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Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1912-09-12
STILL HOPEFUL or VICTORY
Grange Sees Chance That Reciprocity
Will Be Defeated by the People
of Canada.

Since the successful passage of Ca
States senate, the Grange has by no
means lost hope of the ultimate defeat
of the proposition, inasmuch as a big
fight over ratification Is on in Can
ada, with the chances of reciprocity
defeat just about as good as for sue
cess. The Grange opposition to the
measure In the United States was per-
sistent, earnest and sincere and there
is no doubt that many who advocated
reciprocity respected the Grange for
making an energetic fight to defeat
what it's members believed would be
detrimental to the agricultural inter
ests of the country
The reciprocity issue is now square
ly before the people of Canada, as
parliament has been dissolved and a
new legislative body is to be elected
September 80, very largely upon this
very issue of reciprocity. The Laurier
or government party are making their
fight on the ratification of the trade
agreement with the United States,
while the conservatives, led by X. l..
Borden, are seeking the election of
their candidates purely upon an OPP
position platform. The outcome seems
very much In doubt and both sides
are making advance claims of victory.
Meanwhile the reciprocity topic
continues a live theme for discussion
in many Of the Oranges throughout
the United States, with general tariff
questions and problems more or less
involved. 1t is probable that these
lines Of thought were never before so
widely discussed in Grange meetings
and a great deal of information Is
therefore being disseminated among
the people of the rural communities
relative to national and international
affairs. Notwithstanding the vote for
reciprocity In the United States SEN
ate, the sentiment in the Oranges all
over the country continues to be
against the measure and is rapidly
growing more strongly so.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1912-09-12
BOUNDARIES FOR THE PARK
No Good Reason Why Straight Lines
Of Government Survey Should
Be Followed.

The determination of the bound
aries of park is often very intimate
ly related to radical questions of de-
sign. The boundaries adopted for a
park are often the boundaries used by
the previous private owners, and in
the west almost all such boundaries
are the straight lines of the original
government land surveys or OF SUBJ
divisions based upon them and which
are generally purely arbitrary rec
tangular boundaries bearing no har-
monious relation with the topography
except in the few cases where the
land is fiat Such arbitrary rectangu-
lar boundaries are often hideous mis-
fits with respect to the local topog-
raphy. particularly if, as is often the
case, the site has been selected for a
park because Of It's strongly-marked
topography. Such arbitrary boundaries
are also sometimes badly out of ac-
cord with certain requirements of a
good design for the improvement of
the particular ground In question. In
these hard boundary lines there is a
fine chance for skillful planting, so
that roads doubling back from the
line should not too closely approach
the actual boundary It should appear
that traffic can go no farther straight
ahead by reason of encountering the
edge Of a forest. So planted the
park may be made to appear many
II ant
need never be known by visitors.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1912-09-12
SOME SYSTEM IS NECESSARY
PouItrymen Should Keep Books, Same
as In Any Other Line Of Business
1t Stops Leaks.

Poultry keeping is business
and should be conducted along
business lines. Some system Of
accounting is necessary. The poul-
tryman should keep records of all
the income and expenses of his BUSH
ness in order to know whether 1t is a
not pay he should know it and either
stop the leak or go out of business.
An elaborate system of bookkeeping
Is not necessary. If the poultryman
wishes to avoid keeping full accounts
he can at least keep cash account.
This does not express the exact finan-
an excellent help so far as it goes.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1912-09-12

that affords greater profit for the
time and expense required than the
Indian Runner duck; and they are
not alone an all-round practical fowl,
but ornamental as well. Their alert,
lively nature, their graceful form;
beautiful colors and interesting
habits appeal to the artistic sense Of
every one.
The work alone in raising them is
very interesting, because it is easy,
clean and honorable, and, above all,
there is big profits in it, which is the
greatest incentive to all business.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1912-09-12
RAISING Chickens.

