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The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1907-01-31
UNCLE sAsrs BIG GUNS.
Long Ranges and Improved Accuracy
of Fire.

A few weeks ago the American So
ciety OF Mechanical Engineers was
invited to follow up its session in this
city by visit to Sandy Hook, where
the United tSates Government has a
fort for the permanent defense of the
harbor of New York. and also special
grounds for the testing of new can
non. The party included six hundred
members. Though the visitors were
not permitted to learn certain secrets
Of the War Department relative to
the protection of the country from a
foreign foe, they had good chance
to see some Of the guns which would
be employed in emergencies.
Much the largest cannon ever built
for the United States has a calibre
of sixteen inches. This was not fred
for the visiting engineers, but they
had good look at 1t. The monster
takes a charge of GAO pounds of pow
der and throws a projectile Weighing
2400 pounds, or considerably over a
ton. Up to the present time It has
been discharged only Ave times. The
extreme range of the piece is said to
be twenty-one miles, but 1t would do
no particular damage at that dis
| tance. Its best work would prob
ably be limited to a range of eight or
ten miles. The sixteen-inch gun is
| mounted on a disappearing" car
rlage, as are most of the heaviest
| guns employed for coast defense.
An idea of the appearance of the
disappearing gun carriage can be de-
rived from the accompanying pic
ture, which shows that type OF
mounting applied to a six-inch rife
AS will be perceived at glance, the
gun is sustained by two enormous
levers, which are hinged at both tor
and bottom. 1t is thus possible fol
the gun to occupy two positions, one
higher than the other. After being
fred the gun swings backward and
downward. When 1t has been loaded
It can be raised several feet without
altering the aim. This arrangement
allows the gunners to load the piece
while 1t is out of sight behind thC
parapet, but to bring 1t up again fol
actual service. The gun carriage car
be rotated so as to sweep the horizon
from right to left, like the older form
of artillery mounting.
The visiting engineers saw two
rounds fred from a slx-inch rife ant
one from aten-inch gun. They also ex
amined the twelve-inch gun provided
with style of disappearing carriage
unlike the others and invented b!
General Crozier, chief of the ord
nance bureau of the army. Explain
ing the wonderful advances which
have been made in the last five year,
in practice with these guns, one o
formerly, using two guns alternately
the officers present stated that wher,
shot could be fired every thre,
minutes and fifty per cent. of tn,
shots would be hits at a range o
1000 to $500 yards, now the gun
are shot with 100 per cent. accurac
at a range of 1000 yards, about fou
miles, with an average interval be
tween the shots of only forty-thre
seconds.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1907-01-31
For Justices Sake.

A Chicasc lawyer tells OF a justice
of the peace in town in Southern
Indiana whose ideas touching the ad-
ministration of Justice were some
what bizarre. On one occasion, after
all the evidence was in and the plain
tins attorney had made an elaborate
argument, the defendent's attorney
rose to begin his plea.
"Wait minute!" exclaimed the
Court. Il don't see no use ir your
proceeding, Mr.. Brown. have got a
very clear idea now OF the guilt OF the
prisoner at the bar. and anything
more from you weuld have a tendency
to confuse the Court know he's
guilty and don't want to take no
chances. '--Harpers Weekly.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1907-01-31
Bamed But Determined.

While Mr.. Graham calmly and de-
liberately opened the morning paper
and ran his eye over the headlines
his wife looked volumes of reproach
and impatience.
Cant you tell me about that fire
yesterday before you read everything
else in the paper?" she asked at last.
Certainly, my dear. certainly"
said Mr.. Graham, when she had re-
peated her question. "Er-here it
is.
At four-thirty yesterday after
noon the great boiler at Stafford's
burst. The scene which followed baf-
fed all description.
rs that all 1t says?" demanded
Mrs. Graham, as her husbands eye
seemed inclined to wander over the
page.
NO. said Mr.. Graham; there
are three full columns of descrip-
tion on this page, and 1t says CON
tinued on page six. YOUTHS Com
panion.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1907-01-31
The Family Honor.

