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The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1907-06-27
FIGURES THAT AsToNIsH.
physicists Delving Into Things That
Are Infinitely Minute.

What is the food value of
thought? DR.. John Alfred Bradshaw,
the famous lens maker, says the day
will come when such figures as we
now deem large or small shall seem
crude, says the Chicago Tribune. We
learn from the physicist that an atom
of hydrogen. can be broken up into
nearly 1900 corpuscles, an atom of
mercury into 100000 corpuscles;
that the atom of radium has stored
within it cn energy of which our
older science did not dream. Further
more, our advanced physicists-or at
least some of them-have relegated
matter to new field and tell us that
negative electricity is matter-that
electrons and matter are incontro-
vertible terms. Lord Kelvin says of
the atom: IF we raise a drop of
water to the size of the earth and
raise the atom in the same proportion,
then will it be some place between
the size of a marble and a cricket
ball If you fill a tiny vessel one
centimeter tube, about three-quarters
of an inch, with hydrogen corpuscles
you can place therein in round num-
bers 525 octillions of them. If these
corpuscles are allowed to run out OF
the vessel at the rate of 100 per
second it will require 17,000,00Q,-
900, 900 years to empty. Such a COM
putation seems almost like trihing
with the human intellect, but it is
with these subtle theories that our
physicists are delving into the inne--
most chamber of the infinitely
minute 1t may be some day we shall
be able to construct a living organism
by the combination of the proper ele-
meats. Some day we may know th'
food value of thought"
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1907-06-27
BARRIERS Sensitive To Height.

81 heard something new in the
barbering business the other morn
ing" said the gray-headed man.
Il am occupying room on the top
floor of a skyscraping apartment
hotel. l sent for a barber to come
up and shave me. He came, but
when he saw to what an altitude he
had attained he looked uneasy.
Would it Inconvenience you to
come down to the regular barber
shop?' he asked.
II answered that it would not par
ticularly put me out, but that /
would like to know the reason for
his request.
The fact is,' he said, I never
like to shave anybody at this dis
tance above the ground. No barber
likes to. We seem to be particular
ly sensitive to height 1t makes us
nervous. Most BARRIERS will not un-
dertake job above a certain num-
ber of feet in the air. OF course. if
you insist | will shave you here, but
you would probably get a better
shave ten floors below this one
"WeQ, just out of natural cussed-
ness / refused to humor the fellows
whim. AS consequence he nearly
cut my throat. Whether he did it
through nervousness, as he claimed,
or pure cussedness of his own,
don't know. Whatever it was, that
is popularity of BARRIERS that I'd
like to have explained. New York
Gun
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1907-06-27
DOCTORS FOOD TALR.
Selection of Food One of the Most
Important Acts In Life.

a Mass. doctor says: "Our health
and physical and mental happiness
are so largely under our personal con-
troll that the proper selection of food
should be and is one OF the most i'm
portant acts in life.
ION this subject, may say that
know of no food equal in digestibility
and more powerful in point of nutri-
ment than the modern Grape-Nuts,
four heaping teaspoons of which is
sufficient for the cereal part OF a
meal, and experience demonstrates
that the user is perfectly nourished
from one meal TO another.
II am convinced that the extensive
and general use of high class foods OF
this character would increase the
term of human life. add to the sun
total OF happiness and very consider
ably improve society In general.
am free to mention the food, for I
personally know OF its value"
Grape-Nuts food can be used by
babes IN arms or adults. II Is ready
cooked, can be served instantly, either
cold with cream, or with hot water or
hot milk poured over. All sorts OF
puddings and fancy dishes can be
made with Grape-Nuts. The food Is
concentrated and very economical. for
four heaping teaspoons are sufficient
for the cereal part OF meal. Read
the little book. THE Road TO Well
yille." in pkgs. sThsre's Reason"
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1907-06-27
Minister Barrett's Story.

