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The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1910-03-03

herself. Greville, therefore, thought
that she was angry, and his heart was
filled with contrition. Yet he was old
and wise enough to be first lieu
tenant. He walked beside her back
to the post in state of humble dejec.
ton she could not understand.
The next morning it was Burton's
turn. Greville was over on the range
now, vainly trying to bring his record
up to where Burton's was. This time
Miss Mivart fired at white paste
board box cover, and hit IL three times
out of twenty. She was jubilant and
so was Burton, because she was maxi
ing such progress under his tuition.
-That's an easy carbine to shoot,
isn't it?" she asked, as they wandered
home: at isn't at all hard to pull the
trigger"
Burton glanced at her, and she met
his eyes innocently.
"It's just like any other trigger"
he told her.
"Yes. of course. And is that the
very same carbine you use in the COM
petition-the one you shot with yes
terday, and will use this afternoon
when you finish up?"
He told her that 1t was.
"Well," she said complacently, 81
think I'm doing very nicely, don't
you? I hit the target three times,
and my first finger doesn't hurt bit
this morning"
That afternoon the competition
came to an end, with Burton a good
many points ahead of Greville. And
that night there was the big hop. II
had been understood from the first
that the man who won was to take
Miss Mivart to the hop. So she went
over with Burton, and gave him one
third of her dances. Greville had an
other third, and the rest were open to
the post at large.
Greville did not look happy at all.
It was not the target record he
minded. He never thought about
that. 1t was having to go down the
board walk to the hop room behind
Burton, and to watch Miss Mivart
leaning on his arm, and looking up
into his face from under the white
mists of her lace hood. He was not
consoled at all when she looked up
into his own face even more sweetly
at the beginning of the second dance,
and whispered that she was so
sorry"
Now, as the second dance had been
Greville's, the third was Burton 8,
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Feeding Lambs.

One of the most inviting and profit
able of the animal industries now is
the feeding of lambs for the city mar
kets. A few feeders are undertaking
this line of feeding with great sue
cess. No other young animal makes
SO large and profitable a growth as
the lamb, no other young animal be-
gins to feed profitably so early as the
lamb does. Lambs are very little
trouble to feed; all they need is a
rail or board pen open at the bottom
sufficiently for them to crawl under;
set this pen in the pasture. They
should be fed meal in a V-shaped
trough. The ewes cannot enter but
will try to and thus encourage the
lambs to go in; they will soon learn
to eat, and the appetite will increase
rapidly with their growth. AS newly
weaned lambs as a general thing
bring the highest price in the market,
this method of disposing of the lambs
is to be encouraged.-A Reader, in
the Indiana Farmer.
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Mivart and Greville went in the other
direction, by the back of the officers
row, over In the foothills across the
creek. Greville nailed the top of a
big red pasteboard box to the trunk
of a tree, and Miss Mivart hit it once
out of sixteen times-when she was
aiming at the head of prairie dog at
least twenty feet away to the right.
The other fifteen shots were scattered
among the foothills.
Then her shoulder hurt her so that
she was ready to cry. Greville would
have liked to have her cry upon his
own shoulder, but, as she didn't, he
did some fancy shooting to distract
her. He found a mushroom can, and
threw 1t into the air and filled 1t full
of holes. She had seen Burton do the
same thing that morning with a to-
mato can. In fact, from where she
sat now, on a lichen-covered rock, she
could see the mutilated can glittering
In the sun. over beyond the arroyo.
"I'll tell you," she said to Greyille,
as he held up the mushroom can for
her to inspect the eight holes he had
made with five shots, "let me toss up
your hat. and you make a hole
through the trademark in the crown, "
1t was a nice, new straw hat. Gre
Vile had sent East for IL and 1t had
come by stage the day before. 1t had
cost him. express paid, four dollars
and seventy-five cents. This, too, at
time when anything he had left
after settling his mess and suffers
and tailor'a bills, went into stick pins
and candy and books and music and
riding whips for Miss Mivart. But he
took on the hat and gave 1t to her
without lingering glance at that
high-priced trademark within. And
he felt that 1t was worth four times
four dollars and ,seventy-five cents
when she picked up the tattered re-
mains. at last. and asked II she might
have them to hang in her room.
Then she looked down at her grimy
hand and considered the first finger,
crooking 1t open and shut.
II think it's going TO SWELL" she
pouted. "That is a perfectly awful
trigger to pull
Greville did what any man might
have been expected to do. He caught
| the hand and kissed II. Miss Mivart
looked absolutely unconscious Of It.
She might have been ten mileu away
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Pedigreed Stock Trade.

