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The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1907-09-05
Milk and Cream.

Recent investigations among the
herds which supply the Pennsylvania
State College creamery with milk and
cream, show that on some farms 1t
requires nine cows to produce as
much net profit as produced by five
average cows in the herd of grade
dairy cows kept by the college. Some
men receive as little as ninety-nine
cents, s1.05 and $1.2O for each dol
lars worth of feed consumed, while
others receive from S1.50 to $1.S0
for each dollar invested in pasture,
hay, grain, etc. AS a result of this
work twelve farmers are now keeping
records to determine which are the
least profitable cows. Samples of
each cows milk are tested by the col
lege creamery.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1907-09-05
Value In Disposition.

Disposition is indicated very large
ly in the brain development, and dis
position means lots of money in a
horse. When was boy we didn't
think half as much about the dispo-
sition of a horse as we do to-day
Millionaires, people who are looking
for fancy teams, are willing to pay
for disposition, because they don't
want to have their families, their
children's lives endangered by having
rattle-brained horses, and other men
are looking for good dispositioned
horses because they don't care to
have their fine turnouts, their fancy
wagons broken up by q horse that
will get attle-brained.-Ge Nc
Kerrow, Madison, Wis, in The
Cultiyator.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1907-09-05
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
SEPTEMBER EIoATH.


Gods cmnipresence. PSI t3o: ia
God Greater than ALL 1 Kings 8:
22-27.
Maker OF all. Tsa &c: 1, g.
"A Cod at hand" Jer. 80: 1882.
I'm Him we live" Acts II: 1928
an the midst Of them" Matt. Is:
10, 20.
Ever present. Matt. rs: 19, 90
It is comfort as we'll as terror
to know that God knows us wholly
God knows not only the words on
our tongues, but the words In our
tongues, that have not yet gone out
Even before studying about God.
one could be sure that the study
would be beyond our powers other.
wise, God would not be Cod.
Since one cannot fee from God,
the only wise life is to learn the de
sire to fee toward God
Suggestions.
Take Jeremy Taylor's noble
thought, and practice the presence
of God" So that you can realize His
nearness at all times.
You are spiritual being so far as
the existence and presence of spirit
ual beings are real to your mind
Remind yourself continually, God
is here" No thought will so serve
to dignity and purify your daily
life.
You will be helped to realize Gods
omnipresence by studying the lives of
those to whom It was a reality, and
above all the life of our Lord.
Illustrations.
The best illustration of Gods ON.
nip-esencc is the physical concep.
ton of the ether, that wonderful un-
known element which is the bond of
the physical universe.
II child's hand is laid In the
ooean, We know that the level of the
great sea everywhere is raised to cor
respond. So God responds every.
where to the hand of a child.
Try to understand how there can
be anywhere an end to space, and
you will see how impossible it is to
conceive any limit to God.
Questions.
Am I trying to escape this omni
present God?
Is the source of Gods presence a
delight to me, or fear?
Is my life such that l welcome God
in every part of It?
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1907-09-05
Selling Fertility.

Every time farmer sells a ton
OF wheat he sells $11.62 in fertility;
In ton of clover hay he sells $8.62
in fertility; in a ton of alfalfa hay
he sells $3.50 in fertility; in ton
of oats he sells $7.S1 in fertility,
and in a ton of corn he sells $6.47
In fertility. If these products be fed
on the farm under proper conditions.
and the resulting manure be returned
to the soil, there is very slight loss
of fertility, for the following pro-
ducts may be sold instead
In selling ton of finished beef
on the hoof the farmer sells but
$5.37 in fertility; in ton of live
hogs he sells but 1910 In fertility;
in ton of milk he sells but $1.4S
in fertility; in ton of cheese he
sells but siXty-nine cents in fertility.
and in ton of butter he sells twen-
ty-seyen cents in fertility. The best
policy for the farmer to adopt is that
system OF corn and crop rotation
which VIII embrace not only the
growing Of grain, but the breeding
and feeding Of stock either for sale
in the form of beef or pork. or for
the production, whether for milk,
cheese and butter Professor Hol-
den.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1907-09-05
Concrete in Steamer RennIrs.

