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The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1907-03-28
Queen Helena,s Courage.

A little hunting incident of which
Queen Helena of Italy was the hero
inc has leaked out some days after
the event.
She accompnied the King to Castel
Porziano to shoot. The weather was
intensely cold, so a big bonfire was
built, around which the royal party
gathered.
Suddenly the Marquis Calabrini, a
royal equerry. as joke jumped over
the flaming pile. His garments took
fire, and all present lost their heads
except the Queen, who threw herself
on the Marquis, tore the burning parts
of his clothes away, unheeding the
danger, and choked the flames with
her skirts.
BY special order Of the Queen this
was kept secret, but one person.
struck by her courage and coolness,
could not forbear expressing his ad-
miration, and thus the incident got
out.-Rome Correspondence London
Telegraph.
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BEAUTIFYING THE HOMES.
School Children Taught to Make
Flower Gardens.

A few years ago the Twentieth
Century Club started school gardens
and tried to get the children, as we'll
as their parents. interested In beauti-
flying their homes and schools, with
the aim of training the young Ameri-
cans TO have an eye for the beautiful,
and to aid the city In lettering its
conditions wherever they could. Most
of the principal schools have their
gardens now where the scholars work
diligently, each room vying with the
other in having the prettiest bed.
Seeds are also sold by the club at
very nominal price to the pupils to
take home and grow in their own
yards. Many of the children have
beautiful beds laid out In artistic de-
signs; others have their flowers
planted almost any way, but each child
is striving to win button, which will
show they belong to the association.
Every child bringing in collection
of flowers grown by these seeds to be
shown at the exhibit this week will be
presented with a button showing the
possessor to be a member of the
Home Gardening Association.
The ladies of the club, who call oc-
casionally to inspect these home gar
dens of the little folks, say they find
most of the young gardeners to be
boys, and those between the ages of
seven and twelve years. One bright
little fellow has large back yard
laid out in perfectly shaped beds, of
different designs, the flowers all
planted with the best taste SO that
the colors and shapes blend grace
| fully. In the centre is bower over
which vines are growing, and climb
ing flowers reach almost to the top.
In this place he has his tools and gar
den implements, and all his spare
time is spent there. The mothers say
1t is a fine thing for the children,
keeping them off the streets, and CIV
ing them a pleasant and helpful oc-
cupation.
Three years ago, when the work
began, just few packages of seeds
were sold, while this years statistics
show 53,770 packages of seeds de-
livered to children in this city.
Sixty-seven schools have been sup
piled, and many out-of-town schools
have received seeds. The flowers
which seem to be favorites, according
to the numbers used, are gladiolas,
1854 packages; asters, 71SS packages
with China pinks and nasturtiums
following closely.-Detroit News-Tri-
bune.
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Gambling Raid in Binondo.

An illustration of the value Of mil
itary training In civil pursuits is fur
nished in a raid on a Binondo gamb-
ling house few evenings ago. Two
American plain-clothes men, for
months bafIled In their efforts to raid
the game. hit upon plan of scaling
a blank wall. forming the side of the
house in whose upper floor the game,
they were satisfied, was progressing.
Securing a short ladder, one Ameri-
can mounted to its topmost rung, the
other scrambling to his shoulders,
while the third detective, a Filipino,
was raised to the pinnacle of the hui
man tower. and bolstered into the
window, surprising the gamblers, and
causing them to fee into the hands Of
the waiting police at the several ex-
its.--Manila American.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1907-03-28

