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The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1907-10-10
The Raking of the Green.

Many years ago there was observed
unique custom in the little town Of
Guilford, Connecticut. On one day in
the fall Of the year the women of the
town assembled on the village green.
Each carried wooden rake, decorat-
ed with her favorite color, anG each
was dressed in white, decked out with
colored ribbons. 1t was day of fete.
and 1t was called "The Raking of the
Green"
Then with song and laughter and
with many jest this band of women
cleaned the village green of all the
leaves and refuse and dirt of a years
accumulation. When the Job was
done, they adjourned to the Town
Hall, where they were Joined by their
husbands and brothers and the viii
lage fathers. A public banquet cele-
brated the occasion.
While this was not the first char
tered Village Improvement Associa-
ton in the country, it was probably
at that time the most enthusiastic.
and had perhaps the largest attend
ance. New Haven. Connecticut, can
rightly claim the first effort in vii
lage improvement, while Stockbridge,
Massachusetts,, should be remembered
as Offering the second.
More than hundred years ago
James Hillhouse, of New Haven, or
ganized what he called the "PubIic
Green Association. He raised $500
for grading the green and for plant
ing elms. One man is said to have
donated five gallons of rum for this
purpose. James Hillhouse was also
United States Senator for twenty
years. Almost every one had for
gotten what he did at Washington,
but no one is likely to forget his SER
vices in making the city of New
Haven classic by the beauty of ma
ture's Gothic architecture. The whole
country owes him debt Of gratitude
that can only be paid by planting elms
In his memory d. Ward, in
Womans Home Companion.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1907-10-10
/ For Gods Sake, Stop!

From the Reader: The killing OF
people on railways continues to make
a horrible record. Rather more than
death for every hour of the day and
ten persons MANNED for every sixty
minutes is something people not
scared against slaughter should find
to trouble sleep until 1t is remedied.
Every ninety minutes there is a coIIi-
sion or deraliment. During a year
there is one of these accidents for
every sixteen miles of track. OF en-
ployes or railways one out of every
twenty-eight is injured every year.
and one out OF every 371 is killed.
II this is true of railway employees In
general. the risk In the more hazard
Gus branches of the business must be
terrific. If the people killed and
manned were placed along the track
age of the United States at regular in
tervals, there would be fresh grave
every twenty-one miles, every year.
and cripple every two or three miles.
In twenty-one years the gravestones
would become milestones, If the
slaughter goes on, and the manned
would be within an ordinary city
block of each other along every mile
of right of way Such battles as Bull
Run, Fort Donelson, Shiloh and Get
tysburg fill us with horror and con-
sternation, as we hear or read of
windrows of slain, streams running
red to the sea and the sickening waste
OF human life. But for the year end
ing March 81, 1906, the railways of
the United States killed and wounded
95,S01 people, while the killed,
wounded and missing of both Confed-
crates and Federals for the battles of
Gettysburg, Shiloh and the first bat
tie of Bull Run all combined amount
to the less heart breaking total OF
$4,000. The worst Cor best) of 1t is
that other nations run their railways
without this daily carnage. Why do
We2
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1907-10-10
The Queen Of Chess.

Mrs. Baird, who has been called
"The Queen of Chess" has published
1900 chess problems, and no woman
has eclipsed the position which she
holds in the chess world She pos
sesses about fifty prizes recured in
open competitions, and of them she
has said: "These are the product of
a combination of labor and recrea-
ton. / say labor because l am not
such a chess enthusiast as to believe
that problems to stand the public test
can be produced without persistent
application, partaking of the nature
of work, and recreation because the
work has been a pleasure-how great
a pleasure only a problem composer
can fully realize" Mrs. Baird's
father, mother and two brothers
share her enthusiasm for chess. She
has other recreations, including arch
cry, tennis and cycling.-Kansas City
Journal.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1907-10-10
Not Mans Work.

