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The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1911-12-21

sibly the fog grew more dense, so
that in time the mast was more or
| less indistinct and only yard or so
of pallid water was visible on either
hand
Vineyard Haven tonight, by any
chance?" he asked suddenly
Appleyard shook his head decidedly
Not unless we get a breeze stin
enough to blow this off.
Then we'd better find an anchor
age for the night?"
only thing to do, I'm willing TO
,, risk my valuable rep as weather
prophet, that this won't lift before
morning"
"Tarpaulin Cove?"
Appleyard pursed his thin lips and
rubbed his nose, considering. Good
enough anchorage" he admitted; but
for muh, amt strong for it. Menem-
sha Blight would do us more COM
fortably-across the Sound you know,
bit east of Gay Head "
"Why Menemsha Bight?"
Because there's an able-bodled and
energetic fog bell at Tarpaulin. Take
my advice Therell be nothing but
dead silence at the Blight, and 1t isn't
much of a run over there"
You know best How shall ! hold
herr"
'Soueast"
so" Coast put the wheel over
and brought the Echo round to that
course as indicated by the compass.
Monotonously the chronometer IN
the cabin kneled the hall-hours
About two bells give o'clock Apple
yard began to Gdget uneasily tie
knocked out his pipe and, jumping up,
trotted forward to the bows. where, an
arm embracing the mast he remained
for many minutes stubbornly. peering
ahead into dreary blankness which
the keenest vision could by no means
have penetrated.
After a while he returned. discour
aged to the cockpit 81 don't like
this" he asserted glumly, There's
something gone wrong We ought to
We made the Blight over an hour ago
I've been expecting we'd run aground
every minute of the last thirty.
Sure you've got the course rght?"
Absolutely" returned Coast with
conviction.
Then what the divvle's the mat.
ter" grumbled the little man Mar.
thas Vineyard hasn't moved, I'll 90
bail; and we certainly couldn't hold
that course as long as we have with.
out striking land somewhere" lie
wagged a perturbed head. growing
inarticulate dissatisfaction Let me
think. -. Something wrong ..
What Wait" he cried
abruptly Maybe Hold that
wheel steady for a bit, will you"
Dropping to his knees he peercd in
tently into the binnacle, at the same
time opening the cutoff switch and
disconnecting the batteries The mo.
tor promptly coughed and was quiet.
the droning in the spark coil died
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1911-12-21
SPRINGS NEW SCHEME
President Murphy Has Plan for
Training Ball Players.
Cub Maenate Says FulfiIlment Of His
Purpose Would Develop Many Un.
known Stars-Would Revolu,
tionize Present Ideas.

Charles w, Murphy, president of the
Chicago Cubs, today is shining In a
brand new role as an inventor. The
Cub chief diyulged scheme which
may reyolutionize spring training trips
OF major baseball leagues. He has
proposed the organization Of win
ter league to train drafted and pur-
chased players for their debut in high
er society.
This league would be composed of
towns in Florida where baseball can
be played the year around. The cir
cult will be composed of eight towns
In Florida. The following places have
been proposed for the new training
camps OF the big league clubs. Key
West, Pensacola, Tampa Miami, or.
mond, Palm Beach St. Augustine and
Sarasota
These towns are winter resorts to
which people Of means flock when the
snow begins to fly in the northern
states. They are amply populated to
give splendid support to teams sched-
uled for the proposed circuit.
President Murphy, in defining plans
for this winter league, said he would
recommend that It be composed Of
players who had not been members Of
a major league club for more than
three months All teams of the Ma.
tional and American leagues would be
eligible to send players drafted or pur-
chased to these towns for the trying
out" process. 1t would do more to,
ward showing the real class of a play
err he thinks, than a training trip
could possibly accomplish.
Thanksgiving. Christmas and New
Year could be reserved each season
for games with major league clubs,
the Cub chief thinks, and these games
would prove In time the leading sport.
ing events of the winter calendar.
Advocates of substitute for the
present methods of training the raw
material for big league consumption
are increasing each year. Just how
many adherents of this scheme Muir.
ply can marshal for the movement is
THE case of Charles Moore, an in
fielder. who came as a recruit from the
Pacific Coast league to the Cincinnati
club last spring, only illustrates the
injustice of the present method, said
the Cub head.
Moore was with the Cincinnati
club just two days when ne was ere.
turned to the Los Angeles club He
proved bright star on that club from
the jump Was he given a chance to
show what he had to deliver? |
should say not. The Cincinnati club
saw its mistake and wanted him back
his season.
They were too late. had secured
he youngster through draft. He will
De with the Cubs next season. II
here had been a winter league" Of
purchased and drafted players in ex-
stence last year do you suppose
Moore would have been out on the
oast in 1911. think not. He is /
nly one Of many players of major /
ize wno aren't given n chance under
he present crude system in vogue for
rying out young material"
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1911-12-21

