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The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1909-09-30
Standard Pays s5,OOO,O0o For
10000 Acres of Oil Lant

Notwithstanding Brothers. oil
producers, officially announced the
completion OF deal with the Stand
ard OIL Company whereby the Pitts
burg company retires completely from
development in the Eastern Illinois
field.
For a sum close to 5000. 900 the
Ohio Oil Company, Standard con-
cern. has taken over 10000 acres Of
territory owned by Jennings Brothers
in that part of Illinois. The land Is
now wild and unimproved.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1909-09-30
Sexton. verger. sacristan.

1T Is the same thing under differ
ent Names" said DR.. Harvey w.
Wiley, the governments food ex-
pert. OF some new food preserya-
tives.
"The same thing under different
Names" DR.. Wiley repeated. 1T re-
mindes me OF the old caretaker of
an Episcopal church.
This caretaker. as he rat smok-
ing his pipe on tomb in the ceme-
terry, dismissed as trivial certain
changes In the ritual
The good, old creed keeps the
same for ALL said he. Look at me
here. used to be the janitor. The
new parson called me the sextant.
nr. Thirdly gave me the name OF
virgin. And the young man we've
got now says I'm the sacrilege.' -
Washington Post.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1909-09-30
About Noted People.

President Taft spent Yale Day"
at the reunion OF the Yale Association
at Brookline. Mass.
Prince Kuni and his wife we're en-
tertained at dinner by prominent Jap
anese at the Nippon Club. New York
City.
Lord Northcliffe. in an interview in
Winnipeg. said many persons believed
Germany might attack England In
1912.
John l.. Stevens. formerly chief en-
glpeer Of the Panama Canal. was
elected president Of the Oregon Trunk
Line Railroad.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1909-09-30

Miss Mary Magee, of this city. Is OF
bronze, about foot high, and is in
the shape of a shield. At the top
there is bas relief of the steamboat
Clermont. Directly underneath is a
scroll containing the words, "Cler-
mont, Fulton, 1907" Upon the tab
let is inscribed the following:
Here, on November IA. 1865. was
born Robert Fulton, inventor, who,
on the waters of the Hudson, August
II, 1907, first successfully applied
steam to the purpose of navigation.
At this place he spent the first years
of his life. Without a monument fu-
ture generations would know him.
Erected by the Lancaster County His
torical Society at the centenary cele-
bration of his achievement, Septem-
ber, 1909"
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1909-09-30
No Man Is Satisfied,

A friend of the Rev. DR.. ]. Wilbur
Chapman, the evangelist, has receiv-
ed letter from the former Phila-
delphia minister, in which he tells
OF the great success of his meetings
in Australia.
The letter describes the people
there as fun-loving, and says he has
worked off many stories that in the
United States would be labeled an
cient.
One which he has told with great
success to illustrate that there is
no real happiness in the world will
bear retelling. Here it is:
why, even the man who smokes
a pipe is not happy" says DR.. Chap
man. IF he is smoking his own to-
bacco he is thinking of how much
it cost him. and If he is smoking the
other fellows, he packs it so tight
in the bowl OF his pipe that it won't
draw. ."-Philadelph Times.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1909-09-30
Ready To Do His Part.

An eccentric country squire agreed
to employ an equally eccentric rustic
to rid his mansion of its plague of
flies. the terms being board, lodgings
and beer for three days. At the end
of this period there were more flies
than ever, and the squire interroga-
ted his new employe thus:
why ever haven't you made a
start You contracted to kill all the
fies."
I'm waiting for you, guv'nor," re-
torted the willy rustic, you've got
to catch 'em first. | only promised
to kill 'em"-London News.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1909-09-30

For hundreds Of years mankind
used the same style and size Of razor
and had no thought that It could be
improved until some genius evolved
the safety razor. That genius reaped
the benefit of his inventive talent by
charging from SO to s. for each i'm
plement. people being glad to buy at
those figures. Now comes another
inventor who has made possible a
still better safety razor, and for only
twenty-five cents. That sum in post
age stamps sent to the Book Publish
Ing House, 134 Leonard street. New
York. will secure razor postpaid
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1909-09-30
ECZEMA BURNED AND lTCHED.
Spread Over Hand, Arms, Legs and
FACET Was Something Terrible
--CompIete Cure by Cuticura.