Moonlit and springtime moods all
to the contrary, the fact remains
that marriage is not mans work, but
one OF his dearest delusions, from
which he parts begrudgingly. More
over, 1t is not even necessary to him
in the accomplishment of those things
which are his work. It is generally
no more than his dream Of prolonging
through years humanity improbable
condition. Happiness as a husband
and father has always been his scarce
ly whispered prayer, his dearest Sc
cret hope, toward which all his ideal
ism yearns. That numerous other
and very potent motives enter into
mems hearts is not in the least over
looked; 1t is only claimed that to the
average man his future marriage is
little more than a very beautiful
dream. A. Roberts, in the At
lantic.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1907-10-10
The Woman Of To.Dav.

Writing on the subject, as There
an American Type of Feminine Beau
ty?" in Everybody's, James Huneker
says:
Twenty-Five years ago blonde
women (real blondes) were far from
rare; careless observer can see at
the present that American women in
pigmentation are becoming darker.
Up In New England, out in certain
parts OF the West, the thin, nervous,
plain-featured, earnest, underfed and
oyerworked female was in the ma
1ority. Her voice reached us across
picket fences, her hand was in every
pie Above all. she sang in church
on Sundays! When Mr.. James and
Mr.. Howells began to write OF her she
was already vanishing. Where has
she gone? You encounter isolated
specimens to-day; and her feminine
contemporaries make mock of her
queer bonnet and her Puritan con-
science.
Every decade is adding its quota
OF arrangement of the normal ma
eohai "omdn--ds we once saw ner.
What has become OF this average
American woman? Where is the
waist Of yester-year? Women's
hands and feet are larger; the skel-
etal formation is said to be bigger.
They are not afraid OF the winds that
tan, the sun that freckles. Tbsy
motor and gcff; they swim. row,
wrestle. They play Chopin, despite
all these things--mirabile dictul
They stand the strain OF college
study, and there seera0 to be no
marked dinunition In the birth-rate.
rhey are taller, broader OF chest. ana
their eye is as soft as their mothers
tfor the happy chap, OF course). Il
there an American typeg Il would
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1907-10-10
English Women.

/ am an American tourist, not Of
the wealthy variety which comes here
every year, but a man who is making
the tour of his life.
The greatest surprise have ever
had In my life is the appearance OF
your women over here. Their beauty,
elegance and smartness is a revela-
tion 70 me.
The fact of the matter is that we
Americans are so fed up on a lot of
bunkum in regard to our women that
we honestly believe there is nothing
worth seeing in that line outside U.
s. A.
After cruising around pretty extern
sively this summer l say without hesi-
tation that London beats the world
with her women. The surprise is not
so much that they are good looking;
1t is generally admitted that English
women take the palm for regular.
delicate features and for good COM
plexions; but it is their dress and
general get-up, their style, chic, or
whatever you choose to call It.
Since l came here l also notice
that the American women have gone
off on wrong tack in the matter of
dressing. Their style is too stiff, too
artificial.
The finished product, such as repre-
sented by the London women of to-
day, is more attractive than anything
that can be seen in any city in Amer
ica.-G. F.; a letter evidently written
in the office of the London Evenir
News.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1907-10-10
Bacteria in Milk.

Still more important than the mere
carriage of dirt or filth, stands the
power of milk to give lodgment and
nutrition to the bacterial hosts.
These bodies are about us every
where, lurking in the dust of the
window-sill, floating in the sunshine,
lying on the ground; they exist in
such countless hordes that words like
billion or quintillion utterly fail OF
significance when the number in an
area of any size is to be considered.
These invisible myriads of the air.
moreover, increase with tremendous
rapidity once they encounter favor
able conditions for growth, such as
moisture, warmth and food. All these
are furnished by milk. Raise barn
yard dust near an open milk pail, and
the whirling masses which have been
lying In the refuse of the barnyard
noor pour down upon the liquid as
the destroying Huns of AttlIa poured
down upon Europe. Hollis Godfrey.
in the Atlantic.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1907-10-10
Exclusive Privilege. /.

