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The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1911-10-12
A "Red Hot" Social.

Try this the first real cold day and
you are wondering how to warm up a
church social which promises to be an
icy affair. Issue posters on scarlet
cardboard, decorate with red cheese
cloth, red shades. and train a good
lusty chorus to sing. "A Hot Time.
Dress the reception committee and
walters in red. have the admission
"5 red cents" Serve red hots" (wien.
erwursD uncased in hot rolls, pickles
and coffee with doughnuts for sweets
MADAME MERRI.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1911-10-12

He stopped; hope famed up In her
eyes and she leaned forward eagerly
studying the inipassiye face
Because" she repeated
1T can only be because | am kill.
ed" he added quietly. Suddenly his
whole manner changed 81 should like
to see the---the inyentor?"
But don't you see-don't you see
you will be killed if-?" she began
tensely.
May see the inventor, please?"
Mr.. Grimm Interrupted.
For little time she stood, white
and rigid, staring at him. Then her
lids fluttered down YEARLY, as II to
veil some crushing agony within her.
and she stepped aside. Mr.. Grimm
entered and the door closed noiseless-
ly behind him. After moment her
hand rested lightly on his arm, and
he was led into room to his left.
This door, too, she closed, immediate
ly turning to face him.
I'VE may talk here a few minutes
without interruption" she said in
low tone. Her voice was quite calm
now. IF you will be-"
please understand. Miss Thorne."
he interposed merciessly, that
must see the inventor. whoever he ls
What assurance have i that this Is
not some ruse to permit him to es'
cape?"
You have my word Of honor" she
said quite simply
Please go on" He sat down.
"You will see him too soon. fear"
she continued slowly. III you had not
come to him he would have gone to
YOU She swayed little and pressed
one hand to her eyes. Il would to
God It were in my power to prevent
that meeting!" she exclaimed desper.
ately. Then, with an effort: There
are some things ! want to explain to
you. II may be that you will be will.
ing to go then Of your own free will.
II | lay bare to you every step have
taken since | have been in Washing.
ton; If make clear to you every OBJ.
scure point in this hldeous intrigue;
II confess to you that the Latin com.
pact has been given up for all time.
won't that be enough? Won't you go
them"
Mr. Grimms teeth closed with
snap.
Il won't want that-from you" he
declared
But If | should tell 1t all to you?"
she pleaded.
Il won't listen. Miss Thorne You
once paid me the compliment of say.
ing that was one man you knew in
whom you had neve: been disappoint.
ed" The listless eyes were blazing
into her own now Il have never
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1911-10-12
Drink in New South w,l.,

A recent Sydney press dispatch con-
tains an estimate by Archdeacon
Boyce of that city of the amount OF
the drink bill of New South Wales for
the ycar 1909. The figures which he
gives are e5,3116S2, which would Le
more than s25,OOO,OOO. This he esti.
mates to be a reduction Of about
e45,697 from the amount expended in
the previous year.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1911-10-12
Ahead Of Optimlst.

The man who accepts calamity
when 1t hits him as 30 much necessary
medicine administered for his own
good, and makes no ugly face when
swallowing defeat, even II he admits
It, Is not to be classed as a pessimlst
Such man is far ahead of the optlm.
ist who insists he never had anything
handed him and fools himself as he
often does others.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1911-10-12
A New Word.MakIno Gam.

A hostess entertaining In honor OF
WISHING guest passed cards bearing
the last name of her friend. The com.
pany was told to make as many words
from the letters composing the name
as they could In twenty minutes. A
prize was awarded for the longest and
shortest lists. Tkis proved very
pleasant introduction and served as
an ice'breaker, as the people were al.
most all entire strangers. This
scheme Is good one for church so.
cials, which are apt 70 be stiff If not
conducted along the same lines as a
private party.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1911-10-12
In Its Due Order.

Champ Clark, at dinner in Wash.
ington, pleaded indulgence for some
what rambling speaker.
Hell arrive" said the Democratic
leader, "if you'll only give him time,
He is like DR.. Thirdly.
Or Thirdly was dividing up his
sermon into its appropriate heads one
Sunday morning when member OF
the congregation shouted irascibly:
"'Meat. man! Give us meat!'
"'Well. said Dr. Thirdly, promptly,
hold on, then. till I'm done carving.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1911-10-12
Eorelan Drinkers.

