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Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-08-19

At the end of the boating and
 swimming season. if the record from
 the beginning is maintained, there
 will have been several hundred lives sacrificed to accidents dut to inability
 to swim or to want of caution about
 swimming. Most lives are valuable, and especially the lives of boys and
 girls or men and women who have the gumption to go in or upon the water. Even foolhardiness is only strenuous ness carried too far. Leaving out sentiment, it really seems worth
 while to go to the trouble and ex- pense, If necessary, of teaching the young how to swim. Keeping afloat and padding around is not a very. difficult accomplishment to master.
 But there is more to the art of swim ming than the mere floating and arm blowing and leg kicking. Deep science is involved in the making of a water duck out of the human be- ing. Water is treacherous element to man. It buoys up the body and makes swimming seem easy once the strokes are mastered. But swimming is an exhausting exercise. For hu- man being to stay in the water with out any exercise whatever is an ex- hausting process. The act of swim ming is at first exhilarating, but all the time the swimmer is paying for the pleasure enjoyed by drafts upon the lungs and heart. Many expert swimmers come to grief because they are not expert water ducks. They either don't know how to rest in the water when they are tired or do not know or do not accept the unfailing signs of fatigue when they come. Ex- haustion will overtake the strongest swimmer suddenly, and it is unsafe to ignore warnings and try to brave 1t out and get through the usual stunt of so many yards straight ahead Or so many times across and back. In other words. knowing when to stop is as important as knowing how in this matter of swimming.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-08-19

and in England, serving three years in the English navy-and has sung in the church choirs of both coun- tries, his first appearance was with Moody and Sankey,
 Mrs Ray and her five children will remain in this city during Mir Rays absence, and MT Garrepy's family will occupy their home In Worces- ter.
 MT Ray is we'll and widely known here, no one who mas visited the theater Comique being a stranger to his beautiful voice. Previous to his engagement there he sang at the Poli theater. He has written some songs which have won widespread popularity, one of which, the newest, he will take out on the road with him. The title is Don't Judge a Girl by Her Dress" and those who have heard 1t are loud in its praise
 The start for the west will he made on Monday morning, the 24th, a. o'clock and the trampers ex- pect to spend Monday night in Bridgeport.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-08-19

other agents for soothing or exciting the faculties of man. All mankind, he says, demands and must have some sort of relaxation and social pleasure, and the abolition of wine and liquor would result in substitu- tions much more baneful. The mis- sion of alcohol as factor in civiliza- tion Prof Munsterberg declares to be the same as that of hope or faith or en;0J&ent or enthusiasm. Like these psychological manifestations, it reinforces certain mental states, with corresponding paralysis of opposite ideas and manifestations, a process which the man in the street calls jollying. Turning his batteries against prohibition, the professor, whose European modes of thought are everywhere disclosed. again bases his case upon psychological social aspects. Prohibition, he de- clares, does not prohibit and leads to a form of drinking which is worse for the individual and for society than drinking at restaurants and clubs. To many people the argu- ments on both phases of the question will appear unconvincing because of the gaps in the logic.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-08-19
TO WALK TO FRISCO.
Thomas w. Ray to Make Return Trip in Six Months.

New Haven, Aug 19.-Monday morning next, Thomas w. Ray of this city and Harry Garrepy of Wor- cester, Mass, will start for Califor- mia, making the entire trip out and back on foot. The trip out will be made over the southern route and no time has been stated in which the trip must be made, but on the return, six months is the Him. it of time to be spent. The trip will be made for wager of S2,000.
 Both men are taking this exer- else for the benefit of their health. MT Ray, who has been manager of Mrr Polls theater Comique since last November, Is very much in need of a trip of some sort, and this ar rangement appeals very strongly to him as promising very beneficial re- suits. He has suffered for some years, more or less, from a bullet wound received in the South Afri- can boer war in one of the most im- portant engagement $, and this Is in part the cause of his rundown con- dition.
 Mir Ray has lived in this country
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-08-19
FINE FIELD OF CORN.
At Springside Farm It Is Fifteen Feet
 High.