The late General Shafter used to
enjoy telling how, during the Civil
War, several wounded officers and a
few privates We're going up the valley
Of Virginia, when a rain came on,
forcing all hands to take refuge all
night in a school house.
1t CHANGED that during the night a
skunk had found its way under the
hoor, and by and by had announced
its presence after it's well known eff
fective manner.
The officers all walked up, but. be-
ing gentlemen and each supposing
that the others were still asleep, they
kept silent. At last one of the pri-
Yates, German, could restrain him.
self no longer.
"Mein Gott!" he exclaimed. 'Dis
is awful! Dey shleeps und wakes,
und hat got to shmell 1t alll"--
Lippincott's.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1907-10-10
What Women Do For a Living.

That the 1000, 900 women workers
In the United States are engaged in
no less than 292 distinct occupations
will be surprising news to some, says
Harper's Weekly. No women, natur-
ally, are reported as United States
soldiers, sailors or marines; nor were
any reported as members of the fire
department, or as street car drivers
(though two were reported as motor
men), or as telegraph or telephone
linemen, or as apprentices or helpers
to roofers and skaters, or as helpers
to steam boiler makers or to brass
workers. But the reader may note
with interest, and perhaps with some
astonishment, that five women are
employed as pilots; that on steam
railroads ten were employed as bag
gagemen, thirty-one as brakemen,
seven as conductors, forty-five as en-
gineers and firemen, and twenty-six
as switchmen, yardmen and fagmen;
that forty-three were carriage and
hack drivers; that six were reported
as ship carpenters, and two as roofers
and skaters; that as many as 1876 were
returned as blacksmiths, and SOS as
machinists; that eight were boiler
makers; that thirty-one we're char
coal, coke and lime burners; and that
eleven were well borers. OF course
these figures have little significance
beyond indicating that there are few
kinds Of work from which the female
sex is absolutely debarred, by either
nature, law or custom. There were
125 occupations employing over 1000
women each, and sixty-three employ
ing over 5000.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1907-10-10
rations.


Tea came originally from India.
Sugar came from China Yeast
bread was made first in England. To-
bacco was common weed, first
grown by the Indians in Virginia.
Forks for eating were first used in
Italy. They were needed for rolling
up macaroni Gunpowder was used
by the Chinese shortly after the death
Of Christ. Mirrors with silvered
backs were invented by PraYiteles
22S years before Christ. The backs
OF our mirrors of to-day are painted
with a composition, miserable
cheap stun that soon peels Oft. IL
Eliminating gas was invented in Eng
land In the eighteenth century. The
original underground corn meal was
aan Invention of Bellsarius when
Rome was besieged by the Goths IN
556.-New York Press.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1907-10-10
EPWORTH LEAGUE LESSONS
SUNDAY, OCTOBER is.
Membership in the Church (John


Passages for reference: Rom. IL:
4, 8: / Cor. 12: 1928: Rev. 2f: 81.
The church is not perfect organ
ization OF perfect people. Judas, the
traitor, Peter, the coward, turncoat.
John, the heart-cooled lover, were all
members of the first one organized
by Jesus. Tt Is composed of people
doing their best to follow Jesus, not
ashamed of a felt need Of his help
and the announcement of brothers
hand. and proud to wear his name
as their leader. Joining the church
brings us out into a clear stand and
thus helps burn the bridges behind,
so that 1t is not easy to go back on
Christ It shows the choice OF, and
Identifies personal interests with,
good company.
The purpose of the church is to
enable us to bear Christ's fruits In
vineyard whose Husbandman Is
definitely known. If we are outside
of membership the world may con-
clude that the "fruits" are the re
suits of "ethics," "science and
health" will power" or what-not.
Christ needs us as the vine needs
branches: without us he cannot show
the world what sort of fruit can be
grown in ordinary human lives.
The church of the right sort will
have perfect unity. Having a com
mon life, they will have common In
terests as does the ideal family. II
selfishness or jealousy comes in, the
individual harboring 1t will suffer
There must be love If there is a
fruitful life Worldliness, valueless
friendships, over-engrossment in busi-
ness, may be useless shoots which
the Husbandman may desire to cut
off.
If one does not get along with folk
there is something wrong with the
personal life. If We are part of the
vine we will be joining hands close
ly and gladly with all the other
branches to bear fruit. II one is not
interested in the church and its ac-
tivities, there is a blight at work
which will make of that person
withered branch. Search for it as
the gardener does for the tomato
worm that eats off all the blossoms.
A healthy religious life will manifest
itself by interest in all religious
things as surely as good health shows
itself in the child by desire to
play.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1907-10-10
The Cardinal,s Wife.