OF our loveliest young ladies and the
groom is worthy OF the prize he has
won" The city paper does not do
that. Here and there a country
editor tries to put on city airs and
give the bare facts OF Social func-
tions" without a personal touch 10
the lines. But unfrequently does he
succeed in reaching the hearts OF
his readers, and somehow he finds
that his contemporary across the
street, badly printed, sprinkled with
typographical errors and halting
in its grammar, but profuse in It's
laudations, is getting an unusual
number OF new subscribers. Even
you, though you may pretend to be
unmindful, are not displeased when
on the day after your party you read
that the guests went home feeling
that a good time had been had"
And when sorrow comesl Into the
home of city friend of mine death
entered. taking the wife and mother.
The family had been prominent in
social circles, and columns we're
printed in the city papers, columns
OF cold, biographical facts-born.
married, died But the news went
back to the small country town
where in their early married life the
husband and wife had spent many
happy years, and In the little country
weekly was quite another sort of
story. 1t told how much her friends
loved her, how saddened they were
by her passing away, how sweet and
womanly had been her character.
The husband, did not send the city
papers to distant acqualntances; he
sent copy after copy of the little
country weekly, the only place where,
despite his prominence in the world
appeared sympathetic relation OF
the loss that had come to him.
Atlantic Monthly.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1907-03-28


1t is interesting TO note that people
In general are inclining more and moro
to the celebration Of church festivals
which were formerly observed by but
one or two divisions Of the Christian
body. 1t is not so long ago that the
celebration Of Easter was looked upon
somewhat askance by many denomina-
tions, and yet to-day these denomina-
tions give Easter and Easter services
prominent place In their church cal
endar. The movement is certainly In
the right direction; laying aside all
prejudices of denomination or creed, 1t
is well that the whole Christian body
can find common ground on certain
days. 1t is well that they should cele-
brate not only spiritually. but out
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1907-03-28
19be O.arvel. Sbe Dcan,ne
ano Sbe Power Of the
Resurrection
1By Umillam Cromwell Doane
Bp William Croswell ID
.aisbop Of HIbanp

First of all, of course, It means
that all the dead shall rise and live
again. "If we believe that Jesus died
and rose again, even so they also
that sleep in Jesus will God bring
with Him." The corollary to the
article In the Creed. "the third day
He rose again." is the article IT be-
lieve In the resurrection of the body,
look for the resurrection of the
dead or from the dead" One does
not need, one would not dare, to draw
away the hearts and hopes of men
from this great and blessed revela-
ton of Holy Scripture, this strong
and positive assertion of the Chris
tian faith. But 1t Is wrong to post
pone the meaning of our Lords res
direction to this final point of hui
man history. 1t has a clear and more
immediate application of what thu
Apostle calls "the power of His res
direction" dead indeed unto sin,
but alive unto God, through Jesus
Christ our Lord" This must be
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1907-03-28

recognized and realized as the imme-
diate practical purpose and result of
the great fact of Easter Day.
What is its message TO men and
women?
1t is easy to dream a dream of
hope and delight about the far fu-
ture; easy to have q sentiment and
emotion that enable us to face physi-
cal death with an outlook beyond the
grave and console us in the hour of
bereavement. God forbid that there
should be any shadowing of this
hope. But the practical question
concerns our daily life now.
Humanity stands to-day, as 1t has
stood for all these centuries, facing
the fact of the wonderful life that
our Lord lived here on earth, with
the strange and inexplicable combina-
tion OF fleshy reality without the re-
straints and hindrances OF the flesh.
And that means. in the first place,
the pattern set, and in the next place
the power given to us to live our
lives on higher lines.
Translated into plain English, the
great Easter thought is that we may
not be absorbed and Immersed in
merely earthly. temporal, carnal
thoughts and things. Life, never
more than in our day. is crowded
with business. with pleasure. even
where 1t is not choked with indulg-
ence and success.
The idlers and loungers. with no
thought but amusement. are far too
many.
The craze for accumulation of ma
terial wealth is wearing out the
strength and dulling all the finer
faculties of men and women. And
the carelessness and idleness of peo-
pie who, with opportunities of service
to society and the demands OF home
duties. waste daylight hours and turn
night into day with games of chance,
accentuated too often with the covet-
BUSINESS Of gambling, are reproacl
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1907-03-28
FIESlAlE
S@E9yM