South Bethlehem Harvey Diehl, of
Richland Center lies at St Luke's
Hospital here, perhaps mortally
wounded, as the result of a hunting
accident. Dehl, with companion.
Charles Bilgcr was out in the woods
hunting for rabbits, and Bilger's gun
became caught in the underbrush.
The contents of the gun lodged in tho
back OF Diehl
Altoona. While his parents were
temporarily absent from the room.
Enos White, aged three, got match
and struck It, setting FIRE to his cloth
ing, and was burned from head to foot,
fatally, It is believed.
Bethlehem. The offer Of George
Mauser, a Republican. OF Lehigh town
ship, to become secretary of the new
Board of Supervisors without salary.
has been turned down The position
pays S1O0 a year and the board, which
is Democratic, at its first meeting was
prepared to elect Democrat when
Mauser sprang his offer.
Mauch Chunk.-loseph Becker. OF
Slatington, former employee OF the
Baer silk Min, Lehighton, was acci-
dentally shot by Joseph Matthews, an
employee of the Lehighton Lace Mill,
along the mountanside opposite the
silk mill while out cunning for rab-
bits. Becker was at once hurried to
the Allentown Hospital, where he Is In
a serious condition
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1911-12-21
EleVen-Year Record.


These daifydills are from Learn.
.ng the Came" the vaudeville sketch
n which Big CHIEF Bender, Jack"
Coombs and ICY" Morgan, all mem
5ers OF the Philadelphia Athletics, are
making their debut as actors at Ham
merstein's.
If Connie Mack had Lapp start
would he Ty Cobb?
Well, Connie cannot, but he can
make lnnes.
II Jack Coombs bought pony, AMI
couldn't break 1t, could Morgan
Bender?
If Eddie Collins was dry and want
ed a drink would Rube Oldring?
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1911-12-21
.NOTES Of.
SpOHDOM.

New York cyclers are practicing for
the Olympic games,
A mighty good thing not to watch
is a three cushion billiard game.
Frank Baker Of the Athletics will
open a sporting goods store in Phllly.
Harry Davis, Cleveland's new man.
ager, will soon be actively on the job
American olympic games commit
tee has appealed for funds to send a
crack team to Stockholm
TWO things a kid" ought to learn
early: To fence and play golf Every
thing else will come by itself
mo, footballs are not made of pig.
skin. The little animal from which
We get our veal, the calf is the great
college benefactor, Don't know where
this pig tale started"
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1911-12-21
Trustees OF New Hospltal.

The Governor appointed the follow.
ing to be trustees OF the State Hos.
pital OF the Treyorton, Shamokin and
MI Carmel coal fields of Pennsyl.
Vania' located near Shamokin. which
Is Just being completed William p.
hembie and Dr. Ralph w Montelius,
Mount Carmel; Grant Herring, Robert
W. Cummings, Rev Robert O'Boyle
ana Judge Charles b. Wilmer Sun
bury Senator William c. Mcconnell
and p. f. Brennan, Shamokin, and
Frederick A. Godcharles, Milton.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1911-12-21
CHAPTER VI.
AN ready?"

