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The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1911-12-28

lie was promptly justified OF his
pains; the theory proved itself-in
that one instance at least, between
the slowly undulant floor, CLASSY and
colorless, and the ragged fringe OF
the mist curtain. he discovered a
definite space.
Directly astern and, roughly. some
forty feet away a shelving stretch OF
pebbly beach, softly Tapped by low
voiced ripples. shut In the view The
Echos tender, drawn up beyond the
waters edge, bisected II.
Good" said Coast, distracted, re-
covering from his constrained posi-
tion.
Curiosity grpped him strongly, eau
tson contending vain'y: he knew quite
well that he would never bide content
until he had probed for the cause and
source and solved the mystery OF that
wild cry in the utsht just gone.
Moreover. he felt in measure re-
sponsible for Appleyard Surely there
must be some strange reason Tor his
protracted absence.
Abandoning himself, deaf to the
counsels of prudence, Coast rose and
stripped Off his clothing
He let himself gently into the water
tfearing to dive because he did not
know its depth and found It warm
warmer than the air lie struck out
cautiously, using the slow, old'fash.
loned but silent breast stroke In two
minutes. however, he was wadng up
to the beach
There was no sign Of Appleyard:
only the tender Upon that stone.
strewn shore the feet of the runaway
had left no trail Though Coast cast
about In wide radius. he found no
sign of the missing man. The peb-
bles scratched and bruised his un-
protected feet, and he began to shiver
with cold. He gave 1t up. presently,
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1911-12-28
Tragedy Of a Tomato Vine

populated temporarily. Amateur az
rlculturlsts climbed on each others
necks to view the wonder The head
OF the house inspected II through a
magnifying glass His spouse clapped
her hands and exclaimed: "At last
we shall have our own salad from our
own vine" Even the watchman from
row of empty houses nearby was
called to look, and he remarked sol
emnly that he never saw such,a large
tomato on such a small vine"
Then came along one OF those hor'
ribly practical persons, who said it
couldn't be, and had to have closer
look. He spoiled 1t all by his discov'
cry that the tomato had been tied on
with a string, and If you want to know
who tied II on ask the woman who
lives next door
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1911-12-28
Names Deed Commission.

The Governor announced the ap-
pointment Of the following to be mem
bers of the commission authorized by
the Legislature to investigate systems
Of recording deeds: Joseph X
Fletcher, Deputy Recorder Of Deeds.
Philadelphia; Frank Cayen, president
Philadelphia Real Estate Brokers AS
ISOLATION; James h, Lennon, No. 1854
South Fifteenth street, Philadelphia,
John c. Slack, Pittsburgh; George
Hetzel, Recorder of Deeds office, Pitts.
burgh. The appointment Of Joseph X.
Fletcher and Frank Cav0n was
recommended by Recorder OF Deeds
Ware.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1911-12-28
CHAPTER W.-(contlnued.)

Cleaning my pipe. Go on and
sleep; your times not up yet"
whats o'clock"
Appeyard mumbled something in.
coherent as he stepped out on deck:
and Coast turned over and slept
again
II seemed hours later when he found
himself abruptly wide awake. In a
tremor of panic anxiety bred OF a
fancy that human voice had cried
out in mortal terror, somewhere
within his hearing. He started up, in.
formed by that sixth sense we call In.
tuition that conditions abroad the
Echo had changed radically since the
last time he had fallen asleep; and
II seemed no more than a second from
the moment his eyes opened until
be found himself In the cockpit. gaz-
irg dazedly into the inscrutable
heart of the fog.
At first. in his confusion. he could
see nothing amiss The Echo was rid.
ing on a quiet tide and an even keel
with scarcely any perceptible motion
rhe encompassing darkness was in.
tense, unfathomable, profound; only
the forward light showed dim halo
of yellow opalescence near the mast.
head, and the faint glow from the
cabin lamp quivered on slowly swirl
Ing convolutions Of dense white va.
por, like smoke The port and star
board lights had been extlnguished,
as they should be when vessel
comes to anchor.
What, then had interrupted his
slumbers?
He turned with a question shaping
On his lips.
Appleyard was nowhere visible.
Coast required some minutes before
ne was convinced of the fact OF the
little mans disappearance. But the
cabin proved as empty as the cock.
Oit and the tender was gene
The cabin chronometer chimed the
lour Of four in the morning
As the echoes died, as though they
dad evoked the genius of that place,
a strange and dreadful cry rent the
silence, sounding shrill across the wa
ters. yet as If coming from a great
distance.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1911-12-28

