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The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1915-06-10
COULD BUILD SIX CANALS.

COULD BUILD SIX CANALS.
An unusual sight and one not with
out special significance was that OF
Secretary OF State Bryan signing the
cards of 10000 men who had taken
the pledge OF total abstinence at one
Of the Billy Sunday meetings, after
Mr.. Bryan's address against the drink
curse. His attack against the liquor
evil from the economic standpoint in
cluded the following statements:
1T is estimated that the people OF
the United States spend almost 81
500,000,000 annually on intoxicating
liquors. The cost of the Panama
canal, the most gigantic engineering
feat in history, was about 100000, 900.
Is it not appalling to think that we
spend for drink every year something
like six times the cost OF the Panama
canal?
81 have endeavored to obtain an ac-
curate estimate of the amount OF
money spent on education In this
country, and the figure given me is
$750,00O, 900. We spend for drink more
than three times as much as we spend
for education.
The annual appropriations OF the
federal government are little less
than 81, 50,O0O,000. This sum includes
the salaries of all the public officials,
from the president down. All OF these
government agencies employed In ad
ministering the federal government
of this great nation are operated at
an expense of less than s1,25O, 1000.
Think, If the mind can comprehend
It, of this nation spending twice that
amount for alcoholic liquors"
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1915-06-10
NO BETTER?


It was a south-bound Indiana ave-
nue. owl car and 1t hardly resembled
a returning band OF Sunday school pic
nickers. At Twenty-second street,
among others who boarded the car
we're two levee characters, says the
Chicago Tribune.
ITS pretty tough" offered one to
the other.
"Yes, but wait till after election"
replied the other "Everything's
fixed"
Say, listen," responded the other.
Haven't you heard that just before
every election we ever helped to
carry?"
ut amt going to be any better
after election"-he shook his head
sadly. ut amt ever going to be any
better"
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1915-06-10
Victims Of Circumstances.

Prisoner, you are charged with loi-
tering about town in very suspicious
manner, and with not having any visi-
BILE means of sustenance. What do you
do for living?"
Prisoner wiped tear from his eye,
and turned a haggard face TO the mag
istrate.
Your worship" said he, 81 am en-
gagged in manufacturing smoked
glasses for viewing eclipses-an in
dustry that entails protracted periods
OF enforced leisure"
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1915-06-10
Valuable eorneo Timber.

The most valuable Of all Borneo
timber IL billian, or ironwood. This
is an extremely hard timber, sand-col-
ored when newly cut. but darkens with
age. 1t is so heavy that It sinks In
water. and for that reason cannot be
RATED down the rivers. About two
inches of the outside of the tree is
soft and worthless. but the inside can
be used for almost any practical pur-
pose where a solid, strong and dur
able wood is required.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1915-06-10
Maklno War ImposalbIe.

Il shall yet succeed" said the in.
ventor. lin producing weapon so
deadly that war must cease"
Il shouldn't be surprised" replied
Miss Cayenne. "A few more engines
OF destruction may kill off people un.
I'll there won't be enough to conduct
battle.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1915-06-10
OBEYED THE LAW.

81 contain two pints Of pure rye
whisky and six bottles of beer" was
the placard In large letters that Ed
Strange wore on his hat walking
through the streets of Grafton. He
was obeying literally the West Vir'
ginia law that containers" of alco-
hol shall be properly labeled in large
letters.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1915-06-10
Couldn't Put That In Print.

Doctor-That last case has made me
miss the big dinner this evening to
the distinguished Professor Jay. It's
too late now.
His Whichever mind, dear; the
speeches will be published.
Doctor-Yes, but the dinner won't.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1915-06-10

hOth 80 w 10
all the protesting
Christians in t o
one organization.
Christ's words in
John 1928 are
quoted frequent
ly: THAT they
may be made per-
feet in one; and
that the world
may know that
thou hast sent
me, and hast
loved them, as
thou hast loved
me-" But 1t may
- s.l .,,t
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1915-06-10
Horses Skull to Improve Acoustics.

