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The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1908-12-31
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ABOUT PEOPLE YOU KNOW
Snapshots at Their comings and Goings
Here for Vacation, or Away
for Restful Outing.
NAMES OF VISITORS AND VISITED

Will Motter spent few days
in Chambersburg and Waynes-
boro last week.
Miss Maye V. Silver, of Bed
ford, is visiting her relatives at
McConnellsburg.
Mrs. David M. Kendall. of the
Cove, is spending couple of
weeks In Philadelphia visiting
relatives.
Mr.. Nathan Everts, of Harris
burg, is the guest of his mother.
Mrs. Ed d. Sinner, on Walnut
street.
Mr.. Clarence Sinner, of AL
toona, is spending the holidays
with his mother, Mrs. Anna M.
Simmer, of this place.
Miss nellie Gress, of Cham
bersburg, spent Christmas IN the
home of her mother, Mrs. Con
rad Gress, of this place.
Mr.. and Mrs. R. A. Wilson, of
Lykens, Pa, are guests in the
home of Ghe latter's brother, A.
Is. wilkinson, of this place.
Reed Ray and MISS Minnie
Smith, of Everett, came to Nc
Connellsburg last Friday and re-
NAMED with relatives until Sun
day.
Mr.. Emery Pittman, of Harris.
burg, spent the time from Christ
mas evening until Monday In the
home of George Snider of this
place.
q. Wilson Peck and family
spent the time from Friday until
Sunday with Mr.. and Mrs. iona.
than P. Peck, at their home at
Knobsville.
Miss Bess IRWIN, teacher of
the Glenside school, Philadelphia,
is home for her holiday vacation
with her parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
John A. IRWIN.
Miss jessie Dickson, who is
taking course in Domestic Sci.
ence at the Drexel Institute,
Philadelphia, is home for her holi.
day vacation.
Misses Ruth and Esther Klee,
of Cham bersburg, spent Christ
mas week visiting their uncles,
Andrew Washabaugh and James
G. Alexander.
Russell Runyan, student at
Perkiomen Seminary, is spend
ing his holiday vacation with his
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. j. B.
Runyan, of this place.
Miss Stella Sipes, who Is teach
ing at West Chester, Pa, this
winter is home for her holiday
vacation with her parents, Mr..
and Mrs. j. Nelson Sipes.
Arthur Sinner and Oscar
Gress spent the time from Thurs
day until Saturday with the form
er's sister, Mrs. Casper Whorley
at Newburg, Cumberland county.
Miss Minnie Dalbey, one of the
Westlnghouse's efficient stenog-
raphers IN Pittsburg, spent the
time from Thursday until Mon
day in the home of her parents,
DR.. and Mrs. A. D. DaIbey, in
this place.
Roy Morton, who has charge
OF a large forestry reservation In
Huntingdon and Center counties,
with offices at Petersburg, Pa,
is spending few days with his
Hon. and Mrs. Peter
Merton, near town.
Mr.. Elmer Suders, of Wamp-
um, Pa, is spending the holidays
with relatives and friends in this
place. Elmer says that whatev.
er the newspapers may be say
ing about times Frightening up,
there are thousands OF men out
Of employment In the western
part OF the State.
Mr.. Charles ". Seville, a stu.
dent IN the Lutheran Theological
Seminary ate Gettysburg, is spend
Ing the holidays with bis father
Mr.. Amos Seville. Of tins place.
Charlie preached 10 the Lutheran
last Sunday morning.
very much 70 the delight and "a,
Iication Of the large couereSatIop
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all dating back to the end Of the seyr,
enteeneh and beginning Of the eight
teenth centuries. There were rings
and brooches. cfucifxes and jewelled
.chaHces, jewelled sword handles and
table plate. Nobody knows just how
much the treasure amounted to since
the flshenfolk hid 1t as fast as they
secured it. and when official inquiries
were made every one denied his own
share.
They are still digging, however,
and an occasional find is made. The
sea seems to have broken up the
cache and distributed it's contents
over many acres of beach. Objects
are picked up as far as low water
mark, and some are doubtless wash
ed back from time to time from deep
water.
1t is believed that the treasure rep
resents plumber from Spanish coast
towns. It Is said that long ago there
were numerous bands OF Portuguese
pirates which committed depredations
on a considerable scale both afioat
and ashore and when Portugal was
at peace with Spain they were obliged
to be very careful and hide their
plumber. From time to time other
hoards of the same sort have been
discovered When this collection was
buried, no doubt. the spot was far
enough from the waters edge to BIO
regarded as safe for all time.-,New
York Sun.
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AGRICULTURAL STUDIES LOSING