John Barrett, the new director OF
the Bureau of American Republics,
tells a good story on himself. Some
years ago he was asked by a friend
to make a speech at big barbecue
which was to be held at distant
town
His friend was to have been the
principal speaker, but owing to i'll
ness was unable to attend; so he
sent Mr.. Barrett instead. He tele-
graphed the chairman of the bar
becue that John Barrett, ex-Minis-
ter to Siam, would deliver the ad-
dress of the day."
The chairman, being acquainted
with ministers of only one kind, was
somewhat astonished that Mr. Bar
rett should be sent. When the time
came for the speech he went to the
front of the platform to introduce
the speaker. After consulting the
telegram again to be sure of the
name, he said
ut gives me great pleasure to in
troduce the principal speaker of the
day. The Rev John Barrett, ex-
missionary to the benighted heather
of Siam, will now speak. Youths
COMPANION.
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Hollow Glass Bricks.

rhe demand Tor hollow bricks and
building blocks for house construc-
ton has induced glass manufacture
ers to put hollow glass bricks on the
market. and they promise to be used
extensively for novel and artistic ef-
fects. The first glass bricks being
solid proved failure on account of
their cost, but the hollow glass bricks
can be made at much less expense.
They are lighter and stronger than
clay bricks and are such excellent
non-conductors that walls built Of
them are proof against dampness.
sound, heat and cold The bricks are
sealed Theoretically when hot and are
placed in walls with colorless NOR
Tar made of special glass. The bond
ing strength OF the glass mortar is al
most as great as the bricks them
Ielyes. - Building Management.
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Secret writing.

H. T. NJ Norfolk. N. y.)l Can fon
give me a recipe for simple secret
writing?
Answer: Take sheet of good writ
ing paper, moisten il well with clear
water and place It upon hard,
smooth surface, Such as glass, tin,
stone, etc. After removing carefully
all air bubbles from the sheet place
upon 1t dry sheet of equal size. and
upon this do the writing with sharp
pointed pencil. Then destroy the dry
paper written upon. and allow the
wet sheet to dry in the air (not at the
heat of stove or lamp). When dry
not trace of the writing will be visi-
BILE. But on moistening the sheet
again with clear water and holding it
against the light the writing can be
read in clear transparency II dis
appears again after being dried in the
air. and may be reproduced number
OF times by moistening. Should.
however, the sheet be too much
heated, at the stove or lamp. for in
stance. the writing Will disappear.
never TO reappear again. ---l,ew York
Tribune.
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Wealth of the Ancient Romans.

Some of the Romans seem to have
been very solid" while others were
fast to degree not known nowadays.
When a Caesar was killed on the ides
OF March, Antony owed $1,6O0,000,
which he paid before the kalends of
April out of the public money and
squandered, according to Adams,
28.000,000. Caesar himself, before
he set out for Spain, was in debt to
the extent of s10,000,000. Lentulus
possessed $6,145,S30. Claudius, a
freedman, saved $12,50O.000. Au.
gustus obtained from the testament
airy disposition of his friends--some
people will leave their fortunes TO
their sovereigns-no less than $1Cl,-
45S,330. Tiberius le ; at his death
the enormous sum of $108,964,3SO,
which Caligula is said to have squan-
dered in single year. Vespasian es-
timated at his ascension that the
money which the maintenance of the
commonwealth required was 81
$4,000. ~
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1907-06-27

took large spider from his web
under the basement OF the mill. put
him on chip of wood, and set him
afoat on the quiet waters OF the
pond He Immediately began to cast
web for the shore. He threw II
as far as possible in the air with the
wind. 1t soon reached the shore and
made fast to the spires Of grass.
Then he turned himself about and
In a true sailor fashion began to
haul in hand over hand his cable.
Carefully he drew II until his bark
began to move toward shore.
AS 1t moved the faster he the
faster drew upon It TO keep his haw-
ser taut, and from touching the
water. Soon he reached the shore
and quickly sped his way homeward.
tried several spiders and they all
came to shore in like manner.-Chi-
cago Tribune.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1907-06-27
The Manners of American Women.

