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The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1908-06-25

the nations. The world owes an In
calculable debt, as do we, to the
church, and the church should by her
unceasing and compounding influence
for good and for God, and unremit-
ting service for men, place the world
ever more largely in her due.
The churches must be Beth-els or
many of them never could Withstand
the abuses to which they are lent.
Only upon the assumption that the
spiritual influences that move within
them are born of God can we under
stand how many of them survive the
dissertations to which they are sub
jected. The average fair is enough
to kill any church. The average
church entertainment. paltry and
puerile as It is expresslonless, would
be a death blow to the social activi-
ties of any organization less hardy.
What with moving pictures and wax
works and spelling bees and turkey
suppers and mems smokers and wom-
ems gossip, 1t is wonderful that we
have any veneration for churches at
at all, that we find any blessing, any
inspiration within them, and any In
fluence moving from them.
The church should be Bethel. It
should be the house of God. There.
too, we should see the ladder
stretching down from heaven, there
the ascending and descending angels.
There we should see God. There we
should make covenant with Him.
There we should enter into the pos
session of His interminable promise.
There we should have a glorious, an
exalted spiritual blessing.
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COnplimentnrics.

Those not in the newspaper bust
ness imagine that the editor, mana
ger, all the subs and every reporter
and office boy, the compositors and
even the scrubwomen go about loaded
with railroad passes, theatre tickets,
boxes at the circus, police cards.
steamboat complimentarles telegraph
and telephone franks, free use of the
mails, race track badges, ETC., and
their friends on the outside are even
insistent upon obtaining these priviJ-
eyes. AS matter of fact, there are
but few complimentaries of this char
acter flying about, and all are paid
Tor by the eternal equivalent. the
small matter of advertising. A Press
man, for instance, sent to Chica go.
may ride on a pass, but that pass has
been paid for in advertising. Before
the anti-pass law was enforced nv
life was saddened by my inability TO
meet the demands Of friends for free
transportation. Some had no deli
cacy about asking for passes to San
Francisco. Now it is easy TO say:
You know the law; no more free
passes"
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Newspnpers orerhurdened

The newspaper gives as a rule about
twenty to one as its equivalent" No
other institution on earth could af-
ford to do this and live, The news
paper is the maker of all men and all
corporations, the supporter of all,
the adviser OF all. Mind you, | do not
say CREATOR. Without its free pub
licity most of the men in political and
commercial life to-day would be I'm
their graves, We are really too gem
erous. The chief trouble is we do
not draw tight enough the little line
between news and notorlety. The
theatres get an awful lot of free ad i
vertising because vast majority of
the people patronize the drama and
demand good report OF it. So of the
opera. SO Of horse racing. Etc.
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EPWORTH LEAGUE LESSONS
SUNAY. JUNE 20.
Safe in Gods Hands--(t Pet. I. 3-5;
John 10. 20, 2e.)

Safe in GODS Hands-G PEI. I. 3-5;
John 10. 2e, 2e.)
Pet /. SIS. When we think of the
providence of God we must take the
same kind of a view as we do when
we think of his plans in general. That
is to say, you cannot tell whether
things are good or bad for you, at the
moment. The APOSTLE says that we
are guarded by the power of Sod
through faith. unto n salvation ready
10 be revealed IN the last time. It is
not all revealed now. God must say
to us many times: what do thou
knowest not now" 1t is easy to
grow impatient, and to expect results
on the spot, hat the kingdom of God
Is not brought in in that way. Gods
patience Is long-suffering; so must
ours be. We must take long views of
his dealings with US. and. in the long
run. Gods guarding will be vindi
Gated in the life of every one of his
children.
John 10, 2S, 30. The peculiar quail
itv of the life which Is given to the
Christian is that It cannot be harmed
by any sort of attack whatever from
without. Jesus says of his disciples
that thev shall never perish. He
bases this claim On the great thought
of Gods almightlness. my father IL
greater than all." when. one has
given himself into the hands of God
he has found a place Of safety which
can never be captured by any of his
adyersaries. The only way by which
he can be hurt is the method of self.
abandonment. He who leaves the
citadel of Gods protection has reject
cd the protector, but as long as he
remains he Is safe.
This world of ours is very full of
poriis; on every hand we are threat
ened by dangers that may easily over.
whelm us. The powers of evil are
abroad in innumerable forms, and
they are seeking to harm us by
searching out every vulnerable point
in our own desires There Is enough
prompting TO evil IN the heart Of
every one Of us to destroy us, without
the attack of any enemy from outside.
How, then, can we be safe? With
pitfalls on every hand, with our own
hearts giving aid and comfort to our
enemies, how shall we be kept from
defeat and despair?
/ There is only one way: we must put
ourselves in the hand OF God.
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ResourcefuI Wives.