Bobby" asked the teacher of the
class in arithmetic, addressing the
question TO one of the younger pu-
pills. "how many pints are there in a
gallon?" 1--WE forgot 1t again,
ma'am," said Bobby, who found it
hard to commit to memory the tables
of weights and measures.
Thinking that perhaps by turning
from the abstract to the concIete
she might succeed better in stimulat-
ing his power of recollection, the
teacher tried another tack.
Bobby" she said, your father is
q milkman, isn't he?"
"YGs, ma'am."
"Well. now, think as hard as you
can. He sometimes sells a gallon
can full of milk, doesn't he? Just
so. Well, when he does, how many
pints of milk are there in that gal
lon can?"
TITS all milk, maam!" indignant
ly exclaimed Bobby.-Youth's Com.
panion.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1907-01-31
rHE COUNTRY STORE.

Does there live q little urchin, growing up
about the farm,
Who can scorn the honest pleasure or re-
sist the breezy charm
Of jolting drive with father" while the
horses pick their way
Over April's chirping runiets or the au.
tumn's binding clayg
For the drive is to the Corners" and the
team draws up before
That abode Of life and color which its
patrons call "the store"
In its depths are plow and harrow. while
their pictures on the wall.
Boldly done in green and scarlet, speak in
eulogies Of all.
On the shelves are rainbow ginQhams.
=. woven stout for little boys,
Clunfv boots for Sunday service and to
swell the schoolroom's noise,
Shining tin, and loops of harness-could a
city shop. hold more
In its .prim and ordered quarters than this
bulging country store?
Then the clients that it gathersl Men of
wisdom most profound
captain Abeps most hundred" and has
sailed the map around;
Jolly, self-professed old loafer, drawing
out n travellers tale
While the despot Of the post-bag shuffies
calmly through the mail.
Politics and social matters, local news eud
weather-lore
Occupy this humle senate grouped about
the country store.
Then. perhaps, the boy grows weary while
the graybeards wag away,
And his copper-toed tormentors feel amiss
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1907-01-31
A Direct Appeal.

A story is told of a Now Yo'k car
conductor who had once been In the
ministry, and who retained some OF
his former ways of speech in his new
calling.
He mad been at the front of the
car collecting fares. and when he re-
turned to his platform a well-dis-
posed person told him that man
had boarded the car at Houston
street and had found place inside.
The conductor stepped inside the
doorway, and ran his mlld gaze up
and down the car. but could not be
sure which Of the tightly packed pas
sengers was the late arrival.
"Will the gentleman who got on
at Houston street please riser" he
asked, calmly,
The gentleman rose inyoluntarily,
and with a bow aud Thank you'll"
the conductor collected his fare
Youths Companion.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1907-01-31

this worlxine-day.
Wistfully he eyes the roadside, wirre the
waiting horses stamp,
Till the gift Of fathers penny rubs again
Aladdin's lamp,
For within one ancient showcase bristle
bright as precious ore,
Yellow stick and crimson lozenge-quite
the treasures Of the store.
What is this? The years have hastened,
Steps across the rounded threshold after
many homesick day.
Tailored cloth in place of gingham, careful
clip for mothers art
Change the outward mans appearance, but
they cannot change his heart.
To hopeful beat it quickens as he pauses
in the door
Scarcely has feature altered in the we'll
remembered store.
Now he knows another reason, as he gazes
up and down,
Why they say God made the country while
His children made the town.
Quiet life has brought these neighbors to
an age Of placid grace,
And seaman, scarcely younger, drones
along in Abeps place.
In this Old Home Week the townsman,
back TO haunts he used TO know,
Wonders how he could have left them
since they grip his heart-strings SO;
And among the kindly faces and the
quaint, piled stock Of yore,
He is still wee farm-urchin, come with
father" to the store.
JEANNE Pendleton Ewing, in Youth,
Companion.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1907-01-31

