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The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-05-03
A FEASIBLE PLAN AT LAST.

Every man who has seriously sought
remedy for the over population OF
our cities has lfg since concluded
that the only rem edy Is return to
the farm. Consequently the cry has
been Back to the Farm" Uncle
James Nilson has been proclaiming
this for years; James j. Hill has
been sounding the same song through
the columns of his favorite maya
zine. and The Colonel has preached
it, and so has our Colonel. Governor
Stuart. OF Pennsylvania, told the boys
to stick to the farm" as has every
other Governor who has been called
to discuss the questPn. Everybody
has been convinced d the evil, but
no one has offered lreinedy; every
body has said something must be done,
| but no one has said Shat thing can
be done
| Governor II. S. Hadl,y, of Missouri
however, seems to have given to the
| subject a great deal Y very serious
thought, and appears y have worked
out a feasible plan Hd has interested
number of phlanthrspists and has
| the promise of at least 81, 100000 to be
invested in a company to carry out
his project. He proposes that this
company buy farms ir3 states where
/ land is cheap, erect halses, purchase
farm equipment and rat the land to
/ city men who wish TO retirn to farm life.
The farms are TO be oh4o acres each,
and are to be arranged II colonies of so
farms each. In each blony there is
to be central farm under the charge
of an expert farmer, Who is 20 see
that the work of the opler farmers is
properly done, and VITO is also IL
teach modern farming methods. II
addition farming is to fe taught in al,
Of the schools of the blonies, ana is
to be made as much pfrt of the daily
curriculum as arithmetic and gram
mar
Governor Hadley predicts fine thng
for this plan. He sayslit will enable
y at least six hundred fatilies to besil
life over with purpobe, a good In
como and the assurance of happiness
! He thinks that the man who obey
! the instructions OF the lcentral farme
will be able to pay fon his farm in
few years, and VIII thkn make $3.50
! the year clear profit Net only so, say
: the Governor. bui every farmer vii
$ have new opportunities fof usefulness
: and can raise his children in bet
G ter surroundings. Every colonist vii
It become an asset instead OF laollit
t to the nation,
Q This sounds too good to be true, an
10 yet the idea Is tho only one whic
% promises practica results. or cours,
h the colony farm,rs win not max
Y $500 tho year and they viii no
J bring back the Golden Age, The
Y viii not all bo satisfied. and they wi
: not all be healthy The plans for thcl
= work VIII go anss and some of thci
H. Will fall: things Will have TO be re
- adjusted and pu on simpler, hun
bier basis before working plan ca
be successfully fvolvcd For all {
y this. however, te plan is Il good OF
ana should be Supported, 1t ms bae
tried In North carolina In the $
Helena Colony, and his worked a.
mlrably with italian laborers.
should be equal, successful with 9th
y farmers, and II It fulfil the half
Governor HadleRs dream II VIII
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-05-03
!, Fort FOR A SEA.

President Taft has sent Il special
message to Congress urging the forth
fcation Of the Panama Canal. He does
not give the exact location of the
forts which lie plans to build, but lie
asks Congress TO appropriate at ieast
s14u00,000 for this purpose. lie THINKS
that the forts should be strongly
equipped and proposes an armament Of
ten 1l-inch rifles, twelve 6-inch rifles
and twenty-five 12-inch mortars. lie
makes an urgent request for an IN
mediate appropriation, arguing that II
the canal is to be opened in 1915 it
must be properly armed at that time
AS Mr.. Taft has been Secretary of
War ard gave to that office the best
administration of recent years. 1t Is
safe TO saw that he knows whereof he
speaks and that he is not uEgtng the
forti1caton of the canal merely as an
other means of spending the peoples
money. He believes that the safety of
the canal and its possession by the
United states depend upon making 1t
practically impregnablc against at
tack and he thinks the Government
should not hesitate to make any rca-
sonable expenditure TO this end AS
his party is fully committed to the
| building of the Panama Canal, II
doubtless will grant the appropr!a-
| lion requested by the President. If
4 this be done it will only be matter
of months before the strongest fort
on the American continent will be
erected at Panama,
i The foresight which prompts the
/ erection of these forts on the canal
! indicates the Importance of the canal
E in International relations and Illus
i trates the old principle that the pro-
e gress of commerce always makes a
/, new map of the world. Ever since
8 the nations of europe readjusted theii
: trca,ies, and made new friends or ne"
9 enemies because America was discov
e cred. they have hung their alliance:
: upon the movements of trade. The op
4 ening OF the orient, the settlement o
S Australia and the rediscovery of tn
Pacin, and AGalayan Islands caused
! more treaties and shifted more boun
darv lines than any events since tn
Congress Of Vienna.
With each development of trade
moreover, new countries become I'm
por.anr When the Suez Canal wa
opened the trade routes of the worl'
were changed and every country mad
new treaties The Eastern Mediterran
; can. which had been forgotten sine
the English drove Napoleon from
Egypt. became the all-important Sc;
Of the world Islands that had bee
forgotten became bones of contention
> and coasts that no foreign powe
would claim We're prize between tn
nations.
The same thing will certainly nap
non when commerce sweeps through tn
canal that links the two great oceans
Rights III adjacent waters Will be jeal
:, ously sought for, and the use of tn
canal in times of war will be the all
of every nation. In such case, tn
power of our Government to hold/ IN
canal against all corners and TO dicta'
/, its own terms for the use of It's LOCK
/, will alone preserve peace and guaraf
tee our own commerce We must hay
>, Gibraltar il we wish TO command
.. sea.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-05-03