II am told that your husband plays
billiards every night at the clubs
plays for money. too, said the anx.
ious mother to her newly married
daughter.
That's all right. mother" cheer.
fully responded the young wife. He
gives me all his winnings"
What? Do you"
And he always plays with Mr.,
Nextdoor."
What difference can that make?"
Mrs. Nextdoor makes her husband
give her his winnings, too. and she
gives the money to me and hand hei
what my husband won from hers. and
80 we both have about twice as much
money as we could get out of them
otherwise. Chicago Journal.
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IS 1t is nonc.

No gentleman of the staff is sup
posed to seek transportation from
any railroad, steamboat or steamship
company, from any submarine, air.
snip or automobile company, on his
own recognizement. If he wants to
go to Carlsbad, or the heart of Africa.
to the North Pole or to the antipodes.
TO Mars or to the bowels of the earth.
he is supposed to mention 1t to the
business manager, who, If he chooses.
refers 1t to the highest authority. OF
course there are department heads
who control certain and sundry priy-
ileges of the pass evil. such as the
drama editor, the music editor. the
sporting editor, etc. II want a free
pass for theatre l may ask the dra-
ma editor and ne may (if he feels in
the veinl send me a "pasteboard, f"
but 1t is a quid pro quo, If / want
TO go TO the circus | must ask the
circus editor. Do | want to go to the
race track? The sporting editor is
the man to snuggle up to, Etc.
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The Eternal Equivalent.

Every commercial business exscts
the eternal equivalent in the granting
of favors. OF no other institution in
the world is so much exacted free as
OF the newspaper. 1t is a kind word
here, kind word yonder, a puff here
and a pun there. For the price of
ONE cent man expects, aye. even
demands, space worth hundreds of
dollars. But where is our quid pro
quo? The circulation is not increased.
We are giving something for moth
ing. Once in a while Tips column
has a paragraph about an interesting
man. 1t is good reading for all who
take The Press; and the interesting
man, being deeply interested, buys
100 or 500 copies and scatters them
broadcast to interested people. What
does 1t amount to? Five hundred
copies cost S5 at retail; so there is
an outlay of s5 for $500 worth of ad-
vertising. Shucks! The business is
too one-sided. 1t isn't fair.
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A Remarkable Cave.

The President has signed a procla-
nation creating the Jewel Cave Ma
tional Monument within the Black
Hills National Forest, South Dakota.
This remarkable cave. thirteen miles
west and south of Custer, the county
seat of Custer County. in limestone
formation, Is believed by geologists
to be an extinct geyser channel The
national monument will embrace an
area of 1880 acres. This cave, which
was explored as late as 1900, has
been found to consist of a series of
chambers connected by narrow pas
sages with numerous galleries, the
walls of which are incrusted with a
magnificent layer of calcite crystal.
The opening of the cave is situated in
Hell Canyon, the walls of which are
high and precipitous. The surface of
the country in which the cave is 10.
Gated consists of high rolling lime
stone plateau, about 6000 feet above
sea level. The area is almost entirely
covered by forest of bull pine, a
considerable portion of which is mer-
chantable, while the remainder con.
sists of vigorous young growth. The
Jewel Cave National Monument will
now be given permanent protection
by virtue of the act of June 81 1906,
which provides that objects Of scien-
tifc interest may be declared national
monuments, If such action is deemed
necessary for their preservation and
protection. Science.
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Just an Illustration.