was amused to find that the pro
portion of girls to boys attending the
agricultural colleges diminished gradu-
ally as one came from west to east.
Out in Minnesota, which used to be
the extreme west, but is now the mid
die west, the proportion Is three to
five. Down in Wisconsin only few
girls have taken the full agricultural
course. In fact, with the courses for
the girls, the colleges have really been
trying to straddle two chairs. If the
girl wishes to take the full course,
1t is open to her. II not, she can
select and fill out her curriculum with
a course in what is called domestic
science-the science of everything in
the home, from cooking and laundry
ing to dressmaking and millinery.
This may or may not be a weakness in
the course, for any girl with knowl-
edge Of physiology and chemistry and
bacteriology can pick up the. trick OF
kitchen work in her own home II she
has gumption, and If she hasn't gump-
ton, the school can't give it to her.
Whereas, a girl will not be less
daughterly daughter to her farmer
father or less wifely wife to her farm
er-husband for possessing knowl-
edge of animal physiology ani chemis-
try and field botany and agronomy and
sanitary plumbing. In fact, If she pos
sesses the knowledge, there will be
times when she can cav part o. the
mans burden and be a better comrade
for doing SO; and If father or husband
be removed by death, she will be
qualified to direct the hired help. !
do not say this to advocate fore
gone conclusion in the American girls
makeup. 1t is because | nave an abso-
lutte horror of seeing an unqualified
woman thrown on her own resources.
However, many ofethe girls in these
western agricultural schools are from
foreign homes, and in the colleges
they can learn both the graees and
the utilities of Ameri Fan homelife.
1--WE want these girls 70 be able
to make their own hats and to make
their own clothes and to carry them
selves and to look as well as their
city sisters" said one of the college
principals. He might have added,
"and at a tenth of the expense the
city girls cost. Agnes G. Laut, in
the Outing Magazine.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1908-07-31
PEARL INDUSTRY DECLINES.
Drop in Prices Has Put Business in
Bad Way.

Reduction Of the price of mother
of pearl from $4,000 to 5000 ton
ON the London market during the last
six years has seriously affected tho
pearling industry in Australasia, from
where the greater part of the worlds
supply is obtained.
The most important centres OF the
industry are Thursday Island, Port
Darwin and Broome. As the amount
secured averaged tour tons per boat
per annum, and the expenses were
comparatively small. large profits for
merly were realized. The divers and
crews working on the pearling lug.
gers are introduced under agreement
with the Federal government They
are imported for period of three
years, and the master Is compelled
to furnish a bond of $500 for every
man employed, as a guaranty that
at the end of three years that man
will be deported to Singapore, the
port from which the divers are re.
cruited. Formerly the pearlers paid
the divers $40 per month, 800 to
SITS per ton bonus. and, in many in.
stances. from 8 to Is per cent. for
the pearls won. Though arriving as
raw coolies. some of these Asiatics
earned from $1,000 to. $4,000 per an.
mum, with keep:
The divers, most OF whom are Jap
anese, are well organized, having
their clubs and benefit societies, and
every Japanese, whether belonging to
the crew, teRder or driving staff, is
competed by his countrymen to Join.
kansas City Journal.
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MARYLAND in BRIEF.

BENJAMIN Hull instituted suit fol-
absolute divorce in Hagerstown from
Lucy Hull. A correspondent was
named. They were married on
Christmas Day. 1900, by Rev. J. O
Coon.
One hundred shares of Washington
County Water Company stock were
sold in Hagerstown at $l1.4O per
share, the par being $40.
The Clearspring Tournament As
ISOLATION decided to hold the annual
tournament on Snyder Bros. farm,
at the edge of Clearspring, on Satur-
day, August 20.
The Annapolis Tribe of Red Men has
formulated plans for a big reunion
celebration here in August. The cele-
bration will take place at Boucher's
Grove, ON Spa Creek, and there will
be assemblies of "big chiefs" from
all parts of Maryland, the Virginias,
Pennsylvania, Delaware and the Dis
trict of Columbia.
Convicted of assaulting Mrs. Eliza
beth Legderman. 40 years old, q
white woman, living at Glen Burnie,
Baltimore County, Zachariah Holden.
a one-armed negro, also of Glen Burr
ME, was sentenced to two years in
the House of Correction by Police
Justice Davis, of Annapolis.
Sheriff George w. Earnshaw, Of
Washington County, was injured I'M
a driving accident.
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State 81 Maryland
NO BOND ISSUE.