One of the queerest experiences in
catching trout that any man ever had
was that at Moosehead Lake by an
Attleboro sportsman named Will
iams. He was standing on the apron
of the dam at Wilson's, fishing in
the quick water below, and had met
with fair success. Near the shore,
on his right hand, in a little eddy,
he noticed a barrel lying on its side
in several feet of water. He won
dered what it was there for. and was
so curious that he left his fishing and
went down to examine. He found
that 1t was an old molasses barrel,
and was lying so that he could see
the bunghole.
OF course, the barrel was full of
water, and the man had no idea there
was a fish inside Of 1t, but just for
curiosity he dropped his hook
through the hole, and no sooner had
it landed there than the water was
boiling, and the fisherman knew he
had a trout on the other end. He
played him until the fish was tired,
and when he came to land him he
could not get him through the hole.
He secured saw and sawed a piece
out of the top of the barrel near
the hole. The fish came out. It
weighed three pounds, and was one
of the handsomest squaretails caught
in that section this year.
One of the guides said that the
trout must have gone into the bar
rel when small, and had lived on
bugs and worms which had taken up
their abode inside.-Maine Sports
man.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1907-01-31
soxa OF THE MUsKnAr.

=. -Ll1t
De op muskrat am sleek On fat,
His meat am in It's prime;
Oh. watch him swim ct de riveh rim
When de red moon staht to climb.
He sniff det trap, de trigzeh snap,
All heah do doah go slam;
En- All ketch det sinnah foh to-morrow,a
dinneh-
His meat am sweet es ham.
Remus lub his 'possum,
All baked wild yellah yam;
But mus'rat meat
So fat en- sweet
Am good enuf foh Sam.
De Cunnel say when he cum nah way.
''To cook Diet things a crime;
Aid rutheh eat balm rats meat
Den a mus rat eny time"
Aunt Chloe smile en- afteh while
She sens dish 80 sweet,
De Cunnel chew each rich slice fro
En- think cts chicken meat.
Remus lub his possum,
All baksd wild yellah yam;
But mus'rat meat
So fat en- sweet
Am good enuf fob Sam. y
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1907-01-31
Umbrellas in Red.

Mr.. Barnard, NJ. p, has conducted
an inquiry on behalf of the Herts
County Council at Kings Langley
into the housing question. 1t was
stated that at Chipperheld 1t took a
man two years to find house, and a
woman had to walk eight miles to
her work because she could not get a
lodging nearer. In another case UNI
brellas had to be held up in bed when
It rained, and young people could not
marry because there was nowhere for
them to liye.-London Chronicle.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1907-01-31
Talked in Her sleep.

A Paris woman who was arrested
for picking pockets, and who pre-
tended to speak an unknown Ian
guage, betrayed herself in her sleep.
When brought before the magistrate
she was interrogated by Turkish,
Russian, Polish and Hungarian in
terpreters, but none could under
stand her. The magistrate ordered
her to be kept under strict surveil-
lance. In her sleep she talked fluent
French, with the true Partisan ac-
cent.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1907-01-31
Chopped OF His Finger.

From Singapore comes the story
of Chinese cook who had been ad-
dicted to gambling. but repented his
evil ways. Finding that his debts
were accumulating day by day, he
went into the kitchen and chopped
of the forefinger Of his left hand as
self-punishment and warning to
himself that he must reljnquish this
evil habit Of gambling in the future.
He became unconscious through the
pain, but was brought round again
In few minutes.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1907-01-31
MOMENTUM IN VARIATION"
Explanation of Growth of Useless
Animal Organs.

In many animals there are certain
organs which, useful In their earlier
stages, have apparently been so great
ly developed as to become rather
hindrances. The horns of certain
deer, for example, useful as weapons
OF defense when smaller, have be-
come so large as rather to handicap
the animals in the struggle for life.
The huge overgrown teeth, or tusks,
Of certain of the boar family may be
cited as further examples. These are
sometimes explained as organs which
have been more useful in their pres
ent state under former conditions,
and which have persisted through
heredity. In the American Natural
1st, however, Mr.. +. B. Loomis brings
forward another explanation. He
thinks the growth of such organs is
due to what he calls momentum in
variation" AS variation proceeds
in a certain direction 1t acquires, like
a body moving under the action of
gravity, a momentum which may
carry 1t past the stage of greatest
utility. This factor in evolution, Mr..
Loomis thinks, has not been assigned
the Importance 1t deserves.
Other evolutionists, however, have
suggested that when an animal or
plant has once started to vary in
given direction, 1t acquires a tendency
to so on varying in that direction.
And this. although the word momen-
tum is not used, agrees with the
above theory.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1907-01-31

