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The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1910-03-17

And Do IL a. Frequently a. the op-
portuu1ky Offsv.

And % IL ~ Frsqpsntiy a. the Or
portuuaGy Offers.
Civilized manstouches a hundred
things with .his hands ito every one
with any other part of his body.
Literally he sticks the former into
everything. Itfonows, as DR.. Ec-
cles points out in .the Dietetic and
HYGIENE Gazette, that hands prob
ably play a very important part in
the spread of disease. From this
the further coronary may be drawn
that washing highlands is a sanitary
process of great Importance. It af-
fords en- imperfect but partial dis
infection.
Pretty much everything touched
by the hands may be infected
money, newspapers, books, street
car straps, restaurant knives and
forks and tumhlers, other peoples
hands, door handles, public pens
and pencils, andis so on, ad infinitum.
Every one of these touches may,
and some of them actually do, re-
suit in a transfer of germs. Fortu-
nately most of the newcomers will
be harmless, but occasionally a
"batch" arrives analogous to the
Black Handlers, and if they find any
cut or minute abrasion of the skin
or if the imbecile carelessness of
their hostNrubs them into his eyes
or mouth the possibility of a death
or at least, an expensive illness in
the Iatter's' family becomes immi-
nent.
Therefore wash your hands as
often as opportunity offers. You
can't overdo it. Clean hands are
of far more importance hygienical-
ly than aesthetically. Washing
them after handling some danger
ously infected object may save your
W or some one else's life. AS you
have no way of distinguishing in
fected from uninfected things,
banknotes, for instance, the hands
should always be washed as a mat
ter of routine before they are car
ried to the eyes or lips.
What DR.. Ecles would like to see
adopted is antiseptic hand washing
involving the routine use of some
fairly strong germicide. This is a
counsel oflperfection that cannot be
hoped for. A more frequent use of
soap and water will be boon enough
for a first step. The Medical Rec
ord agrees with DR.. Eccles as to the
necessity for a hand washing cru
SADIE.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1910-03-17
A Successful DISGUISE.

Mr.. Murphy, says a writer in the
Brooklyn Citizen, was inquiring of
his friend Mr.. Doolan how his
wife was feeling after the excite
ment of the recent wedding of their
daughter. "She's well enough" re,
piled the other, excepting that
she's grieving over a pair of illigant
new kid gloves that got lost on her
that evening.
"She's feeling bad about thin
but I've advertised in the paper
and I'm thinking she'll get thin
back again befoor long. They cost
Mrs. Doolan two dollars and forty.
five cints"
"Ain't you afraid whoever cot
thin will be slow to answer the ad.
vertisement inquired Mr.. Muir.
ply.
"It's meself that knew how to fy
that" returned Mr.. Doolan. 81
advertised thin illigant gloves wa;
an ovid cotton pair, bursting away
at the seams and wur-rth nobody:
keepingP"
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1910-03-17
The Earliest Lotteries.

The lotteries are generally said
to have had their origin in Italy,
but in Grove and Cavalcaselle's
early Flemish Painters" reference
is made to a lottery drawn at
Bruges on Feb. "a, 1446 (1445 old
Style. This is the earliest of
which the scheme, list of prizes
and accounts are known to be in
existence. In 1880 a lottery was
drawn in Florence, the object being
to meet the state expenses. Nine
years afterward they were legalized
in France by Francis /. and called
"blanques." The lotteries instituted
at Paris by the Duke d'Invernois
in 1912 and 1873 were for provid,
ing marriage portions for the young
women belonging to his estate.
The first lottery known in Eng,
land was drawn at the west door OF
st. Paul's cathedral in 1869. The
amount was 100000, which in those
days was very considerable. 1t con.
sisted of 10000 tickets at 10 shil'
lings each, and the profits of the
speculation were to be appropriated
to the repair of the harbors of the
KINGDOM.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1910-03-17
The Cossaek's Whip.

People who are unacquainted
with Russia and who read of street
disturbances being suppressed by
the Cossacks with their whips have
little idea of what formidable weap-
ons ,thhsse are. Made Of hard leath-
er aild4afering 10 a fine point, they
are triangular in shape, and the
Ccscaek, who knows how to bring
the edge down upon his victim, can
infict a wound that is not infre-
quently fatal. "A favorite stroke is
one by which the eye and a portion
Of the cheek are cut.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1910-01-13
Dry Farming.