New Haven. Aug 1s.-The corn they are raising this season up at Springside farm is causing all the farmers. farm hands and persons from the city who visited the farm to gasp and wonder how it was done. But the news comes from reliable sources and several pictures were taken of the feIds-the corn is ff- teen feet high and there are three and four ears of corn on each stalk. Now don't gasp and say be-gosh, that's what the farmers said when they saw the corn, and Farmer Wright. who planted the seed. says it's the finest corn that was ever grown in this part of the country and that there isn't another field of corn in the state anything like the Spring side farm corn The corn when It grows so high as 1t did at SprinEside this year Is too tough for eating pur- poses, and Farmer Wright says they are going 10 feed it to the cattle. A number of pictures were taken of the oornfsld at Springside farm. which covers eight acres
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-08-19
HEARD IN PASSING.

President Roosevelt was tagged yesterday for a contribution by some
 boys who were conducting a money
 raising tag campaign in behalf of a
 hospital. He didn't have a. cent
 Those lads are slow. They ought to
 have tagged Sheldon. He has the
 g. o. p. doughbag this year.-New
 Haven Union.
 The New Haven Journal-C Courier comes near being the republican par tvs best friend in Connecticut, for 1t is about the only paper that urges the wisdom of continuing Governor Woodruff's administration instead of carrying out the machines compact to place MT Lilley in the executive of- fice.-Springfield Republican.
 The governor of New Jersey has received information which leads him to the conclusion that Atlantic City is a very wicked place. But this particular wickedness, il Is sur prising'to learn, is not on the beach and board walk. and is not regulated by the cut of the bathing suits. It is civic corruption which has shock ed the governor.-New Haven Reg ister.
 Here is a good horse," remark ed MT Taft of his overburdened stesd. and the other day when he tumbled and I lit on my shoulder over his head he made no attempt to move. And besides" he adds, T haven't the money to spend on an- other horse" Perhaps the candi- date should have accepted the offer of that Providence eIephan-.-Proyi- dence Journal.
 The reason that roads are not be- ing constructed throughout the state and the appropriation made by the people expended, is said to be due to lack of road builders. But then, from the looks of some of the roads scientifically constructed only a few years ago it would seem that not much knowledge is required to be- come a state road contractor.-Mid- dletown Penny Press.
 It has been reported from Penn sylvania that man who has been smoking for 75 years has decided to quit the habit al ss because he wants to live to be 100. Judged by some o-her experiences his chances of living would be better If he didn't give up his pipe too precipitately. When a mans system has been used to It's regular dose of nicotine for 75 years the sudden cessation of the supply is quite likely to be followed by equally sudden demise.-Nev London Day.
 President Gompers of the Ameri- can Federation of Labor has fssred a circular 10 labor organizations. so- liciting contributions to the Bryan campaign fund No one can reason ably deny his right to do SO. never theless. his action has driven the Taft organs into mysteries of even greater intensity than did his orig inal pronouncement la favor of NIT Bryan As then remarked, they seem
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-08-19

While the country's population has
 increased twenty-four per cent since
 1896 the corn yield this year prom
 ises to be twenty-five per cent greater
 than it was then. the wheat crop is
 forty per cent larger than it was in
 that year, and the cotton output is eighty per cent greater than it was
 then, while the aggregate value of all
 the farm products fin 1908. according 10 the forecast made by the secretary
 of agriculture will be sS,0OO. .OO0.- 900, which is 100 per cent more than that of 1896. Tn the same twelve years in which the country's inhabi- tants increased twenty-four per cent its circulation has grown 100 per cent. The banks of New York. Chi cagO, St Louis and the rest of the money centers seldom held more cash than they do now. Tn the fiscal year which ended with June 30. 1908. our sales of merchandise to the outside world exceeded our purchases to the extent of s666,O0O,OOO. It is a fact of profound significance. too. that much of this increase in exports was in manufactured articles. This great trade balance, the largest which has ever been accumulated in our favor in single year. has equipped us with a fund in Europes financial eenters which we can draw on at any mo ment when we need the money. For the time being this country. we are told. has more cash than we can put 10 profitable use. and are lending 1t 10 any country which pays the price. This is the explanation of some of he recent gold outgo.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-08-19