Do those who favor changing III,
baseball code want revision Gown
ward?
Citizens Of Georgia are beginning tC
realize the greatness Of Tyrus Ray
mond Cobb.
Walter Camp wants four downs in
stead Of three. Isn't It hard enough
TO stop them now?"
Many football critics favor abolish
ing the forward pass The hands are
used too much anyway
Walter Camp can't see a western
man on his all-star selections. He
failed to come west in 1911
Walter Camp says the new football
rules which cut down the number of
injuries in football have come to stay.
Connie Mack thinks he has discov-
cred another pitching wonder Does
he want to get a perpetual lien on the
bunting?
Rudy Unholz, the Boer boxer,
threatens to break in" once more
Bat Nelson, It seems, has Sc bad
example.
When football is perfected what
will the experts find to do during the
winter months in place of revising
the rules?
If Horace Fogel "butted in" as
Charley Doom says, who is the real
works behind the throne on the
Phillles, anyway?
Some people have the happy faculty
of seeing sport" in everything. 1t
isn't a bad thing for the appetite or
the conscience, either
Ad Wolgast has the largest doctor
bill known to the profession for some
time. 1t cost Ad more than $4,000
in lost purses to be cut up.
"Raicevitch, the giant wrestler, is
here to challenge the world" says
report. The only thing against him
is that he has been here before.
Jimmy McAleer is to scout for the
Boston Red SoX. Since Jimmy has
always been a good old scout" he
ought to shine in his dual capacity.
Paddy Livingstone may I'll the gap
in the Cleveland Nap defense, II he
chokes the break Connie Mack may
have fumbled one in sending Paddy
to Napland.
Con L'ron,is,o {s bonaful oC having
an American cup yacht race fea.
ture Of an international regatta as
part of the Panama-Pacifc lnterna-
tional exposition in 1915.
Football rules must be changed in
order to give the patrons a game, the
students a sport and to relieve the
play of its mono,onous sameness,
thinks an eastern expert
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1911-12-28

retui ned to the tender, pushed on
and sculled out to the Echo
Then, having rubbed his flesh 10 a
blush with a coarse towel. he dressed.
took the small boat back to the beach,
drew II up and, now fully committed
TO an enterprise the folly of which he
stubbornly refused to debate, set off
to reconnoiter along the waters edge.
feeling his way
After a time the beach grew more
sandy, and emboldened by the knowl-
edge that he would have his loot.
prints to guide him back. he left the
water and struck inland-but only to
find his progress in that direction
checked by a steep wall OF earth. a
clih.like bluH Of height indetermin.
able, It's hanks wave-eaten and deeply
scanned by rain
Al random. with no design. he
turned again to his left and proceeded
as before, but now along the foot OF
the bluff. trudging heavily through
damp yielding sand
Still no sign OF Appleyard
He must have tramped. at a rude
guess. several hundred yards before
he discovered either break In the
bluff or any change in the general
configuration Of the shore Ultimate
ly however. the one fell away in.
land and the other widened
A moment later he came upon a
small cathoat careened above high
tide mark, with a gaping wound in its
starboard side. forward and below the
water.line
She lay stern to the water Taking
the point OF her stem as his guide.
Coast turned inland again on a line
as straight as possible considering
the slanting lay OF the land and the
impossibility Of seeing anything be.
yond a radius Of few feet
lie had not gone far upon this
tack before he stumbled upon a path
Of hardpacked earth. obviously made
by human feet Then he found him.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1911-12-28
Altoona Mrs. Anna Marie Harber,

Altoona. Mrs. Anna Marie Harber,
Familiarity known as Grandmother
Harber, mother of a numerous
progeny, died at the home Of her son,
Albert, in Coalport, in her ninety-irst
year. She was a native of Germany
but has resided in this vicinity for
seyenty.two years. She was the
mother of thirteen children. eight Of
whom preceded her to the grave. Be
sides the Ave children living she
leaves eighty-two grandchildren and
l76 great.grandchildren, total of 263
descendants.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1911-12-28
HOWARD WILL FIGHT CHANGE
Former Manager Of the Louisville
American Association Team Re-
fuses to Be Exchanged.