In Harper's Bazaar, Mr.. Henry
James continues his candid criti-
cisms of the manners of American
women. He says, among other
things:
IL has never been without profit
TO the individual American, l think,
to have taken in the truth, as socie-
ties other than his own put 1t before
him, that In a difficult and compli-
Gated world it IS we'll to have had
as many things as possible discrim-
mated and thought out and tried and
tested for us, we'll to remember that
the art OF meeting life finely is, what
the art Of the dramatist has been
described as being, the art of prep
arations. There is always a thrill
for us at home in the observed opera
ton of our law that any one may be-
come among us, at two minutes no.
tice, anything possible or impossible,
even gentleman. even lady; but
the deeper impression attaches, none
the less, to the exhibited effects of
being tutored, which correct usefully
our too habitual, too national belief
In the sweet sanctity of free impulse.
BY which I am far from limiting that
every adventurous compatriot either
comes back from the more lessoned
and disciplined world charged with
its richer spoil or stays on 1t for pure
love of the same; that parsonage be-
ing often unsurpassed, fear, in the
knack of faring far to gather little
when not in that of extracting from
alien sources, by a strange and per-
verse chemistry, elements of which he
is apt to have already enough and to
spare.
"The unmistakable thing is. at any
rate, that the conception of manners
is at the very best. among us, strug-
gle more or less fierce"
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Bishop Potter on Women.

The Right Reverend Henry C. Pot
ter, Bishop of New York, is writing
for Harper's Bazar a remarkable
series of papers on women-their
recreations, their progress, and the
rest. Concerning the progress of
women, Bishop Potter says:
I'm word, no more tremendous
change has come to pass in the last
half-century than that which has oc-
CURED in the realm of woman. That
change has not, of course, been SO
great in Western as in Eastern lands;
for, in the former, those great ideas
which had been at work, as in Eng
land, from the times of King John
and the barons, have produced their
appropriate results in the emancipa-
tion not alone of men, but also of
women. But whether in Europe or
America, two forces have been at
work in connection with the status
OF women, one of them progressive,
and the other conservative-one of
them demanding for both sexes equal
rights and privileges, and the other
appealing to the Bible for the Scrip
tural warrant for regarding woman
as an inferior and for keeping her in
bondage. A Chinaman, when remon-
strated with for holding the women
of his house fast bound to the ancient
custom of deformed feet, replied, MY
wife can't walk, and so she stay at
home; and even an Apostle, in recit-
ing, as becoming in woman, graces
which he accounted as pre-eminently
praiseworthy, brackets with some of
chiefest value the words keepers at
home
I'm other words, it is undeniable
that half century ago the ideal
woman was domesticity; and the vir-
tues which find their fittest sphere in
the retirement of the home were ac-
counted of pre-eminent value. But
all that is changed, and 1t can never
be forgotten (and pray Heaven that
it never may be!) that such services
as Dorothea Dix and Florence Night
ingale and Sister Dora and their kind
have illustrated were not rendered by
staying at home"
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1907-06-27
THOUGHT CHILD WOULD DIE.
Whole Body Covered with Cuban
Itch---Cuticura Remedies euro
at Cost Of 76c.

my little boy, when only an infant Of
three months, caught the Cuban Itch.
Sores broke out from his head TO the bot.
tom of his feet. He would itch and claw
himself and cry all the time He could not
sleep day or night, and light dress is al
he could wear. l called one of our best
doctors to treat him, and his treatment did
not do any good, but he seemed to get
worse. He suffered SO terribly that my
husband said he believed he would have to
die. ] had almost given up hope when
lady friend told me to try the Cuticura
Remedies. / used the Cuticura Soap and
applied the Cuticura Ointment and he at
once fell into sleep, and he slept with
ease for the first time for two months.
After three applications the sores began to
dry up, and in Just two weeks from the
day l commenced TO use the Cuticura Rem
edies my baby was entirely well. The treat
ment only cost me 75c., and / would have
gladly paid 500 If could not have got it
any cheaper. / feel safe in saying that the
Cuticura Remedies saved his life. He is
now boy Of five years. Mrs. Zana Miller,
Union City, r. F. D., No. /, Branch Co.,
Mich, May II, 1906"
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1907-06-27
Facts About Child Labor.