tough brush, or even get low enough
to stun Bernal with blow on the
head.
But Jerome dropped his pistol back
In its holster. He would take no
chances with shooting the COW. He
spurred his reluctant pony over the
fiat, and was plunging down through
TIE sliding lava stuff toward the edge
OF the cliff. The red calf struggled
feebly in the RATA as Jerome's pony
stumbled past 1t. The rider had
hoped to draw off the mother, but
she would not be enticed from her
victim. A man dismounted will in
stantly arouse the savage instincts
! of the range cattle in the Southwest;
the old line-back seemed bent upon
revenging all the wrongs of her kind
upon the unfortunate Mexican.
Again he called upon his compan-
ion to shoot the animal. The grease
wood was cracking; there was moth
| ing else to stay his fall. Bernal's
body simply lay In a crotch of the
bush pulled down over the cliff.
But Jerome spurred his snorting
| pony in a half-circle about the cow
some yards away. Then he unloosed
his RATA, measuring the distance.
| The line-back's head was so constant
ly down in her efforts to get at the
Mexican that roping was no easy
feat. And in the struggle she might
go over the cliff, dragging horse and
rider after her, for thore would be
no time to escape IL she fell.
Already Bernal seemed to be slip
ping from his last clutch. So, gath
ering in his bridle-reins, that he
might urge the stout little pony for
ward IL the throw was good. Jerome
sent the heavy RATA whirling down
the slope. The maddened COW had
just bowed her neck for final sweeT
at the brush when the rope struck
her. She threw back her head, and
the rawhide fell clear about her nose
tightening with a jerk. Jerome'l
spurs sent the pony up the slope In 6
desperate plunge, and the cowboy
was plying his quirt and yelling as
the line grew taut.
The line-back COW was uprearedi
then she toppled and rolled, fighting
the line, almost to the edge of the
cliff. 1t was critical moment; once
the brave little pony lost his feet IN
the loose, treacherous rock. Then hC
was up. making plunge after plunge
until the heavy animal at the end o'
the line was choked into helplessness
The heaving body of the COW lay
with her hind feet over the cliff ir
Bernal's face, when Jerome at last
stopped the trained pony with sin
gle word. But the wise brute still
hung forward, keeping the line tight
His rider dismounted, and ran tt
help the Mexican. BerLal was veal
enough as he staggered up the slope
He had roped the calf, but broker
cinch had given him a hard fall oil
the rocks, and he had scrambled up
to find himself dismounted and pur
. sued by the COW, maddened by tn
bawls of her offspring.
, 81 jumped behind the bush on tn
, edge of the canon" said Bernal, a
, he watched Jerome releasing the sub
, dued llne-back and her calf. "Da
, COW push dat bush clear over tn
, edge. She tear it to pieces! Da
, calf yours all right. 1 wouldn't hav
, heem. 1 tell the rodeo boss l pu
, the Crescent-H on heem myself!"-
Youths Companion.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1907-01-31
He Was Right.

"see here" feehly complained the
victim. after the accident, II thought
you said 1t was perfectly safe to go
up ia that old eleyator?' "Well. ="
replied the elevator man. $50 It was
safe to go mp; you see, the dangerous
part OF II was comm down. ."'--Phila-
delphia Press.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1907-01-31
Cunld Versus Snort.

Although weddings are many at
this season of the year: engagements
are few. The masculine mind is too
much taken up with sport, and the
delights of warm corner" whom
the long-tailed birds are sailing over
head In large numbers. or the pleas
urable excitement OF cub-hunting.
which is only promise OF greater
Joys to come, occupy Il to the ex-
,clusion OF all softer emotions. The
Crown.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1907-01-31