BY all means raise chickens. Two
hundred or 300 with plenty of range
can be raised to advantage at very
small expense because anything need
ed for feed can be raised on the farm.
Corn and wheat make fine chicken
feed and for winter cabbage will add
to the value Of the ration.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1912-09-12
Poultry Diseases.

More diseases are contracted by
poultry between June and September
than during any other part of the
year. In summer one is apt to be-
come more or less careless in their
attention to the fleck, and thus lose
heavily. Guard against this condition
by giving them little extra care.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1912-09-12
INDIAN RUNNER DUCKS EXCEL
Sometimes Called Egg Machines and
Also Afford Additional Value by
Their Feathers.

Although the Indian Runners are
sometimes called egg machines, we
find they are of additional value for
feathers, by picking them at moulting
time, thus saving the feathers; and
also preventing them from being scat
tered over their lots or run, says a
writer in an exchange.
While they are great foragers in
search of food, they never fail to re-
turn home at night.
Taking everything into considera-
ton, there is certainly no other fowl
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1912-09-12
Best Form of Shade Trees.

When summing up the good quail
ties of a street tree we should con-
slider the following points about In the
order here given: (D Hardness. (2)
cleanliness. (3) form. az beauty, t5)
rapidity of growth, (6) shade produc-
ton. Some authorities would place
these qualities In different order, and
climatic requirements In some cases
would demand a change
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1912-09-12
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HANDY CHICKEN FEED TROUGH
Where One Thinks Hopper Best to
Keep Before Fowls All limo Good
Plan Is Given.

One Of the greatest needs in a hen
house is dry, clean trough for feed
ing shell, grit. bran or the dry ration.
The man who has a ceiled house can
try my method and I'll guarantee he
will like 1t, writes Mrs. M. L. Dean in
the Northwest Farmstead Cut
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1912-09-12
A Good Street Front

Good street lighting is the best
front" that city can put on. Moth
ing pays SO well for the money ex.
pended.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1912-09-12
The
National Grange

Conducted by Charles M. Gardner, Editor
of the National Grange, Westfield, Mass.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1912-06-04
Survivors Tell of Fog.

1t was foggy, according to survivors,
when the Empress of Ireland, stele-
hulled, steel-bulkheaded ship of more
than eight thousand tons, left Mon
treal at 4:30 Thursday afternoon in
command of H. G.. Kendall of the
Royal Naval Reserve, one OF the most
skilled of transatlantic navigators.
Forest fires also obscured the at
mosphere and the big ship, In charge
of a pilot, proceeded slowly on her
way to sea- At midnight the pilot
aide left near Father Point, shouting
merry "Bon Voyage as he went
down their ladder to his waiting boat.
The darkness at this time was in
tense and the ship under the slowest
speed possible with steerageway held
her course. Her decks were deserted.
The passengers had all sought their
berths with no thought of impending
death.
Out Of the darkness, on the port
side, soon after 2:SO in the morning
there loomed the little Norwegian col
lier, not half the size of the Empress,
but fated to be her destroyer
Not until the collier was almost
abeam of the big liner was the danger
known on either ship. The fog had
blotted out the lights as well as the
port and starboard lights of both ships,
Quick orders trumpted on both yes
sels were heard. But they came all
,nn lot
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1912-06-04
MINERS OBJECT To
OPEN EXAMINATION
Would Bar All Save Those Who
Cut Coal From Foremanshipsss
RAILROAD Y. M. C. A. BURNED
Saves Baby BY 4Co-Foot Slide Down
Mine Cable-Robs Shrine In Read.
Ing church-Boy Kills Farm
er Accidentally.
Saves Baby BY 4oo.Foot slide.

