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The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1908-12-31
.naekbonen superauons.

''The worst thing about having no
back kbone," said the woman who had
been born without that supposedly in
dispensable member, lis trying to get
one. 1t is perfectly useless agony,
too, because If nature hasn't given
you a backbone, you can't get it by
any other means. II you once recog-
nize this fact and submit to your linz
itations you'll find that you can get
on fairly well without a backbone,
and when you realize how often the
thing that passes for determination is
mere disregard for or inability to
comprehend other peoples rights and
feelings, you can bear up under the
contempt commonly meted out to the
'spineless.'
"A backbone is not nearly so nee
essary as people imagine, and very
often one gets on great deal better
without it. If you haven't any back
bone, you won't be tempted to butt
your head against irresistible forces.
We are most OF us helpless victims in
the hands of fate. and ordinarily we
might as well let ourselves drift as
try to mold circumstances TO our will,
The drifting may be mistake, TO be
sure, but pulling against the current
may be mistake equally, and the
first Is easier.
''If cant decide. do nothing,
whom that 10 possible and let events
shape themselves as they will. and n
! mosk Y sansthane ! - uhet ~
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Inspiring and Otherwise.

isn't it an inspiring book?" ex-
claimed the enthusiastic woman.
"Oh, yes" admitted the other,
wearily. MANY things are inspiring.
When l see a good play or read of
heroic characters, or the organist
plays something from Beethoven's s
mass in D, feel that life is grand.
/ am filled with zeal and eager for a
chance to prove my noble, elevated
point of view
Then l am called up on the tele-
rhone by some stranger who asks me
II will please go up to the top floor
and ask Mrs. Blank to come to the
telephone-Mrs. Blank being per-
son do not know and to whom I am
indebted for nothing-and the broth
erhood of man suddenly takes on a
pale, cold, blue tinge that doesn't in
terest me in the least. / wonder why
it is?"-New York Press.
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Cleanse Lace Curtains.

Came across the way to clean lace
curtains by dry process the other day
and will pass 1t along, as there may
be others who shrink from the task of
laundrying curtains as much as I do.
Claims they will look like new after
this treatment, even If discolored with
dust and smoke, and they will cer-
tainly last longer than if put through
the wash. Take down the curtains
and shake them free from dust;
spread a sheet on the floor and lay
one curtain smoothly on it; cover
thickly with corn meal, lay on an
other curtain and again cover with
the meal. Continue until all the cur
tains are covered with the meal, then
roll up loosely and lay away for few
days. When wanted, unroll, brush
off the meal and hang on the line in
the wind and sun for half a day.
When hung up against the window
they will look like new.-Boston
Post.
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"other woridIiness."

The gibe of George Eliot about
"other worldliness," while never gem
orally true, is to-day less SO than
ever. The greatest enemy of the
Church dare not say, with any pros
pect of being believed, that Heaven
looms more largely than earth in the
thought of modern Christianity. The
exact contrary is the case. The social
ideas of the time absorb many, to the
almost entire exclusion of heavenly
visions. What the Church needs is
really a reminder of her heavenly cit
izenship, fact likely to be forgotten
amid the fever of temporal activity.
In sermon before Rev. ]. H. Jo-
wett's congregation at Birmingham,
Rev. J. G.. Stevenson, of Brighton,
made a strong plea for the recovery
of spiritual and heavenly conceptions,
as being absolutely necessary for the
maintenance of practical work; and
he quoted the case of one who, COM
mencing social service for love of
Christ, gradually dropped all the dis
tinctively Christian side of his work.
abandoned public worship, and be-
came absorbed in social endeavor.
But the time came when the latter
in turn was dropped, on the ground
that che had worked long enough
for others-it was time to work for
himself"
1t would be easy to multiply cases
of this kind. 1t is a law not suffi-
ciently understood that work in the
world can only be successfully car
ried on as personal spirituality is
maintained. 1t is the true heavenly
citizen who makes the best earthly
one.-London Christian.
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Docs Not Wear Aigrets.

