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Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1907-12-05

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The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1907-07-11
Making Him Feel Easy.

Sam Warren, the author of "Ten
Thousand a Year has been the sub
ject of many anecdotes, none of them
better than one which Ffirst heard re-
lated about him by his friend Mat.
thew Davenport Hill.
Looking in one day at Warren's
chambers, Hill noticed that he
seemed a little troubled. 1T is,
said the lawyeT-novelist, most unfor-
tunate. l ought to have dined to-
night with the Lord Chancellor, but
Mrs. Warren is about to present me
with another olive branch; how can
/ leave her? hope his lordship
won't be annoyed at my putting him
on" 'Oh," returned Hill. don't
make yourself uneasy; l am one OF
the guests; know him so well. can
put 1t all right for you" With these
words the visitor prepared to leave
the room.
At first profusely grateful, Warren
presently seemed a little perplexed,
and said: "By the bye, after all, l
won't trouble you to say anything
about me to the Chancellor. Between
ourselves, l have not been invited" !"
''Well," rejoined Hill. make your
self comfortable on that point; for
that matter, neither aave. I."--Pall
Mall Gazette.
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BY ALTA.

The mothers generally receive all
credit for the training of child who
makes himself great name I'm
what my mother made me" is an oft
quoted phrase which has much truth
in it-and we like to hear It from the
lips of great men. But IL is Just as
true and oh, how sadly true, or the
lips of the glutton. the drunkard, the
criminal. Her neglect may have
caused the boy to choose evil asso-
ciates who dragged him down to the
lower strata Of society. Just here is
where the fathers good work in the
home comes In. They understand
better to what evils boy will be ex-
posed, they understand better, also,
what kind OF young man should be
accepted as his daughters suitor
The mothers love is beautiful but
there is something peculiarly sacred.
sweet and strong in fathers love.
often recall this story by an old
soldier. He said: 'I think one of
the saddest incidents of the war
which came under my observation
was just after the battle of Gettys-
burg. on on the outskirts. seated on
the ground with his back against a
tree, was a soldier. dead. His eyes
we're riveted on some object clasped
tightly In his hands. AS we drew
near we saw that it was an ambro-
type of two small children. Man
I, though I was, hardened through long
years of carnage and bloodshed, the
sight of that man who had looked on
his children for the last time In this
world, who, far away in a secluded
spot, had rested himself against q
| tree, that he might feast his eyes on
his little darlings, brought tears to
my eyes which / could not restrain
There were six of us in the company,
and we all found great Jumps rising
in our throats, and mists gathering
before our eyes. which almost blind
ed us. We stood looking at him for
some time. l was thinking of the
wife and baby had left at home, and
wondering, how soon in the mercy of
God, she would be left a widow, and
my baby boy fatherless. We looked
at each other and instinctively
seemed to understand.
Not a word was spoken, but we
dug a grave and laid the poor fellow
to rest with his children's picture
clasped over his heart. over his
grave, on the tree against which he
had leaned. inscribed the words:
Somebody's Father"
July 3, 1868.
From the Indiana Farmer.
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The tree lurched so then from the
bears furious climbing that the
third ayrow fiew wide OF the mark,
and splintered itself on the stony
ground
Lanook dropped his bow, gave a
flying leap, and ran, still without
hope, for his life.
He surprised himself with his run
ming, and the bear surprised him with
his awkwardness in getting olsen
tangled from the tree Lanook was
long way down the slope and buoy
ant with hope before the chase be-
gan. Filled with new strength, he
sped onward like bird.
The ravine he had chosen for a
runway was smooth-bottomed and
clear of brush; the descent was
gentle--just right for long. sweep
ing stride. And yet the grizzly
gained, at first by leaps and bounds,
as a rolling rock bears down on one
embedded; then he came on with
lessened speed, but still gaining
When he was close behind, Lanook's
second wind came, and he began to
pull away from the bear rapidly. He
knew then that the poison from his
arrow-tips was working in the blood
of his enemy, and hope grew strong
within him.
Had his runway remained clear,
Lanook could have escaped easily,
but fortune favored the bear. For
the ravine suddenly became blocked
with brush, and the Indian narrowly
escaped being caught in corner.
| AS 1t was, the bear was crowding
| him close before he could get out of
the gully.
Here the brush was thinner, but
he had to take a winding course to
pursuer crashed straight through or
over everything. The bear was at his
heels In no time, and Lanook, to pro-
tect his head and chest from the
beasts claws, threw himself on his
back and kicked out with both feet.
The grizzly seemed stupid and
sluggish, but nevertheless made a
savage dive at the Indian, and buried
his teeth In his leg just above the
knee. Lanook began throwing dirt
into the enemy's face, whereupon the
grizzly released his leg and caught
him by the forearm. Still undaunted,
the Indian sent a handful of dust and
fine gravel fairly into the brute's
eyes.
Half-blinded, the bear backed
away, paving his eyes furiously
Lanook filled his fist with dirt, and
lay motlonless, waiting. But the
bear never returned to him. Hs
continued backing about and rubbing
his eyes, and finally retreated intc
the thick brush, scratched a shallow
hole there, and lay down. There he
was found the next day by Lanook'i
tribesmen, stone-dead.
Lanook managed to urag himself
back to the trail, where he was short
ly discovered by another party o
fishermen, and carried home. Nishk;
was found and cared for also. HI
; had feigned death throughout thu
bears attack, and although crippled
lived to tell his children's children o
Lanook, his friend and rescuer, ant
? of his battle with the giant grizzl.
:. bear.-From Youths Companion.
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Colonies For the unemployed.