It is now possible TO see and hear
plants grow. In the apparatus OF
two Germans the growing plant is
connected with disk having in its
centre an indicator which moves vis-
IDLY and regularly, and this move
ment, magnified fifty times over a
scale, shows the progress In growth.
Magnet windings of uninsulated
wire are said to have proved feasible
by the use Of aluminium wire, the
natural oxide upon which forms an
effective insulation for moderate
voltages. For over 200 volts, paper
wound wet between the layers is ef-
fective. and for higher potentials, ex-
ira oxidation has been secured by
dipping in a chemical bath.
II is reported from Paris that Pro-
fessor Behring has discovered a new
method of sterillzing milk without
boiling Il or destroying any Of its
essential principles. The method is
based on the powerful qualities of
German perphydrol, simply oxygen
ated. One gram per litre of this
substance is sufficient to destroy all
noxious germs Milk thus sterilized
can be kept long time.
According to recent Investigations,
the peculiar flavor that pleases smok-
ers is largely due to the activity of
certain bacteria while the tobacco is
undergoing the fermentation stage
Of curing. DR.. Sucshsland, German
scientist, has cultivated germs
taken from fine Cuban tobacco while
fermenting and introduced them into
inferior varieties of German tobacco
When the latter was cured connois-
seurs could not distinguish 1t from
the best Cuban brands
Borings 1000 feet deep in New
Orleans have encountered nothing
more solid than mud, sand and a
little thin clay; hence the problem
OF making safe foundations for the
piers of a gigantic railroad bridge
which is soon to be built across the
Mississippi near the city is a hard
one for engineering science. The
piers will rest on timber caissons,
each measuring over sixty feet by
126 and 40 feet high. The bot
toms of these caissons will be ITO
feet below the surface Of the river.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1907-11-14
LA baja de los cueros

Por el vapor Caracas sc ha reci-
bido una gran partida de cueros, 10
que hara bajar este artlculo en- plaza
Lo anunciamos para conocimiento
de los comerciantes que trafcsn en-
este negocio.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1907-11-14
Frutos del pals

-Azdcsr para ell consume
Moscabado (claro) $4.25
de miel (claro) 800
-centrffuga primera 500 5.25
americana primera 81 a5.5o
de Ponce 3 3I4 a AIS
Cafe corriente,
Para exportaci6n, de 1925 a so
Almid6n 5H
Maiz ~
&Sebo de res $50
sCocos, millar 1000
Algodon E a 7
eCueros dulceS IS
VEN TAS DE A Z c A r
Sin operaciones.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1907-11-14
BUQUES SANUNCIADOS

Goleta americana William T. Don :
nell, de la "Lfnea de Benner". Salio
de New York, para San Juan Aqua
dilla, ell 3 del que cursa.
Consignatarios, Sobrinos de Ez-
quiaga.
Vapor espaf1ol Pho TX. Salio de
Barcelona Ell 7 del actual por ell Me-
diterraneo y Canarias, para este
puerto, Mayagiiez, Ponce, Santa 90
de Cuba, Habana, Cienfuegos New
Orleans.
Consignatsrios, Sobrinos de L.
quierdo y Co.
Vapor cubano Maria Herrera, sa-
lio de la Habana para esta, con las
escalas intermedias ell del que
cursa.
Consignatarios, Villar y Co.
Vapor americana Caracas. Sali6
de New York para esta ell 9 de este
mes.
Consignatarios, Villar y ca.
Vapor frances Montreal. Proce-
dente de Puerto Plata, reca lara hacia
Ell IS corriente.
Consignatarios: J. T. Silva B. c.
Goleta "E Star Jones', de la Ii
nea Benner Sc pondra & la carga en-
New York ell dfa 20 de Noviembre y
saldra directa para San Juan, Ell dfa
80 del mismo.
Consignatarios. Sobrinos de Ez-
quiaga.
Vapor espafol Miguel M. Pinillos.
Esta 4 la carga en- Barcelona para
sallr Ell D del corriente mes por ell
Mediterraneo y Canarias, con desti-
no este puerto siguiendo directo q
Santiago de Cuba, Habana, Matanzas
| y New Orleans.
Consignatarios Sobrinos de L.
quierds y Ca.
Vapor americana San Juan. Saldra
para New York, Ell 10 del actual
Consignatarios, The New York
Porto Rico S. S.
Vapor americana Coemo, zarpara
del puerto de New York para Ell
nuestro, Ell Io del que cursa
Consignatarios, The New York
Porto Rico SIS
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1907-11-14

Vapor americana Coamo, zarpara
del puerto de New York para ell
nuestro, Ell g del que cursa.
Consignatarios, The New York
Porto Rico S. S.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1907-11-14
CAM BIOS

OPERACIONES EN- Ell MUELLE
Ninguna.