The Spokesman-Review, of Spo-
kane, in commenting upon the dry
farming movement, says:
"The objects of the dry farming
congress are intensely practical and
laudably patriotic. They are, in
brief, to develop the Science of pro-
ducing profitable crops from a rain
fall that was insufficient under old
methods of cultivation. This science
has ceased to be theory. 1t has be-
come an inspiring, demonstrated real
ity. In sentence, it is nothing more
than conservation of moisture-the
breaking of the stubble in the right
way and at the right time to catch
and hold the rains Of autumn and the
SHOWS of winter, and after that the
best methods of cultivating the crop,
SO that the finely pulverized surface
soil will hold the imprisoned moisture
around the roots and prevent evapor-
alton.
This seems wonderfully simple,
but 1t has been found that, while the
general principle is applicable to all
sections, there are varying local con-
ditions which require somewhat diff
ferent applications Tho work OF the
congress is, therefore, educational
such as fostering the establishment
all over the West of scientific expert
ment stations"
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1910-01-13
Erect Of EuIogy on Lawyers.

The Rev, F. s. C. Wicks. of the
All Souls Unitarian Church, told a
good story the other day OF young
preacher who eulogized very bad
lawyer. He said the lawyer was a
bad husband, bad father. bad neigh
Dor and generally bad man morally.
though he had been very successful
in his profession. For the funeral a
new preacher in the town was select
ed so that he would not know just
what kind OF man the lawyer had
been.
The preacher arrived and asked a
man standing by. who was pretty
much OF a wag, what sort of man
the lawyer had been. The wag laud-
ed the lawyer to the skies. The
preacher believed all he said. arose
and pronounced a poetic eulogy of
the departed barrister. When he had
heard all he could stand TO hear with
out unburdening himself to some one
present, the Judge OF the court In
that town leaned over to a lawyer
who sat beside him and remarked;
"Weli. there's mighty little induce
nent for really good man to die in
Smithville now" - The Indianapolis
Star.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1910-01-13
siIage Fed Beef Cattle.

Indiana Is becoming famous for its
beef cattle fed in part at least on
corn silage. The Purdue monthly
calling attention to such feeding says |:
Commission men, who handle beef
cattle In the markets, often value
silage fed steers thirty-five cents per
hundred pounds higher than steers
which receive no sllage. Here is one
Of the chief reasons for using siIage
In ration for feeding steers. Silage
can be put up and fed as cheaply as
clover hay and the steers receiving
silage make better use of the corn
they eat.
The steers fed here at Purdue on
corn silage made cheaper and more
rapid gains, gained a higher finish
and were valued higher at the finish.
Hogs fed after silage fed steers did
equally as well as those after hay fed
steers. The amount OF grain con-
sumed by hay fed steers was greater
than with silage fed steers. The man
ure from silage fed steers Is free
from weed seed unless they are found
In the bedding material. In feeding
clover hay the weeds have good
way OF spreading. The same amount
OF silage can be stored in less space
and It saves hauling hay or fodder in
bad weather.
The results obtained last year were
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1910-01-13
New Corn For The Southwest.

Last year a small lot of shelled
corn of kind new to this country
was sent to the Department of Agri-
culture from Shanghai. 1t proved to
have qualities that may make it valu-
able in breeding corn adapted to the
hot and dry conditions of the South
west. The plants raised in the test
averaged less than six feet in height,
with an average of twelve green
leaves at the time of tasseling. The
ears averaged five and a half inches
In length and four and third inches
In greatest circumference, with six
teen to eighteen rows of small grains.
On the upper part of the plant the
leaves are all on one side of the
stalk, instead of being arranged in
two rows on opposite sides. Besides
this, the upper leaves stand erect in
stead Of dropping, and the tips of the
leaves are therefore above the top of
the tassel. The silks of the ear are
produced at the point where the leaf
blade is Joined to the leaf sheaf, and
they appear before there is any sign
of an ear except slight swelling
Scientific American.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1910-01-13