Horses Skull to Improve Acoustics.
In demolishing the parsonage of the
Lutheran church, built eighty-two
years ago. the skull of a horse was
found embedded in the wall.
In this section there is supersti-
ton that II the skull of horse is
placed under the church 1t would help
the acoustics properties, and the voice
of the minister or any one occupying
the pulpit could be heard to better
Observation-Disclosures Correspon-
dence Philadelphia Record.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1915-06-10
Hardly Worth the Tlme.

To multiply 15 by itself, and the re-
suit (225) by itself, and so on until
10 products have been multiplied by
themselves in turn, would take per-
son writing three figures a minute and
working ten hours day for 800 days
In each year 2S years to accomplish.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1915-06-10
MILK ExcELs BEER.

Milk lie a strength producer-beer is
not. Milk contains from three to four
per cent Of fat-beer contains none
Milk contains none Of the poison al
cohol-beer contains from four to
seven per cent.--W. c. t. U. Poster.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1915-06-10
Those Holland Bulbs.

Bacon-I see British marines in
termed in Holland are receiving ten
cents and noncommissioned officers 25
cents a day as pocket money
Egbert-Why, that's hardly enough
to keep 'em in bulbs!
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1915-06-10
HANDS LIKE VELVET
Kept SO by Daily Use Of cutIeura
Soap and Ointment Trial Free.

On retiring soak hands in hot CUT.
cura soapsuds, dry and rub the Oint-
ment into the hands some minutes.
Wear bandage or old gloves during
night. This is "one night treat.
ment for red, rough, chapped and
sore hands" 1t works wonders.
Sample each free by mail with 32-p.
Skin Book. Address Cuticura, Dept.
ky, Boston. Sold everywhere.-Adv.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1915-06-10
A sliont Mistake.

WAS it the Goodchild ranges the
Russians have been driven from"
There's no such place as the Good
child ranges"
Il mean the Beskids-same thing"
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1915-06-10
ro ATTRACT TRADE.

To stimulate decreasing custom
Columbus (O) brewery is giving trad
Ing stamps with every case Of beer.
Save the coupons and get a dinner
set" is urged. Why not save the din
ner by emitting the beer?
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1915-06-10
Hiuh Explosive Shells.

One of the surprises of the war has
been the great relative demand for
high explosive shells as compared
with the demand for shrapnel. The
consumption of both has exceeded all
estimates, but 1t is shell that the new
conditions have most strikingly af-
fected. There was time when II was
considered more noisy than dangerous
and in field operations more useful to
shake the enemy's nerve than to in
flict damage; while as TO the deadli-
ness of shrapnel against an enemy that
II could reach there has never been
question. But in the elaborate
trenches employed in this war the men
are fairly well sheltered from shrap-
mel, and for the special purpose of pre-
pairing the way for an attack high ex-
plosive shell in prodigious quantities
is required That the British are still
short is indicated by the complaint of
the Times correspondent that the ad-
vance attempted near Fremelles was
weakened by forced economy In the
use of ammunition. The French seem
to be better off, and If the Germans
have felt any scarcity on either front
they have succeeded in keeping 1t a
secret, which is the next best thing
to having plenty.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1915-06-10
The eRoad to
Unity
q, REV. L. W. CosNELL
-, 10 d. Dean. Moody Bibis institute
Of Chicago

or with all lowliness and meek
.I,h long suffering, forbearing one
v VIZ IN love: endeavoring to keep the
4. ne, =, + the spirit in the bond OF peace.
bhesIans ';2' j.
r.b ia said today Of church unity.
Lama minds, apparently, the great
PV'- naad 10 IN hiring
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1915-06-10
Food for Ihounhf-

~ authority on the subject says
~ should stop eating for while and
|aa' Some men. under the, clrcum.
c" 49, would merely stop long
|s, |Ssu 10 wonder whence the next
|a' was to come.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1915-06-10
WOULD THEY7

The statement that beer drinkers
do not drink beer for its alcohol, but
for its food value and to quench
thirst, leads writer in the New. York
Sun to conclude that If beer we're un-
obtainable they would take to bread
and water.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1915-06-10
New zealand,a Mineral island.