Irwin. Tin" McDonough, after
sliding down a 400-foot cable in mine
shaft in saving the life of Tony Andy,
two years old, who had toddled over
the brink, is at his home here suffer.
Ing from twelve broken ribs, broken
ankle and contusions. McDonough
rescued the child and the physician
attending him says he has good
chance to recover. McDonough was
surrounded by about twenty children
whom he had promised to take into
the mine. Tony Andy wriggled
through the crowd to the shaft for
look" down the hole. He lost his
balance and as he fell McDonough
grabbed him. AS he did so he became
overbalanced and plunged into the
shaft, one hand clutching the child.
the other grasping for the cable. Nc
Donough managed to grab the cable,
but the friction burned his hands so
that he was forced to let go for an
instant and in his further descent he
bumped timber with his shoulder,
but he held onto the baby. Finally
he was able to wrap leg about the
cable and down he slid until he struck
the cage at the bottom. He scrambled
off the cage with his burden, who was
unframed, and then collapsed. The
baby hasn't scratch.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1912-06-04
Swarm to Deck.

Up they swarmed on deck in their
night clothing to find the ship heeling
away to port and the deck slanting at
degree that made II almost impos.
sible to stand even clinging to ratings.
Men and women shrieking, praying,
crying for aid that was fated to arrive
too late fell over one another in that
last struggle for life on board the
doomed Empress of Ireland
Frenzied mothers leaped overheard
with their babies in their arms. Others
melt on deck and tried TO pray in the
few moment left to them. Some we're
flung overheard by the heeling of the
sinking ship and some broke their legs
or arms in trying to reach the life
boats.
Above the din of the struggle on the
great promenade deck could be heard
Captain Kendall shouting commands
for the launching of the llfeboats Sew.
eral were launched in the 10 minutes
that the ship foated.
There was no time to observe the
rule Women first" in this disaster for
those nearest the boats scrambled to
places in them
But even as they were being
launched, while the wireless still was
calling IS. o. s." there came terrific
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1912-06-04
Discuss Street Car Tariffs.

Ways and means to obtain a uniform
system of making reports and tariffs
were discussed with Chief Wilson, of
the Bureau of Tariffs of the Public
Service Commission by committee of
the Pennsylvania Street Railway AS
sociation. The committee Is headed
by Gordon Campbell, Of York, and was
named at the recent meeting of the
association to cooperate with the State
authorities c. L. S. Tingley, presi-
dent, and II. NJ. Stine, secretary of the
association, and number of officials
from companies in Philadelphia, Pitts
burgh and Scranton were with the
committee.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1912-06-04
Object To Open Examination.

notwithstanding miners held
conference with attorneys here prep
aratory to bringing injunction proceed
ings against the State Mining Depart
ment for permitting any class of mine
employees to take the examination for
mine foreman's certificates. Miners
say they believe it will increase the
danger of coal mining If carpenters,
leaders, drivers and other classes of
men employed about the mines are al
lowed to become foremen. The law OF
1901 requires that none but miners
having five years practical experience
shall be permitted to take the examina-
ton, but the Attorney General con-
strues the word miners" to mean all
engaged about the mines in any re-
spect whatsoever. This is the diction-
ary definition of the word, but in the
coal region nobody considers himself
a miner except the men actually cut
ting coal. and this Interpretation Of
the law was always followed hereto
fore
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1912-06-04
u Fairs To Be Held In State.

Announcement that seventy-one
county fairs, horse and cattle shows or
agricultural and horticultural exhibi-
tions would be held in fifty counties
of the State was made by the Pennsyl-
vania Department of Agriculture The
dates run from the Hagestown Horse
and Cattle Show in Cumberland coun-
ty. June II and Is, to the exhibition
in Horticultural Hall, Philadelphia,
November to 6. The report shows
that the attendance at the fairs last
year was 1,776,6OO. The amount paid
by the State to encourage fairs last
year was s45, 5,S3362, against $33,563.22
1912. Premiums paid last year ag-
gregated S157,96177 The offerings in
premiums for this year are Sl92,09
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1912-06-04
Carried to Bottom.