AN ready?"
coast at the wheel, nodded to AID.
pIeyard, who was crouching in the
bows Ready" he said
There followed a splash as Annie.
yard dropped the hook OF the moorine
al which the Echo had been riding
overnight.
IN a long and graceful sweep the
L1uo swung round and slipped briskly
uoWh the harbor to the urge of the
following wind.
Early In the afternoon the wind he.
gan TO lail Its volume diminishing nv
n's and starts; heavy pufrs alternated
WIN spells of steady breezing sue.
eessiyely more faint.
over the bows the entrance n
quick Hole, the passage between
raSque and Nashawena Islands he.
came plainly visible
App!eyard remarked the signs of
.""uge with wrinkle of disouiet ne.
tween his brows
tbtara',s W nave shift Of wind. you
'nink?' Coast asked
he little man nodded nnx,ors,v
Us clnch," he asserted And
"uen II does swing the chances are
sen 10 one it'll come in from the SON,
r ~ss' lhats the prevailing wind
'0unu mere at this season, Won know "
Wen? Even so, it'll favor ne nn
ue o sound won't 1t? Besides we've
eol the motor. we We
mat u help heap in case that ,o.
vo ,oueS uown on us, won't it?" annie
yau Snorted in disgust noddinn
oo, "I,p tne bank OF tawny haze that dis.
nroa, S'eu 'he horizon beyond the low
nro o,ou'es oI Nashawena and Cuttybnnk
., =, 'ue starboard counter.
uadnt thought of that"
en- ana yet you had the nerve to ro
NY suggestion that you needed
wen then, it's up to rs 70 mo,o
wbot2 2"4s"se n as soon as we can
go,n. m%a, Hadn't better get the motor
mere, take the wheel whi,a
"rta,r never mind" Appleyard returned
is @ "rl my Job. You stay put Thai
" unless You prefer"
abeaS N1' 81, rm>not crazy about it Go
a cola ana a break your back turning up
spo..t ~T'u engine, ii you want to-"
buu LEI thot -.
nacIo g,eyafa o grunted, setting the bin.
hatc5 e aside and lifting the enripe.nit @
M 'In n.,. Me, was born and 6rougnt
AZ AZ ~llh WI" marine motors; thew Uo%ene used 1o
Of Of any, my nursing bottle with miytrro % 70
upc.o gasoline and Vacuum A. pine r,.N,urr vonr
threw dropped ar lightly into the nj,
sw,,". ,v~ IN both the main and 'se se,,lo,, p,t,
the tbCaes' ,aes opened the globe'vaIva snr''Ir IN
men, 'eed pipe made sltsb, "a[g ad,ra,'
turueo u Of the carbureter' 's and su1us,, sIow,v
Oua,ipu. u up H the ay-whee An % angry
+ -Yon ORC broke !. out in the spark.coi
''O See'" he said with elaborate
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1911-12-21
MoakIey VIII Stick 10 cornell.

Jack Moakley, coach of the Cornell
university track and crosscountry
athletics, has signed a flve-year con.
tract with Cornell University Athletic
association to continue in that ca.
pacity. Moakley went 20 Ithaca N.
Y, in 1899 and signed at that time,
and has had remarkable success, hsv.
ing turned out IL intercollegiate cross.
country championship teams and four
track 'eams that have won the inter
collegiate track meet since 1905.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1911-12-21
WHAT MAKES A PRIZE FIGHT?
Tommy Ryan Says It Is Scientific Ex.
hibition Of Art Of Attack and
Self.Defense.

No matter where glove contests are
permitted in this country the question
arises, What is the difference be.
tween boxing and prize iighting?"
Several attempts have been made to
draw the line in the courts and in
some instances promoters have Sc
cured decisions in their favor.
The most recent champion OF sci
entitic boxing is Tommy Ryan of
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1911-12-21
oustlnn Police Fore.

Mayor Royal has started a cleanup
OF the police force and thus far only
four Of the forty officers have been
given assurance OF retention. Eight
new patrolmen We're named and prac-
tically whole new force will be on
duty by the end Of January The new
officers will go into Office gradually.
The new Mayors policy for clean
town is beginning to bear fruit. and
city Councils have shown a disposition
to help him.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1911-12-21

Charley Murphy, president of the
Cubs, learned that his old enemy Ban
Johnson, had signed George Hun to
scout for the American league. Huff
is the most successful major league
scout. He has been on the Cub pay
roll for several years and helped to
build up the great Cub machine Huff
is athletic director Of the University
of Illinois when he isn't in baseball.
HUI will be assigned to a club that IL
badly in need OF new material.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1911-12-21
44.3Oo Autos In the State

Pennsylvania's registration OF auto
mobiles is going to run over $4,000
this year, according to the way the
registration has been going on at the
State Highway Department. So far
44,SOO machines have been registered.
The best previous record was 1909.
with 3l,351.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1911-12-21
Puaillst Gardner RetIres.