The American workingmen are al
ways in competition with cheap for
eign labor. These foreign working.
men are all drinking men. There must
be some connection between their low
wages and their habits Of drink.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1911-10-12
White Crochet Button.

Small and large buttons made OF
white cotton thread coarsely crocheted
are now in first fashion. They are
placed on blouses. on one-piece frocks,
on top wraps. in every size. They are
used on blouses instead OF pearl but.
tons and on white linen skirts.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1911-10-12

The Parson-Rastus, ef de Lord ON
Jedgment day should say to yo', What
yo done do wifi all dose chickens yo'
stole?' What would yo say?
Rastus-Parson. might say dat nah
wife done cooked 'em. but yo' know
man amt compelled to testify agin'
his wife.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1911-10-12
Not Knocking Slattery.

Mrs. Coogan-An the little thing 10
the divils own image of his father.
Mrs. Slattery-Yis. but don't moind
that SO long as he kapes hilthy..--
Puck.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1911-10-12
SYNOPSIS.

Count di Roslni. the Italian ambas-
sador. Ia at dinner with diplomats when
q messenger summons him to the EN-
bassy, where a beautiful young woman
Ask ASKS for ticket TO the embassy ball
The ticket Is made out In the name OF
MISS Isabel Thorne. Chief Campbell OF
the secret service and Mr.. Grimm, his
head detective are warned that a plot Is
brewing In Washington. and Grimm goes
70 NE state ball for information. His at
tehtior Is called to Miss Isabel Thorne
VINO with her companion, disappears. A
shot ls heard and Senor Alvarez OF the
mexican legation, Is found wounded
GriInm Is assured Miss TN.rne did Il, he
visits her, demanding knowledge OF the
aralr. and arrests Pietro Petrozlnni. Miss
Ihorne visits an old bomb-maker, and they
DISCUSS wonderful experiment. Fifty
thousand dollars Is stolen from the office
OF senor Rodriguez, the minister from
venezuela, and while detectives are in
Yestlgating the robbery Miss Thorne APP
pears as a guest OF the legation. Grimm
accuses her of the theft; the money Is
restored. but a new mystery occurs in
the disappearance OF Monsieur BOissegur
the French ambassador Elusive Miss
Ihofne reappears. bearing n letter which
states that the ambassador has been kid
haped and demanding ransom. The am
bassador returns and again strangely dis
appears. Later he is rescued from an old
mousse In the suburbs. II IL discovered
that Pietro PetrpZinni shot Senior Alvarez
and mat he Is Prince d'Abruzzi. Grimm
hsures In mysterious Jail delivery lie
orders both Miss Thorne and d'Abruzzi
TO leave the country; they are conveyed
70 New York and placed on a steamer
but return. Grlmm's coffee Is drugged
and upon regalnlng consciousness he finds
a sympathetic note from Isabel Thorne.
The conspirators against the government
are located and their schemlng Is over
heard. Grimm orders d'Abruzzi to de-
stroy the unsigned compact. Isabel com
pels him TO obey and Is termed a trait
ress by the conspirators. The detective
informs high government officers OF the
scheme.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1911-10-12

afternoon, then" he began.
Mr.. Grimm glanced around at him.
and with slight motion OF his head
summoned two men who had been
chatting nearby One of them was
Blair, and the other Hastings.
Take this man in charge" he di.
rected. Hold him in solitary con.
fnement until you hear from me
Don't talk to him, don't let any one
else talk to him, and don't let him
talk. If any person speaks to him be.
lore he Is locked up, take that person
In charge also. He is guilty of no
crime but single word from him
now will endanger my life"
That was all. 1t was said and done
so quickly that Howard, dazed. con.
fused and utterly unable to account
for anything, was led away without a
protest. Mr.. Grimm. musng gently
on the stupidity of mankind in gen.
eral and the ease with which II is
possible to lead even u clever indl-
vidual into a trap, II the bait appeals
to greed. took car and went up
town.
Some three hours later he walked
briskly along narrow path strewn
with pine needles, which led tortu.
ously up to an old colonial farmhouse
Outwardly the place seemed to be de-
serted. The blinds. battered and
stripped of paint by wind and rain.
were all closed and one corner of the
small veranda had crumbed away
from age and neglect. In the rear Of
the house, rising from an old barn. a
thin pole with a cup-like attachment
at the apex, thrust its point into the
open above the dense. odorous pines.
Mr.. Grimm noted these things as he
came along.
He stepped up quietly on the YER
anda and had Just extended one hand
to rap on the door when it was open
ed from within, and Miss Thorne
stood before him. lie was not sur
prised; intuition had told him he
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1911-10-12