Cardinal Gibbons. the venerable
head OF the Catholic Church In
America. is one of the most demo-
cratic men in the country. He also
enjoys a good Joke, even when told
at his own expense. He once related
how Baltimore newspaper man who
may have been more Jealous In jour
nalism than learned In religion called
at the cardinals house one day to ask
his eminence for information con-
cerning some church matter,
THE cardinal is out Of the city,"
said Father Fletcher who received
the caller
Then may l see Mrs. Gibbons?"
was the startling request thst fol-
lowed. d.--LipY Acott's.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1907-10-10
CHRISTIAN ENDEAlooa NOTES
OCTOBER THIRTEENTH.

Topic-Remember eternity! I John
2: 1917, "a. 25.
Judgment in eternity. Acts II; 80,
81.
Judged by Christ's word John 19:
1850
Separation in eternity. Matt. 10:
47-49.
Rewards and punishments Luxe
16: 22.26.
An eternal home. John IA. IA.
Life everlasting. Gal. 6: Z. s.
The love of this world may easily
pass into an idolatrv. taking the
place of the love of God who made
this world w. 15).
Let there be no sadness in the
thought that this beautiful world is
passing away. for it goes only that n
world far more lovely may come (v.
~.
The foundation of all permanencs
is the word of God, and whoever is
built thereon shall never be moved
(v 24).
r. eternal life were a task TO be
achieved. 1t would be homeless
task: but II is a promise, to be re-
coived ". 25).
Suggestions.
No man can set before himself
loftier ambition than to live worthily
Of his own immortality.
We show by our reluctance to die
how profoundly we value the gift of
this TEMPORAL life; what, then. should
be our delight in eternal life?
It is a wise plan to set apart few
minutes AT the beginning of every
day to think about the endless years.
and how the day may help to get
ready for them.
There are two comrade thoughts
which are the greatest that man
can cherish One is eternity; the
other is Christ.
Illustrations.
II you expected TO go TO France
tomorrow. you would be preparing
for your journey. How are you max
ing ready for that sure journey to
the next world?
Count every drop in the ocean, and
let each of them all represent CEN
tury: still you will not have begun
10 count the reaches of eternity.
Eternity is like sun, even now in
the sky, but not yet risen over a
mountain. We may climb the noun
tain and see IL.
Even a page is important II :"
heralds an emperor; and thus the
smallest moment heralds eternity
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1907-10-10

seem so, after these statements. I'm
luckily for the statistician, the same
girl may be seen to-day in Germany,
In England, Ireland, Scotland, France,
Italy, Austria. Northern women are
of splendid physique. The truth ~
that the feminine movement Is world.
wide"
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1907-10-10
cheaper Rate Than the poctor,s.

A few years ago. ON sutter street,
In San Francisco. an ambitious
young Japanese had little store
stocked with goods imported from
his native land. In his show window
was stack Of decorated mush bowls.
and leaning against their front was
a cardboard sign bearing In stencilled
letters this announcement: Fine
Bowels. fifty cents set. t."--Lipp.p-
cott's.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1907-10-10
Chinese Girl to Attend College.


Chinese women who have been ed
ucated in America will receive a dis
tinguished recruit when Miss May
Liang Cheng, the only daughter of
Sir Chentung Liang Cheng, the Chi
nese Minister to the United States, re-
turns to her native land. Miss Cheng
is a particularly bright young woman
and has attracted much attention in
Washington. 1t is announced that
the piQuant little Celestial maiden
will be educated in Barnard College,
although 1t is said Wells College,
Aurora, N. y, is a possible candidate
for the honor of instilling the ideas
OF Western civilization in the pretty
Miss Liang's head. Wells College is
the alma mater of Ii Hung Chang's
granddaughter, Miss Ii, now Mrs.
Bien. Miss Cheng is under sweet
sixteen and dresses in Oriental style.
as becomes the daughter of the Chi
nese representative to this country.
She speaks English and has shown
marked ability in music, says the
Broadway Magazine. The Minister
has a summer home in the diplomatic
colony at Amherst, Massachusetts, al
though it is unofficlally announced
that he will return to China for a
period of mourning prescribed by the
customs as mark of respect for his
recently deceased mother. In that
event he viii be succeeded by Liang
Tun-Ten, taotai of customs at Tien-
tsin, a Yale graduate, and Misc Liang
will be left to complete her education
In charge of Mrs. Kwai. wife of the
secretary Of the legation.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1907-10-10
REvIvING A TIRED HONEY Zee.

