; since she is never at all thor
oughly well-bred person unless he
has begun by having a sense for II
and by showing her the way"
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1907-09-05

"Officials and others have suggest
ed various schemes having for their
object the bringing of railroads. other
corporations and interests under the
exclusive control of the Federal Gov
ernment. To that end national incor-
poration has been proposed, as has
also a Federal license system.
"The object which their advocates
have in view is undoubtedly laudable.
But that is not enough, If in the ex-
ecutlon of their plans they violate the
Federal Constitution and directly
lead toward the destruction of our
dual government.
EVERY power with which IL was
deemed necessary to endow the Ma
tional Government was given to 1t
apd In the exercise of these 1t was
made supreme. To prevent any pos
sible assertion by the National Gov
ernmenC of inherent powers, those
assigned to it were carefully and ex-
pressly enumerated.
-But to avoid even the possibility
of contrary claim, the Constitution
was at once amended by the addition
of ten articles-every one of which
operated as restraint upon the Ma
tional Government. The last one, es-
tablishing beyond even the possibility
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1907-09-05
Great Memorial to Victoria.

Six more years must pass before
the great memorial to Queen Victo-
ria, which is to be erected in front of
Buckingham Palace, can be COM
pleted. Slow progress on the gigantic
work for the last six years has caused
much public criticism from time to
time, and the king, 1t is said, recently
expressed himself as disappointed
that greater progress had not been
made. Leading sculptors, who are
familiar with the magnitude of the
undertaking, say that 1t cannot be
completed before 1913, and that
twelve years is not much time to put
on a piece of work of such size and
magnifieence. The central figure of
the memorial will be statue of
Queen Victoria, thirteen feet high,
dressed In her robes of state, seated
amid groups symbolical of the per-
sonal and imperial qualities which
made her reign 30 illustrious. On
her right will be justice, on her left
truth and at her back motherhood.
The memorial viii contain twelve
great groups of figures and $50 pam
els. The pedestal, with It's plinth,
will be seventy feet high. The cost
has been fxed at $1,250.000.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1907-09-05
Harvesting a River.

The gigantic task of harnessing the
st. Joseph River and converting its
power into electrical current for COM
mercial purposes. began several years
ago through the proposed erection of
six mammoth dams, is being carried
forward to a successful termination,
through beginning OF operations re-
Gently, ON the fourth big structure of
the series, a monster dam at Berrien
Springs. Mich. Much of the power
now used in South Bend, Mishawaka,
Elkhart and Goshen, Ind, and Niles,
Buchanan and Berrien Springs, Mich.
is derived from the st. Joseph River.
Plans are now being formulated for
the distribution of power to vaisous
other cities in Indiana and Michigan,
so that 1t is easily seen that when the
river is completely harnessed. as 1t is
bound TO be, the effect will be wide
spread. The project means that when
the great task is completed most man
ufacturing concerns of this section
will then be using power generated
from the st. Joseph River.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1907-09-05

baby puckered up for a cry. Even
give a baby what he is crying for
And what is the result? A race of
children who cry for everything they
want.
Let not the woman who, at n mo-
ments notice, can drop tears at Silas
Wegg dropped into poetry be con-
founded with the woman who enjoys
what we call good cry" Even the
strongest women sometimes need the
safety-valye of tears. These women.
however, cry for the sake of their
health and not for graft, and never,
never do it in public.
A woman who needs and who takes
a good cry is always little ashamed
of it, and generally sneaks off by
herself where she can ever sob out
loud without disturbing the neigh
bors, and where the luxury of two
pocket handkerchiefs and red eyes
and a devastated countenance
will not affect either the price of
stocks or the happiness of the family.
In an hour such a woman emerges
radiant, smiling, refreshed and strong
enough to take up the burden of life
and stand straight under 1t.
With a weak and selfish woman,
tears in public are weapon for
graft With a strong-souled and un-
selfish woman, tears in private are a
tonic. safety-valve and a refuge
New Haven Register.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1907-09-05
Care of Salt Fish.

1t often happens that packages OF
picked fish are roughly handled in
transit when shipped by rail or boat,
causing the hoops to loosen and nat
urally the pickle leaks out. If the
packages are left in this condition
for a period of FIVE to ten days the
fish are liable to become stained and
rusty 1t is, therefore, important as
soon as the mackerel and other kinds
of barrel fish are received to examine
the contents of packages, and If they
are dry or any of the pickle has
leaked out to make a brine of salt
and water, just strong enough to
float an egg or potato. and cover the
fish with said brine, which will re-
store the fish to prime condition IL at
tended to Immediately. Barrels and
half barrels of salt and picked fish
when stored should be examined
every thirty days, and IL packages
have leaked any same should be re
filled with brine. Do not pour fresh
water into a barrel of fish - this
method causes trouble, as it weakens
the original brine, and when the
pickle is not sufficiently strong to
float an egg or potato the fish turn
sour. Another important matter re-
garding all kinds of fish is to keep in
a cool place and out of the sun.-The
Butchers Advocate.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1907-09-05
A Stout woman's White Robe.