pepSia and female
troubles by your
m edicine. / had
been troubled with
both for fourteen
years and consulted
different doctors,
but failed TO get any
relief. After using
Lydia L. Pinkham's
Vege table Com
pound and Blood
Purifier l can say I
IN, q wall N,,np,an
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1911-10-12
(. 1890 fFFTFTFarFTT{FF3|k |k

canapes; England, plum pudding;
America. pie.
with good committees this scheme
may be enlarged upon and a most In.
terestlng entertainment evolved.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1911-10-12

You can't tell how much money n
man Is making from the clothes he
wears. You must get look at his
wife's
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1911-10-12
Enr coins nnhGnIP

Hicks CAPuDtNE is the best remedy-ro-
lieves the aching and feverishness-c tho
Gold and restores normal conditions It's
liquid-eifects Immediately. lOc., CSC. and Soc.
At drug stores.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1911-10-12

FAILED TO
HELP HER
Cured by Lydia E. Pinkham's
Vegetable Compound

Pound, Wis. 81 am glad to an
nounce that L have been cured of dys-
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1911-10-12

Mob cap OF ivory net over nlnon.
with lace frill falling round the face,
The band round the crown and tho
rose in front are of exquisite shell
pink satin.
A large black legal hat lined with
old gold and trimmed with beautiful
shaded gold-colored feathers
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1911-10-12

Tulle and lace are largely used for
fchus on evening gowns. These are
edged with bead fringe.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-04-30
The Wrong Spirit.
z frederick TOWNSEND MART1,

z frederick TOWNSEND MARTIN
was condemning the spirit that ami
mates too many "slum' expeditions.
"a little girl from the East Side" he
said. was invited the other day to a gar
den party given by very aristocratic
lady to a group Of little East Siders.
THE little girl, as she drank her tea
and ate her plum cake on a velvet lawn
under white-blooming cherry tree, said
to her hostess:
Does your husband drink
'Why-er-no. not to excess was the
astonished reply.
How much does he make?
He doesn't work. said the lady He
is a capitalist
You keep out Of debt. 1 nope?'
"tOf course, child. What on earth
Your color looks natural-I trust you
don't paint
Look here exclaimed the hostess,
what do you mean by all these impudent
questions?'
% Impudent?' said the little girl why,
ma am, mother told me to be sure and be-
have like a lady, and when ladies call at
our rooms they always question mother
like that"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-04-30
BY Margaret B. Downing.

~ENATOR AND MRS. POMERENE
of Ohio are among the younger and
- interesting people the new Congress
has made residents Of Washington. They
are the first democrats in the upper house
from the Buckeye state in more than
twenty years, and Mrs. Pomerene AYERS
that to some their very presence is like
lese majestic to the exalted first citizen
OF that famous mother state of Pres
idents. But they have received the most
cordial attention from President and Mrs.
Taft, and their entrance into official life
has been under the happiest auspices
Senator and Mrs. Pomerene came to
Washington about the middle of March,
and, according to Mrs. Pome enc. they
have done more moving recently than
they have during their nineteen years OF
married life.
"I have met so many delightful people
in Washington" said Mrs. Pomerene,
and / have heard of so many eXtraor-
binary careers and adventures that / feel
quite small indeed when truth compels to
tell how prosajc my existence has been.
i was born in Canton. in the house where
my father had lived for years and where
his children lived until the city grew like
q gourd and fairly overwhelmed our quiet
street with manufactures and business
houses. Then my father moved on what
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-04-30
S. ATLEE POMERENE WIFE OF THE NEW SENATOR FROM OHIO