DR.. A. S. Daniel, of the New York
Infirmary for Women and Children
has dug up some facts about child
labor that make mans blood boil
In the New York sweatshops he has
seen children required to sew ON but
tons at the age of three and to hem
trousers at the age of six. He as
serts that he found an eighteen
months-old baby earning fifty cents a
week; the baby was sick, but its
mother wouldn't let it be taken to the
hospital, as she needed the money"
DR.. Daniel reports that children of
three and four years work with their
parents, the elder children. and pos
Sibly dodgers in the tenement work
room. Children of six stitch the
hens of trousers. and those of three
or four. when not sewing on buttons,
pull out the basting threads.
"These little ones, in artificial
flower making, put the strings
through the petals and leaves, do the
pasting of boxes, and put the paper
over the rough cardboard. Then, too,
they press tobacco leaves, generally
standing up to do 1t, and this work
they do for hours at time. The
child labor laws do not protect these
children, as they are not employed in
shops or factories. Tenements are
supposed to have a labor license. but
it would require an inspector at the
entrance and on the. roof of every ten
ement to prevent work going on In
unlicensed tenements. The only rem
edy is absolute prohibition Of any but
factory work"
: This damnable outrage defies the
utmost resources OF imprecation. 1t
lifts Hoods "Song OF Shirt" to the
rank of lyric 1t makes Victor
Hugo's chapter about the Thenardiers
and little Cosette a dainty pastel in
prose. Nothing that was ever written
compares for grim horror with those
awful sentences, SO artlessly put forth
by Mr.. Daniel, and II New York
hasn't manhood enough left in 1t to
put stop to this crime against child
hood, it doesn't belong in America
Boston Transcript
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New Use For chicken Feathers.

That 1t pays to breed the best
fowls, and only the best, true TO color
and shape, is truly exemplified by the
latest law of Dame Fashion. Some
time. ago the Audubon Society, with
a great amount of zeal and the far
ing of trumpets, succeeded in having
passed a law which prohibited the
wearing of wild birds feathers upon
women's headgear.~ Their great hue
and cry about depicting the woods
and forests of their gay plumaged
and sweet songsters to supply wom-
ans vanity, which they declared was
both unnecessary and cruel, led to
the passing Of the law that forbids
woman from adorning her crowning
creation with the pretty and fancy
Feathers which added so much to her
appearance.
While the gay and happy wild birds
are singing their lay, and gaily hop
ping from tree to tree in the woods
totally unmolested by the millinery
hunter, the chicken, which is really
a bird, but not considered as such
~ eAS hiohNatco VI lud law anu 10
scorned by the members of the Audu-
bon Society, has been literally
pounced upon by the millinery hunter
as an able substitute for his erstwhile
prey, the bird of the forest. How
well the chicken. the ordinary "bird
of commerce." has succeeded in full
filling its mission may best be seen by
the innumerable number of chicken
feathers" being worn on the new
spring hats. A prominent milliner
is authority for the statement that
the feather decorations on the fall
and winter hats win have to be sup
piled by the hitherto despised chicken
feathers. Several unique and very
pretty specimens of fall styles were
shown by this dealer and possibly
the most achic" confection was one
which was covered with the bsdy OF q
pure white Wyandotte. all .of the
plumage being used except the head
The wings and breast We're strikingly
pretty and the whole SO arranged az
TO form dream In white"
The average person has no concep.
tion as to the beauty OF the fowls
plumaee~-particularly the residents
OF New York City, who see fowls onl,
in their market state. The innoya'
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1907-06-27
Worse Than Useless.

James ]. Hill, the railroad presi-
dent, was once riding at night on
the rear end of his private car when
his train passed over a long wooden
trestle. A freight train had gone
over a few minutes before, and Mr..
Hill remembered he had given orders
that after the passing of all trains
over this trestle a track patrolman
should go over the structure with
a bucket of water and extinguish any
embers that might have fallen from
the locomotive. Though the Hill
special was going along at forty
miles an hour, the alert eye of the
president caught sight of a hole in
the bottom of the bucket as the
watchman, in the moonlight, threw
the vessel over one shoulder. Mr..
Hill ordered the train back to the
trestle and summoned the watchman
to him.
MY man, you are to the Great
Northern Company just what that
hole is to the bucket you carry--a
good deal worse than useless. You
may throw the bucket away and look
for another job. Human life 1t too
dear to trust it to one of your kind"
From Human Life.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1907-06-27

tion bids fair to become popular, and
In so doing will add a material side
line to the poultry business. This
will be felt only by the breeder of
pure blooded stock, as the require
ments of the milliners demand that
the plumage must be perfect and of
an even color. The possibilities for
combinations are numerous and the
most exacting tastes can be gratified
by the various colored and bi-colored
plumage only of the pure bred fowl.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1907-06-27
A Bold Step.