The Hartford Courant. which takes
an academic interest in the Democratic
party, and occasionally grows rather
ugly about 1t in campaign years. has
not overlooked the nomination of the
Hon. John W. Kern for United States
Senator from Indiana, and says: He is a
good campaigner and this time he has
no Bryan handicap" But this Is not
altogether true. as Mr. Bryan has plas-
tered him all over With his endorse
mcnt
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-05-03
General George q. Pickett.

i. What year was Major General
George Il. Pickett appointed as ca
Diet to the United States Military Acad-
envy at West Point. n Y?
From what state was he APP
pointed?
3. From whom ala he receive the APP
pointment? H. II. NJ.
l. General Pickett was appointed to
the academy in 1912.
2. From Virginia
3. This does not appear from the
records. He was probably appointed
by the Congressman from this district,
inasmuch as he resided in Richmond.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-05-03
Thc Dcbts OF n Minor.

Can debt be collected from a per-
son who is or age when the debt wRa
made two years ago when the person
was not OF age? S. III.
This question we answered n week
or more ago. holding that there wa.
no general law on tho subject. thu
nature of the debt determining wheth-
err or not 1t could BIO collected after
the minor became of age. II you Will
be moro specific we may be able to
give YOU more definite INFORMATION.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-05-03
FORTY DOLLARS FOR THE CHERo-
KEGS.

About the middle of the last century
Congress allowed claim for the sale
OF land the United States stole from
the c,herokee indians, and we are told
now that the Cherokees are to be paid
$40 apiece for the property from which
they were forcibly separated more
than half century ago. The pay
rolls have been made out and in a
few DAYS agents of the Government
viii begin the distribution of the
money.
We are told that the superintendent
OF the reservation has invited the CO.
operation of the bankers and business
men in the several towns where pay
ments are 10 be made in inducing the
Indians to use the money to the best
advantage In the circular letter that
has been sent out on the subject the
sunerintendent requests that you dc
all that you possibly can to induce
tho Indians to use this money In such
ways as will result in the greatest pos
sible benefit TO them and to the com
muuity. The sending away OF money
| for Intoxicating liquor should, par
| ticularly. be discouraged in every pos
| sible way; and SO on. Whereupon
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-05-03

President Lowell, of Harvard, has
made public his annual report, but it
did not get as much public notice as
his recent attack on our old friend, the
plymouth Rock.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-05-03

1t is said that Governor Hadley de-
yised the back to-the-far plan" in
order that the people might not say
back to the -tall-timbers" when his
torn expires.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-05-03

lust to show that there is no such
thing as politics in a municipal cam
paisn seven good citizens of Cumber-
land, Maryland, have decided that they
are the Very men to be the solitary
mayor of that dismal town.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-05-03

Here's hoping the Venus may find
some trouble awaiting her down Mica
ragua-way Things have been awfully
dull down there of late.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-05-03

following from st. John xvi. 23-2i:
Whatsoever yc shall ask the Father
in My name. He VIII give 1t you.
Hitherto have 20 asked nothing in Ny
name
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-05-03
4H.Ms AND THE FLAG.