A British trade newspaper states
that concrete has come into use in
connection with steamship repairs.
The Iron Age declares that 1t was sue
cessfully employed to patch up the
hull OF a steamer. She struck on a
jagged rock, and several holes were
made in the iron hull OF the vessel.
The largest one was about eighty
feet from the bow, and 1t measured
about thirty-five feet In each direc-
tion, and through this great gap came
the rock, projecting for nealy eleven
feet into the hold. Those responsible
for the salvage operations managed
to patch up the breach by means OF
concrete, and although leaks deyel-
oped, the water was pumped out of
the hold and ship was towed forty
miles to a drydock.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1907-09-05
Glasses For Weak Eyes.

Blue or else smoky glasses have
long been considered the best pos
sible things for weak eyes. Recent
Investigations, however, have altered
the views of oculists on this subject,
an amber colored glass being found
preferable in many instances.
1t seems that the rays of light
that are trying to the eyes are at and
about the upper end of the spectrum
that is to say, in the region of the
violet and ultraviolet. These rays
penetrate blue or smoky glass to a
greater or less extent, but are entire
ly stopped by amber glass.
The discovery in question seems to
have been first made by mountain
climbers in the Swiss Alps, who, for
a protection against the glare OF the
snow, are obliged to wear some sort
q colored sDectacles. 1t became the
fashion not long ago, on such excur-
sions in that part of the world to use
amber.-Saturday Evening Post.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1907-09-05
Some American Rascals.

1t has been good many years
since we left the practice of the law
for other things we like much better.
but it used to be a criminal offence
for man or syndicate to buy UP all
or a large portion-of the wheat,
coal, corn, pork or other products of
the country necessary to sustain life,
for the purpose of raising the price
and compelling the poor 70 pay a
profit of million or millions to the
man or syndicate that does it.
II the old laws do not apply, then
one of the first things which ought
to be done is for all our State legis-
latures and Congress to pass new
ones, making such offences punisha-
BILE by imprisonment.-Our Dumb
Animals.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1907-09-05
Hints on Breeding shcer.

AS the result of several years OF
experience, the Wisconsin station
publishes the following conclusion:
From the breeding records of
514 ewes at this station we conclude
that, for such animals and condi-
tions as ours, the normal period of
CESSATION ranges from 144 to $50
days after the date of service, and
that more ewes will lamb lac days
after service than at any other time.
There is no appreciable difference
in the period of CESSATION for male
and female offspring in sheep.
There is an apparent relation be-
tween the duration of the period of
CESSATION and the period required for
maturity. Quick-maturing breeds
appear to carry their young for a
shorter period than those breeds re-
quiring more time to mature.
Large lambs are on the average
carried in the utero for an appre-
ciably longer period than small or
medium lambs.
Lambs dropped before the 144th
and after the 149th day of preg-
nancy are lacking in strength and
vitality at birth.
Shropshire ewes are more pro-
life than any of the other breeds and
crosses, except the fourth cross of
Shropshire rams on a Merino eve
foundation.
From the data presented 1t is
apparent that twins are the normal
increase for ewes of the mutton
type.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1907-09-05
pnlldlng of petrIfled Wood.

A building at New England, Het-
finger County, N. D., is made of petri-
fed wood. The building belongs to
Charles Mead, a rancher. 1t was
constructed for a residence but is no
longer used for that purpose. 1t has
been used Gor a private school the
last year. 1t stands on the edge of a
bluff at the foot OF which runs the
Cannonball River. The various col
ors OF the petrlfied wood glisten In
the sunshine. The wall Is left un-
pointed, thus exposing the uneven
projecting specimens OF the wood thlt
have become, through natures mys-
terious influence, beautiful stones.
Here and there scattered over a
wide area on the Missouri slope are
groups OF specimens. usually one or
two wagonloads In place. But there
is field in the western part OF Het-
finger County where these petrifac-
tions are thick over two or three
acres Glen Ullin Correspondence
Minneapolis Journal
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1907-09-05
They Had Lost Track of Him.