Queen Alexandra has issued a pub
lie statement to the effect that she
does not wear aigrets, and this, Of
course, is intended as rebuke to a
cruel and horrible practice. The Off
cial statement means something more
even than that. 1t means that no
lady can venture into the Queens
presence with these feathers upon her
head, and it means that the aigret Is
stamped as questionable throughout
every rank in society. Royalty has
its undoubted disadvantages, but
something may be written also upon
the other side of the slate. The
power to make cruelty unfashionable
is one to be envied, and every country
would be the better for an influence
that Is no less real because it has no
coercive laws to back it.--Argonaut.
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TRUST by Being Thankful.

A great truth is never effective in
individual life unless that truth is
translated into life through the me-
dunn of experience. One of the card
inal truths for us who belong to
Christ is that "all things work togeth-
er for good"
Has the truth been so verified in
your experience that you can say with
Orville Dewey, Notwithstanding all
that / have suffered, Notwithstanding
all the pain and weariness and anx-
iety and sorrow that necessarily enter
into life, and the inward errings that
are worse than all, would end my
record with a devout thanksgiving
to the great Author of my being For
more and more am 1 unwilling to
make my gratitude to Him what is
commonly called a thanksgiving for
mercies,' for any benefits or blessings
that are peculiar to myself, or my
friends, or indeed TO any man. In
stead of this, would have it be graft
itude for all that belongs to my life
and being-for Joy and sorrow, for
health and sickness, for success and
disappointment, for virtue and for
temptation, for life and death; be-
cause believe that all is meant for
good. pr George r. Lunn, in
Christian Intelligencer.
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MR ERlELS |N
MAAfAsSgoMAA(

Bouillon lace is constantly EN-.
ployed by French dressmakers as a
furnishing.
The dealers are making no display
OF fans so far, and there are predic.
tions that the fan is not to be stylish
the coming ball season.
The high collar has come in again
on fur coats and jackets, and is often
made of different fur from the gar.
ment ON which 1t is used.
New motoring and steamer canes
are exactly like the golf capes of the
season, except that they are longer.
Some of them are full seven-eighth
length, and are finished with hoods.
Little novelty stocks, often copied
from French models. are one of the
most striking features of the season
They are charmingly made up of rib.
bon of almost any fur--even pointed
fox and black lynx.
While no skirt at the present time
can be called full, those designed for
soft, thin materials are often made tc
fall in voluminous folds, but they
have the top closely laid In tucks that
produce the sheath fit.
This is day when bags, little or
big, ostentatiously plain or elaborate.
ly decorated. are put to a hundred
uses, from the shopping and automo.
bile bags down to the delicate little
wrist and vanity bags.
The shortened waist and straight
elinging lines Of the skirt are features
that strongly influence the winter
modes. characterizing evening gowns,
dressy coat suits for afternoon and
other affairs OF ceremony.
In gowns having the high waist
line, the top OF the skirt is often
tucked. but II the gown is OF chiffon
or anything Of this nature the gath
cred top permits the soft folds OF the
material to cling to the figure and fol-
low the outline becomingly.
Each one OF the puffs arranged at
the back OF the Psyche knot II held
In place by a large hairpin. and the
nompadour is now held by pin in
stead OF = somb. Some girls, too.
have gono ~ far as to ada Que 10 sacf
ssde q ~ h~o<.
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~7elTTEN nY REV " &. N1EEk5, -.

good, every lofty ideal we're drawn
with perfect accuracy. Failures and
successes, defeats and victories passed
in rapid review. Never were there
such noble ambitions, such possibili-
ties and such fatal aimlessness
crowded into so small compass. The
sight alarmed me and 1 cried, rs it
too late?"
Suddenly the Scene Changed.
The judgment was set amid blaze
of majesty and power and glory, be-
yond my most fertile imagination.
Every human being stood before it,
waiting to render an account of the
life now closed. Notably,
The Poor Led the Way.
A boy from one of the great mer-
camille houses preceded several 9TH
ers whom he had influenced for good.
Then came man with score of his
fellow workmen, whom he had res
cued, by his holy living, from lives of
ungodliness. He was followed by
woman, distressingly poor while on
earth, but filled with the Holy Spirit.
She with her children, whom she had
brought up In the fear of the Lord,
together ascended the massive steps
which led them through the portals
of glory into--who can describe "the
things which eye hath not seen nor
ear heard?"
For Thousand Years
the endless procession continued to
advance until the last man and wom-
an had rendered an accounting of the
life entrusted to them. was greatly
distressed at the sight of one whom
l had known; he brought his work, a
marvel of human goodness, but 1t was
Rejected, Because 1t Was Christless.
The scene closed. Alarmed,
awoke from my reverie. Instantly l
fell on my knees, consecrated my life
to Him who bought me with His
blood, allowed Him to fill me with His
Holy Spirit. Now. after several
years, write to say. this is what ]
did with my life.
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second.NLile Christians.