much of the recent excitement in
Charleston about the navy yard at
that place and the like excitement at
New Orleans about the navy yard at
that place The sun says 1t would
simplify life for a very large num-
Der of our Southern friends II they
could he induced to permit the Navy
Department to manage naval affairs.
and even things up by attending to
their own business in the meanwhile"
we are quito ready to grant this much
at the present time and with the Navy
lpenartrront under It's present BUSH
tne.s.li,,o mana cement and we Judge
from, What the Charleston papers now
SAY That tbsy have quit "hovling,"
s,c,, >,.i, the cynroesivc language of
our oo,+o,,norary in describing their
49,. ,t.d
~. al 40, ,.nor. 1,ovy 4, has heen
,,.. ~. ,,,.,, ,,,~a 90 NJ, or,eane.
49,, 49, .. {. t.d ,o+
,,a,,s,.io,,s ..,o,v,-
..,. .n.,,o -. t,x,,. n,t, ,he
~, g., oo,,,, ~ now say
,,,, -, s., .char,os-
-. ad,,,4..,,o ,,or,,or ord
.,,ao,,a.. 80. ,.ara that mo Gov
e.,,, ;n+a,a ,ti,;zo "a tho
-. ,r,,su 80, n !,
( x r..t ,,.,o
.,., ,a,, 49, ,,,s.,io, Win
~ t,I;s p,r,o ,ras Sou.borr,. and no
-, 80 oe,oors nd., ,,,n ,,ho mad.
dacisio,s ,ho,. .rts ost.h,,.h,,o,t
without Knowledge and annarent1v
,.ith ao,erninatio, ~ mi - ont of
,.,.t,... =, ~ Gu, vii, d,on .rorr6
- a., utito House ana as,. ,1,. raft
10 osn ,eu a bou. he was aayised hv
-. s,ro,, of Nayisatton maj he
oo,,a "a, eau rro,,, c,ar,ostor 10
,a,,r,, ,eca,sa tbara u.as no, vata,
eno,,eb there u admit tho cruiser
..o,,, c.roIirar IA. did eau tror,
,bs. mort and there was water enoueb
for the cruiser. with six feet 10 snare.
bu, The Bureau az Navigation didn't
Inovy IL rho old sa1t IN charge of
This bureau Al the time dia not even
know how n,,,cb rise ,f lido there was
at mat port ana when ne was indueed
to look at ms own chart could hardly
helieVe his eyes or was convinced
,,t,arr,s.iro rho.
49,, ~, ~, -, 80.
~. ra..,,s.,.. IT.,
when the Navy Department required
some assistance or suggestions at
least, IN the MANAGEMENT of naval af-
fairs
That day has passed as we believe;
but suppose another Newberry, which
Heaven forfend! should be placed at
the head Of the Department and that
he should have under him an incom-
petent bureau chief .nanfestly 1t
would be The patriotic duty of some
weii-informed person to project him
self into the situation. Besides, we
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-05-03

Roanoke really did not intend to
rub it in so hard until that team saw
what its ancient rival. Norfolk. was
doing to Lynchburg.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-05-03
Premium on ola Books.

Kindly let me know II the following
books are OF any value on account OF
age: Life and Adventures of Mr..
BampfyideMoore Carew. Commonly
Called the King OF BeGgars,' publish
ed 1852 in London, and the Conquest
Irvine. published 1851. Please recon-
mend some dealers in old books.
q. s. r.
We cannot print the name OF any
book dealers in this column. II YOU
will write Hon II. II. McIlwa.ne, State
Librarian. Richmond. he will probably
be able TO tell you the premium or
the books mentioned II there be any.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-05-03

we suppose you refer to the Rich
mond street carnival. The side shows
at the carnival were not all under tho
control OF Bostock. They included
dances, wild girls. snake eaters, tho
Streets OF Cairo. tho Mirrored Palace.
etc.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-05-03
Prayers of the book.

a Reader from Abingdon. Va, sends
MS the following note as to the prayer
OF Scripture: some time ago an ins
quirer asked in your query columns
when prayers were first offered
through Christ. AS I have noticed no
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-05-03

the Improvement OF navigation on the
James River
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-05-03
Richmond street carnival.