In the statistieians of the Suez ca nal for 1907 the passage is recorded of 9 American vessels with a total tonnage of 12,537, while there were 2,651 British vessels of 9.495.S6S net tons, 5S0 German vessels of 2,253,- 651 tons, 239 French vessels of S06,- 7S6 tons, 22S Dutch of 632,0S9 tons, 67 Japanese of 259,O59 tons, S1 Rus sian of 239,35O tons, and s6 Italian of 202,112 tons. The total for the year was 4,267 vessels with a ton mage of 14,72S,434. The increase of business at Suez for 1907 was 292 ships and 1,2s2.930 tonnage. very nearly all of which was British.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-08-19
sM0THERED BY CORN.
Boy Falls Into a Steamships Cargo
 and Smothers to Death.

New York, Aug 19.-Charles Will son, fl years old, of 142 Classon ave- nue, Brooklyn, was standing on one of the partitions in the steamship William P. Moffett watching the longshoremen unloading a cargo of cracked corn in the Wallabut basin when a board slipped and he fell into the hold.
 The cracked corn began to swallow him like a quicksand. His leg had caught in the chain of the scoop as he hit the cargo. This stopped the machinery and warned the workmen that something was the matter. When they ran around to the place only the boys leg was protrudipg.
 Hook and ladder company 69 was called in and began chopping the chain with axes. but by the time 1t was cut through the boy had been smothered to death.
 Since the death of his father, a year ago, Wilson was the only sup port of his mother and five little brothers and sisters. He was a big fellow for his age and had been used to taking work that was thought to be too heavy for any one but men.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-08-19
SILVER SANDS INDIGNANT.
Will Have Meeting and Demand Po-
 lice Protection.

New Haven, Aug 19.-Silver Sands as its name would suggest, is pretty little spot on the seashore and it is located short distance east of Mo mauguin and where as rule nothing interferes with the soft splashing of the waves on the shore or frightens the snipe which fit up and down the beach on the receding tides. There are number of cottages there, but it Is quiet, delightful spot which leaves the same impression on the mind as does reading one of Clinton Scollard's poems in which you can smell the pure air, see, the leaves waving and hear the silence of the forest.
 One day last week, however, Silver Sands and those who dwell on the shores of the splashing sound at that point were terrorized and plans are on foot now for an indignation meet ing. In this quiet little community one would expect an indignation meeting about as much as one would expect to find a snowfall in-in-in blast furnace of course.
 Some years ago Mrs Edward Has son, wife of a we'll known actor, bought a cottage there but MT Has son who evidently does not care for the aesthetic beauties of Silver Sands and the soft splashing waves, left Mrs Hasson and went to live at where the surf booms in and the high rollers higher along the midway.
 Last week. however, he turned up at Silver Sands and in his heavy vil- lain voice demanded cash from his wife. Silver Sands promptly be- came terrorized and they do say that Mir Hasson threatened to wreck the community and do other alarming stunts. Most of the men cottagers were away at business so the alarmed ladies of the community telephoned to East Haven to have detachment of constabulary sent there.
 Promptly the reply came back: We have no constables to send you"
 The New Haven police were called but they replied: Tt is out of our Jurisdiction. Get the state police"
 While the cottagers were just med itating on having the governor call out the state militia. MT. Hasson went of into the woods somewhere and the incident was closed until the men folks returned from the city. Then the plans were made for the in- dignation meeting which will demand civil protection for Silver Sands and other small communities in that loca- ton,
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-08-19