Oscar Gardner, the retired pugilist,
better known as "the omaha Kid" has
left Minneapolis and will locate in
Vancouver, Wash. Gardner proposes
to take an active part in athletics In
Vancouver and has already been offer
ed a position as boxing instructor at
the Columbus A. c
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1911-12-21
Phlllles Have Many PLAYERS.

over seventy players are under con.
tract with the Phlllles for next year,
but it is reported only fifty will be
taken on the spring training trip. AN
of the full squad Of seventy-fve with
the exception Of the thirty-fve who
will be held for the season will be
disposed of before the opening game
next year
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1911-12-21
Mans preposterous Appetite.

Herbert w Fisher in the Worlds
Work for July gives very uncomiort
able simile as an illustration OF the
surplus quantities of food we con.
sumo
Two generations ago Dutch physi
clan, out walking with his child. called
the lads attention to passing hay
load as big as a mastodon There. my
son." said he, rs the equivalent oi
what one man eats In a year in excess
OF what he needs Worlds Work
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1911-12-21
Warns Against Mustx Nuts.

Dairy and Food Commissioner
James Foust is out with a warning
against the musty Christmas nut. Two
prosecutions have been ordered in
western Pennsylvania for selling nuts
unfit for food, and general Inspections
will be made in all counties to eaten
people who are violating the law.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1911-12-21

Billy Papke, former mIddleweight
champion, who recently was defeated
by Bob Moha in Boston, said the 9th
er night he had retired from the ring.
Training is hard work for me
now and 1t used to be play" said Pap
ke. Il haven't the ambition that |
used to have, and so I'm through with
the game, am comfortably fixed and
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1911-12-21
Medical Bureau Organizes.

The new State Bureau Of Medical
Licensure organized by electing DIR.
John NJ. Baldy Of Philadelphia, as
president and DR.. n. c. Schaeffer, as
secretary The new bureau will take
over the duties Of the State Medical
Council and examining boards on Jan
uary l and will meet here on Jan
uary %.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1911-12-21
Names EXAMINING Board.

The Governor announced the follow
ing as members of the board to ex-
anime applicants for the appointment
of inspector of steam engines and
steam boilers for the county of Allie
gheny: W. c, Fownes, Joseph Fawell.
Edward Kneeland, Thomas NJ. Rees
and George NJ. Bole, all of Pittsburgh.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1911-12-21
FIrst candIdate In the FIeId.

Charles A. Shafier, member of the
House from Columbia county, has filed
his papers to be a Democratic candi-
date for the House in 1912 He is the
first person to file petition for a
legislative nomination.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1911-12-21
SYNOPSIS.

Garrett Coast. a young man OF New
York city. meets Douglas Blackstock. who
invites him to a card party He accepts.
although he dlsliRes Blackstock. the rea-
son being that both are In love with Kath-
crime Thaxter Coast fails to convince her
that Blackstock Is unworthy OF her
friendship AT the party Coast meets two
named Dundas and Van Tuyl. There IL
a quarrel, and Blackstock shoots Van
Tuy dead Coast struggles to wrest the
weapon from him. thus the police dis
cover them Coast Is arrested for murder
He is convicted. but as he begins his sen.
tence. Dundas names Backstock as the
murderer and kills himself. Coast be.
comes free, but Blackstock has married
Katherine Thaxter and fled. Coast pur-
chases a yacht and while sailing sees n
man thrown from distant boat He res
cues the fellow who Is named Appleyard.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1911-12-21
Name High School Winners.

The winers in the Mccormick con-
test at the Harrisburg High School
were announced. Katharine Andrews
won the ten dollar prize aud julius
Kapner the five dollar prize.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1911-12-21
Philadelphia Charters Granted.