Annapolis (Special). An ordi-
nance for, the purpose of bonding the
city of Annapolis to the extent Of
$4,000 for the purpose of accon-
plishing certain municipal improve
ments was decisively defeated by
vote of the taxpayers of the city,
the election lasting two days.
The proposition to bond the city
for $4,000 to pay for new build
ing for the Rescue Hose Company
and for paving and other street im-5
provements was defeated by vote
of 1877 to II. The proposition to
issue $4,000 worth of bonds to re-
construct the city assembly rooms
and council chamber was defeated
by vote of 200 to 81. Two hum
bred and eighty-four out of the IL
100 qualified voters participated in
the election. There was only one
defective ballot.
The election was of special inter-
est on account of the fact that wofn-
en- were eligible to vote as we'll as
men. About SO women availed them
selves of this right, and their votes
were almost solidly against the is
sue. Among those who voted were
number of colored women.
The bonds were generally opposed
on the ground that the present
amount or bonds ($165, 000) Is suf-
ficient and that the municipality
would be unable to bear further
increase. 1t is held that Annapolis
is now one of the most highly Inn
proved municipalities of its size and
wealth in the United States and that
a number of the proposed improve
ments were unnecessary. Mayor Cor
don H. Claude and members of the
City Council strongly advocated both
propositions
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1908-07-31
EVOLUTION OF FOOD.
Our Ancestors Would Be Astonished
BY Modern Breakfast Table.

Our Ancestors Would Be Astonished
BY Modern Breakfast Table.
What would be the sensations OF
one of our ancestors of the Middle
Ages if he could sit down to a mod
eTn breakfast table?
To begin with fruits, says Harper's
Weekly, these were almost unknown
TO the men of his period; certainly
in their present form. So were most
OF our vegetables. The only vege.
table which seems to be more or
less indigenous over the greater part
Of the world is the squash pumpkin,
tribe. The pumpkin is very ancient,
for it dates back to Cinderella.
OF course he knew the small wild
cherry, with its bitter flavor, the hit
tie wild strawberry, the raspberry,
blackberry and plum. Apples, or
CRABS as Shakespeare calls them.
were used in England, and generally
roasted in order to deprive them OF
their astringency. The wild-hedge
orange of China and India Uttered
into Europe occasionally, but It was
scarcely eatable. Potatoes were, OF
course, unknown. Bananas were In
troduced in quantity to Europe with
in the lifetime of many middle-aged
men. The grapefruit Is the product
of the past two decades, and even yet
has seldom crossed the Atlantic. The
peach was a poisonous shrub OF Per
STA.
Strangely enough, it was the lack
of fruit which led to the discovery
of Asia. In those days, when salt
fish was the usual diet Of all nations,
pepper became a luxury. Pepper plays
a disproportionate part in history.
Who speaks and sings Of spices nowa-
days, when they can be procured at
every grocer's store? Yet 1t was to
obtain pepper that the East India
Company was chartered during the
reign of Elizabeth
Oats were defined scornfully by Dr.
johnson as food fed to men in Scot
land and to horses in England. What
would the worthy doctor have thought
Of our very modern breakfast foods
the flakes, the brans, the husks, the
shreds and various constituents OF
grains? Tea, coffee and cocoa were,
of course, unknown until the begin
ming of the eighteenth century. Sugar
was the most costly of condiments.
Bookkeeping was the practice of every
farmer.
Our worthy ancestor broke his fast
upon salt fish or meat if he were
wealthy or had access to some deer
forest He washed down his food
with hot beer, spiced or honey brew.
A roasted crab-apple "sang in the
bowl on the very numerous saints
days. Our modern breakfast would
startle our ancestor very much in
deed.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1908-07-31
TO SPAN THE POTOMAC.

Hagerstown Especially The direc-
tors of the Washington and Berkeley
Bridge Company awarded the con-
tract for the erection OF the steel
bridge to span the Potomac River at
Williamsport to the Pennsylvania
Steel Company, Steelton, Pa, for
$4,000. The contract for the con-
crete abutments, etc., was given TO
Gilmore & Hamilton, Hagerstowny
whose bid was $4,000. In addition
to the steel and concrete work the
flooring, grading, ETC., will cost about
$4,000. The steel bridge viii be
1900 feet long and "a feet wide to
accommodate a wagon road, trolley
track and foot path. Sixteen bids
were submitted by firms in Baltimore,
York, New York and Roanoke. Work
will begin inside of 80 days. It is
expected to have the bridge finished
by January next. Mason R. Pratt is
the engineer.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1908-07-31
FASHION NOTES