"About fifteen or eighteen years ago &C.
tema developed on top of my hand. It
burned and itched 80 much that l was
compelled to show it to doctor. He pro-
nounced it ringworm. After trying his diff.
ferent remedies the disease increased and
went up my arms and to my legs and
finally on my face. The burning was some
thing terrible. l went to another doctor
who had the reputation of being the best
in town. He told me it was eczema. His
medicine checked the advance Of the dis
ease but no further. finally concluded to
try the Cuticura Remedies and found relief
in the first trial continued until was
completely free from the disease and have
not been troubled since. c. Burkhart, 2Se
W. Market St., Chambersburg, Pa, Sept.
10, lsOS." Potter Drug & Chem. Corp, Sole
Props. Of Cutic,ra Remedies, Boston, Mass
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1909-09-30
Judge Declares Abrogated
= Right TO Jury Trial InvioIate.

Mobile, Ala.-Jules e. Afford, in
the Inferior Court here, dealt the pro-
hibitionists OF Alabama severe blow
when he declared that the portion of
the celebrated Fuller prohibition bill
denying a defendant the right of a
trial by jury was unconstitutional
He said that Section 4 of the Ala
bama constitution stated that right of
trial by Jury must remain inviolate
and that the Fuller bill was In direct
conflict with this. All cases on the
docket will be appealed.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1909-09-30
In PiffshnrR.

The City Editor-Here's a mighty
good story about a young fellow who
runs away with chorus girl.
The Night Editor-What's that!
A good story? Why it's been done
to death.
The City Editor-This one hasn't.
It's an absolute novelty. The young
fellow is neither a millionaire nor
a Pittsburger. Cleveland Plain
Dealer.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1909-09-30
He Was Safe Either Way.

An Elk County citizen. who has
just graduated from a law school,
wrote to prominent lawyer in an
Arkansas town to find out what
chance there would be for him in
that part of the country.
Il am a Republican in politics. y
he wrote, "and an honest lawyer"
IF your are an honest lawyer"
came the reply, you will have no
competition, and If you are Repub-
lican, the game law will protect you"
Kansas City Journal.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1909-09-30
Paw Paw, Mich.
Another Operation Avoided,

Another Operation Avoided.
Chicago, III. II want women to
know what that wonderful medicine.
Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Com.
pound, has done for me. Two of the
best doctors In Chicago said / would
die if did not have an operation, and
l never thought of seeing well day
again. had a small tumor and female
troubles SO that suffered day and
night. A friend recommended Lydia
E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound,
and 1t made me well woman
ALyENA SPERLINe, II Jangdon St.
Chicago, Ill.
Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Com
pound, made from roots and herbs.
has proved to be the most successful
remedy for curing the worst forms OF
female ills. including displacements.
Inflammation, fibroid tumors, irregu.
larities, periodic pains, backache, bear.
ing-down- feeling, flatulency, indiges-
tion, and nervous prostration. Itcosts
but O. trifie to try 1t, and the result
has been worth millions to many
suffering women.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1909-09-30

cannot describe my suffering from
terrible bearing down pains, dizzy
spells, headaches and periods OF par
tial blindness. The urine was full OF
sediment. l was in the hospital three
weeks. Doan's Kidney Pills were
quick to bring relief and soon made
me we'll and strong again"
Remember the name-Doan's. For
sale by all dealers. SO cents a box.
Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo. N. Y.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1909-09-30

The Zanzibar governments new
steamship Cupid, recently arrived
from Scotland. It is primarily in
tended for freight and passenger
traffic between Zanzibar and Pemba
Islands.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1909-09-30

ness, headaches,
tired feeling. urin-
ary troubles. Doan's
Kidney Pills cure
the cause. Mrs.
Virginia Spitzer,
BuenG Vista, Va,
says: For thirty
years I suffered
everything but death
with my kidneys
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1909-09-30
Source OF Information.