from England and Scotland, though al
most every kind Of European may be
found in our section OF the country In
domestic service, as we'll as in the IN
dustrial establishments.
But while housekeeping takes up a
large portion of our day, We have fallen
into line with the women of the world
in that we have all kinds of clubs ana
diversion, both the intellectual and fr1Vo-
lous 1 belong to a club which is limited
to fifteen members, all friends in the per-
sonal sense and forming small circle
which makes delightful social intercourse
The club is called the Clio, formed more
than nineteen years ago, and we sui
have the same president We have never
had difference of any sort or any variety
of trouble which popular verdict says
must exist in feminine organization. For
several years we followed the Chautauqua
course and a few of our members made
brilliant records and then went up to
the headquarters, passed their eXamna-
ton and got their diplomas. Then we TOOK
different countries and made an exhaust
i've study of each. This year a delightful
art course was in progress when l went
to Columbus. when Mr.. Pomerene had been
elected lieutenant governor OF the state
and now / am in Washington. Each
member writes papers and we dlscuss
the paper, and then have some slight re-
freshment-tea or lemonade or something
which is no tax on the hostess.
We rarely permit anything approach
ing politics to get into the clubs, for we
have all aspects of opinion, and as the
club is literary, We prefer to keep it So
The woman question is attracting the
same attention with us as it is elsewhere.
but we let the larger and more diffuse
clubs discuss this vital topic. Personally
! do not care 10 have vote, for I have
no need of one. Probably If L had large
interests to look after without a man to
represent me | should feel as so many
women do. Or II l had children 1 might
desire a larger share of power and in
fuence than now L crave. Women in my
city vote on the school question. and that
is as far as the crusade for equal suffrage
has been successful
Mrs. Pomerene comes of illustriols line
age on both sides of her house, and she
claims that conservative fusion Of race,
Rhenish German and Scotch. Her great
grandfather was born in this country,
near Germantown. Pa He was Valentine
Bockies and his parents came from q
small town near the Rhine to Pennsyl-
vania. When Valentine was of age how
ever, he pinned to see his fathers old
home. and, going back on a visit he
married in his native city and remained
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-04-30
SHOWING swaps EAST OF ROCKIES
THEY EQUAL ONO, INDIANA. AND ILLINOIS

other the bill was held up in the legisla-
ture and the work stopped There are
other schemes which are going on in
other states, and in Florida a large
amount of land has been drained by varl-
GUS companies. and especially by the Diss-
tons, who have taken the water from
hundreds Of thousands Of acres.
And this brings me to the Everglades.
The whole Of Florida is a great bed of
coral. upon the upper part of which a
dense vegetation has grown, forming the
lands which now make the winter garden
and fruit patch of the eastern United
States. Lower Florida is largely a swamp
tered over the whole state that it has
more marshes and morasses than any
other part Of the Union
1t has altogether almost one-fourth of
the swamps Of the whole country. their
area amounting to something like twenty
million acres, or to about as much as the
whole state of South Carolina. Some Of
these lands lie along the coasts and on
the rivers. A part of them contain great
lakes like Okeahobee. which measures
three-quarters of million acres and
more. The Everglades, which are almost
solid swamp, are at the south. They
have rim of mangrove trees and other
vegetation which separate them from the
sea. and it is said that IL this rim is cut
and canals are made the tract can be
drained. l am told, however, that there
is some question as to the prospective
value Of the land when 1t is once re-
deemed. Some Of the scientists say that
it lacks mineral matter and that it Is al
together humus. They say it would not
hold the rainfall and would become as
dry as sawdust after being drained. AS
to this. 1t Is claimed that irrigation could
be given by Lake Okechobee; others as
sert that this soil is rich in fertilizing
materials. The Disston drainage scheme
was, as l understand it. just north OF the
Everglades. 1t resulted in the partial
redemption of a large tract of land, but
to not as much as was originally plan
ned.
Going north from Florida there are vast
tracts along our south Atlantic states
which have been mapped and which might
be redeemed. South Carolina has a large
area of swamps and the same is true OF
North Carolina and Virginia. On the
eastern border of the latter two states is
the Great Dismal Swamp, which alone
contains more than 10000 acres. The
swamp begins a little south of Norfolk,
Va. and extends southwark across the
boundary into North Carolina. The
greater part of it is still covered with
trees, although some of it has been
drained and devoted to trucking. At one
end Of the swamp is Drummond lake,
reached by the Jericho canal or ditch.
There is also canal which runs through
the swamp connecting the Chesapeake
bay with Albemarle sound
This canal was, / think, made by the
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The Impossible.