Love does not think of counting
miles. 1t never says. "Can stop
here?" "Have I not done my share?"
1t is a characteristic of love to be do
ing always more than is expected or
required. Love goes the second mile
and counts it not weary thing to go
10000 more. This Is what the re-
ligion of the second mile does for
men. 1t brings heart enlistment. II
causes us to serve not because we
must, but because we will-because
we love and therefore delight to do
the will of the One we love. The
second mile Christian realizes Christ's
love for souls and therefore tries to
win men TO Him. The second-mile
Christian realizes Chrlst's longing for
the extension of His Kingdom. and
therefore gladly gives according to
his ability for the spread of the Cos
pei. Christ's interests become his
interests, Christ's glory his glory
Christs cause his cause, under the
sweet compelling restrain of love-
Rev. c. b. f. Hallock d. d.
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Mock Mince Pie.-Twelve crackers
rolled fine, one cup hot water, one
half cup vinegar, one cup molasses,
ore cup sugar, one cup currants, one
cup raisins, spice to taste, one cup
butter. Measure with a teacup.
Some use bread crumbs instead of
crackers.
Cafe Parfait.-One cup sugar, one
half cup water, one-fourth black
coffee, six egg yolks, one pint heavy
cream. Cook sugar and water five
minutes and add coffee. Pour slow
ly on the beaten egg yollSs, add whip
from cream, turn into mould and
pack In ice and salt. Let stand four
hours.
Orange Dainty.-Peel four orr
anges cut them into small pieces,
sprinkle with powdered sugar and
put In a glass dish. Whip one-half
pint of heavy cream until stiff, add
one tablespoon OF sugar, one-half tea
spoon of vanilla and one-fourth cup
each of chopped nut meats and can
died cherries. Spread this over the
fruit and serve at once.
Bluebery Cake.--One egg, one
half cup sugar. one-half cup molasses,
one cup milk, nutmeg and one tea
spoon cinnamon, one tablespoon
shortening. After stirring above
thoroughly. add two cups flour which
contains one teaspoon soda and a
pinch Of salt. Before stirring flour
sprinkle in one cup blueberries. Mix
to medium batter. and bake in sheet;
serve hot with butter.
English Drawn Butter.--Rub to-
gether Tablespoonful OF butter and
one cup OF -four, add slowly one-half
pint OF boiling water, beating all the
time Boil o few minutes. take from
the fire and add vne-half teaspoon
salt, q little pepper and another table
spoon butter, Serve with summer
squash or any green vegetable This
may be used for boiled haddocl,, half
but or cod II the juice OF one lemon
\ added.
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lavished. When he is gone, his ad.
vice proffered without much knowl
edge of real conditions, is quoted and
urged with an insistence discouraging
to the sister, and even the contrast
between his light hearted merriment
and her seriousness is harped upon.
There are sadder cases still where the
money earned by a self-sacrificing
daughter is persistently shared with a
reckless and improvident son, and
bitterest of all--it is to the perpetu.
ally returning prodigal that the warm
est affection seems to go. Habits
like these can hardly be corrected,
perhaps, in age. But mothers in
younger life should be on their
guard against forming them. - c W.
gregationalist.
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Now, there's Mrs. Blank. for in
stance. She is so thin and lank that
all comparisons fail. OF course she
looks perfectly stunning in the new