Former Manager Del Howard of the
Louisville team, is going to make a
hard fight against any effort that Man
ager Jack Tighe of the Colonels may
make toward disposal of his services
Tight was in Louisville and announced
that Howard would be sold A close
friend of the former leader says How.
ard had a restrictive contract, with a
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1911-12-28
CHAPTER VII.

Some moments elapsed. Coasts
every nerve and sense upon the rack.
Though he heard 1t no more, still that
cry rang In his head. and he could but
walt smitten dumb and motionless.
feeling his chilled flesh crawl. en-.
thralled by iearsome shapes con-
lured up by an Imagination striving
yainy to account for what had hap.
pened-wait dt seemed) intermn-
ably; for what he hardly knew or
guessed, unless II were for a repeti.
ton or come explanation of tha' in.
explicable cry.
He received neither. His stralning
faculties detected none but familiar
noises.
insensibly he grew more cain. So
silent was the world. seemingly so
saturated with the spirit of brooding
peace, that he was tempted to be.
leye he had dreamed that first shrek,
to which he had wakened. and that
the second was but an echo of It in
MS brain: some hdeous trick of
nerves, sort of waking hallucinatlon,
TO be explained only on psychological
grounds.
And yet
Appeyard? What of him? Was
there any connection to be traced ee.
tween his mysterious disappearance
from the Echo and that weird un.
earthly scream? Was there really
land near and had the little man
lound 1t only to become the victim of
some irightful, nameless peril? Could
tnat have been his voice, calling tor
ueip e? And In what dread ex.
uemity =?
mere was nothng he could do. no
way to reach the man. The tender
was gone the shore invislble-and
VINO should say how far distant? OH.
erNlse he would not have hesitated to
swim for II.
PRESENTLY II occurred to him to won.
uer where the Echo lay-off what
'ouu' Appleyard's responses to his in.
Vu''les' several hours back, returned
~ memory The name. No Mans
r,m maIa' intrigued. He interrupted his
Us, Isl 10 investigate such sources of In.
'i'nation as he had at hand
III the cabin again. with the lamp
n uaneu Nigh he dragged out chart
n,,i, ",noer liz of the admirable series
SuoiiSned S by the Coast and Geodetic
sw'eN dellneating with wonderful
soVuracy the photography of Buz.
ho,i r Say and Vineyard and Nan.
o oreAel sounds, together with the topo.
Vpuy w,l OF the littoral and islands.
r.S Mlta pencil it was easy to trace the
hoa u : course from New Bedford har.
w. through Qulck's Hole; little TO
us W. east OF which. say of Rohnson's
th o'e' the fog had overtaken them To
Mo.'h Sou'h and east of that point lay
ill., 'no S Vineyard, for all the world
m" e trussed fowl in profile And
woa IVES due south of GAY Head
ha, W Mans Land, its contour much
plna VI an Infants sh 1e, the heel die.
~,S s INTO the Atlantic, Comnar,sor
ronn, nv" ,ne scale demonstrated It TO he
a MI My mile and hve.eighths long by
c. "iue-extreme measurements
tar. stared at It with renewed IN.
"r The first time convinced of
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1911-12-28
SYNOPSIS.

Garrett Coast n young man OF New
York City. meets Douglas Blackstock. who
invites him to card party He accepts,
although he dislkes 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 ~
quarrel. and Backstock shoots Van
Tuyl 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 Blackstock as the
murderer and kills himself Coast be-
comes free. but Blackstock has married
katherine Thaxter and fed. Coast pur-
chasas a yacht and while sailing sees
man thrown from a distant boat. He res
cues the fellow who Is named Appleyard
They arrive at n lonely island. known as
No Mans Land
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1911-12-28
Would Dust Suburban Concerns.

Quo warranto proceedings were in.
stituted here by the Attorney Gen
erals department against the follow.
ing corporations because they have
not performed any OF their charter
obligations Manufacturers Electric
Company Of Reading sharon Hin &
Upper Darby Railway Company, Pros.
pect Park Railway Company, Tinicum
& Sharon Hin Railway Company A
suggestion for a quo warranto was
also fled on behalf of the Consolidat.
ed Mutual Fire Insurance Company
of Lansdowne. 1t is alleged that the
company has unpaid losses OF $4,000
Dr. William ii. West. OF Harrisburg.
is president George H. Merritt, the
secretary, resigned week ago.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1911-12-28
Adjust Express Rates.