All of madame's street suits for
summer wear are constructed on this
model-that is, skirt and loose coat,
worn with no waist underneath, says
Harper's Bazar, turning its able edi-
torial attention to the fat woman's
dress problems. For morning wear,
she has a dainty suit of linen-gray
and white hairstripe. The muslin
chemisettes worn with this are either
high or low in the neck, and they
extend down the front, forming a
narrow vest. The lace used as trim
ming is laid on fiat; loose pleats are
let in the skirt below the knee to give
ease in walking. and to give a flowing
appearance to the lines of the skirt,
which are all perpendicular. Mad
anne, knowing well the charm which
flowing garments lend to her appear
ance, always appears in such guise at
home. For negligee wear this sum-
mer she has gown of fine white
batiste, trimmed with bias bands
of pale blue and English embroidery.
The trimming of any of her gowns
Is invariably fiat, and her house
gowns trail gracefully all around.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1907-09-05

in 1S47 to examine the marriage
laws, and from 1S49 up to the present
attempts were made, both In the
House of Lords and the House of
Commons, to pass the bill.
AS rule the Commons have car
ried the bill by large majority, but
1t has been thrown out by the Lrds.
through the aggressive opposition of
the bishops and few ltra-ecclesias-
tical lay peers, although King Ed
ward, when Prince of Wales, set the
example of voting for 1t.
On August 20 last, after prolonged
and animated debate the House of
Lords, by III to 79 votes. passed the
second reading of the Deceased Wife's
Sisters bill. the minority Including
every one of the seventeen bishops
who are members of the House of
Lords, and as the measure had pre-
viously passed the House of Com
mons this session it now becomes
law.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1907-09-05

hoT intense surprise. she found her
husband still at the table. reading.
Without looking up; you are
back early" ne said.
The reading lamp shed a homelike
glow about the room. That. or some
thing, gave 1t an air of cosiness that
warmed .her heart. She took of her
gloves and laid them on the dresser.
Yes" she returned. thoughtfully.
adding, apropos of nothing, since
nothing had been said: II am be-
ginning to believe, when you come to
think 1t over, that any old sort of
husband Is better than no husband
at all."-Zoe Anderson Norris. in the
st. Louis Mirror.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1907-09-05
Club Where Women Can Smoke.

The Ladies' Park Club, an exclu-
sive rendezvous for society women.
is unique among London ladies' clubs
in forbidding bridge and smoking.
The rules in these respects are
strictly enforced and they have, it is
said, been the means of excluding
"the bad form smart set" and of at
tracing genuine gentlewomen. Sew
eral applicants for election have been
rejected, and others have been
elected after election.
In pursuance of this ideal the club
will open tomorrow new and beauti-
fully equipped premises, comprising
100 rooms, of which sixty are bed
rooms. There is a tiny smoking
room, the use of which is severely
restricted to gentlemen guests
London correspondence of the New
York Sun.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1907-09-05

These marriages, though lawful in
the colonies, were void in England.
The whole country rejoices in the
passage of the bill into law.
King Edward notified the Lords
that he thought the bill should pass,
and this had much to do with its go
ing through.
The passage OF the Deceased Wife's
Sisters bill ends a remarkable legls-
lative struggle, dating back to the
early history of the church.
Previous to 1888 marriages of con-
sanguinity and affinity were wholly
covered by canon law and such mar
riages from 1888 to 1895 were void
able. In the latter year the Lynd-
hurst act made past marriages OF af-
finity valid and future marriages
void. The House Of Commons at first
rejected the prohibitory clause as re-
CARDS marriage with deceased wife's
sister, but afterward accepted It,
A royal commission was appointed
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1907-09-05

Secretary Taft is to come home by
way OF Siberia and Europe.
Hall Caine Nays that @the Engiis.l
crama is not dead ana Is not dying"
Ju,:ge Austin L. Crothers, TIE DEM
ocratIc nominee for Go, ernor cf
Maryland, was farm boy ia his
-outh, and later taught school for q
number OF years before he began the
study OF law. He Is a bachelor.
Or. Heary Parker Willis. formerly
OF Washington and Lee uniyoraity.
has been selected for the chair of
huanoe at the George WashlnGton
University.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1907-09-05
Railway Coaches With Side Doors.