In Germany colonies for unem.
ployed workingmen make pauperism
unnecessary. In each city are great
buildings occupied by union Offices.
where seekers after work go and
register. They bathe, have their
clothing disinfected., and il the unions
have no work for them to do in the
cities they are sent to the farm col
onies in the country. whore they work
at land reclamation, agriculture and
other productive occupations The
unions are open to all and provide.
besldes opportunities for workers,
old age pensions. accident insurance
and other benefits. - Eyerybody's 3
Magazine.
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Alaska Farming.

One of Alaska's pioneer farmers
Is j. d. Johnston, of Bear Lake, near
Seward, who has taken up home
stead and is putting 1t under cultiva'
ton. After two years work he can
show comfortable, well-built home
a dozen acres plowed. thirty acres
seeded. down for pasture and con-
siderable part OF his claim cleared.
He is successfully growing clover,
and has planted many varieties of
rruit trees. berry bushes and flowers,
most OF which are thriving. He re-
ports that he finds much profit in
Plymouth Rock chickens. Last year
he Matched and raised 16S chickens,
besides selling eggs to the value of
$40 a month. He estimates that
each hen has cleared 81 above the
cost OF hen feed. He also keeps
cows, and sells their milk at profit.
Mr.. Johnston has proved that farm
ing in Alaska Is both practical and
profitable. Alaskan.
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On the American
Disease OF Worry
ey the EDITOR Of .Judge.o

Tho book on worry as "the disease
of Americans" written by Or. G. w.
Saleeby. comes at Just the right time.
There is no doubt that we Americans
are worrying too much. The worry
disease is more ingeniously compli-
Gated than any of the rest of our
American maladies. A little analysis
will show this. First OF all, there Is
worry-just plain worry. What pro-
portion OF the people are afflicted
with this simplest form of the dis
ease we do not know: but since the
success preachers are as the sands of
the sea for number, and since don't
worry clubs" have sprung up every
where, we take 1t that the disease
must be widespread. Now come the
annoying complications. A lot of
folks are worrying because they wor-
ry. The fundamental af1lction Is
trivial, but the apprehension. the
nervous discomfort. and the imagin-
airy afflictions which grow out of the
consciousness of the initial grievance,
fill them with unhappiGess. Then,
again, some folks are worrying be-
cause they don't worry. They think
that everybody who amounts to any
thing worries. and that because they
don't worry 1t must be because they
don't amount to anything. This as
pect of the malady is further aggra-
waited by so simple thing as fash
ion. 1t is the fad to be full of wor-
ries. Hence, to be placid, contented
and comfortable is to be out of style.
Here, then, are the people who wor-
ry, the people who worry because
they worry, and the people who wor-
ry because they don't worry, and be-
tween the three most all of us are
caught Behold, now, how the strain
of trouble ramifiesl There is the
man who worries because he's poor.
His want OF possessions fills him with
despair, not to say with envy and
bitterness. But on the other hand,
the rich man is equally worried be-
cause he's rich. Plutocratic misery
is a new thing among us. Then
| there are misguided folks who know
they are poor, but want to appear
otherwise, and they worry for fear
their poverty will be discovered. OF
! course there is an opposite class who
i know they are rich; but the fact has
not yet become public, and they are
worrying for fear 1t may become so.
Look at the unhappy muck-rakerr
They are full of fret and worry. U.s.
ing the word in itS largest meaning
as comprising all those whose eyes
are fixed upon the millennium, the
muck-rakers are not only worrying
about the state of the world and
about their several projects for re-
forming 1t, but they are worried
among themselves for fear one re-
form will outrun another, and each
is worrying for fear he will be left
in the final millennial rush. Ant
then look at politics. A lot Of mel
are worrying for fear they will b'
nominated for President, and another
group are worrying for fear they will
not be.
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THE CANDLE.