In town of few thousand in
habitants in the interior of Pennsyl-
vania there resided an ambitious
young man, David Simpson, who, as
soon as he was well out of his teens,
removed TO New York City and went
into business. He was successful
and when he became a middle-aged
man, went into politics. In this also
he succeeded, and at last rose to dis
tinguished official position in the city.
Then a longing to revisit the old
home of his boyhood, which he had
not seen for quarter of a century
or more, came over him.
1t would be pleasant, he thought.
to witness the look of surprise and
qualification on the faces of his for
mer townsmen when he made his ap-
pearance among them again, un-
spoiled by fame and prosperity. With
out communicating his intentions to
any one, he went aboard a west
bound train one night and arrived at
his destination the next morning
The first man he saw as he stepped
'uN Va thS pidllOlin VI lue railway
station WAS one of his old playmates,
with whom he had grown up. He
walked up to him and grasped him
by the hand.
"charley Bennett, how are your"
he said.
"l'm pretty well, thank YOU" an
swered the other but you've got a
little the advantage OF me-"
I'm Dave Simpson"
why. hello. Davel Where have
you been all this time?"
I'm New York, of course"
"Wen. I'm mighty glad to see you.
Dave. What are you doing for a
living now7 Clerking in drugstore,
as you used TOT"
Mr.. Simpson spent several days in
his old home town, and enjoyed his
visit, but he did not do any more
posing.-Youths Companion.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1907-09-05
COST OF POLICE.
1t Totals Over Five Million Sterling
For England and Wales.

1t costs just under 5,750,O00 sterl-
ing to maintain for a year the 5000
police who guard the interests of
citizens of England and Wales,
s4,195,O00 being absorbed ia salaries
and pay. The most expensive of all
the forces in proportion to its size is
the City of London, in which the cost
OF the individual constable works
out to e112 year. This leaves a
considerable margin over the f93
which Is the average of the pro-
vincial forces, and is even appreciably
higher than the upkeep of a con-
stable in the Metropolitan force,
which is 2105.
There are in the city 1.006 police
men of all ranks, and as the popu-
lation is only 26.923, every twenty
seven inhabitants can claim to have
constable to themselves. The
calculation is, of course, somewhat
illusory, for the census is taken at
night, and when Suburbia pours it's
thousands into the city streets in the
early working hours of the morning
the police are quickly lost in the
throng. The same destructive facto-
does not apply to a similar calcula-
uon In regard to other areas, and ac-
cording to Blue Book issued re-
Gently, from which these figures are
taken, there was constable for
every 470 people residing in the Met.
ropolitan district and one for every
942 persons on the average of the
rest Of England and Wales. Since
1905 there has been total addition
OF some 600 men to the police forces
OF the country, while in twenty-five
years the strength has risen from
10000 to 46,00O-an increase of
over fifty per cent.-Tit Bits.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1907-09-05
The Color of Life.

The world is not made up to the
eye. of figures, that is, only half; 1t is
also made of color, wrote Emerson.
How that element washes the uni
verse with its enchanting waves! The
sculptor has ended his work, and be-
hold new world of dream-like glory.
'Tis the last stroke of nature; be-
yond color she cannot go. In like
manner life is made up, not of knowl-
edge only, but Of love also. IL
thought is form, sentiment is color.
It clothes the skeleton world with
space, variety and glow. The hues
of sunset make life great; so the af-
fections make some little web of cot
tage and fireside populous, important
and filling the main space in our his
tory.-Home Herald.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1907-09-05

For testing the power OF lamps a
Mayence optician has devised novel
photometer based upon the varying
electrical resistance of selenium un-
der different Illumination. The APP
paratus includes two mirrors lighted
respectively by standard lamp and
the lamp to be tested. while sele-
mum cell rapidly oscillating between
two given positions is alternately
lighted by either. The electric oscil-
lations set up are shown by an am
meter, One lamp Is moved until
these oscillations cease. and the re-
spective distances from the photome-
ter VIII then give. according to
weil-known rule, ths light intensity
OF the lamp under test as compared
with that OF the standard lamp.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1907-09-05
Ways OF Reading.