Government does not intend to lessen
in the least degree its prosecution of
suits to dissolve combinations which
are to-day monopolizing the COM
merce OF the country, and seeks only
10 foster and encourage reasonable"
concentration of capital-necessar ry
TO the economic development of man
ufacture, trade and commerce. He
also points out that the worst Of
tenders in monopoly must accept Fed
eral incorporation, face criminal
prosecution, or dissolve themselves
INTO their component parts in the diff.
ferent States.
In industrial combinations called
trusts, the President SAYS. the inter-
state and foreign business far exceeds
the business done in any one State.
lhls 1act, he says, will Justify grant
ing OF Federal charters to such com
blnations under such limitations az
VIII secure compliance with the Anti.
Trust law.
10 this end he recommends q grant
ing of Federal law for the charters
TO corporations engaged in interstate
commerce, protecting them from un.
due interference by the State and re-
lying on National supervision to pre-
vent abuses which have arisen under
State control
Such a law would subject the real
and personal property only to the
same taxation as is imposed by the
States and would require complete
reports to be filed at regular inter.
walls. Holding companies will be for.
bidden.
The President declares the Sher-
man Antitrust law does not need
amendment. and that the series of de-
cisions by the Supreme Court renders
a strong reason for leaving the act as
it is.
The public, the President SAYS.
must disabuse itself of the idea that
any distinction between good trusts"
and bad trusts" can be introduced
into the statute.
The President declares that mon.
opolles must be restrained and pun
ished until ended.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1910-01-13
Corn Meal VS.. ShelIed Corn

Fattening hogs will usually finish
faster on corn meal than on shelled
corn, and many farmers favor corn
meal for that reason. Experiments
covering the quantity fed plainly
show, however, that hogs given corn
meal eat more feed in a given time
than those on shelled corn. When
both the feed eaten and the gains
made are taken into consideration
the profit in favor of corn meal is
considerably less than many suppose.
Corn-and-cob meal has been shown to
have about the same value as pure
corn meal; if any advantage is had
from corn-and-cob meal, as is claimed
by some stockmen, it no doubt large
ly comes from the bulk furnished by
the particles of cob. which by render
ing the contents of the stomach less
compact or more porous helps to their
easier and more complete digestion.
From Coburn's Swine in Ameri-
ca"
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1910-01-13
Management of Cattle.

For practical purposes and general
farms, a general separating and class
ing of cattle is necessary, so that each
class of animals may have suitable
treatment.
Feeding cattle probably require the
| first consideration, and the utmost
economy, as well as the best manage
ment, is necessary If this class of an
imals is to repay the feeder. One of
| the essentials that is conducive to
economy is the comfortable housing
of the animals to be fed, and this
| particularly with respect to warmth
A certain amount of feed is required
to be consumed by the animals for
heating purposes before any is util.
lied for the formation of fat. Any
excess of food, after proper temper
ature is arrived at, is placed upon the
muscles in the shape of fat. 1t Is
very essential, then, that for fatten.
ing purposes the animals be kept at a
proper temperature. Warmth is
equivalent to food.
The variations in the amount OF
food required by an animal are de-
pendent in a great measure on tenn.
perature. In proportion to the TEN.
perature which an animal has to keep
up will be the loss of the materials
| consumed in keeping up the animal
heat. In addition to warmth, rest
and comfort are necessary for feeding
animals. Every movement causes a
corresponding waste in the muscles
that make it, so that no more eHer-
else than is quite necessary for gener-
al health's sake should be allowed.
Animals that sleep we'll gain more
| flesh than those that are more wake
| full, so any plan that conduces to
| drowsiness should be adopted. such
as darkening the shed after feeding
| is over.
Grooming feeding cattle is labor
from head to tail, along the spine
with weak sanitary fluid will keep
them free from lice. These little de
tails will materially help in the gen.
eral economy of feeding.
The time for each meal should be
kept as punctually as possible, so that
the animals are no. fretting for the
food. Whatever is the diet laid down,
there can be no doubt but that the
first meal OF the day should be some
thing easy Of digestion, so that after
the nights fast 1t may quickly be TAX
en- into the system.
Unlike feeding cattle, animals that
are growing. to develop into healthy
and well grown cattle, require plenty
of room and exercise; good. roomy
yards with plenty of shelter accom-
modations are the right places for
them. They should be literally fed
on a growing ration.-W. H. Under.
wood
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1910-01-13
TAFT REMOVES pINCUOT.
Chicf or Forestry Bureau Dismissed
For InsubordinatiOn.