Roses in all colors are in evidence,
and sweet peas and wild blossoms that
certainly have received their impress
sions from the dyer's hands.
Gold is very much seen in soft
gowns of black-not the cheap, bright
gold. but the dull, almost rusty color
There is no material which shows
UP to better advantage the beauties
of the mental trimmings than black
satin.
Several of the new designs in lin
gerie gowns have the short kimona
sleeve unconfned by band at the ell
bow.
With gold flowers, gold cords, gold
lace, the latest thing to put about the
neck of a lingerie waist is a piece
of gold braid.
Violet and purple are mixed in
bows. also pink and gray, and all
broadly striped ribbons are much in
demand.
Pewter, steel. gold, silver, copper
all the metals are represented in
the garnitures designed for the dec.
Grafton of handsome gowns, and they
are applied to both heavy and light
materials.
There are dire rumors that the shirt
waist is doomed, that the ultra cor
rect people will not wear it much
longer unless disguised.
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IMPoTEINCY.

BY Kate Thomas.
There Is SO much in this great world.
My soul grows sick with looking at
the ways
That wind and knot and part to meet
again
And part again and knot and wind
and fade.
Children of fashion; children Of the
streets;
Children of fashion hiding hungry
hearts,
Children Of fashion stepped In sor-
did thoughts,
Children of fashion crying for the
light,
Children of fashion careless OF the
dark.
Children of cutters starving for kind
words,
Children of cutters starving for dry
bread,
Children of cutters STEPPED In sor'
did thoughts,
Children OF cutters crying tor the
light,
Children of cutters careless of the
dark.
o God! to see the way this heaying
mass
Goes by with smiles and tears land
fewer smiles!).
Laughing and cursing Gay, and ours
ing more!.
What can one puny mind do in the
whirl?
what use one weakling arm to sway
the tide?
He! stand with arms rocl--ribbed!
There's wave
Fhat washes rock to powder Set your
will
In purpose fixt, as is the brain that
willed
Flxt in the skull. The sea filings
wide corpse.
And cares not If 1t rot on putrid
sands.
From the Independent.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1908-07-31
| 2lQlM IAN N
"oH. WHAT'S THE UsE?"


II a wife discovers that her hus
band doesn't look at her any less
when she's got on a dirty old kimono
and no corset, and her hair screwed
up into a knob with one hairpin
skewered through it, than he does
when she has put on something pink
and lacy and marcelled her hair to
the roots, who can blame her If she
says to herself, ''Oh. what's the use?"
and degenerates into the dressing
sacque habit?
Probably the majority of husbands
who do not comment on their wives
bad management and cooking and
breakfast curl papers keep silence
from a sense of politeness. 1t seems
to them an ungentlemanly thing to
criticise lady's appearance and mis-.
takes.
Never was there a greater miscar-
riage of gallantry. In every case the
woman attributes the lack Of remark
to blindness and indifference on the
mans part.
In proof of this you have only to
look about you and see that in every
household where the man watches
what his wife does, and what she
wears, the woman is an admirable
manager and always charmingly dress.
Dorothy Dix. in the New York
Journal.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1908-07-31
Cement Plant Inspected.

Hagerstown (Special) - Officials
and stockholders Of the Maryland
Portland Cement Company, with g
number of invited guests, inspected
the big plant of the company located
at Security, two miles from Hagers-
town, and saw taken from the plant
the first Portland cement ever man
ufactured in the State of Maryland.
The plant has capacity of 500 bar
rels of cement daily and will give
employment to about $50 men. The
plant, which is practically $1,000
900 proposition, was established
largely by Baltimore capitalists.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1908-07-31
SEA REVEALS PIRATE HOARD.
Portuguese Fishing Village Endanser-
ed BY the Atlantic Crows Sud-
denly Rich.


The Inhabitants of Paradelha, a
tiny fishing village on the Portuguese
coast some distance south of Lisbon,
have been growing rich of late on
what seems to have been the hidden
plumber OF some long forgotten pirate
band. Some of them have gathered
in as much as $1,000 worth of treas
ure.
That part OF the coast of Portugal
is suffering from the encroachments
of the ocean. Many houses have been
undermined in the last few years and
have had to be abandoned. Some
times big slices Of dry land slip on
into the Atlantic on a stormy night
and the people wake up to find all
landmarks changed
This is what happened couple
of weeks ago in furious gale. The
waves washed far in over the upland
and carried away vast masses OF the
upper soil, leaving the shelving beach
a couple of hundred feet wider than
ii had ever been before. A fisherman
walking along the edge of the strand
saw something glistening in the slope
and roofing it out OF the ground
found it was an ancient silver cup.
He dug some more and found guam
titles OF scattered gold and silver
coins.
When the news got around the vii
lage the whole population turned out
to dig. They found stin more money,
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MOSES
4 GREAT WAR CHIEF WHO
KNEW WHEN NOT
TO FIGHT.
FROM GEN. 0. 0. BOVARD's "FAKOUS
INDIAN CHIEFS" In ST. NICHOLAS.