Browning hear you are engaged
to that young widow who is visiting
relatives here. Is 1t true?
GreeninG-Ycs.
Browning-How did you discover
that she was the one woman in the
world for an old bachelor like you?
Greening - Why. she - er - told
me so.-Chicago News.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1909-09-30
Safety.

Farragut had just lashed himself
to the mast.
Much safer than getting nailed
to the Pole" he observed.
Herewith he was pleased to note
the absence of controversy
York Sun.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1909-09-30

Thousands of country people know that
in time of sudden mishap or accident Ham.
Inns Wizard Oil ia the best substitute for
the family doctor. That IL why it is so
often found upon the shelf.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1909-09-30

Graphite Is obtained in Bavaria
and Bohemia. although the best pen
Gil graphite is apparently received
in Germany from Ceylon and Siberia
1t is also imported from the United
States, Japan, China, Australia,
Mexico, Great Britain, Italy, Sweden,
Belgium and France.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1909-09-30
To The Creation,

"Billinger has some very ancient
airs in his new comic opera"
Ancient! Say, I'll bet he has
gone back for some of em to the
time when the morning stars sang
together"
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1909-09-30

DR.. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets regulate and
invigorate stomach, liver and bowels.
Sugar-c coated, tiny granules. Easy to take
as candy.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1909-09-30

A consignment OF 5000 sheep was
recently brought to Mombasa from
Cape Colony. The sheep are South
African merinos from various flocks,
and were especially selected for
breeding purposes for a certain large
estate.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1909-09-30

An expert on the great Western
ranches can shear one hundred sheep
a day easily. There are about 2O,-
100000 to shear.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1909-09-30
T.r COLDS ana GRIP.

hicks CAPUDiSE IL the best remedy
relieves the aching and feverishness-cures
the Cold and restores normal conditions Its
LIQUID effects Immediately. i0c-, 25c- and
bvc.. at drug stores
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1909-09-30
DOCTOR
ADVISED
OPERATION
CuredbyLydiaE. .Pinkham's
Vegetable Compound

ctiASiNo WI A.
bly, from female ills,
including infam.
nation and conges.
ton, for several
years. My doctor
said there was no
hope for me but an
operation. i began
taking Lydia Z.
Pinkham's Vegeta.
BILE Compound, and
l can now say / am
q well woman"
EMMA DRApEp
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1909-09-30
WHY PEOPLE SUFFER.

Too often the kidneys are the cause
and the sufferer Is not aware OF 1t.
Sick kidneys bring headache and side
pains, lameness and stiffness. dizzi-
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1909-09-30

Cheap labor has been the princi-
pal handicap in introducing modern
machinery in India.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1909-09-30

Mercury freezes at minus forty de-
grees centigrade. B. N. H.. 40.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1909-09-30

Berlin has about a hundred fac
tories for linen goods-forty more
than the kingdom of Saxony.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1909-09-30

Mrr. Winslow's Soothing Syrup for Children
teething, softens the gums, reduces inhamma-
ton, aIlays pain, cures wind collie. $50 bottle
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1909-09-30

The first printed Green Testa-
ments were those of Erasmus, pub
lished at Basel by Froben in 1916.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1909-09-30

The earliest Bible pictures were
painted on the church walls instead
OF being bound between the book
covers.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1909-09-30
HOW NEW YORK POLICE HANDLED A CROWD OF
100000 PEOPLE DURING HUDSON-FULTON FETE

Machine Constructed Move
Signal Stations
buIancs o
o a and
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1909-09-30

Dairy maids in Denmark get from
about 81 to SO, with board and lodg-
ing, month.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1909-09-30

For HEAL E-Hickri tAPUDIHR
Whether from Colds, Heat Stomach or
It's liouid-pleasant 10 take-acts immedi-
ately. Try IL ioc. Csc. and SOC t drug
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1909-09-30
MISUNDERSTANDING