If you expect to sell hogs at fancy
prices you must produce fancy hogs.
Too many breeders are content with
a fancy pedigree, expecting the blood
lines of the animal to carry it into
popularity.
While it is very essential that an
animal have desirable pedigree. it is
all the more essential that the animal
itself possess individual merit
AS soon as breeders of pedigreed
hogs come to full understanding
that the animal produced must pos
sess greater merit in connection with
the pedigree then the people will
readily pay good price for it,'regard-
less of whether or not public demand
is strong for such animals. ls.-Farm-
ers' Home Journal.
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How TO Tell % Fresh Egg,

1t is easily possible to tell the diff
ference between fresh egg and q
cold storage egg without breaking
the shell. and dealers in the District
of Columbia who sell stored eggs for
strictly fresh" ones may be prose-
cuted and convicted. according to
statements to-day of DR.. Harvey w.
Wiley, the Government chief chem
ist, at the high cost of living" hear
ing being conducted by House sub
committee.
DR.. Wiley had a large number of
fresh eggs and some of the cold stor-
age variety. Dropping them into a
large vessel of water containing ten
per cent salt solution, the fresh eggs
Immediately sank to the bottom and
the refrigerated ones floated on the
surface. When asked how he knew
the eggs were fresh, DR.. Wiley re-
piled that one of his inspectors saw
the hens lay them yesterday.
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Farm Notes.

A well fowl needs no medicine.
Don't doctor and dope unnecessarily.
The breeder is-a bigger factor than
the breed in modern poultry culture.
The very best stock will not be long
In degenerating if not properly fed
and cared for.
Sweet apples that are not salable
are greatly relished and an excellent
feed for the fowls.
Scald out the drinking vessels
every few weeks; it kills germs and
prevents diseases from starting.
The poultry house is more con-
venient, more easily cleaned and more
easily kept cleaned If everything in it
is readily movable.
Regularity in feeding and other
general management is important
with poultry, and especially don't for
get to be regular in cleaning up.
The best medicine for any animal
or fowl is preventive; hence their
food and general surroundings should
be such as to promote health.
1t is disputed as to whether to feed
soft food in the morning or evening,
but the general tendency now seems
to favor morning feeding of mashes.
One of the best feeds for poultry
Is green bone. 1t stimulates health
and egg-production, and can be Sc
cured cheaply at any meat market.
Don't neglect it!
If your chicken house roof leaks.
fix 1t or get out of the poultry busi-
ness. Chickens are as we'll off out
doors as in house that permits
drafts and dampness.
A few tobacco leaves crushed in
the bottom of each nest will be a
great help in eXterminating vermin
both in the nest and on the bodies of
the hens which visit the nest.
1t is rank nonsense to allow the
droppings to lie in the house week in
and week out, engendering| disease
and breeding lice; and then the poul-
tryman wonders why his hens don't
lay.
Look out for a supply of grit dur
Ing the winter months. 1t is scarce
then because the ground is frozen.
but it is of more vital importance
than in the summer. Hens must have
teeth,
The man who keeps on year after
year breeding the best in his chosen
variety, y gardless of the public fancy
for new b, aeds, will get good prices
for his birds oftener than he will miss
them. - From "Timely Poultry
Hints" in the Epitomist.
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Alfalfa Will Grow Everywhere.