hipless gowns, while well, it's sim
ply impossible for me to be COM
pressed within one of them. l look
a fright, to say nothing of the pun
ishment to my vanity of having to try
to hide all my symmetrical curves
and then not succeeding. When prin-
cess gowns of closest fit were all the
rage, Mrs. Blank had just as many
curves as I have. Oh, no, my dear
l don't know where she got them
I am not Mrs. Blanks dressmaker
nor her tailor. l only know she had
New York Press.
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best or dislike least, as the case may
be. My own inclinations are the most
reliable guides have ever found, and
I wish that l had earlier learned to
rate them at their proper value. The
powers that presided over my early
education contrived to inoculate me
with the idea that inclinations exist.
as Herbert Spencer says, not for our
guidance, but solely to mislead US,
and 1t took me long time to learn
that when / went against them was
certain to be wrong, and sometimes
disastrously and fatally wrong.
Another thing / do is to lean
shamelessly on any one 1 have found
capable of supporting my weight
That, of course, has to be done with
discretion, because it is painful to
lean on the wrong person, but when
you have found a staff that you can
rely on it is foolish not to use it. The
strong like to exercise their strength,
and IL must be pleasanter for your
friends to give you the benefit of
their superior wisdom than to sec
you come 10 grief
1T is also possible to avoid cir
cumstances that call for decision. II
you can't make up your mind quickly
you don't need to drive a motor car
or steer boat. Leave that to other
people, and let who will sneer at your
incompetence and lack of courage. -.
New York Tribune.
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New Years Day is in some way REQ
ognized by every people having for
NAL calendar, yet the hours of the
last day OF the old yenr generally
pass with little variation from or
dinary routine. Nevertheless, 1t is
the completed book whose story I'M
presses the reader for good or bad,
not the cover or the frontispiece OF
the new one. Nearly all the words OF
our language applying to course not
absolutely marked out describe the
path that is left behind and not that
which is before There is no counter
part to tho ships wake" for the
course which the PROV Is about to
break, nor of the track OF the cy-
clone," nor Of the spoor of the tiger.
nor OF "the trail" of numberless AMI
mails. 1t may be noted incidentally
that laws or ordinances require auto
mobiles to carry a number, in large
figures, hanging from the back. No
body who sees an automobile coming
cares what It's number is. Only when
1t happens to leave some record be-
hind in its track is the knowledge OF
its number important. II is doubtless
because the future is swarming with
possibilities, whereas the past consti-
tutes a record which cannot be
changed, that most of our festivities
centre about the anticipation of the
new year rather than in a retrospec-
tive affection for the old. In the eld-
er days of the world prophecy held a
place Of prominence among all peo-
pies, but of history in the scientific
sense there was none. This has been
reversed by the severely practical
modern world. History is at pre-
MUM, prophecy at a discount. Yet
the almost disregarded last day of De-
cember stands for the completed rec
ord. as New Years does for the pro-
phecy OF what is to come.
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RELlcIous READlNc
ron THE oUIET HOUR.
A PRAYER.