Reading without purpose Is saun-
tering, not exercise. More Is got from
one book on which the thought settles
for definite end than from libraries
skinned over by wandering eye.
A cottage flower gives honey to the
bee, a kings garden nons to the hp'
terfiy. Lord Lytton.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1907-09-05
Scours in Pigs.

An Iowa correspondent in Wal
lace's Farmer says that he has found
a teaspoonful of soda put in sow's
slop before feeding once a day for
two or three days to be an effective
cure for ordinary cases of scours in
young pigs.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1907-09-05
S4G .a|Fs.F ' dI'sfIIe

keep them killed in the potato patch
then they cannot travel to the to-
matoes.
If growing for a cannery, the early
fruit pays best as the vines make
more fruit per plant and the can
merry will not pay any more for the
very late ones than for those grown
when tomatoes are plentiful.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1907-09-05
Evil Companionship Destroys Child.

We put down as the worst thing
that can come into the life of a
child low, vile association. We doubt
II any human being ever got beyond
the influence Of evil associates for tho
first ten years Of life. Such assOcia-
ton Will produce an insanity OF ma
turs against which the victim will
find It necessary to fight for all the
years that remain to him. Western
IMetho dist.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1907-09-05

The father of Nicholas II. OF Rus
STA guided HIS actions by the advice
OF an American spirit medium.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1907-09-05

The unique floating ice barrier
pushed out from the mysterious Ant
arctic land was found by Captain
Scott's expedition to extend Ave hun
dred miles westward from the vol
canoes Erebus and Terror, and more
than four hundred miles toward the
Pole, reaching beyond eighty-two de-
grees seventeen minutes south lati-
tude. The front rises ten to ESQ feet
above the water.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1907-09-05

There are said to be at present
100000 miles of cable in all at the
bottom of the sea, representing $780,
100000. This works out at about
$1,000 per mile to make and lay.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1907-09-05
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In the Chicago fire department
are two engines each capable OF
throwing ten tons of water a minute.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1907-09-05

The recent increase in the use of
electricity in Spain has been so rapid
that an official report states that
to-day very few localities exist where
the electric light is not employed.
This is particularly true of places sit
uated near swiftly running streams.
The consumption of electric lamps,
even in the smallest villages, is de-
scribed as being enormous. Every
where electric motors are found TAX
ing the place of steam-power. Yet
the construction of electric apparatus
in Spain has not kept step with the
growth in its employment, eighty per
cent. Of the dynamos and motors
being imported from Germany. Most
of the remainder come from France
and Switzerland.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1907-09-05

Consul Frank Hannah of Madge-
burg sends Information of new Ger
man composition to take the place
Of cedar in lead pencils. The prin-
cipal ingredient of the substitute is
potatoes. The pencils are now being
manufactured and soon will be on
the market. 1t is estimated that to
manufacture these pencils will take
about half of the time required to
make cedar pencils.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1907-09-05

Probably no Substance Is adapted
to greater variety of uses than rub
Der, but its applications are restricted
by the limited supply and high cost.
Among the purposes for which 1t has
great advantages but is not likely to
be extensively employed, is that of
paving roadways. A rubber pave
ment laid at London railway sta
tion was in 1902 worn down to FIVE
eighths of an inch in its thinnest
place. Notwithstanding the scarcity
OF the material, the cost was less
than three times as great as that of
wood, and its life has been more than
twenty years instead of four years
which the wood or asphalt would
have endured.
The Holly chieftain., 1907-09-13