It's nothing more or less than cxtrava.
gance topay a big price for safety.
razor.
The only part that counts TO- anything
is the blade. But good blades-cven he
best of bl dcs don't warrant the price
usually demanded for the razor.
The biggest part Of what you pay for
the regular safety razor is for the frame
and the box-detail1 that don't figure at
all in the Tazor's value.
Prove this for yourself
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1909-09-30

Berlin now has a population of
two millions. A greater Berlin
would include another million.
The Washington herald., 1909-08-08
By Epes Winthrop Sargent

from the Bowery narrow street ladened with
the filth from the push carts and huckster's wag-
ons plus the litter of the tenements. Children Of
half dozen nationalities. and in a many differ
ent stages of undress, sprawed the sidewalks,
while the stoops filled with slatternly house
wives who took absorbed interest in the mod
ish dresses of the feminine members of the COM
pany
A typical rehearsal.
rTH HE hall itself above a dingy basement sa-
loon and reached by a flight of steep stone
steps and a shorter flight of wooden steps within.
The the length of the building the walls
being decorated with alternate panels of fruits and
landscapes. The central chandelier draped
with artificial vines and flowers into the Jewish
wedding canopy. and in one corner stood a solid
cabinet holding the Scrolls of the Law and vest
ments, for this used by of the small Jew
ish congregations as their synagogue and there
rehearsal Saturday mornings.
throne at end for the bride and groom when
the place used for weddings, and a slightly
higher platform for piano completed the furnish
ings, except for the simple chairs and tables and
a stolid-faced Russian boy: wooden the
chairs who took orders for drinks when the stage
manager called halt
Here half dozen companies rehearsed
for the road each and many important
players trod the street with disdain their way
to and from reheaTsals
Some of the larger places have two and three
The Washington herald., 1909-08-08

The barkeeper--us-
ual1y these places are
an appendage to a
saloon-drew out his
engagement book and
made the entry. Al
ready the greater part
of August and Sep
tember was booked,
but he had kept
July open. For eight
years this particular
manager had rehears-
ed his company in
this hall in July, for
it was one of the bur
lesque shows that go
out every year, and
it was merely a ques-
tion of whether they
would rehearse the
first three or the last
three weeks of the
month.
The place was typi-
cal of some seventy
five others that are
hidden in New Yorks
teeming East Side. 1t
was a short block
The Washington herald., 1909-08-08

horrible under the try
ing blue, so the artist
has made a note OF
the uses TO which the
scene is to be put. To
illustrate more simply.
m ost theater-goers
know how certain col
ored lights thrown on
a chorus in a song
number VIII turn the
rouged cheeks to the
CHASTITY shades of
death. The scenic
artist is more careful
than the chorus girl.
He paints to meet all
colors.
But while the seen
cry is in preparation
the stage manager is
not idle. Scarcely is
the artist out of the
Office when the prop
erty man takes his
seat beside the stage
managers desk. The
artist provides the
wall of canvas within
which the action takes
The Washington herald., 1909-08-08

model is dismantled and passed on to the stage
carpenter who makes the frames which is
stretched the canvas TO be painted Each piece OF
cardboard is reproduced in the frames. and exact
ly to scale
Preparing the settings.
IT HEATRICALS are uniOnized and il is one OF the
oddities of the rules that a stage carpenter may
not tack the canvas his frames, may
scene painters helper make frame, matter
how simple
These covered frames now marked into
squares and the number OF squares are
drawn upon the models, II is impossible to work
free hand except upon the very small pieces, but
with a crayon tied to a cane the helper sketches
upon each square of canvas whatever appears up
the corresponding square Of the model. Large
cloths hung by ropes and may be drawn up
or let down into the cellar the painting de-
mands Small pieces painted on the floor. In
a scene studio the painting is done from the floor
but in a theater the paint frame is a narrow
bridge at the of the stage about level with
the top of the scenery as the audience sees it, and
the canvas or drop" is raised lowered TO
bring the surface to be painted level with the
bridge. In any event the helpers put on the
color and the artist himself the finishing touches
Scenes which to be shown under the white
light are treated differently from those where the
action OF the play requires the amber light or
dusk and the blue of stage moonlight A land
scare that is beautiful in the white may become
The Washington herald., 1909-08-08