A NDREW CARNEGIE, at a recent din
I ner in New York. said of a certain
labor trouble:
1T is silly of employers to pretend, in
these troubles, that they are always in
the right. Employers are often in the
wrong, often unreasonable. They often
like Mrs. Smith-Jones-ask impossible
things.
Mrs. Smith-Jones. taking a villa at
Palm Beach. engaged for butler a stately
old colored deacon.
Now. Clay she said to the old fell
low, there are two things l must insist
upon-truthfulness and obedience
Yes, madam the venerable servant
answered. and when yo' bids me tell yo
guests yo's out when yo's in, which shall
II be- madam"
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the same understanding. and as a result
tens of thousands and millions of acres
passed away from the government for a
few cents per acre.
And now it is found that the work is
necessarily a national one. Take this
matter of the lower Mississippi. The
swamps act as great reservoirs which
regulate the flow of the river. They be-
come filled at the times Of the floods and
seep out gradually into the main currents
IT the swamps are cut off the water
must be all thrown back into the main
channel. and this will necessitate rails
Ing the levees or dikes which are now
along both sides of the Mississippi and
other rivers, and which have cost the
government and the states tens of mil
lions of dollars. There are more than
1900 miles Of levees along the Missis-
sippi alone. The YaZoo basin has an I'M
broken dixie, and there is a great dam
around the basin Of the st. Francis. The
government, national and state, has spent
$34,OOO.OOO within the last generation to
the swamps will have to be handled care
fully to keep the cages intact.
Moreover, no state will allow a sister
state to drain its surplus flood waters
into it's own territory, and the farmers
will kick against receiving surplus water
from their neighbors. These are some of
the problems which confront the drain
age proposition, and make it impossible
except through cooperation and national
supervision. 1t is an interstate and ma
tional question. I am told by Senator
Newlands that he has treated of this
matter in his new bill for the manage
ment of the waterways Of the Union.
Some of the states have already author
ICED the drainage of the swamps, and
some have granted concessions to that
end In the Yazoo basin company had
been organized and plans made to re-
deem in the neighborhood of half a mill
lion acres. The geological survey had
prepared the maps which gave the basis
of the working plans. The company was
so capitalized and the organization so
made that the bonds would be secured by
the lands redeemed and all the farms
be subject to the assessment for carrying
on the work The bonds were issued at 4
per cent, and the banks had agreed to
take them, when for some reason or
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-04-30

States and see where they are. They
are not scattered over the desert away
off from the railroads amid the can
yons and valleys of the arid west. They
ton. and are to be found in al
most every state of the live, up-to-
date east. Some of them lie near the
big cities, others are surrounded by
farms worth a hundred dollars an acre
and nearly all are accessible by water
and rail to the markets.
-.
OF this swamp land seventy-two mill
lion acres lie east of the great plains
and twenty or thirty millions are found
in the Mississippi delta. There aye
vast tracts in the northern states.
Minnesota alone has something like
four million acres. and Michigan one
fourth as much more. The state of
Maine has between three and four mil
lions. There is a vast tract in North
Dakota. and Wisconsin has several
millions which need only to be drained
to be turned into farms.
We look upon Illinois as thoroughly
settled. We know it is one of our great
est corn states and that the land is worth
that state has more than two million
acres Of flooded lands that might be re-
deemed, and which will be richer than
any now farmed There are altogether, in
the east, seventeen states every one of
which has more than million acres
Of swamps, and there are twelve
others each Of which has a quarter Of
million to one million acres that
could be easily drained.
The average man OF the east thinks
of California as arid rather than wet
He knows that a great part of 1T is
irrigated, and. he looks upon much of
1t as a desert Nevertheless, that state
has some of the richest swamp lands
of the world. The Sacramento river,
which runs through the middle of 1T,