The invention of a new British ice-- making machine is reported which works on the principle that water will freeze when evaporated rapidly by a vacuum pump and powerful absorbent, such as sulphur ic acid. It is said that the machine can be worked by hand and will turn out carafes of iced water at the rate of one in three minutes and blocks of ice weighing about one pound in twenty minutes. The apparatus, con- sisting of the absorber and the carafe or the ice mould, are rocked by means of handwheel and crank, which serves also to create the vacuum. This is made at Reading, Eng land.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-08-19

mind that the kidneys are affected. notice the urine for a few daya III passages are irregular, painful, or too scanty, discolored, or full of sedi. ment, the kidneys need help right away, and there Is no other medicine more helpful than Doan's Kidney Pills, a simple remedy for the kid. neys, yet-so powerful that 1t quickly cures the cause and so ends all the painful and annoying symptoms. Home testimony proves the unfailins merit of Doan's Kidney Pills.
 WATERBURY TESTIMONY.
 Mrs James Dews of 32 Hospital avenue. Waterbury, Conn, says: MI husband made a statement for pubii. cation in August. 1901. in which be said that he had suffered consIdera. ply from pain in the loins and kid. neys, especially during changeabls weather or after taking cold, and that although he would often be so lame and sore that he could not do Justice to his work. Deans Kidney Pills. procured at the H. W. Lake Drug Go. relieved him entirely of ths trouble. It gives me pleasure to confirm his testimony and to say that the cure has been permanent He has never complained of his bach since Doan's Kidney Pills eurst him"
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-08-19
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 19, 1908.
For President.
Aud. 19 In History,

1596-Birth of Elizabeth Stuart, daugh- ter of James VI, who married the elector palatine Frederick V. and thus founded the present British reigning family. 1S12-Fight between the Constitution and the Guerriere 1S96-Professor Joseph Dwight Whit ney of Harvard university died; born 1919.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-08-19
Nov and then Prof Hngo M

Now and then Prof Hugo Munster berg. psychologist at Harvard. turns the light of his science upon current conditions here in America Just now the prohibition movement inter- ests him, and he treats of that in connection with social psychology in MCClure's Magazine The professor holds a brief for those who stand for temperate use as against abuse on the one hand and enforced teetotal- ism oa the other. He puts wine in the class with music, with reading. with tea, coffee and tobacco and
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-08-19
ASTRONOMICAL EVENTS.

Sun sets 6:49, rises 5:11; moon rises 11:32 p. m. moons age. 23 days; 10 a. m., planet Mercury in superior con. junction with the sun, passing from west to east of that body on the far ther side and thus changing from morning to evening star; A. D. 1882, Haley discovered his giant comet, which, after an absence of 75 years, is again due in 1910 and may be seen as early as October, 1909 A. D.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-08-19

Kennedy's Laxative Cough Syrup is especially recommended for children. It tastes nearly as good as maple sugar. Sold by Buckingham Phar- macy.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1908-11-19
HyDR0PH0BlA AT LOYSBURG.
Mad Dog Has Caused Great Alarm al
That Place.

The residents In the vicinity OF
Loysburg have been much alarm.
ed over the appearance of hydro
phobia caused by mad dog re
Gently. A vicious canine bit a
horse belonging to the McLaugh.
In Construction Company and
about two weeks ago the animal
became violent. Upon lnvestlga-
ton 1T was found that the horse
was suffering from rabies and it
was promptly shot. The dog
was also shot and every precau-
tion taken possible.
The canine had been running
at large, 1T Is SAID, before the
horse was bitten, and there Is no
telling how many horses, cattle
and cats it came in cor tact with,
or how many may have been bit.
ten by this same dog. The dis
ease is readily communicable to
horses, cattle and cats, and also
to persons.-Everett Republican.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1908-11-19
HEAVY SNOW FALL.
All Previous Records for November Snow
and Cold Beaten During the
Last Few Days.