Please tell me If the amusementa
used in the street carnival which last
cd for two weeks were owned by Bos-
took or not This carnival was held
something like ten years ago.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-05-03
Voice. Of the p eople

Communication must not con-
tain moro than 300 words.
Whom tNfp limit is exceeded lett
terA will he refuxned.
No uaonyni0us COMMUNICATIONS
will be- accepted.
A stamped envelope, with tho
yyritor,s nIdreas, must accompany
! every communication.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1910-05-26

A rise of 25 per cent. in the
price of cigars and tobacco has
been proclaimed In France, where
the manufacture and sale of the
fragrant weed is a Government
monopoly. A people may be
ground by public as well as by
a private monopoly, and the pro-
duct of the for mer, as the French
nation has learned by experience
may be even more execrable than
is the output of the latter. The
French smokers have the conso
latlon, however, that the money
squeezed out of them is devoted
to public use and not to the
further swelling of the private
Golfers of multi-milhonaires.
Still, sense of patriotic duty Is
not satisfactory substitute for
the enjoyment of smoking a good
cigar.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1910-05-26
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The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1910-05-26
LOWER THOMPSON.

A very pleasant event occurred
at the home of John III. Fisher
last Thursday evening. 1t was
the occasion of surprise party
in honor of Morgan Fisher, of
near McConnellsburg, who was
visiting his nephew. 1t was
learned that last Thursday was
his I'D birthday. So he was
taken along TO the sawmill, when
he returned about 5 O'Clock iu the
evening, he found that so or 60 of
his friends and relatives had as
sem bled with we'll filled baskets,
and supper had been prepared
oy his niece Will ch was partaken
of by the merry party and a very
sociable evening was spent.
Those present were: Amanda
Stacker, Victor Lynch, wife and
children, Winnie Reel and chill.
dren, H. W. Wink, wife and chll.
dren, j. G. Douglass, wife and
daughter, Eta; Reason Yonker,
wife and children, Andrew Sou
ders and wife. Isaac Cutler and
daughter, Mary; Elizabeth Sou,
ders, Anna Snyder and daughter
Pleasant; Clara Gordon, Anna
Gordon, Kit Stone, Dorothy Hsg.
german, Enoch Truax, Grant
Brakeall, Harvey Souders, Geo.
Gordon, Elijah Souders, Benja-
min Stacker, Roy Gregory, Clar-
ence Deshong and G.. W. Fisher,
wife and daughter, Pearle.
Social conversation followed
till about nine o'clock when the
guests wished him many more
happy birthdays and returned
home.
Last Friday morning as G.. w.
Fisher was ready to go> to work,
he was very much surprised to
have a mum Der of his neIghbors
drop In with teams, plows, and
harrows TO help him plant his
corn, he had been sick for a mum
Der of weeks, and being behind
IN his work appreciated their
help very much.
Our Sunday school at Rehoboth
getting along nicely under the
supervision of Mrs. John Brewer.
Sunday school next Sunday at
$50. Everybody welcome.
Quite large crowd attended
May Meeting at Damascus Sun.
day, ond a very interesting SER
mon was preached by Elder Gar
land.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1910-05-26
CHURCHES.

PRESBYTERIAN.-Rev. John Diehl
Sabbath school at 9:15. Preaching
1880 an alternate Sundays, and 1880
every Sunday. Christian Endeavor at
$50. Prayer meeting Wednesday eve.
ming at 100. All are cordially invited,
METHODIST EPIscoPAL-Rev. G W.
Bryner, Pastor. Sunday School
at $3.50 a. nj. Preaching every other
Sunday morning at 10:30 and every
Sunday evening at TOO. Epworth
League at 900 p. m. Prayer meeting
Thursday evening at TOO.
UNITED J, L.
Grove, Pastor. Sunday school at $3.50
a. m. Preaching every Sunday morn.
ing at 1880, and every other Sunday
evening at7:00. The alternate Sabbath
evenings are used by the Young Peo.
ple's Christian Union at TOO d. m.
Prayer meeting Wednesday evening
at TOO.
EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN-Rev. Cal
vlnFassoldPastor. Sunday school Oils
a. M. Preaching every other Sunday
morning at 10:30 and every other Sun
day evening at 100. hristian En-.
deavor at 500 p. m. Prayer meeting
on Wednesday evening at 100.
REFORMED Rev. Rice, Pas
tor. Sunday school at 9:3O a. m.
Preaching on alternate Sabbaths at
1000 a. m. and 700 p. m. Christian
Endeavor at 900 p. m. Prayer meet.
ing on Wednesday evening at TOO.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1910-05-26
HUSTONTOWN.