York there are. perhaps, all told, two hun
dred of these dance halls In Chicago there
are almost many. Lodge rooms furnish
housing for a hundred or more companies
and the rest drop in ; ywhere.
But long before rehearsal preparations
are made for a production and first obtain
your play" is Rule l. Some placed
through the play agencies and others land
ed" direct Some are written to order and
more have passed through scores of hands
before finding a welcome In any event, the
manager makes his decision and the play
has been found
The ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS into script
Is sent to the stage manager who may be
the sole employe of the manager. or in the
case of large interests. the producer, or
chief of stan of stage managers. In com
pany with the author the script is studied.
and then the stage manager gets to work
If he is merely producing the single play
he attends TO all details himself The scenic
artist is sent for the scenery roughly plan
ned and later the artist returns with the
models. These are cardboard scenes on
scale of about half an inch to the foot and
shows the stage setting in miniature Not
a detail may be omitted If doors are to
open they must be hinged; If there are odd
pieces to be built up into a fireplace d
cellar door the vaults of a bank or such
The Washington herald., 1909-08-08

Chicago, theater stages occupied all day long
and in some instances all night. too. Some theat-
owned by who make dozens of produc
tions are made to do double and triple duty, or
even better. One year. before the Fifth Avenue
theater in New York had become a vaudeville
house. there were five rehearsas in progress ST.
multaneously. large company being drilled
the stage and second was located in the spa
cious foyer side of the orchestra floor
third was the balcony floor, fourth in the
lobby and a fifth in the smoking room beneath the
auditorium In the latter instances, chairs marked
the boundaries of the imaginary stage
Hundreds of companies busy
u UT, did the manager depend upon the theaters
~ alone he would find himself in a sorry plight.
Hundreds of companies preparing at the same
time and ali of the large and small public halls
invaded-lodge rooms. private parlors, the
back of saloons turned to rehears-
al and in than instance the proud dis
coverer of empty stable has Dragged about his
fine rehearsal room.
There hundreds of small halls unknown to
the general public where, in the winter season.
given the Grand Masque and Civic balls of
the lesser social organizations. In the
time these turned over to the stage managers
and many of the places engaged months in
advance.
The manager of cheap show paying his
last nstallment for the rent of of these places
The Washington herald., 1909-08-08

from the manager who acquires writer's
cramp making out passes to the little serio
comic who cheerfully volunteers her ser
vices at innumerable benefits. The SOU
brettes time and the managers empty seats
are not supposed to possess a cash value,
though in reality they are a stock i'm trade,
and the habit has grown, but perhaps the
greatest gift is made between June and Sep
tember, when the great army of players give
from three to six weeks for rehearsal with
out a penny in salary and with only the
problematical success of the play TO guaran.
tee any later return. The manager is gam
bling on the production. They share the
gamble with him to the extent of their time.
From quarter TO half a million dollars are
donated in free time between these two peri
DDS by the hundreds of players who are re-
hearsing in theaters, halls anywhere that
they may.
1t seems a tremendous sum to give but it
is part of the tradition of the business and
comment is made Last season one well
known player gave twenty-five weeks out of
the forty week season to rehearsal and each
time play was produced II was taken off
within few weeks. But this article has to
do with the busy season for the producer
when, in the words of the once popular song,
"It's all going out and there's nothing conf
The Washington herald., 1909-08-08
Endless Labor,

halls each and can accommo-
date as many companies at one
time. Scattered through New
The Washington herald., 1909-08-08
Getting Ready for a New Season
Production Money and Endless Labor
of it Actor
Preparing a Production Costs

~ WING something for moth
4 ing has become a habit
with the theatrical folk,
The Washington herald., 1909-08-08

every Individual piece ma
separately and then Joined
for when the scene is ap
The Washington herald., 1909-08-08

From the middle of July to the end
September is the busy time for
and, in New York and