God, pray to Thee for patience when the
world seems all unfair.
When life seems one long injustice, and tho
end alone despair;
When I'm weary, oh, so weary, and my
tears bring no relief,
When | question why Thou sendest to hur
manity such grief;
When ask the use of sorrow, misery and
grinding pain,
What the end is; what the object what
the meanings what the gain?
Grant me faith as well as patience, and
forgive me when | pray
For some knowledge Of the reasons why we
suffer day by day.
Give me strength to keep on working,
cheerfully TO do my task
Give me courage, hope, submission; perfect
JOY cannot ask.
Teach me how to give TO others something
helpful, something true.
How to make my life worth living, how to
start each day anew.
God in Heaven, forgive my failures and
uphold me with Thy hand.
am weak, impatient, restless, and can-
not understand.
l can only hope, believing there are reasons
now unknown,
Which sometime, somewhere well master,
as we reap what we have sown
God, once more ! come imploring Thee
with strength to fill my heart
have failed, wilt Thou forgive me, and
Thy love to me imparty
-Sylva Chaplin, in Christian Register.
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Rule For Doing Big Washing Easily

Rule For Doing Big Washing Easily.
Soak clothes over night, using
tablespoon of washing powder to each
pail of lukewarm water. In the
morning lift clothes with a stick into
the boiler, cover well with cold water,
using powder in proportion to the
amount of water. Let it come to
boil and boil twenty minutes; stir the
clothes with stick occasionally; take
clothes from boiler, drain off the
Water, fill in tub with cold water;
wiring the clothes from this water
into another tub of cold water; souse
well with the hands or stick; drain
OFF water; fill again and repeat. Have
blueing water ready and wiring
clothes out in the clear water, then
put each piece separately in blueing
water; wiring out and put in basket.
In this way there is no scrubbing,
unless 1t might be very soiled wrist
bands on child's blouse. If the
washing is very large, it had better
be done in two parts. There will be
no tired back. and a nice white wash
on the line. Be sure and open kitch-
en- windows at the top while boiling
to allow steam to escape.-Boston
Post.
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no Mend an Agate Kettle.

When an aggavating hole suddenly
appears In an agate or porcelain ket-
tie, do not throw it away as worth
less. Take one of those round headed
paper fasteners, such as lawyers use
In keeping sheets of manuscript to-
gether, push the two level fat clips
through the hole from the inside,
bend back on the outside, then lay
the kettle on a hard substance, ham,
mer the round head down fiat on the
inside and it will last for long
time.-Boston Post.
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There are several species OF fish,
reptiles and insects which never sleep
during the whole Of their existence.
Among fish ii Is posit.~~'v known that
pike, salmon and goldfish az no time
sleep; also that there are other men-
becs OF the Ash family that sleep only
a few minutes during the course Of
n month There are various species
q hios that newer indulge In slumher,
N'd Ave apsGias ox aerpents also thar
y rot nassp ~ PhlHde delphia Record,
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After-Efrects Of the Grin.

DR.. Clouston. of Edinburgh, said 1t
seemed as II no disease OF whose
enects there was any correct record
mad such far-reaching evil effects as
this one, and among its sequelae he
enumerated depressing influence on
the whole nervous energy, melan-
cholsa. neurasthenic conditions. pre-
mature senility, various forms OF
paralysis, neuralgic affections and a
general incapacity for ork.-Dundee
Advertiser.
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,A orowdod uniYersc.

In New Haven the committee OF a
graduating class once went to local
ieweler with a commission for class
badge. They had in view design
representing a youthful graduate SUR
yeying the universe,
About how large would you like
the ilgure?" the jeweler asked.
Well said the spokesman, 1--WE
thought the graduate ought to cover
aoout three-Quartcrs Of the badge,
and the unIverse the rest. "---s Success.
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Bureau and Commode scnrfs.

Take some curtain muslin with n
pretty design and make strips large
enough to cover bureau and COM
mode. Now take and put two small
rufles around, one on the edge and
the other just inside and line with
a color that suits the taste. / have
pale blue, which is very pretty. My
PIN cushion is lined and covered with
muslin same as covers and ruffles
around and baby ribbon rosettes in
the corners. 1 also made broom
brush holder to match covers and
wall paper. This suggestion lie eco
nomical and at the same time very
beautiful.-Boston Post.
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When TnIleYrnnd Scored.

When Nine. de Stael published her
celebrated novel, "Delphine," she was
supposed to have painted herself in
the person of the heroine, and M. Tai
leyrand in that of an elderly lady,
who is one of the principal characters.
"They tell me-" said he, the first time
he met her, that we are both of us
in your novel, in the disguise of
women"
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Psychology in Clothes.

DR.. Thomas Claye Shaw. Of Lon
don, speaking on the subject of the
special psychology of women, says
that there is a psychology in clothes.
1t Is useless to say that they dress as
they do to please other women or
please men. They dress simply be-
cause they have to in their own way
and to their own satisfaction. The
Psychology Of dress is that 1t appears
to make you be what you profess TO
ha
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New Years Resolutions.

If everybody on this earth
Made resolutions New Years Day
And kept them fast, a share Of mirth
From life would straight be swept away.
The fool would cease the pranks which
make
The wise man jeer with cynic chaff.
The wise man with some sad mistake
Would never move the fool to laugh.
So let us strive as best we may
And, if perfection be not won,
Well let the failure go its way
To swell the scoffer's store of fun.