While experts have been declaring
that alfalfa would only grow in cer-
tain soils and in certain climates it
has proven adaptability to nearly all
climates and almost all soils. 1t pro-
duces with a rainfall as scant as four
teen inches, and in the Gulf States
fiourishes with sixty-five inches. 1t
gives crops at an elevation of 5000
feet above sea level, and in southern
California 1t grows below sea level to
height Of six feet or over, with nine
cuttings year, aggregating ten to
twelve tons. An authenticated pho
tograph in possession of the writer
shows a wonderful alfalfa plant
raised in the (irrigated) desert of
southern California, sixty feet below
sea level, that measured considerably
more than ten feet in height. Salts
factory crops are raised, but on lin
tied areas as yet, in Vermont and
Florida. New York has grown it for
over one hundred years in her clay
and gravel; Nebraska grows it in her
western sand hills without plowing,
as does Nevada on her sage-brush
desert The depleted cotton soils of
Alabama and rich corn lands of Illi-
nois and Missouri each respond gen.
erorsly with profitable yields to the
enterprising farmer, while its accum-
ulated nitrogen and the sub-soiling 1t
effects are making the rich land more
valuable and giving back to the crop
worn the priceless elements of which
1T has been in successive generations
despoiled by conscienceless hus-
bandry-From Coburn's "The Book
OF Alfalfa"
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$E .aIa.F dIsf1Is

and so far they have proved ahead OF
| anything ever tried.
What is necessary for success?
Three things are most essential:
Right kind of hens.
Right kind of shelter.
Right kind of food.
These three given by the right kind
of man or woman insure success, es-
pecially when in charge of the wo-
man.
Right kind of hens are first: Early
hatched pullets; good healthy one
year olds, after moulting.
Best kind of shelter does not mean
| costly houses. Rooms should be
warm, light. dry and roomy, and we'll
protected from all draughts of cold
| winds.
Best kinds of feeds are a variation
of the grain, green leeds when possi-
BILE; when not, the want supplied with
damped clover or alfalfa hay; ami
NAL food or in place of 1t milk; fresh
water at all times.
Whole corn should be fed at
| nights; If roasted, so much the bet.
| ter.
AS tt breeds. For farmers the
| Mediterranean breeds are well
adapted, where wide range is given.
They will not bear close confinement.
The Reds are the best all around
breed we have tried, docile and quiet
in habit, good foragers, and require
little feed when not penned. In Sc
curing fowls one should buy only Of
reliable breeders, as only the best
should be used for building up a
flock. Secure breeds of early matur-
ity, good size, shape and good egg
producing qualities.-J. H. H., in the
| Indiana Farmer.
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A Cat Twenty Years Old.

John Ferguson, of Clarks Mills,
without much doubt has the Oldest
cat In York County, IL not in Maine.
He is OF good old fashioned New Eng
land breed, none of the fancy variety,
and was raised as kitten in the fam
lily. II he lives four months longer
he will be twenty years old. The
cats appetite is not SO robust as II
once was. and he isn't bothering much
about rats and mice, but his health
is fairly good, and no child in York
County gets better care than the
Ferguson family gives this venerable
felinc.-Lewiston Journal.
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On the Triggers Pull.
by awendolen OvertOn.

tant admitted that that might posi-.
bly, be just as interesting for herself
and the fortunate man. And which
was he, IL he might ask. Miss Mivart
shook her head and smiled again
No. she didn't think he might ask.
AS the man himself didn't know, she
could hardly tell any one else just
yet, could she? She had her own
ideas about fair play.
II can shoot carbine myself" she
told the adjutant, with her cleft chin
proudly raised; land my shoulder is
all black and blue. Mr.. Burton is
teaching me-"
OH" said the adjutant, "and what
does Greville think about that?" The
adjutant was married, so he was out
of the running.
Mr.. Greville is teaching me, too, y
said Georgia; land here he comes for
me now"
Burton was safe on the target
range, over behind the barracks. Miss
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1910-03-03
WHAT rs MUSIC?
MANY DEFINITIONS BY FAMOUS MEN.