The man who has can OF lard to
sell fails to understand why he does
not get column or two a day OF
beautiful description for his ten-line
agate ad., when racing association,
with the same size ad.. commands 80
great an amount of space. He over
looks the fact that only few persons
may be interested in a can of lard,
while tens of thousands are deeply
concerned in racing, The theatrical
equivalent cannot be estimated. A
hundred thousand people, 100000.
100000, may be anxiously waiting
Tuesday morning for critique on
Marx Lankershine's new play OF THE
Tschuern o. di Stearxwier." The ad-
yertisement OF the drama may amount
TO $40, but that cuts no Ice with the
newspaper. 1t does its duty by allot-
ting as much space to the perform
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CHRISTIAN ENDEAVORN0TES
JUNE TwENTY.EleHTH.

Foreign Missions: Henry Martyr, ans
Missions in Indls--l Cor. 2: lie.
Ready fec missions. lisa. 6: 10.
Aiding missionaries. Cor IL:
10.
Working harmoniously. Gal. 2:
1-9.
The wide field Marx 1G; 14-1S.
To "spend and be spent" Cor.
12: Ills.
A live missionary. Jonah 3: 1-10
Some Bible Hints.
The secret of Henry Martyrs in.
fluence is the secret of the influence
of all great Christians-he let Christ
influence men. through himself.
Martyrs weakness was part of his
strength, for men saw the spirit OF
Christ in him. upholding his fainting
body
Henry Martyr was a man of the
Spirit Of God, and moved men because
he was himself moved
Martyrs biography and other writ
ings are among the most powerful Of
missionary influences. not because of
the mlssionary's intellect but because
they breathe the mind of Christ
Henry Martyrs Life.
Henry Martyr died in the thirty
second year OF his life, but few mis-
sionaries have produced more pro
found influence upon the world
He was born at Truro, Cornwall
February II. 1881 He went TO Cam.
bridge. and became a distinguished
scholar famous especially for his La
tin and mathematics. He was to be-
come one of the most notable of mis-
sionary translators.
Recoming a minister Of the Church
of England, Martyr was compelled by
financial strlngencies to take chap.
laincy under the East India Company,
that he might pursue his missionary
labors and at the same time support a
sister. He reached Calcutta in May,
1906, and labored, first at Dinapore
and then at Cawnpore, two places
northwest of Calcutta, on the Ganges.
The fierce heat and his feeble body
cOnspired to produce fevcrs and faint.
ings. To recover his health by a sea
voyage he went to Persia in 1871.
There he labored among the Moham.
medans. and presented to the Shah a
splendidly bound copy of his Persian
New Testament.
Again sickness compelled a remov.
al, and he set out homeward on horse.
back for Constantinople, distance
1900 miles. Complete exhaustion
overlook him on the way. and he was
obliged to stop at Tokat, in the centre
Of Turkey in Asia, where the plague
was raging. There he died, October
16, 1872.
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WHY HIND00S
WORSHIP SILVA.
Romantic Legend ,eils How
the East Indian Deity Came to
Bless a Poor Uniucky Hunter

Hindoos young and old solemnly
observed the fast of the Sivarathri,
on a recent Sunday, and gladly en-
dured its deprivations. For twenty
four hours no religious Hindoo took
a morsel OF food nor slept moment.
but constantly prayed the god silva
to grant his wish and relieve his suf.
ferings or unhappiness.
The Sivarathri rests on a legend
that comes from the misty past. A
pennlless hunter went out one morn
ing. but when night fell only a puny
bird had rewarded his long days
hunt. Weary and fearing ferocious
beasts, the hunter took refuge in a
bale tree for the night, and hung the
game" on twig.
1t so happened that silva, in the
course of his accustomed nocturnal
wanderings, seated himself under the
bale tree. The wind was blowing
freshly, and leaves and the water
they held from shower fell on the
god. This libation and the bird. pre-
sumably an Offering, made silva be-
lieve that some one in the tree was
worshiping him at that late hour.
Pleased, the god invited the person
so devout to descend. The hunter
climbed down and told of his sor-
row and needs silva gave him many
blessings and he lived happily to a
ripe old age, So, now. he who fasts
and, sleepless, worships silva at night,
will be blessed and enjoy eternal bliss.
-Simla tIndia) Correspondence of
the New York World.
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THE ART or GETTING
INTO THE NEWSPAPERS
The Short Cut to Publicity Revealed
by One Who Knows Every Road
and By-Path.