To overcome the well-grounded and
reasonable objections Of the more intel
ligent TO the use of secret, medicinal com
pounds, DR.. II. V. Pierce, Of Buffalo, n.
Y, some time ago, decided to make bold
departure from the usual course pursued
by the makers OF put-up medicines for do
mestic use, and, so has published broad
cast and openly to the whole world, a full
and complete list OF all the ingredients
entering lnNS-the composition OF his widely
celebrated hedicjhes. Thus he has taken
his numerS1s PATRONS and patients into
his full E0nlj&ence. Thus too he has re-
moved mis- InedicineS from among secret
nostrEn)(of doubtful merits. and made
themSficmcdtcS Of KnotCn Composition.
BY this bold step Dr. Pierce has shown
thai -llS formulas are Of such excellence
thn1 be is not -R1rald- TO subject them TO
Not only does the wrapper of every bottlo
OF DR.. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery. the
famous medicine for weak stomach, torpid
liver or biliousness and all catarrhal diseases
wherever located. have printed upon it. IN
plain English, full and complete list of all
the ingredients composing IT, but small
book has been complied from numerous
standard medical works, OF all the different
schools of practice. containing very numer-
Gus extracts from the writings OF leading
practitioners OF medicine, endorsing IN the
strongest possible terms, each and every ingre-
dent contained in DR., Pierce's medicines.
One Of these little books will be mailed free
to any one sending address on postal card or
by letter, 10 Dr. r. V. Pierce, Buffalo. N. Y.
and requesting the same. From this little
book It will be learned that DR.. Pierce's med
icines contain no alcohol, narcotics, mineral
agents or other poisonous or injurious agents
and that they are made from native. medici-
nal roots OF great value; also that some OF
the most valuable ingredients contained in
DR.. Pierces Favorite Prescription for weak.
nervous, over-workcd. "run-down,n nervous
and debilitated women, were employed. long
years ago. by the Indians for similar ailments
affecting their squaws, In fact. one of the
most valuable medicinal plants entering into
the composition OF DR. Pierces Favorte Pre-
scription was known TO the Indians as
rSquaw-Weed.p Our knowledge OF the uses
OF not few OF our most valuable native. me-
dicinal plants was gained from the Indians
As made up by improved and exact pro-
cesses. the "Favorite Prescription Is most
efficient remedy for regulating all the wom-
anly functions correcting displacements. as
prolapsus. nnteverslon ana retorverslon.
overcoming painful periods, toning up the
nerves and bringing about perfect state OF
health Sold by all dealers Ia medicines.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1907-06-27

Until recently phosphorus for COM
mercial purposes was made only from
bones and other organic substances.
Now it is produced also from miner
ais. For two or three years past hum
dreds of tons of phosphorus have been
turned out near Mount Holly
Springs, some ten miles from Harris
burg, Pa, where a deposit of wavel-
lite in nodules has been discovered.
Wavellite is a somewhat rare mineral,
a form of aluminium phosphate. A
mill is required to extract the phos-
phorus. Phosphorus from minerals
s also produced at Niagara Falls.
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FITS st. vitus'D Dance: Nervous Diseasesper-
manently cured by DR.. Kline's Great Nerve
Restorer 50 trial bottle and treatise free
DR.. II. r. Kline, Id 1881 Arch ST., Phila., Pa.
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The easiest way to interest a wom-
an In n 81 article is to mark II down
from s1.b0 TO s129.
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The hands of the housewife will
be kept soft and white and free from
all chap, redness or roughness If
borax is used.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1907-06-27

IL you have more money than you
need you will also have more friends
than you need.
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Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compoun

Some people want to be on jury
50 as to get the testimony that is
not printable.
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It's an easy matter to induce tine
world to laugh with you; all you have
to do is to laugh at yourself.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1907-06-27

Taking the statistics for the entire
world, -four and a half persons to the
thousand are either deaf, dumb, blind
or mentally deficient.