REVIVING A TIRED HONEY ZEE.
The honey bee is .proverblally in
dustrious, When everything goes
well with 1t, no form OF animal life
mas more vigor. works more jealous
~ nor defends its home more orave-
~ But the bee soon loses its aetlv-
lty when separated from its home so
that II cannot return, as, for example,
wnen II gets into room and fails to
nnd its way out. Cold rain or lack
ef food also soon put it into feeble
or exhausted condition, making Il
appear as II It We're discouraged. But
nearly all OF its usual activity may
be restored by little sugar Of honey.
From Nature and Science In St.
Nicholas.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1907-10-10
ECONOMICS.

The Coming Guest--"I understand
you charge dollar and half day
for room When was here in De-
cemDer you only charged dollar a
day
The Landlady-"Ah. but the days
are longer now. - Harper's Weekly.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1907-10-10

Bobby's mother was often dis
tressed by her small sons lapsea
from correct speech; all the more be-
cause his reports from school were
always SO good.
Bobby" she said plaintively, one
day, why do you keep telling Major
20 set up when you know sit up Is
what you should say?''
"Oh, we'll. mother, Bobby an
swered, hastily, '"of course have lots
OF grammar. but l don't like to waste
Il on Major when he doesn't know the
difference, being dog. .'---Harper's
Weekly.
Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1907-08-14
Baptist Association to Meet in
Lexington

The Augusta Baptist Associa-
ton will meet with the Baptist
congregation in Lexington Tues
day, September 3rd, and will con
tinue in session three days. Tie
opening sermon will be preache'
by Rev. George E.Davis of Clifto'
Forge. The subjects to be con
sldered by the association are ten
perance, missions and education
and ether interests OF the churcl
The territory embraced by the as
ISOLATION includes Rockingham,
Augusta, Rockbridge, Allegheny
and Bath counties. There are
thirty-six churches in the associa-
ton.
The attendance upon the meet
irg Of the association is expected
to reach about 125 delegates, whc
will be provided with free enter
tainment By the local con5rega
ton. 1t is expected, as is usual or
such occasions, that other denomi'
nations will assist in the enter
tainment of visitors to the asso
citation.
The committee on hospitality il
now engaged in canvassing th'
Baptist congregation for home
for delegates. Any members o
other congregations who feel in
clired to assist in entertainment
should communicate with Mr.
Wade S. Masters, chairman of til
committee.
Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1907-08-14
WHITE

The totol enrolment of the
county for the session 1906 YVES
1896; for the session of 1907 was
4, 1904; a gain of 1893.
The average cost of tuition per
month pei pupil enrolled was :
white, 1894; colored S1.O6.
The schools of the several dis
tricts were ordered to be opened
Tuesday, October lst.
The same holidays as last year
were adopted: Thanksgiving,
Christmas, General Lees birth
day (January l9th.) and General
Washington's birthday February
22nd.
Mr.. Frank T. Glasgow was re-
elected ce-president and Mr.. ),
Scott Moore secretary of the board
Trustees present were as follows;
Messrs. Frank T. Glasgow, Robert
E. Hutton and Harry D. Campbell
Lexington; w. B. Wsllfce and
Frank D. Coe, Central; F. F. Har,
ris and George W. Parsone, Nat,
ural Bridge; W. D. Deacon and
George G. Tribbett, Buffalo; M. z
Dunlap, Kerr's Greek; John L.
Brooke and C. G. Snyder, Walk
er's Creek; G. j. Bell and F, L.
McClung, South River.