The following clever and readable
article on the subject uppermost in
every newspaper mans mind, "adver-
tising." is by Victor Smith, the ION
the Tip of the Tongue" man OF the
New York Press;
Advertise.
Dear Tip--What is the short cut to
publicity? have been striving in
vain to get into the newspapers these
seven years. What can / do?
Hackensack. PUBLICITY.
Strive your hardest NOT to get in.
Steal a million. Rob another fellow
Of his wife. Spring sensational di-
vorce. Beat the bank at Monte Carlo.
But the best plan of all is to adyer-
tise. am in favor of the pay-as-you-
enterproposition. Commercial houses,
theatres, circuses, ETC., pay their way;
why should not society and the pro-
fessions do likewise? The general
press is under no obligation to you.
Address the business office at so
much line. and you can obtain all
the publicity you require. Some
newspapers are not profitable because
they GIVE AWAY vast quantities of
space in free advertising, or puffs, to
the undeserving. The time Is close
at hand when everybody and every
institution will have to pony up"
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powers of nesert PInnts.

DR.. d. T. MacDougal tells some
Interesting things in the Fifth Yeai
Book of the Carnegie Institution OF
washington, about the water-storage
organs of desert plants. In regions
where rain falls scantily for briei
period, the remainder OF the year
being dry, the plants possess special
storage organs at the base OF the
stems, which lie unchanged during
the hot season, but quickly put oui
roots, shoots, fruits and seeds dur
ing the brief time of the rains. Some
of these storage organs, kept dr>
on a museum shelf since 1902, have
every year, at period corresponding
to the rainy season in their native
habitat, produced thin stems, which
quickly die. In some cases i've years
growth has been made with the aid
of water stored up in 1901, and the
storage organs are still sound.
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Baseball.

Baseball gets 1000 times its
equivalent" Why? Because 1t is
an amusement for vast multitudes of
readers. The advertising of the game
amounts practically to nothing. that
is. from a business Office view. mo
money In it," But no paper could af.
ford to cut out its baseball reports.
The Press baseball articles are the
best. and they cost us great deal OF
money,
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Best Work at Firty.

In the Industrial world :. has be-
come accepted that mrn is too old
at forty, and the London County
Council Works Department decided
last year not 70 engage men above
thirty-flye. How is It in the intellect
ual world? Despite all the evidences
o, precocity. Mr. Dorland arrives at a
conclusion which gives an average
OF fifty for the master worl. OF great
men. n.---T. P.'a Weekly.
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Antiquity of the Oath.

The oath is practically as old as
history itself. AS far back as we can
go we find some form OF appeal to
the forces that are stronger than
man. The oath calling God to Wit
ness Is, OF course, much later than
that made in the name of the powers
or nature, fire, food and tempest,
or the ferocity OF wild beasts, or the
terror OF the pestilence. The gesture
OF the raised hand and the formula,
So help me God. - Is of jewish Chris
Ian origin, although the ancient ma
tions swOre in the name Of their gods.
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Literature of Japan.

Japan has never produced a
Shakespeare or a Milton, Goethe OF
a Humboldt, Montaingne or an EN-.
erson, Gibbon or Mommsen. but
despite this fact II has very respec-
table literature In all of its various
history, poetry. geography,
art, science and the novel. Educa-
tion is quite universal throughout
the empire, and within the past thir-
ty or forty years the national litera-
ture has grown immensely
York World.
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Temperance Notes.

A noteworthy feature OF the anti
saloon crusade In the West, as was
the case in the South, is the active
participation OF women.
The progress of the prohibition
wave through the States OF the Mid
die West Is not less remarkable than
its sweep of the South.
The fight against alcohol is world
wide. In German universities, even,
the relation of beer and brain ef-
ficiency" is the subject OF earnest ex-
pertinent.
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The French Flag.