~Nor do men light a candle and put Il
snder bushel"-Matt. 5:l5
Your candle is SO small, so small,
II makes scarce any light;
The feeble word you may let fall,
Has neither strength nor mighty
And there be many greater ones
Who outshine you by far,
AS do the slSy-illuming suns
Outgrow the farthest star!
But Of all good sounds ever heard
There is none half so fair
AS one uncalculated word
That soothes some dim despair,
And what dull sky il would be
IL all the points Of light
Were gone, and we might only sec
The suns of wondrous might.
He who holds up his little fame
Knows aot what straining eyes,
May find it guiding them from shame
Into a PARADISE
All may not climb the lofty steep, g.
All may not lead the throng,
But each may shelter and may keep
Aglow some word or song
We know not how our candle CLEANS,
1t may be sconced in gold,
Or il may send it's cheering CLEANS
From some cup worn and old,
And that which fate has held apart
From pathways wide and grand,
May glow with light which hnds heart
Attuned to understand.
The little word, the little smile,
The little song you know
These make the candle all the while
That we must keep aglow,
And we may think its trembling light
Unnotioed by all eyes
But there is greater dark OF night
When that lone candle dies. 40,
w. d. Nesbit, jim St. Louis Republic.
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BRIEF NEWS ITEMS.

John Johnson, aged 22 years. OF
Lancaster, was drowned In the Con-
estoga River while In swimming. His
body was recovered.
Adjutant General Stewart sent
word to General C. q. Dougherty, OF
the Third Brigade, that Health Com
missioner Dixon had completed an
Investigation Of the streams and weiia
at the Mt Gretna camp ground ana
placarded every we'll and water
course containing impure water with
big linen signs.
A chicken with four legs Is a
freak of nature on G. A. Wismer'a
farm near Gratersford.
William Keel, of Providence
Square, was severely bitten on both
hands by a strange dog which he
tried to drive from his poultry yard.
DIR. Cornelius Bartholomew. who
was recently found guilty at Allen
town of illegal practice, was sentenc-
ed to four years in the Eastern PEN
itentiary and to pay a fine of $500
and the costs In the case.
Reading merchants have selected
WoQuebudy, august q, ~ fttAuiuH
Day" at Bernville's Void Home
Week" Several bands will be en-
gagged to head the division.
Fifteen to twenty car loads OF Ice
are shipped to Philadelphia daily.
from the icehouses OF the Perkiomsn
Valley.
Miss Annie Roerich dropped over
dead while engaged In hanging up
the wash In the yard 70 the rear OF
her home In Lancaster. Deceased
was AZ years OF age.
An incubator In the residence Of
Edwin II. Nolt, OF Vogansyille, ex-
ploded. setting fire to the house. The
building and its contents were en-
tirely destroyed. The loss will reach
$4,000.
Carmen Alezzo. on italian. who
jumped on an electric car at De<h-
lehem fortnight ago and fractured
his skull. died without having once
recovered consciousness
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A Maine MethuseIah.