Washington, d. C.-Presidcnt Taft
dismissed Clifford Pinchot. Chief Of
the Forestry Bureau, and the fight
between the Roosevelt radicals and
the conservative wing Of the Repub-
lican party is on in earnest. The
Presidents action came after Cab
met session that lasted practically all
day. When it broke up. just before
dinner tima in the evening. there was
issued at the White House a copy of
letter sent by the President to Mr..
Pinchot. In this letter, after sum
ming up the acts Of the forester that
led him to take such action. Mr.. Taft
said:
by your conduct YOU have de-
stroyed your usefulness as helpful
subordinate of the Government and
it therefore becomes my duty to di-
rect the Secretary of Agriculture to
remove you from your Office as For
ester
Secretary Wilson was swift I'm car
rying out the decision Of the Presi-
dent. He addressed to Mr.. Pinchot.
to Overton w. Price, Associate For
roster, and Albert c. Shaw, assistant
law officer of tho Forestery Bureau.
letters substantially indentical.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1910-01-13
Newsy GIeanings.

British peers wero announced 10
speak at ll6 meetings.
Mayor Gonzales. OF Hoboken, N. T..
made his first Sunday in otilce blue. .
zelaya offered Mexico plan to an,
mex all the Central American repub-
lies to that Government.
Charles S. whitman succeed ed
William 7. Jerome as District Attor.
ney OF New York County
In an open letter 70 r. !. Higgins
New York City. Park Commissioner
Mayor Gaynor orders him 10 "stor
Immediately" all political influence
or Interference"
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1910-01-13
Early and Large Vegetables.

Early ana Large vegetables.
There are two ways in which every
man who takes pride in his garden
likes to excel his neighbor. One is in
having the earliest product and the
other is in having the largest. One
may earn a reputation for having the
sweetest peas, the crispest lettuce or
the most mealy potatoes, but all this
is eclipsed by one big squash or tur-
nip, or one vine of early tomatoes,
though none of these prizes may be
any more than tolerated for the table.
Earliness is the result of conditions
favorable for the rapidity of growth
and quick maturity. A warm soil is
still further improved by the addition
of available plant food and abundance
of humus. A little nitrogen in some
form is good at the start, but later II
encourages growth of top which re-
tards maturity. This is not objec.
tionable in case of some vegetables,
but it Is not advisable for others. The
treatment which would be fitting for
lettuce and asparagus, or other plants
grown for the top, would not be COM
mendable for tomatoes and beans, or
plants grown to their fruit. A bal
anced ration is most reliable in this
case, and barnyard manure serves
the purpose best If it is to be had.
For producing large vegetables the
requirements are different. A long
season is desirable. For this reason
an early start should be made and
maturity retarded so as to secure a
long period for growths. The soil
should be in good responsive condi-
ton. The plants are not to be forced
into a rapid growth at the start, but
are to be kept growing through a
long period. Stimulating nitrogenous
manures are to be used sparingly, but
phosphoric acid and potash are tho
independents, the former seed or fruit
growth and the latter for root.
He who succeeds, understands the
requirements of plants and treats
them accordingly. He sows the seed
and sees that conditions are what are
most suitable. Nature will do the
rest.-Farmers' Home Journal.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1910-01-13
700 Pounds Butter a Year.

Cows that have such yearly rec
ord are certainly valuable, with but
ter selling at thirty-five cents a
pound, as now. There are several
such cows reported. one Of the latest
being an American Jersey COW, Ward
er's Lady, now in the Jersey herd of
G. I. Hood. Lowell, Mass. This COW
has a yearly record of 700 pounds Of
butter. The same herd has four such
Jersey cows, and this record has the
stamp and authority of the Massa-
chusetts State experiment station.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1910-01-13
THREE COURSES OPEN TO CORPORATIONS UNDER
LAW AS OUTLINED BY PRESIDENT TAFT

The DEGREES of Injunction recently adopted prosecutions under
the antitrust
affected by them have but three before
FirstThey themselves
different of
effective organization and the
enterprise;
Second-n secret trust they must
continue
in
associates;
ThrdThey accept good faith the Fed
eral charter.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1910-01-13
INSURGENTS DEFEAT CANNON.
They Combine With Democrats an,.
Ilegnlar Republicans--I4O TO 1IG.