The Adams Express Company has
notified the State Railroad Commits
sion that It is willing to make changes
in rates for shipments from Elizabeth.
vile aud points in the Lykens Valley
to Philadelphia The Commission re-
ferred complaints to the company
which will readiust the prices. Simi.
lar action will be taken in regard to
other complaints.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1911-12-28
Practical Person Makes Discovery
After Neighbors Had Given Voice
TO Their Wonderment.

Now doth the amateur agriculturist
flourish and wax proud at his Luther
Burbank achievements, says the
Brooklyn Eagle One such nursed n
lone tomato plant from delicate and
sickly infancy to robust maturity.
With all mothers tender care he
ministered to that plant He watered
1t. brushed the dust off II, pleaded with
It, encouraging It to better things
Then one day member of the family
rushed into the house with glad I'd
ings. There was a real tomato on the
vine
What an assemblage there vas
about that plant! The block was de.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1911-12-28
After American rrotters.

4 prominent Vienna horseman, r.
Schlessinger, who comes 10 America
every year in search of trotting stock,
made two important purchases recent
ly, the threeyearold stallion JacF
Swift, 2:101a, and the seven-year.old
mare Maud Light, 2;07h Schlessing'
er also bought through Charles Z
Dean the black mare Black Silk,
2;09h, which Dean raced successfully
in 1908. She will be used as a brood
mare but the other two viii be raced.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1911-12-28
Hnokev al Ann Arhor.

The university of Michigan will he
represented by hockey teams this
winter, At a meeting the other night
enough candidates for the several de-
partmental teams turned out 10 insure
the university authorities the sport
has attained a firm footing,
Four, and possibly six, teams are eX-
pected to compete. II has not been
announced whether games will be
played this season with other univer-
sity teams.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1911-12-28
Lack nonaldson Wins.

Jack Donaldson of South Africa, ac-
cording to reports received from Mel.
bourne, won the worlds champion
ship in professional sprnts from \. p,
Postle of Australia at Melbourne,
Postle won the S0yard sprint in
:O7 40, but Donaldson took the 100
and l10yard dashes. The 100 was
made in ;09 80 and the latter in
10 AS All the races were run on
grass.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1911-12-28
win ENLARGE Hatchery.

Fish Commissioner Butler declared
that there was not the slightest inten.
tion to abandon the Torresdale Fish
Hatchery but on the contrary that
Il was the idea to increase the ef-
iciency and output This fact came
out In correspondence with the Inter.
State Anglers Association, which
organization has promised to assist
the Commissioner in his plans,
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1911-12-28
To Raise Yale Field.

Among the changes to be made in
the football plant at Yale will be the
raising of the grade of the field to
improve the drainage, The center of
the gridlron will be raised foot
above the edges, which will taper Off
imperceptbly. This is planned to
make the playing field self-draining.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1911-12-28
The L.araesl poa Show.

The dog show held at the Crystal
palace, London, recently had 1896 en-
tries, a new record, being 800 ahead
of the 1910 event. There were as
Judges, and their huge task was com
pleted on the second day,
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1911-12-28
Two Death Warrants Issued.

The Governor ordered death war
rants to issue In the cases of William
Schrader, Mihlin county, and Joe
Polachnus, Northumberland county,
fixing the time of execution for Jan.
uary 25, 1912.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1911-12-28

Next years playing season in the
Western league will open April 10,
with The eastern teams playing the
east and the western teams playing
in the west The opening games will
be played at Pueblo Topeka, Denver
and LIneoln.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1911-12-28

A $4,000 Derby, a s2,5OQ Washing
ton birthday handicap, $4,000 st.
Patricks day handicap, and some II
other stakes, worth $1,000 to $1,000,
are offered by j. L. Pons who is pro
noting the winter race meet at
Charleston, 8. G.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1911-12-28
10 Censor PLAYS Al Harrlsbura.

The Civic Club decided to appoint
a Vigilance Committee to scrutlnze
all plays that are booked for presen-
tation in this city and to notify the
public as to their nature,
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1911-12-28
Seeks conoressIonal Nomination.