Politician-"We must stand pat"
Wife--"Yes, but the question is, Will
Bridget stand us?"-Harper's Bazaar.
She@"Do you think my voice will
ever be suitable for opera?" He
stage or boxes ?"--Yonkers States
man.
She (to fellow-llstener at musi-
e)-"What do you think of his
executlon?" Helm in favor of
it."-Punch.
"Where are you going, my pretty maidg"
I'm going a-jilting, sill" she said.
sidney-"Miss Elsie is lovely
girl" Rodney-"Yes; say. she's a
regular pink and white peril."-Cin-
cinnati Commercial Tribune.
Waitress (handing stodgy-looking
steak)-"And what will you have to
follow. sir?" American Customer
Indigestion, guessl"-Punch.
She-"I saw you in the street car
the other evening, Mr.. Saxby." He
did you? Why, 1 didn't see you"
She-'I suppose not. / was standing
up. p."-Somerville Journal.
Mrs. Gramercy-"I thought the
manufacturer guaranteed your auto
free of repairs for one year," Mrs.
Park-"But that doesn't cover the
repairs to what we run into. Puck.
oadstreet-"How's your com.
pany getting on, old man-prosper-
ing?"' Nassau--"Prosperlng! My,
boy, the term is inadequate. Why.
we're about to be indicted in thirty
States! Judge.
A widow, in half-mourning,
Doth by that sign confess
That she is half a mind to--Nay, \
It's up to you to guess.
Puck.
She-"You'll be glad to learn,
dear, that I've gotten out of visiting
our relatives" He-"Grandl Splen-
did 1t hung over me like cloud.
How did you manage it?" She
"Oh, asked them here!"-Life.
Husband-"You say this is veni-
son? What induced you to buy it?"
Wife-"Well, the butcher said 1t was
cheap and" Husband-"If he
had told you It wasn't deer he would
have been nearer the truth. ."-Phila-
delphia Ledger.
Bum-"Gimme a nickel, missus"
Missus-"I should think big, strong
man like you would be ashamed to
ask for money" Bum-"I am, mis-
sus, but l amt got der nerve to take
it without askin'. philadelphia
Record.
"You know" said Gaddie, "the
members of his churcn don't believe
in a hades at ALL" How silly!" ex-
claimed Know. What comfort can
he possibly get out of that sort of
belief? Where does he expect his
neighbors to spend their eternlty?"-
Philadelphia Press.
II wisht," said Hungry Hank, visit
fully, that l wuz one o. desc here
Fillipeener fellers dat likes dog fer
dinner" "Wot fer?" inquired Fa-
tigued Philip. "Jes' think o. havin'
a good dinner sicked onter yer every
day--comin' right over de fence at
yeTL-Cleveland Leader.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1907-03-28
Florists Frost Bells.

An electric bell tinkled sharply be-
side the florists desk.
"Frost!" he said. and ran hatless
to the greenhouses
THE fires had sunk" the florist ex-
plained on his return. The watch
man had fallen asleep But for my
frost bell I'D have lost hundreds OF
dollars.
Frost bells are now pretty gener-
ally used by florists and fruit grow
ers, he went on. ''An electrical con-
trIvance is connected with ther-
mometer and when the mercury falls
to a certain point-you regulate this
danger point to suit yourself--a bell
rings a warning in your house or
office.
MANY a crop Of winter fruit and
flowers have been saved in the last
year or two by the clever little frost
bell. ell.'--Philadeiphia Bulletin.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1907-03-28

Since the Prussian income tax was
applied, thirteen years ago, the num-
ber OF persons affected has increased
from 2,440,0 900 to 4.6S0,000, and the
aggregate taxable Incomes have in
creased from s1.445,S00,000 to S2.-
60S,444.0O0. These taxes aim to
reach all incomes above $500
Springfield Republican.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1907-03-28
His Dennitions.