DR.. and Mrs. H. G. McClain,
accompanied by Eugene Chestnut,
attended the Forpaugh e. Sells
circus at Huntingdon, last week.
Adam Martin and wife, near
Williamsburg, are spending some
time with the formers sister,
Mrs. Elizabeth Shaw.
Eugene Laidlg, after visiting at
his home in this place, expects to
return TO Jeanette next week.
He will be accompanied by his
niece. Miss Margaret Moorehead
who has been visiting her grand.
parents, George Laidlg and wife.
The Epworth League Will hold
festival in the Grove next Satur
day evening, May 28th. Proceeds
to be used tor church purposes.
Samuel Mayne, of Holidays
burg, spent an afternoon last
week with John Hoover s1famlly.
He was accompanied by his moth
er aud sister Miss Annie-both
OF Fort Llttleton.
Miss Kate Copenhaver is spend
ing a short time with her sister,
Mrs. M. g. Kirk.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1910-05-26

R. M. Arbaugh, near William
son, has several interesting things
On his farm but at present the
newest and for the young folks at
least, the most interesting Is a
three weeks old lamb having five
legs and SIX feet. This animal
was born with five perfect legs,
the third and extra one on its
left side being just as complete as
any of the others. In all of his
twenty lambs this over-gifted one
Is the only black one. Its sixth
foot springs perfectly from along
the ankle of the fifth leg. The
frisky animal Is as healthy and
as lively as any of the rest of the
flock. 1t is one of a pair of twins.
Star and Sentinel, Gettysburg
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1910-05-26
ENID.

Mrs. Lizzie Woodcock Is quite sick.
Although In poor health for several
,etrs, she has been able to be about,
but has now been confined to her bed
for several days.
Miss Wealthy Foster, OF Coaldale,
visited her sisters Mrs. Stevens and
Mrs Schenck last week.
Mrs. J. M. Schenck is spending a
few days ia Bedford as the guest OF
relatives.
Reed Edwards took his sister Laura
TO McConnellsburg to enter the Norm
al and finish the term.
Mrs s. A. Barnett is in Everett
visiting relatives. From there she
will visit her children at Cumberland; I;
and before returning, will likely visit
hsr other children In the western part
OF the State.
Mr.. and Mrs. Jehu Edwards re-
turned on Thursday from visiting
their daughter Mrs. II. G. McClain 10
Juniata, Pa,
Mrs. David Knepper, OF Taylor
township, spent Sunday with her
mother, Mrs. Lizzie Woodcock.
Quite number OF our people at
tended the funeral OF Newton Alloway
NJ Center church, Monday afternoon.
Geo q. Richardson. OF Dudley,
spent few days 10 the Valley II
was his annual visit 70 care for the
graves Of his relatives.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1910-05-26
A Valuable Bulletin.

Not IN long time has a more
practical or valuable bulletin been
put out by the department of
agriculture than that issued
short time ago under the caption
"Replanning a farm For Profit.
1t discusses a rundown Illinois
farm which came to grief through
monotopous and uninterrupted
rotation of corn and oats, oats and
corn and nothing else. 1t EN-.
phasizes the benefits to be de
rived from the growing of clover
IN rotation with grain crops and
the use of farm and com N mercial
fertilizers with view to main.
tanning and, if possible, lncreas-
ing the fertility of the soil. The
bulletin gives six different types
Of farming that may be substi-
tuted Tor the usual one OF corn
and oats, so as to increase the In.
come of the farm from two to
i've times and at the same time
increase the fertility of the soil.
A copy OF this bulletin is worthy
of the most careful perusal by
tens of thousands of agricultural
sinners living in the corn belt,
and they can get possession of it
by writing to the congressman
from their district or directly to
the secretary of agriculture,
Washington.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1910-05-26

tits estimated that if the beer
sold IN Somerset county last year
should be confined in single
vessel, 1T would be sufficient to
sucmerge the court house and
jail, and to inuudate the county
home farm of 300 acres. The
total output for the three brew
erles as recoi ded on the county
records, was 3e,499 barrels
When the beer brought from out.
side Is added, it is estimated that
100000 barrels were sold IN the
county last year. The consump-
tion has been growing at an amaz-
ing rate 10 the last few years.