L. war . Necessity 2


Jhs idea which has gained ground
h recent years that peace might be as
0ured by some sort Of international
aGreenent finds no champion In Cap
tain A. T. Mahan. Writing in the
London National Review Of The Hague
conference. Captain Mahan argues
bat human needs are at the bottom Of
all wars and that the primitive mo
tjves and passions still rule the earth,
nations. like individuals. taking what
they have power to seize and keeping
what they have force to defend.
We shall not see Alright the political
movement of the world at large. the
course of history past and present. until
We discern underlying all. consciously or
bundly. these primitive physical necessi-
ties, directing the desires Of the peoples
and through them the course of their gov
srnments. Rightly do We call them eco
nOmical-holsehold-fo they come home
to the many firesides whence their stern
exactions have exiied politics and sentt-
ment and herein, in the weight OF strug-
Cling numbers. lies the immensely of their
strength. Race and country but furnish a
means for organizing and fortifying their
action. bringing to IL the sanction and In
spiration Of the loftier motives embodied
in these consecrated words. Eut these
holy names. while facilitating aad inten-
styling local action. by the same means
separate nation from nation. setting up
hearthstone against hearthstone: hence
implicit war IL perennial: antagonism
turks beneath the most smiling surface
and the most honest interchanees of ma
ttnnal sympathies.
Captain Atahan is naval expert.
ami, like most military men. he has
trained himself to look at ugly facts
He contends that Europe has reached
her present condition Of internal sta
bility by war and that she maintains
1t by that ceaseless vigilance which
shows itself in national preparedness
for war. Organized military resources
are prevention, an ounce of which is
better than pound Of cure"
TO quote further:
The dikes of Holland withstand the d.
rect opposition Of the natural mission OF
the North sea to swallow up the land
they protect: the levces of the Mississippi
restrain and guide to betterment the
course of the mighty current. which but
for them would waste its strength to dew
astate the shores on either hand. These
two artificial devices represent a vast ex-
penditure, but they are cheaper than a
flood. The police forces of our great cities
are a great expense, but they cost less
than few days of anarchy. Let us not
deceive ourselves by fancying that the
strong material impulses which drive
those masses of men whom we style ma
tlons or races are to be checked or guild
ed unless to the argument of reasonable
contention there be given the strong sup
port of organized material power II the
organized disappear, the unorganized will
but come into surer and more dreadful
collision.
This view makes disarmament a
blunder
The Holly chieftain., 1907-09-13
The Maximum, Fine.

It is perhaps fortunate that the pros
ecutlon of Standard OIL, which ended in
the imposing of the maximum fine, was
conducted under the Elkins law and
not under the new rate regulation law.
This last measure was put through un-
der the pressure of a strong feeling on
the part OF the public against greedy
corporations. The older law was a
piece of deliberate legislation. aimed
at no particular evil.
1t has been said that the collection
Of this enormous fine from Standard
OIL will end in the bankruptcy of the
corporation. The thing most likely to
happen unless the great corporations
Of the country are dependent Oh cook
ed business is that sharp practices will
stop and business come back to sound
basis. In this way general bankruptcy
will not be fastened, but rather de-
layed by the imposition of drastic pen
alties.
The Holly chieftain., 1907-09-13
Wall Streets Humility.

Apropos of 1908 the Wall Street
Journal says:
"Wall street must make up its mind
that 1t cannot for some time to come
control the president of the United
States. 1t Is best even for its own ultI-
mate welfare that 1t should never con-
trol him. The most that it can hope
for, and this at least it ought to secure,
Is that the next president of the United
States, while independent of Wall
street. will be fair toward Wall street,
using the term Wall street to repre-
sent the financial, the investing and the
corporation interests Of the country"
1t is only when Wall street forgets
its proper station and assumes to con-
trol the president that trouble comes
to 1t in Washington. Outside of the
street no one considers the interests
centered in that twenty foot alley para
mount.