Levi Hummei Gordon, OF Williams.
port, filed a petition at the State De.
partment rs a candidate for the Re
publican nomination for Congress in
the Eleventh District
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1911-12-28
Del Howard.

provision that in case he be deposed
as manager he should be given his re-
lease as a player, However, President
Grayson has not carried out any such
agreement If there be one. Howard,
Grayson states, cost him S2,5O0 as a
player when purchased from the Cubs
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1911-12-28

Jones'
his championship
Columbia make what he calls Of Ia
throughout Canada and the United States schedule
a them the
finish
benefit of the New Westminster and Vlncouyer people.
championship
viii be played place ud
the province o the
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1911-02-03
THE GREAT ROOT
JUICE WILL BE HERE
The Wonderful Health C'eating Dis
cOyery VIII be at HOWelfs
Drug Store.

SO much has been published aud
said about the scientist and his great
discovery and so many stories have
been told Of the wonders accomplish
ed in a very few days with his great
health giving Root Juice that many ave
getting anxious and would like to sa1
the wonderful remedy that has made
many remarkable cures during the
pest few months. The newspapers Of
a number of cities have told of hum
dreds of cures the Root Juice has
made, and some of the stories ahoAt
are almost too good to be true. 1t 9
s2id that many people who had given
ND hope Of ever seeing another well
some of whom the best doc
ro;s Of the country had pronounced in.
mable-after taking the juice short
while were restored to perfect health
The remedy seems oremove all sore
ness from the stomach, bowels ans
bladder and soon so heals the kidneys
and liver that the blood making and
blood filtering organs work in healthy
Unison Then all forms of indigestion,
bclching, heartburn, sick headache
and constipation are cured as the
cause has been removed. It seems
that it cures rheumatism by prevent
ing fermentation in the stomach and
bowels and by giving the kidneys the
health and strength to filter all ac-
cumulated acid from the blood The
reporter was told that the demonstra.
ton would begin in the morning al
Howelrs drug store.
Root Juice is 81 a bottle. Three bot
lies for $3.50.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1911-02-03
.TAWNEY DEVOTES
TIME TO HISTORY
Studies Up Government Ex.
pGnSGS for Century
vashington, D G., Feb, If Repre-

Washington, D. c., Feb, If Repre-
sentative Tawney, chairman Of the
house Appropriations committee, had
not had fierce fit Of sneezing in the
lobby of a hotel it probably never
would have been discovered how the
honest blacksmith" spends his spare
tine.
Mr.. Tawney was sitting in the lobby
reading from a,rhin, oblong volume,
tound in tattered sheepskin and occas-
ionally turning over with great care
the thin, yellowed pages Suddenly
the sneezes seized him.
81 knew it, the appropriations
chairman remarked after he had re-
covered a bit, that they used to put
red pepper between the pages of gov
eminent documents to keep out the
bugs, but as the hand that busted
this pepper is also dust, I thought the
spice would be harmless"
What in the world is that" Mr..
Tawney was asked.
Estimates of Century Ago.
This" said Mr. Tawney is the
secretary of the treasury's estimates
of appropriations for the conduct of
the United States government for the
fiscal year 1902 You may not think
SO, but it is a mighty interesting book.
II'd rather read it than a novel For
instance, the secretary OF the treasury
thought the government could get
along nicely in 1902 on about three and
half million dollars. The annua.
estimates now run up close to a bill
| lion-and this volume is only a little
more than 100 years old, Show me-
another nation, old or new. in this 81
any other age, that can display any
such development as is indicated b!
this comparison
United States Army in 1902.
Mr. Tawney quoted figures from est
mates for various departments tina
seemed ludicrous compared with thu
standards of today
This, he continued as he read on"
ought to be an interesting paragraph
for the jingoes. 1t appears that ou
+ general staff Of the army in 1901 con
sisted of one brigadier general, VIII;
received the fancy salary Of $1,000 ;
year; his aid-de-camp, one major, twc
captains, one paymaster general, on
inspector of artillery, one inspector .
Notifications and one judge advocate
And we had two troops of cavalry
two regimnets Of infantry and two reg
iments of engineers. The entire EST
mates for Notifications were $4,000.