In the northwest of our great coun-
try there are so many different tribes
of Indians that l cannot begin to tell
You their names, but they were Of
ten divided in this way. Those who
lived on reservations were called
Reservation Indians" and those who
did not Outside Indians" Now
Moses was chief OF a great many
tribes of Outside Indians and he was
q very great chief. OF course, Mos
es was not his name, but Governor
Stevens gave it to him long ago and
every one called him SO, indeed, he
seemed to have forgotten his Indian
name and called himself Moses. He
was very handsome man, tall and
straight, and always well dressed.
He usually wore a buckskin coat and
trousers, and handsome beaded mo-
cassins, and broad, light felt hat
with thin veil encircling it. He
always had leather belt around his
waist. in which he carried a long
knife and pistol holster, the ivory
pistol knob in plain sight.
Now, Moses had led his indians in
many battles, both against Indians
and white men, and everybody knew
that he was a brave warrior and
could fight. Indeed, in 1858 one of
the very fiercest battles we ever had
with the Indians took place when
Moses was the Indian war-chief and
Gauoraf Henr0a yMv;uh+
the Unfted States soldiers at the
Battle of Yakima River" But af-
ter Dir. Wilbur became the Indian
agent things changed, for the Indians
loved him and called him Father Will
bur, and Moses decided not to fight
the white men any more.
Many times Moses was asked to
80 ON reservation. but he always
replied that he would live on res
ervatiop, but not with Indians he did
not know. Many tribes had asked him
to be their chief. and he wanted
washington" to give him the land
In q bend of the Columbia River
for a reservation. 1t was waste land,
he said. where no white people want
ed to live, but the Indians would be
happy there, he knew When Chief
Joseph led the Mex Perces against
us In the many battles / have told
You about, he sent often to Moses
to ask him to come and fight too,
but Moses always said "No." Still
this chief did not have an easy time,
for many people said he was bad
Indian, and at last he wrote me a
letter which have keep many years
and which ! am sure you would like
to see.
Moses Chief want you to know
what my Tum-tum is in regard to
my tribes and the white people. AL
most every day there come to me
reports that the soldiers from WalIa
Walla are coming to take me away
from this part of the country. MY
people are constantly excited and
want to know from you the truth so
can tell my people and have every
thing quiet once more among us.
Since the last war we have had re-
ports up here DIST MNaas am going
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HAD A WRONG SIDE.

she was prettily explosive, and at
tractively worried; her aunt was adj
miring her gown, says the New York
Post Suddenly the young woman
gave a little shrek and exclaimed:
Don't look at the back; my spine
curls every time any one looks at
the back of this frock! The fronts
all right and it's just my luck. to have
the back go back on me. It's been
that way all my life. If one side of
a hat was becoming the other was
hideous and have the most awful
time keeping people on the attractive
side.
When I'm in car / loathe all
the people that are looking at the
side without the feather and often
at teas and places I've Unanswered
for minutes to get man on the side
that was dashing. My idea of heaven
is a dress and hat that looks well all
around. OF course, know you think
I'm silly, but I can no more help It
than fly. You asked me last night
why was so gay at dinner and then
so distract when we were playing
bridge. l didn't like to tell you, but
it was my evening gown. 1t fits bad
ly in the back, and when we played
bridge 1 was sitting so that the peo-
pie at the two other tables could see
my back perfectly. You needn't
stare. know lots of girls who feel
almost as strongly as I do about it.
Why, I've one friend whose hair only
grows prettily on one side, and her
left profile Is really rather plain, and
when her mother is giving a dinner
they have to arrange the table three
or four times so that the person she
cares least about will sit at her left.
It's really pretty serious; yes, 1t is.
too. Oh, am talking loud? Why,
every ones been listening to me. How
horrid!" And she quickly rose and
draped a travelling cloak over her
shoulders. At that moment the train
came.
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p. M. Seibert A suicide.

Hagerstown Especially Edwin M.
Seibert committed suicide at his
home, at Mercersburg, by shooting
himself in the head with a S8-caliber
revolver. He was engaged in the
drug business for number OF years,
retiring on account of his failing
health, which is believed to have
prompted him to take his life.