The three colors were devised by
Mary Stuart, wife Of Francois III. The
white represented the royal house OF
France. the blue Scotland and the
red Switzerland, IN compliment to
the Swiss Guards, whose livery 1t
was. 1t is generally understood that
the revolutionists OF 1889 had adopt
ed for their flag the two colors. red
and blue, but that Lafayette per-
suaded them to add the white. 70
show that they bore no hostility 70
the king.~-New York American.
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It's Local Option or Prohibition,

But 1t is as certain as the coming
of another sunrise that If the liquor
interests continue to deny to Ameri-
can citizens powers that are theirs
by right. perpetuate their alliance
with corruption in every Municipality
and every Legislature and persist in
thwarting the will of majorities ,ex-
pressed at the polls. they Will finally
force all elements to unite, not on
local option. but on prohibitory meas
ures so extreme that their traftc, in-
stead of being regulated, will be
swept from the face OF the Nation
Philadelphia North American, April
8, 1908.
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Hunting and Fishing.

No other paper in New York is so
much read by fishermen and hunters
as The Press. Here again the 'equlv-
alent" is altogether on our side. We
give 100 times as much as we get out
Of it, but the Rod and Gun column is
expected daily by a multitude Of
sportsmen, and to stop 1t would de-
stroy prominent feature which
pleases many who neither fish nor
shoot.
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A Woman's Nfoyement.

Prohibition in the South is TO a
certain extent woman's movement.
In the campaign in Alabama 1t was
the women, the mothers and the wives
and the children of the men who sup
ported the saloon with their earnings,
who marched In the procession and
stood all day at the polls to see that
their husbands, sons and fathers voted
right.
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perIIn,s Electric signs.

II is announced that the Berlin po-
lice are taking steps to prevent tho
DETACHMENT OF streets by electric
signs. No objection will be offered
to their erection in ugly or confined
spaces. but they will be excluded from
the best streets and from places where
they are likely to produce "a dlscord~
ant effect. ("
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The Leader Of Men.

We all know perfectly well what
true leader is. He is a man OF ideas,
a man who advocates a certain line
OF action, and he works through the
press and public speech that the peo-
pie may be convinced of the wisdom
of his course.--The Rev. Or. NsN9n.
Pittshnrg.
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over at Last.

AT last" he sighed. we're alone.
I've been hoping for this chance"
$50 have l." said she, very frank
iy.
"Ah you have guessed, then. that
l wanted TO tell you that love you. "
Yes, and / want to say No and
get It over with."-Iondon Opinion.
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The inhabitants Of Ecuador are al.
ways in a state OF uneasiness. as thar
country has record in volcanoes.
Three OF the volcanoes are active, fye
are dormant, and IL extinct
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Home Folk..

Il haven't seen a drunken mai
since I've been here, declared the Wis.
itor to the prohibition state.
"Oh. we are not ostentatlous," ex-
claimed the Georgia man.-Louisville
courier-Journal
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In some parts OF China the natives
have taken 10 raising grapes and max
ing several kinds az wine
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JI7e
Suu7ooy-Sckoof
INTERNATIONAL LESSON COM
MENTS FOR JUNE 2S.

Subject: Temperance, Ephesians .;
0-20 - Golden Text. Eph. 5:1S
Commit Verses 10, 1O-Com.
mentary.
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ance as the critic thinks the play 10
entitled to.
The morning journal-courier., 1908-11-11
Circus Home Again.

Bridgeport Nov 10.-Barnum < Balley's Greatest Show on Earth" re- turned home today from the west and tho vast equipment was stored away in the winter quarters on Norman street and all of the animals were transferred to their winter home with out any alarming developments The first train hit the winter quarters at s o'clock this morning, and many a boy who was on the watch for Its re- turn was up early to see the unload ing.
 The news that the circus was 'in'' spread among the risine generation with lightning like rapldlty and a small army of youngsters were on hand to bother the clrcusmen and otherwise make themselves trouble some. The animals seemed to ap- preclate the fact that they were home for when they were installed In thelr respective places there was variety of noises which the circus men said were indications of pleasure at being home again.
 Business men carly learned of the arrival of the big show by the receipt of orders for hay and other feed straw. meats for the animals and oth- CT supplies. Thousands of dollars arc spent every year In the city and the presence of the circus Is always felt in business circles