The following Philadelphia charters
have been granted s Rothschild &
Co, capital 100000. and IL. w. Pick.
EFT, Inc, capital $4,000
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1911-12-21
Left Handler is Safe,

Jones-A left handed golfer has a
big advantage.
Smith-How do you figure that out?
Jones-No one asks to borrow his
clubs.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1911-12-21

1t was unsafe for children to walk
out alone in London in 1895 for fear
they should be robbed OF the hair OF
weir heads by the makers OF wigs
NO raCp
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-01-03
Winter Out of Doors.

Ralph Milton Parker and Ernest
pritchard, Milford. \. H., two bright
boAs II years of age. claim that they
are having the time of their lives by
practically living Gut OF door and
Sleeping these cold nights III bed
sheltered only by Il common outing
tunt.
The boys have decided To sleep in the
t ut all winter, as they believe it is
Getting back to nature, but their
friends said the first cold night would
drive them into their nice, warm
tonnes. ON the contrary, the boys have
now enjoyed a month Of good. cold
weather and they claim they could not
g. hired to sleep in Il house again. =
Their sleeping quarters are simply
protected With the thin canvas of the
tent. the bottom of the I, mt being open
all around. as is also the front. When
the wind blows, it sweeps through in Il
gale, but so far ii has rot blown the
logs rat ut bed.
The lad for sleeping in airy quarters
is growing in this vicinity and there
are instances where parties sleep the
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-01-03
Inventor of Barometer.

Torricelle Invented the barometer IN,
the seventeenth century 1t waa.n
tube Of mercury then. in many cases
1T is tube of mercury. still. The tube
is yard long and anpuf half an inch
in diameter It is open at one end
and closed at the other and is partly
filled with mercury. The open end
dips into a little trough OF mercury. Or,
is bent slightly upward in the form of
a tiny cup. Thctop of the mercury
column is exposed to view, and by
means Of scale alongside of tie cnl-
mnn its height is read off. These 80
the essentials in the constructiorfs w
the ordinary instrument.
What is known as the wheel paTora nj
etcr, so often met with in houses, is an
ingenious variat ton Of TorrieeIii's
idea. This barometer was invented by
Robert Hoolle. probably the greatest
philosophical mechanic Of his day. II
is intended to indicate the weather
without observing the mercury itself.
There is the usual tube. but bent at
the bottom into a short leg. In this
leg Il little blass float rests upon the
surface of the mercury. a cord at
taChed to the feat passes over a pull
NY ne pulley Is lufntShed with
pointer Which moves round the dial.
the moving agency being the rising or
falling mercury, which lifts or lowers
the tloIt.
- regards modern barometers.
every body is familiar with the aneroid
a very beautiful. portable and ac-
rla'ate Instrument independent of a
column of mercury the danger to
which ii is liable from spilling. The
|aneroid consists Of a metal box partly
n'led with air One face of the box is
corrugated and so thin that it Yields
to the variations of the atmospheric
pressure. Then there is the self
registering barometer, which writes it's
record on paper wound on Il drum.
The drum revolves by clockwork. A
pencil corrected with the barometer
presses upon the revolving paper and
rises and falls with the mercury.
When IN" mercury falls the line drawn
by the pencil slopes down; when it
rises the line slopes up.-Chicago Rec
ord Herald
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-01-03

less. had the courage of his love He
married her, made her his Queen, with
fun knowledge Of the risk he ran And
when. in til alarm OF that assaSsins
midnight raid. he might have saved
himself by leaving her TO the unescap-
ahlc fate they confronted. he fought out
-" hopeless fight there beside her aid
rcrished with her Life and throne
Sorv:a's King gave for womans kisses,
lnt tncre are few men with blood in
tI@r yicns who viii believe that royal
i+*-ei gave his soul.
Rut al three may have been the
rric" paid by Austria's Crown Prince
RHGulf for the kisses Of the Baroness
Bctsera. with whom he was desper-
ate,s- ia love. The pair were found
dead in the hunting seat Of Mayerling.
AID the ONLY explanation Of the tragedy
ever accepted has been that vengeance
found Linn out suddenly, instantly. in
the midst Of his sin