''Faith.' said Brother Williams. IS
de faculty what kin turn de song er a
sawmill into de hallaluia er de an
gelsS'
"An' what Is hope?"
Hope Is de faculty what keeps you
loolsin' for somethin you never gifts. /"
Atlanta Constitution.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1907-03-28
No ohild Of Charltx.

The home newspaper is in no sense
u child of charity. It earns twice
over every dollar it receives and Is
second to no enterprise ia contribut-
ing to the upbuilding of community.
Its patrons reap far more benefit'
from its pages than its publisher. ..---
Nyack IN. Y) Star.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1907-03-28
Separated From His Mind.

Rufus Choate once tried to get a
Boston witness to give his idea of abb
sent-mindedness "Well," said the
witness, who was a typical New Eng
land Yankee. II should say that a
man who thought he'd left his watch
to hum, and took 1t outen his pocket
to see If he'd time to go hum and get
it, was leetle absent-minded." ."
House Beautiful.
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oned in the shell 1t is bare grain"
but when its outer covering is dead
In the cocoon, or broken in the egg,
or rotted in the grain, then the latent
life comes forth and God gives 1t a
body, and ito every seed its own
body" So after death and burial.
when the wrappings of this earthly
flesh are dissolved and done away,
the body that shall be-" "the body
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1907-03-28

belief, no one should be unmoved or
unresponsive to the new season, to the
promise of life which he sees every
year renewed and reiterated In nature,
as well as finds in the tenets of his
faith. The Easter-time should be
season of JOY, of fresh hope. of new en-
deavor. Of practical faith in humanity
and in God.-Woman's Home Compan-
ion.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1907-03-28

wardly. this great day in the Christian
year. Even those who profess to be
among the faithless may meet. too, on
the same ground at this springtime
festival. and observe and be thankful
for the reawakening Of the year-the
symbol of new life which one finds in
all nature. Whatever mis- belief or non-
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1907-03-28

An earthquake is, as rule, very
harmless thing. Professor Milne,
who is one of the greatest authorities
in the world on the subject, says that
10000 shocks a year are now record
ed. According to DR.. Charles Davi-
son, the British Isles have one earth
quake recorded every month.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1907-03-28

GOS0>p HENthe modern mind stag
1AA/9 gers before the story of
3 awe the resurrection Of Jesus
Christ from the dead It
o~No~So fails to realize what its
only actual difficulty is. st. Paul's
question, why should 1t be thought
a thing incredible with you that God
should raise the dead?" still has but
one answer-namely, that there is
no reason why 1t should be thought
incredible; because raising the dead,
as the Apostle illustrates 1t in his
Epistle to the Corinthians, Is the
most natural and useful thing in the
world under certain conditions.
THAT which men SOW is not quick
ened except 1t die."
Life not only after, but through
and by means of death, is the uni
versal law and the universal event.
Only there must come first the un-
doing by decay of the bondage with
In which the living principle of the
seed Is held. So long as 1t is impris-
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1907-03-28

The connection between sun spot
and meteorological disturbances ON
the earth is well-established fact,
but astronomers only know that 1t is
electrical and they can not tell In
any case what the particular result
will be.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1907-03-28

Because air is elastic and water is
not. German aeronaut declares that
the form OF propeller best adapted to
the navigation of the latter element
would not yield equally happy re-
suits in the former.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1907-03-28

According to the results of recent
experiments the flame of acetylene is
perhaps the hottest known except
that of the electric arc. The follow
ing figures have been given by Mr..
Maffi: Bunsen burner, 1871 degrees;
acetylene flame, 254S degrees; alco-
hol flame, 1905 degrees; Denayrouze
burner-half alcohol, half petroleum
-2053 degrees; hydrogen flame, in
air, 1900 degrees; gas-jet flame, with
oxygen, 1900 degrees; oxy-hydrogen
flame, 2420 degrees. These are all
Centigrade degrees.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1907-03-28