The Empress of Ireland recoiled al
most on her starboard beam ends from
the blow of the collier and passengers
were flung from their berths against
the walls of their staterooms.
Many were stunned and before they
had time to recover we're carried to
the bottom with the ship.
The vast torrents pouring into the
great cash on the port side, aft, filed
the corridors and flooded every state
room abaft the midship section in.
side of four minutes.
There was never a chance for the
helpless ones in the after cabins and
staterooms of the liner With her port
side laid open for half its length from
the midship section to the stern. a
seive had more chance to float than
the Empress OF Ireland, and the
trapped passengers in that after sec.
tion were doomed from the moment
the Storstad struck.
Keeling from the blow the ship be.
gan to settle almost Immediately as
the water rushed into the big rent.
From the forward cabins, however
men and women in night attire stun
bled along the corridors and up the
companion way to the promenade deck
the deck below, the one on which
the boats rested.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1912-06-04
Instruction Camp propped.

Adjutant General Thomas ]. Stewart
announced that the proposed camp of
instruction at Mount Gretna for in
fantry, engineer and departmental off,
GERS of the National Guard, scheduled
for June Z to II. had been cancelled.
The Adjutant General stated that the
reasons were insuflciency of avail
able funds and inability Of the War
Department to detail the necessary Off
GERS to act as instructors
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1912-06-04

ocean with not another smokestack in
sight, flames burst out The wireless
operator unmindful OF his danger,
kept clicking and clicking, and just
as the boat was going down. help
arrived and the 12S passengers aboard
were saved.
Then came the Kentucky in 1910. In
the same year 10 were saved in the
Koenigen Luise, Death was cheated
in the instance of the burning freight
er, Templemore, when all on board,
544, were saved.
FollnwinR close IN this record. the
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1912-06-04

declared that probably 5000 persons
owe their lives to the fact that wire.
less station was near them In some
disaster. They declared It has re-
duced the terrors of ocean travel as
nothing else under Providence has.
1t came into practical use in 1909.
The steamship Republic, threatening
l,5OO lives in head-on collision with
the Florida, that year. gave it its first
real sea try-out.
The Alaska was the next. in mid.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1912-06-04
"Antlsv Accept offer To Debate.

Miss Lucy Price. Antl-Woman Suf-
frage Association leader in this part Of
the State, invaded the headquarters of
the suffragists and announced that she
would accept the challenge to debate
the question of suffrage. Mrs. Frank
NJ Rossing, of Pittsburgh, president of
the association. promptly accepted the
challenge, and date will be arranged
later. Probably 1t will take place in
one of the local theatres.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1912-06-04
Waters Quickly EnguIf Ship.

The doomed ones had little time
even to pray. They were engulfed by
the onrushing waters that swallowed
the big ship inside of nineteen min
utes from the time she was struck.
The wireless operators on the EN-
press, sticking to their posts to the
last, had time only TO send few S.
o. s." calls for help when the rising
waters silenced their instruments.
That silence told the rescuers miles
away more potently than bugle that
doom had overtaken the ship.
Only six hours before this fateful
collision the passengers sang as a
goodnight hymn God BE With You
Till We Meet Again" played by the
Salvation Army band on board,
The members of that band and most
of the 165 Salvationists were among
the lost,
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1912-06-04
Railroad Y. M. c. A. Burns.

Altoona. - The Pennsylvania Rail-
road Y. NJ. C. A. building, at Bellwood,
seven miles east Of here, was virtually
destroyed by fire, which started from
cigarette or spark from passing
locomotive. The building was owned
by the Pennsylvania Railroad The
loss is $1,000, partially insured. Few
furnishings or books were saved.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1912-06-04
Strikes Ship Amidship.