q Is in music, perhaps that
81 the great end for which, when
tment. 1t sruggles-the supernal beauty It
may be- indeed that here this sublime
attained in fact We often made feel with shverng
delight that from earthly
could not have been unfamiliar to the angels.-Edgar
Allen Poe.
Music is the language spoken by angels-Longfellow
Music Is the child of the companion religion.
-Chateaubriand.
Music loosens the heart that bound.-Byrd.
Music Is love In search of word.-Sidney Lanier
Music is the only sensual pleasure without
Johnson
Music shower the SOUL washing away all that
is mpure.-Schopenhauer
In music all hearts revealed to us-Shorthouse.
MY language Is understood all over the world.-Haydn.
Music is thing of the soul rosepped shell
mus OF the eternal bird singing the
another shore-J. G. Holland.
What love is to man, music is to the arts and
kind.-Von Weber.
Music is the first, the simplest effective of all
instruments of moral Observation-Disclosures.
1t is musics lofty mission to shed light
soul-Schumann
Music washes from the soul the dust everyday
Hfe-Auerbach.
Music is the only sensual qualification may
duge in to without injury their religious
feelings.-Addson
Music is to the mind as air is to the body-Plato.
Music is higher manifestation than all wisdom
philosophy.--Beethoven.
Music is the only perfect language of all the higher
emotions-Abbott
Music is the only all the corrupt
the mind.-Montesquieu
Were it not for music might in these days
beautiful is dead.-Dsraeli.
We cannot imagine a complete edcuaon of without
music 1t is the gymnastics of the affections.
connection with exercises is keep body
soul in heath.-Rchter
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OUR LITTLE ONES.

They such tiny feet;
They have gone such little co meet
The years which are required to break
Their steps to evenness and make
Them go
More and slow.
They such little hands;
Be kind. Things and life but stands
A step beyond the doorway All around
New day has found
Such tempting things to shine upon, and
The hands are tempted hard, you know.
They such new, young lives;
Surely their shrives
Them well of many SINS They much
That being immortal they would touch
That IL they reach
We must not chide, but teach.
They are such fond, clear eyes
That widen to surprise
At every turn; they often held
To showers-showers dispeled
By looking in face;
Love asks, for such, much grace.
They are such fair, fra gifts;
Uncertain the riffs
OF light that lie along the sky
They not be here by-andby-
Give them not love- but more-above
And harder-patence with the love.
George KinRle
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Utilizing Straw.

Owing to it's abundance straw is
added to barnyard manure, but 1t can
be made more serviceable IL made fine
with the feed cutter before being
used. While straw may soon rot after
being mixed with manure, yet in a
fine condition 1t is a much better alb
sorbent and can be forked into the
manure with advantage. When load
ing and spreading manure there is a
saving of labor when handling that
which is fine, and the manure will be
more valuable because the loss of am
monia will be arrested by the use of
suitable absorbent materials. .-Epito-
mist.
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Fight At Christening.

Chester.-According to her testi-
mony before Alderman Holt, Mrs.
Barbara Schennise was roughly used
while playing the part of peacemak-
er at christening held at the home
OF Helka Collica, the defendant,
whom she charged with striking her
In the face and knocking her to the
floor. She said Collica and her hus-
band engaged in lively miX-up when
she tried to separate them. Then, she
alleges, Collica knocked her down
and left her lying in a semi-conscious
condition on the floor while he pro-
ceeded TO thrash her husband.
AT the hearing Collica begged for
mercy when the alderman bound him
over for court. Mrs. Schennise finally
took pity on him and withdrew the
charge.
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Thieves Promise To Cali Again.

Chester" Have your ducks fat
tened up and we will call later for
them" were the contents of note
that John Robinson found tackled on
the door of his chicken house the
other morning. He found that the
thieves had gotten away with fifteen
of his choicest fowls, but did not take
any OF the ducks. This makes the
sixth time Robinson's chicken house
was visited by thieves during the past
two months.
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Command In Vision.

Franklin. Saying he had been
commanded by the Lord. in vision,
TO rebuild the United Brethren
church, near his home. r.. A. Dey.
a reputable farmer, started to raise
sl,2OO for that purpose. The build
ing was destroyed more than year
ago. II was erected by Baptiats. who
later sold II to the United Brethren.
Mr.. Dey says be had no thought OF
The building for six months before
the vision.
MIR. Dey has secured $2OO, the peo-
pie having the utmost confldencs In
his integrity.
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Fatally Shot.