According to scientists, ptomaines
are poisonous products formed in
fish, meat, milk and other articles of
food by a process of decomposition
that leaves little other trace of it's
action. Bacteria probably promote
their formation; but on that point
there remains some doubt. The taint
develops in consequence of failure
to cook food properly and, IL to be
kept for some time. sealing air-tight.
Ptomaine poisoning is quicker In its
results, excrutiating sickness and
often death following close after eat
ing foods improperly cooked or
canned.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1907-03-28

BY way of experiment. an Amer
lean, who is mentioned as "a sport
and an acrobat" made a wager in
Vienna with an athlete that the lat
ter could not endure the falling of
pint of water on his hand, drop by
drop, in one spot. from a height of
only three feet. The athlete had an
enormous hand, lined with skin al
most as thick and tough as cowhide.
But when about 800 drops had fallen
there was a change of opinion, and
at the 420th drop he gave up, de-
claring that he could no longer en-
dure the torture.-Tid-Bits
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1907-07-24
SERIOUS DROUTH
IN TERRITORY
RELIEVED
Rains Have Been Gen
eraI in Mountain Ranges and
Over the Central Plains Dur
ing the Week,

The breaking up of the drouth in
the vicinity Of Albuquerque. which has
been so gratefully received by the
people Of this section has been general
over the territory. The weekly
weather bulletin issued from Santa
Fe yesterday says:
The weather of the past week was
characterized by normal temperature,
with partly cloudy afternoons and
nights and frequent local thunder
storms. on the whole the most fa-
vorable weather conditions prevailed
over the territory In general, although
there are some localities. particularly
in the west and the extreme south
west. where the showers We're very
light and insufficient. over the noun
tains and the central plains the show
ers We're more frequent than else
where. and I'm several localities
amounted to more than an inch of
rainfall in twenty-four hours. Re-
ports indicate that the serious drouth
i'm the extreme northeast has been
thoroughly relieved. The rainfall was
much less. comparatively. throughout
the southern grazing counties, but
there is no complaint Of drouth except
IN a few scattered localities of this
section. In general the flow OF
streams and rivers has decreased con-
siderably. but the supply of irrigation
ate appears to be normal for the
season.
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1907-07-24
French Mayor Loses office.

Toulon, France, july 23.-Ihc may
or of Moulin. NJ. Chamlin. has been
suspended for having placed a cruel
fix in a school.
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1907-07-24
AUDUBON WORKERS
PLAN ISLAND
RESERVE
Where Mating Birds Under
Government Protection May
Be Safe Against MOIestatiOn,
Unknown Isles Found,

New York. July 23.-ro make the
unknown SLANT region Of b Gull 81
Mexico one great reserve FOR the birds
OF the nation t. the project which. u
was announced here today. will be- I'm
mcdiatcly undertaken by the National
Association OF Audubon societies. RE
ports Of "a dangerous and difficult cN-
u|lnrafiou OF the remote sea isles OF
tho coast Of Louisiana from the Sabine
river to Pass LDutrC have Just been
received from u. II Kopman. the ccle-
hrated Ornithoiogist who. was dis
PATCHED b. the association several
months ago ia quest % complete IN
formation on this practically unknown
territory ~ the United States. As q
result. 90 has been decided 10 q gu
81 this insular tract. " possible. 60 tho
rnserKation OF twenty-seven similar
Islands now maintained by the Audu-
bon workers east of the Mississippi
mouth as undisturhed hafens Tor the
hosts " birds that wing By. looking
Tor breeding places.
Application for the right 10 retnil
Tor fhis nurnose such OF those islands
o. are government property viii be
D. a. d. Inc Auuuhnu association o.
the federal authorities IN the near tu-
fure and every effort eNerted tn secure
similar rights on islands held BY prs
Nate interests. In the formation OF
Their coast reservation east n the Nt-
eisslpnl prompt assistance has always
been given the Audubon Wurkef- hy
the government in the ACQUISITION nf
lstana territory. which they haNe fOuni
q heavy financial burden O. acquire
from private holders and maintain.
Win the island stretch both east n