President Hartman, of the South
ern Pacific, short time ago gave or
ders to have number of new fine
passenger coaches built at the COM
pany's car shops at Sacramento with
side doors instead of end doors.
Hartman believes that cars thus
constructed will be much stronger
and more durable than the style now
used; and also that in case of wreck,
there will be little danger of the
coaches telescoping each other. These
new cars will have a small passage
way by which passengers may go
from one coach to another, but this
will be so arranged that 1t will not
weaken the end walls of the cars.
Another feature of these coaches
Is the use of round instead of square
windows. New patent ventilators,
now being used by the Union Pacific
on its motor cars, will be placed on
the new coaches, and the cars will
present an appearance so little in
common with the ordinary coach,
that they will at first hardly be rec
ognized as a passenger vehicle. Some
of these cars will soon be completed
and placed in commission on the
Southern Pacific western roads.-Sci-
entific American.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1907-09-05

of cavil that the National Government
Is limited to the powers specified in
the Constitution creating 1t, reads:
The powers not delegated to the
United States by the Constitution,
nor prohibited by it to the States,
are reserved to the States respective
ly or to the people, Other powers
have since been granted, and in the
future still others may be given, but
the Constitution as 1t now stands for
bids the exercise of any powers other
than those granted by It, 1t leaves
no room for finding in the language
of the Constitution a claim that there
are certain unmentioned and inherent
powers which the Federal Govern
ment may exercise.
"The attempts on the part of the
Federal Government to despoil the
States of the powers and functions
belonging to them will not tend to
smoothness in the working of our
dual schema of government. Already
it has had its effect. The indignation
of the governing forces of many of
the States is already aroused. 1t is
shown in the legislation of the year.
1t had not little to do, in my judg-
ment, with the recent conflict of judi
cial authority In North Carolina"
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1907-09-05
The National Game.

The Newark Club, OF the Eastern
League. has released outiielder Dick
Herinquez.
The Montreal Club has signed out
fielder James snowden. OF the defunct
Du Hois Club,
scouting for players for his Boston
American team.
The Reading Club. of the Tri-state
League. has aligned pitcher Fertsch.
late OF Lancaster.
The Terre Haute Clun, OF the Cen
trail League, has signed pitcher Geo
Scott. late OF Wheeling.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1907-09-05
ALTON B PARKER ASSAILS GENERALIZATION
Says the Constitution Specifically Defines How Far Government
Convention Judge Tells OL Attempt to "Dspol s.. sn

Portland Meat thirteh
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The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1907-09-05
THE PORT oF PEACE.

Alasl what strange infatuation this
Z, Jabr 81, pet,s',s ~ a. saa, III
In panoramic splendor did behold
The golden city, with its pearly gates
The home each weary pilgrim soon awaits.
Mid fadeless flowers and fields Of living
green.
All, mel what ravished soul once having
seen
Enduring habitations built by God,
Would turn back to its miserable clod?
Then blow, i'll winds; what though the
craft / sail
Doth tremble in the wild increasing gale;
So ye will bring my soul glad release.
When safely moored within the Port Of
Peace.
Lutz, in the Christian Herald.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1907-09-05
Always at Liberty.

"And you say that you follow two
OF the most popular professions? ="
said the kind lady in the wayside cot
tage, as she handed out a chicken
sandwich and a saucer OF strawber-
riesl
"Yes. num- replied Sandy Pixies,
donine his frayed panama. "In win
ter am baseball player. and In
summer am an actor. Dat is why J
never work. - Chicago News.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1907-09-05

Strange when God-created soul Is bent
On clinging TO this frai and mortal tent,
Its shaking tenement Of crtmbling clay,
Already showing signs Of swift decay.
decked,
Now and anon, to hide some i'll defect;
Then calmly dreaming on Of taking ease,
A few more years OF vague uncertainties,
While storms most pitiless around it blow,
And threaten soon to lay the structure
low,
Yet with tenacious grip TO life IL clings,
While Time a harvest OF destruction
brings;
Twill struggle on, nor yield until it must,
When tents and stake-poles lie low in the
Mrs. Mar
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1907-09-05
NOW THE BRITON MAY LEGALLY WE'D DEAD WIFES SISTER
Famous Bill Becomes Law After Centuries Of SoHOu Lords Always Objected
Until King Edward Came the Rescue

LondonMarage with finally
galized n
oftdefeated bill
its third reading, thereby making
opposition was headed
by Lord sasbuys relatives the Cec
used trick known parliamentary
being
The law of a English
reospectvey legitimaizing
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1907-09-05
Melba's Triumph.

Since Melba's conquest of Italy her
career has been one long series OF
continuous triumphs. England,
America, and, once more, Australia
all have yielded to the charm of that
wonderful voice. At the present day
she stands absolutely alone and with
out a rival among operate stars
From the Reader.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1907-09-05
Belmont and Ryan Fall Out.

Friends of August Belmont and
Thomas F. Ryan practically admitted
there was a grave breach between the
two financiers. and an effort by the
Belmont interest in the INTERIOR
ough-Metropolitan to throw the Met
ropolitan Street Railway system of
New York City back on Mr.. Ryan's
hands was predicted.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1907-09-05
Mrs. Dills hurled Alive.

Mrs. Susan Dills and her sixteen
year-old grandson, James Cope, were
buried alive in mica mine near
Sylvia, N. C. They were lsiting Mr..
Dill's mine. when an excavation oc-
Cured, and they were smothered to
death.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1907-09-05
Haywood,s Tour Abandoned.

William ID. Haywood, feeling the
strain OF the trial through which he
passed In Boise, Idaho, has given up
his proposed tour of the East, and
Will return to Denver.