West CHESTER. c. Mcnamara,
a wealthy farmer in Elk Township,
was shot and fatally wounded by
William Burke in the Farmers
Home.
1t appears that the two men had
dispute over a few dollars owing
Burke, who proceeded to McNam-
ara's home with shotgun loaded
with buckshot. The farmer seeing
the gun said
Burke, II I paw you $40 you
won't shoot me. will your"
Burke replied he wouldn't While
the farmer was at a desk getting
the money Burke shot him, the con-
tents of the gun lodging in his stom-
ach. McNarama is in a dying con-
dition. Burke fed and has not yet
been overtaken.
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Free Boy; Blame Company.

bondale.-James McCool, a boy
under 10 years of aee, employed as
a hoisting engineer by the Morse Hill
Coal Company. of this city, in viola
tion of the State mining law and
orders of Inspector p. j. Moore,
caused the death of Michael McDon-
ough a few day ago, by leaving his
engine and letting a trip of cars
run away.
The Coroner's jury, however. ex-
onerated the boy, owing to his youth,
and held the coal company RESPONSE
BILE for the mans death.
A year ago the inspector ordered
McCools dismissal. The officials obey
ed, but engaged him again a few
weeks later. He gets 10 cents an
hour for 10 hours a day.
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Burglar Gets A Meal.

Chester.-A burgular. with a keen
appetite an in search of shelter for
for the night, broke into the Chester
Grocers' and Butchers Associations
headquarters, made a fire to warm
himself and prepared a meal from
canned goods. A can of sardlnes.
one of pineapple and another of
salmon were used, and the only
traces of the intruder's visit were
a broken window and the empty cans
on the floor.
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Grangers In Oleo War.

Harrisburg. OF the Ex-
ecutive and Legislative Committee of
the State Grange asked Governor
Edwin 8. Stuart to use his best efforts
to drive from Pennsylvania all sellers
OF oleomargarine which is not proper
ly branded, and expressed to him the
desire of the farming and dairying
interests of the State that manufac-
turers be restrained from using any
coloring matter whatever in the but
ter substitute. They asked that the
act OF 1901 relative to the licensing
OF oleomargarine dealers be more
strictly enforced, and that licenses be
refused to persons who had been COW
vlcted of selling the product illegally
Remarks were also made by Thom-
as Sharpless, of West Chester, rep
resenting the State Dairy Union; John
A. McSparren, Lancaster; Represen-
tative Jerome Altman, Juniata Coun-
ty, and Colonel II. c. Demming, Har-
risburg.
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Youth Turns Burglar.

iOutn IurnS burglar.
Pittsburg.-"The life of burglar
appealed to me. There's action in
It," said Stephen Austin, a college
graduate. who, upon being arrested
confessed to holding up two drug
store proprietors and several pedes-
trians In the Oakland and East End
sections. His crimes had terrorized
these sections for the past ten days.
Austin was trying to adjust re-
volver in his hip pocket when it ex-
ploded. The accident led to his ar
rest as suspicious person, and upon
being questioned he confessed to a
long string of robberies, reciting in
detail how each one was committed.
II was just doing these small jobs"
he said, Ito keep living. / was wait
ing for big haul l had In sight.
When l came to pull It off the plain
clothes men were so thick about the
place that ! had to wait"
Austin refuses to name his uni
versity, but says his home Is in In
diana, near Terre Haute. His con-
fession made to superintendent of
Police Thomas A. McQuade, and his
answers. according to the superinten-
dent. were straightforward and dis
PEELED all doubt as to the truth of
his statements. His details of his
crimes also tend to substantiate the
truth of the prisoners statements
He selected young men, he said, be-
cause they were easily intimidatej,
and he found it "cinch to work in
this city" After holding up the drug
stores Austin said he would change
his clothing and return to observe
the police searching for clues.
Austin said he had worked the
same practices in Chicago, Cincinnati
and Columbus.
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Oppose Road Bond Issue.

AItoona.-BIair County Pomona
Grange went on record as being op-
posed to the county issuing bonds
TO the extent of 100000 for the i'm
provement of the roads of the county,
because there is no definite or stand
ard plan which justifies the expense"
The resolutions condemn the move
ment 'as premature and under the
present road legislation as tending
to pave the way for graft and misuse
the peoples money"
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Trolley Leaves Track.

Chester.-A trolley car on the Up
land division of the Chester Traction
Company jumped the tracks and col
llded with pole. The violent impact
threw the passengers from their seats.
Miss Florence Guyer. of Upland, was
struck by flying pieces of glass, which
inflicted lacerations on her face and
hands. The front of the car was bad
ly damaged.