The steel-pointed prov of the Stor.
stad struck the liner amidships and
then forged aft, ripping and tearing its
way through the Empress of Ireland.
Clear to the stern of the Empress Of
Ireland was this great steel shaving
cut from her side, from the top of the
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1912-06-04
964 PERISH IN SEA DISASTER
Great Liner Goes to Bottom at Mouth of St. Law
renee River Following Collision
With a Collier

Rimouski, Que, May 31.-Nine hun
dred and slxty-four persons lost their
lives Friday morning when the great
Canadian Pacific twin screw liner EN-
press of Ireland was rammed amid
ships in thick fog off Father Point
in the st. Lawrence and sunk by the
Norwegian collier Storstad.
Four hundred and three survivors
were picked up from floating wreck
age and two lifeboats.
And only 12 of the saved are women.
Gathered piecemeal from survivors
the horror of this wreck grows with
the telling.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1912-06-04
WIRELESS AGAIN PROVES DEATH NEMESIS ON SEA.

Wireless telegraphy, which has been
the savior in the hour of gravest dan
ger TO thousands of helpless victims
in disasters at sea, and which flick
cred out the sturdy IS. o. s. that
brought succor to the Empress of Ire.
land early today, has again proved
itself the Nemesis of death on the
ocean.
Statisticians who became busy
chalking up and adding the human
credit marks that wireless has earned,
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1912-06-04
PottsvilIe Tax Levy Fixed.

Pottsvllle. The City Council has
named as part Of the budget for the
new fiscal year appropriations totalling
$1,000 Nine mills was the tax levy
fixed, divided tx mills for general
purposes and 11a mills for the sinking
fund. The City Treasurer, by ordi'
ance, was made collector of taxes.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1912-06-04

Harrisburg. - Roy Hemp, sixteen
years old, comprised the graduating
class of the Samp Hill School and
heard baccalaureate sermon all by
himself. The sermon was preached
by Rev. L. d, Weigle and was heard
by large audience, the graduate sit
ting in a front pew.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1912-06-04
Boy Kills Farmer Accidentally.

Reading. - Frank Kramer, sixty
years old, employed on the Huyett
farm along the Wyomlssing road,
about mile from Shillington, was ac.
cidentally shot and killed with rife
by Charles Berg, son of the tenant of
the farm. The boy had gone into the
woods to shoot snakes.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1912-06-04
Storm Wrecks Breaker.

Shamokin.-Lightning wrecked the
top of the Scott shaft breaker, and
caused the Richards & Hickory Ridge
Galleries to suspend operations.
Workmen narrowly escaped death. The
plants are owned by the Susquehanna
Coal Company. Thousands of dollars
damages was caused by the wreck Of
the power plant.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1912-06-04
Robs Shrine In Reading Church.

Reading.-Posing as worshipper
on bended knees for a while in order
to avoid suspicion, sneak thief en-
tered st. Pauls Roman Catholic
Church, remained until he was alone,
then burst open the shrine of st.
Anthony and robbed it of its contents.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1912-06-04

explosion that almost rent the ship in
twain.
II was the explosion OF the boilers
struck by the cold water. A geyser of
water shot upward from the midship
section, mingled with fragments Of
wreckage, that showered down upon
the passengers still cllnging to the
rails forward and upon those strug-
Cling In the water.
The explosion destroyed the last
hope Of the ships floating until succor
could arrive, for the shock had
smashed the forward steel bulkhead
walls that had up to then shut out the
torrents invading the after part The
water rushed forward and the Empress
of Ireland went swiftly to her doom,
carrying down with her hundreds Of
passengers who stood on her slanting
deck, their arms stretched upward and
their last cries choked in the engulnng
waters.
One Of the survivors, relating that
last tragic scene on the decks of the
liner, said:
81 was asleep like most of the pas
sengers when the collision came.
There was a slckening crunching Of
wood and steel and then grinding,
ripping sound as the Storstad smashed
her way along the port side Of our
ship.
Il knew that we had been struck
and rushed to the staterooms of some
friends and shouted to them to get up.
as the ship was sinking. Stateroom
doors flew open all along the corridor
and men and women began to rush for
the grand companion forward. Those
aft must have been drowned in their
berths