Washington, ID. C.-For the first
time Speaker Cannon and his organ
ization were defeated in the House
The vote was 149 to 146. Twenty
three insurgent Republicans. three
regulars and 1873 Democrats turned
the trick against 145 regular Repub-
licans and one Democrat.
The Speaker and his organization
admitted defeat and made no further
attempt to Illustrate the will OF the
majority. The insurgents won on the
issue for which they have con.endeG
consistently since their movement
was organized; they took out OF the
hands of the Speaker the power TO
appoint committee.
The committee which the Sneaker
lost was the important House end of
the Ballinger-PinchO Investigation.
The three regular Republicans who
Joined the insurgents were: Herbert
Parsons, Of New York; Butler Ames.
OF Massachusetts. and Hamilton Fish.
OF New York.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1910-01-13
Brown Swiss Cows.

Tie Michigan Agricultural College
farm has some notable Brown Swiss
cows in its dairy herd. One of these
cows gives in year 1888 pounds Of
milk, which made 424 pounds of but
ter.
Another one 10,15S pounds of milk
making 457 pounds of butter.
Another 9477 pounds of milk. and
416 pounds of butter
Still another gave S120 pounds of
milk and made 406 pounds of butter.
Their average weight is 1850 pounds.
These certainly are valuable cows.
and are full blood Brown Swiss.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1910-01-13
Feminine Nntes-

Seven correspondents we're r~-.-l
and thirty-seven charges made IN the
suit for divorce secured by Edwin u.
Martin. OF Brooklyn.
White Aigrette. the property nj
Miss l.. @. Hopkins. won the gold
medal for the best cat at the Atlantic
Cat Clubs annual show Ia New yori;
City.
Mrs Margaret Usher. OF Lawrence.
Kan. Is known as the Grand Old
Lady OF Kansas she is over ninety
years OF age. and her husband served
as Secretary OF the Interior Ia LIN
coins Cabinet. K
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1910-01-13

published in last June's issue, but It
may be we'll to say that the lot Of
scattle receiving corn, cotton seec
meal, and corn silage made profit OF
over s14 per head, while the cattle
receiving corn and clover hay made
a profit of less than $12 per head.
The facts are that silage is surely
the cheapest feed for fattening steers;
the entire corn crop can be utilized
with but slight waste, and the higher
finish and selling price atthe cheaper
gain price, all should appeal to the
practical steer feeder.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1910-01-13
TAFT REMEDIES TO CURE TRUSTS
AND ABATE RAILROAD ABUSES
FOR INTERSTATE COMMERCE.

avors Omitted States Court of
Commerce." Limited Railway
Pools, Increased Protection to
Shippers, Added Power to Com
mission Over Rates, Limited
Railroad Acquisition OF Interest
in Competing Corporations, and
Forbidding Unauthorized Issu-
ance of Railway Securities.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1910-01-13
Savings Banks.

An Irishman was explaining Amer
lean institutions to a green country
man.
"A savings bank" he said, "is a
place where you can deposit money
to-day and draw II out tomorrow by
giving weeks notice. Success
Magazine.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1910-01-13
FOR CORPORATIONS.

Urges Federal Incorporation of "In-
dustriaIs," With Prohibition Of
Holding Companies -- Interprets
8 Antitrust Law as Permitting
Combinations Not Oppressive
Declares Purpose to Push Prose-
cution of All Suits to Dissolve
Monopolistic Concerns - Nc
Good" and bad" Trusts.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1910-01-13
Cannda's Population 7,aao. .ooo.

The Canadian Bureau % Census.
al OTTAWA, estimates the population
OF canada at the close o. the year
NJ H3bO,O00. The Province OF On
tario leads with 2,6l9,O25.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1910-01-13
Kcntucky's First Distiller Dead

j. c. Mattingly. who operated the
first registered distillery in Kentucky.
died at ST. Mary's. Ky. aged eighty
six years. lie amassed a fortune in
the liquor business and retired ten
years ago.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1910-01-13
How PrIce OF MIIk wns EnIsed.

How the raising OF the price oi
milk from eight 10 nine cents was
brought about and how New York
City Just missed further increase 10
ten cents were revealed at the Mllk
Trust inquiry in that city.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1910-01-13

France is buying many locomotives
in Germany. The latest order is for
thirty for one line. For years French
railroads have regularly ordered To-
comntivas in Germany.