While there was enough snow
tell on the morning after the elec
ton to whiten the roofs of the
buildings in this place, and to
make November 4th tile date of
the first snowfall here, 1t was left
for last Saturday to give us our
first real snow storm. Snow be-
gan to tall here about eight
O'Clock in the morning, and kept
coming down until after dark in
the evening. A strong wind was
blowing all day, ard the day was
very disagreeable to those who
had to be out in the storm. The
fall here was estimated from SIX
to eight inches.
The storm was general East
of the Ohio valley and the lake
region, although along the At
lantic seaboard ram fell during
the greater part of the day. 1t
showed during the early part of
afternoon IN most of the cities
along the Atlantic, but later rain
fell.
The fakes were damp and stuck
to the wires of the telephone and
the telegraph companies but we're
not SO heavy that any wires were
snapped. Later On in the night
a sixteen-mile-an-hour wind
came along that shook off a lot of
the snow, but little drifting re.
suited.
On November 9, 1892, the heavi
est November snow fall occurred
to Saturdays record. 1t
amounted to 4.8 inches.
Not content with creating one
new record on Saturday, the
weather started IN Immediately
after the snow stopped falling to
makea new cold weather record
for this Fall. The temperature
got as low as 4 degrees on Mon
day morning, and more than one
housewife was surprised to find
her house plants frozen.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1908-11-19
HON. WIN. p. SCHELL DEAD.
Tie Was Former Resident OF McCon.
nellsburg, and Fulton COunty's
First District Attorney,

Hon. William p. Schell, pro-
baby the Oldest lawyer In Penn.
sylvania died at his home in Bed
ford last Sunday. Mr.. Schell
was born at Schellsburg, Bed
ford county, on the 18th day of
February, 1922. He was gradu-
ated at Marshall College, Mer-
cersburg, read law, and was
after ward admitted to the Bar in
Bedford county in 1845. When
Fulton county was stricken off
from Bedford county in 1850,
Mr.. Scheli removed To McCon-
nellsburg, and in the same year
was elected Fulton county's first
District Attorney. He repres-
ented this district in the leglsla-
ture in 1928, and was made
Speaker of the House in 1853.
In 1857 he was elected State SEN
ator for three years term. He
was elected Auditor General of
the state of Pennsylvania in 1877,
and served until 1889. For many
years he has been greatly inter-
ested in the collection of data
pertaining to the early history of
Bedford county, and has done
more than any other man to hand
down to posterlty a carefully
written account OF the interest
ing things that have transpired
in his native county.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1908-11-19

ened and was sure things would
have to be closed now. But baby
went on sleeping, so did we, and
the Group bothered as no more.
When | think Of the many,
many people, whose lives during
the day are spent in close offices
or stores, must be spent that
way, and whose nights are volun-
tarily passed IN atmosphere just
as bad. when the pure air Is all
around them to be had for the
asking only, | almost got the
burglars instinct of opening
their doors and windows. My
husband makes professional use
of our bedroom; uses it for an
object lesson. Many a time |
have heard him walk refractory
patients IN there TO show them
how our babies sleep. They go
home and obedlently open one
window at the top an inch and q
half"
Mrs W. f. Prather. Journal
Amer. Med, Assoc, Vol. 80. p.
1lS9,
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1908-11-19
GOOsEBONE WINTER PROPHECY
Generally Open, But With a Number of
Very Cold Spells.

very tOiu opeils.
j. B. Musse, Reading goose
bone weather prophet, announces
that the breast bone of the goose
is marked very peculiarly this
year. There is dark spot here
and there, making an accurate
prediction difficult, indicating
that the winter will be generally
an open one with a very cold spell
now and then. December Will
be very cold, but there will be
little snow. January will have
some snow with a warm spell
during the middle of the month.
February viii be a severe month
with plenty of ice and snow.
March will be open with warm
spell, and plenty OF rain and hail,
and 4 late spring will follow.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1908-11-19
Married.

At the Methodist Episcopal
parsonage at Three Springs on
Tuesday, November 10, 1908,
Rev. j. f. Fleegal united in mar
riage, Mr.. Charles Newman, son
of Mr.. and Mrs. George New
man, and Miss Mary Bergstres-
ser, daughter of Mr.. and Mrs.
John Bergstresser--all Of Water
fall, this county. The happy
Young couple went into their own
home at Waterfall on Wednesday
to enter upon the realities Of
housekeeping. They are an es-
Unable young couple, and have
the heartlest congratulations OF
their numerous friends.
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