In a logging camp near Hutton,
Me-, a few years ago a man by the
name Of Peter Grimes was accident
ally killed and his widow was left in
rather poor circumstances.
Joseph Breed, a particular friend
of the unfortunate man, being some
what OF a carpenter, decided to make
Grimes coffin, and so cut down the
funeral expenses. He told the
widow of his intention and also Of
carving the name and age of her
late husband on the lid, but he was
rather worried when he found that
the age was twenty-eight years.
Il am awful sorry. Mrs. Grimes" +"
said Joe, "but never could cut a
figure g."
That's too bad replied Mrs.
Grimes; then, as a happy thought
came to her, she asked him If he
could cut figure Z.
Eyes, can cut first-rate figure
T."
well, then, why not cut four rs?
Everybody knows four rs are twen.
ty-eight."
So the following day Joe COM
pleted the coffin as she suggested.
The day of the funeral came and
the late Rev. T. s. Black, of Hutton,
was reading the service over the
body and had arrived at that part
where he was saying:
"Our dearly beloved brother, who
departed this life at the age Of"
Here he glanced at the coffin lid
for reference, and, his eyes lighting
on Joes row of four rs, he gave
gasp and, with startled look in his
eyes, exclaimed:
Good Lord, how did he ever miss
the fioodi'-Boston Herald.
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A ouIck-pelIyery Letter.

1t is curious fact that century
and half ago letter TRAVELLED much
faster than ever II has done since.
1t was In 175S that Lord March made
q heavy wager that he would cause
letter to be conveyed 100 miles
within an hour. His Lordship en-
gagged score OF cricketers, all ex-
pert throwers and catchers. had the
missive inclosed In ball. and ar
ranging his men at intervals in cir
Gle. got them to throw the ball as
swiftly as possible from one to an
other. At the end OF the hour It
was found that the letter had trav-
eled almost exactly lao miles. Ezra
Magazine.
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Jesse j. Hickman.

West Chester Especially Jesse ],
Hickman, aged II years, one of the
oldest foxhunters and commissioned
of this county, died at his home in
Westtown after a few weeks illness,
He was one of the most widely
known citizens in this section of the
State and held many public Offices,
His name became widely known as
breeded of hogs He was Regis
ter of Wills for three years and was
serving his second term as County
Commissioner at the time of his
death
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Giants and Dwarfs.

In life giants are usually weak
minded, as well as frail Of body, and
as a rule they do not live long.
Dwarfs. on the other hand, are often
nimble witted and stand good
chance of longevity. An Austrian
empress in the seventeenth century
took the whim to round up all the
giants and dwarfs In her empire and
turn them In together. Apprehension
was felt that the big ones would ter
rify the small ones, but II was the
other way The giants were com
PEELED to ask for protection from the
impish tricks OF the dwarls, and they
had to be separated befoye peace
reigned among sNem. Philadelphia
Telegre5n.
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HE'S THE WHOLE CREW.
Skipper Hall the Cook end the Mate
and the Bo's'n Bold of the Angler.

skipper man tHt OOOk '.nu thc NAhtc
and the Bo's'n Bold of the Angler.
Captain Parker j. Hall, of Nan
tucket, skipper of the two masted
schooner Angler, is his own mate,
steward and crew. His stated rea-
sons for 1t are not that he is moody
or fond of his own company, or that
it is more economical, but simply
that, because of an impediment in his
speech, he feels that he can think
out and execute his own orders more
rapidly than any crew could under
stand him If he tried to talk.
Captain Hull is native OF Dux-
bury, Mass, but his home Is his
schooner, and on board her his young
wife goes about her housekeeping
duties Just the same as she would
were it an ivy grown cottage.
The Angler herself is no chicken,
says the Boston Herald. She was
built in 1854 ard her owner found
her an abandoned hulk, half buried
in the sand. He bought her for next
to nothing, fitted her with second
manu- SpdTS anu DtBdu W manu- q Nv
ing and a name for himself in the
coastwise trade.
His brother mariners find fault
with him for recklessness, on the
ground that his holding irons are not
big enough. Skipper Han is forced
to put up with anchors much lighter
than those of the average craft of the
Anglers build carries, because II
would be impossible for any one man
to raise the heavy kind unaided.
He recently made a record run
across the Sound under full sail and
came up into anchorage in fine shape
before the admiring gaze of half the
town. To enter the harbor Skipper
Hall had to make run through the
heavy ice between the jetties at the
bar. The drift of open water wai
very narrow, and the revenue cutter
Gresham ran down to see II she could
be of any possible assistance.
The crew of the Gresham are talk
ing yet of the surprise their captain
got when he saw one man bringing
two niasted schooner through th'
narrow drift.
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FEED poIsoNs POULTRY.
Cookie Ground With Wheat To Make
Middlings Deleterious.

Hamburg Especially A number of
persons engaged in poultry raising
have recently complained of cases of
poisoning of poultry by feeding mid
dlings." This is wheat ground for
chicken feed because 1t was unfit for
-four owing to the large percentage
OF cookie which 1t contains. When
unground screenings are fed to
poultry the fowls instinctively refuse
to eat cookie. nature evidently CIV
ing them warning of its poisonous
character.
The Department of Agriculture, in
consequence Of numerous complaints
received. has issued special bulle-
tin calling attention to the danger
in feeding poultry with feed contain
Ing ground cookie. pointing out that
its presence can be detected by the
black hulls.
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Hybrid Golf a..a Fish story.

Some time ago a northern golfer
drove ball Ans, low, skimming
shot across a river. Sust as the bali,
was nearly over ial mon leaped at
the ball and caught II In its mouth.
Such was the pace OF the ball that It
carried the salmon on to the rivers
bank. whore 1t was immediately Sc
cured with the ball tightly wedged
Ia Ito teeth. Golf illustrated.
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NEWS y Pennsylvania
WOMAN A VICTIM.
Sold House To Pay Tribute Demanded
by Fellow-Countrymen

ny FcuoW-tOuntflintu.
Pittsburg Especially. - Trembling
before the gaze to two countrymen in
Magistrate Brady's Court Mrs. Stella
Pagana. an Italian woman, told a
story of how her savings of years
had been extorted from her by two
Of her fellow countrymen.
Giuseppe Furcio and Frisco Bartir-
mo had been arrested upon complaint
Of Mrs. Pagana, who alleged that the
two men had from time to time de-
manded money by threatening let
ters. The demands we're for $40 and
$50 at a time. So frequent were
their demands that the bank account
was soon gone and finally she had to
sell their property.
Her husband knew nothing OF this,
she said, as she feared that II she
told him she would be killed. She
was now reduced to penury, she de-
clared
The men we're held for court. Mrs.
Pagana asked that heavy bail be
fixed as she feared If the men were
released she would be assassinated.
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WORDS OF WISDOM.


Some men are born great, but the
majority don't even have greatness
thrust upon them.
1t sometimes happens that when an
actor finds things coming his way he
tries to dodge them.
There may be plenty of room at
the top, but victims Of that tired
feeling never reach it.
Men who boast of their virtues
would probably have more to say
II they enumerated their vices.
And the more energy a man ex-
pends in talking the less he will have
left to assist him in making good.
Many a man would be unable to
paddle his own canoe If he couldn't
borrow some other mans paddle.
Genius is said to be certain form
OF madness, but the madness of most
people is more or less uncertain.
1t may not be your fault If you
have never been in jail; more than
likely it's due to your good fortune
A mans idea of good luck is any
old kind that leaves him a few dol
lars ahead of the other fellows game.
Don't sit down and think about
what you would doif you could live
your life over. Get busy and i'm
prove the rest of 1t.
It's a waste of time to attempt to
dodge a hypocrite. He knows more
lodges in a minute than you will
learn in a lifetime.
And when you hear man boast
of his ancestors it's safe bet that
his descendants will have no occasion
to boast of theirs.-Bakers' Helper.
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LEG SEVEN FFET AROUND.
McKeesport Woman Has Remarkable
Case OF Elephantiasis.

McKeesport Especially The most
pronounced case of elephantiasis
brought to the attention of the med
ical fraternity of McKeesport, and
probably the most remarkable In the
country, is that of Mrs. David Lynch,
who is at the home of her son, Harry
Lynch, near Fifth Avenue.
Suffering from the disease, Mrs.
Lynch weighs 500 pounds. Just be-
low the knee her left leg is seven
feet In circumference, or over two
and one-half feet in thickness. 1t
is still larger above the knee and
weighs over 100 pounds. The right
leg measures four feet eight inches
above the knee.
The disease Is one of the rarest
known In this country. AS Mrs.
Lynch lies in her bed the lower limbs
fill its width and she is helpless. She
suffers little pain.