New zealand's Mineral Island.
New Zealand has an island nearly
three miles In circumference. which Is
almost entirely composed of sulphur,
mixed with gypsum and few other
minerals.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1915-06-10
DRINK CUSTOM plMlNIsHEs.

A student publication at the Univer-
sity of Michigan estimates that drink
ing customs among the boys in that
school are now diminishing at the
rate Of 25 per cent every year.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1915-06-10

-, s'ectric oven, tiny enough TO be
NM IN a microscope, and used for
avg and drying objects that are to
kmas mulned, has been invented by a
uan scientist.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1915-06-10
His WAY.

"Old General Putnam would be a
good man to have in the emergen-
cies of this war"
Why so?"
Because he knew how to jump into
a hole and get out of one"
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1915-06-10

When a mans salary is raised he
joins another club and his wife buys
new furs and a party gown.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1915-06-10

A man may be little soft physical.
ly, but his opinions always are strong
and we'll developed
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1915-06-10

When you dislike anyone, isn't it a
fact that you dislike his laugh more
than anything about him?
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1915-06-10
The Idea.

How was II that Hamfat was
queering the act?"
Il believe it was by acting
queer"
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1915-06-10

The rule is that those who shave
themselves hear less baseball.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1915-06-10

II you wish to attract crowd sec
to II that your performance is pre-.
ceded by a parade.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1915-06-10

He's poor actor who can't get any
one to take his part.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1915-06-10
INTERNATIONAL
SUNDNSC[1OOL
LESSON

By Il. o. SELLERS. Acting Director OF
Sunday School Course Of Moody Bible
Institute. Chicago)
The herald. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1905-1953, 1915-01-28
An impression Of Gorky.

"Once when l was singing in Mini
early in the morning" said Chaliapine,
Russia's greatest singer, Il looked out
and saw Gorky standing at window
In the same hotel, and gazing silently
over the city. The sun was shining on
the towers Of the churches, over the
silver river and turning the roofs red.
You are up early said. Yes, he
answered. Come In my room for a
moment When reached his window
] saw that he had tears in his eyes,
and I did not understand. Look he
said to me, how beautiful 1t is. Just
the world and not human being any
where. The humanity which has made
fits gods and its laws, built its houses
and It's churches, all asleep and help
less as children, powerless to change
or adjust all this that It has made
HE spoke very softly and very
sweetly, and for the moment he
seemed to me the most perfect human
being in the world. Truly one of Rus
sia's flowers Of genius. the
Craftsman.
The herald. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1905-1953, 1915-01-28
GOT ALONG WITHOUT RAIL
Evidently Passengers Time on This
Railroad Counted for Little With
the Management.

On a dilapidated narrow-gauge rail-
road a traveller was struck with the
general air of hopelessness of the en-
tire country. Rundown farms, fences
falling to pieces, and houses implanted
and dismal were seen as mile after
mile was reeled Off Finally a coun-
tryman got on, and the two fell into
conversation. Country around here
looks fearfully dilapidated," remarked
the traveller. "Yaas, but jest wait an
yell see sumpin' wuss," replied the
countryman. The train stopped. They
looked out and saw a rail missing
ahead. The entire train crew clam
bered out, crowbars in hand, proceed
ed leisurely to the rear of the train,
and in due time loosened a rail and
carried 1t forward. It was spiked into
position and the train proceeded.
Somebody steal a rail?" asked the
traveller. "Yaas, abaout twenty years
ago. reckon. Evah since they haint
nobody bought a new one. When the
train comes back they've gotter stop
an tear up a rail behind 'em. Amt
that the dilapidatenenest thing ye
ever see, stranger"
The herald. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1905-1953, 1915-01-28
CHARTER
1 OF GILBERT REALTY COMPANY, INC

United States of America, State of Louis
lana, City of New Orleans.
Be it known, that on this fifteenth day of
January, in the year of our Lord, one thou
sand nine hundred and fifteen. Before me,
Albert Guilbault, a notary public, duly com.
missiCned and sworn in, for the Parish OF
siding, and in the presence of the witnesses
hereinafter named and undersigned, personally
appeared
i. Mr.. Frank X. Dufour, whose postoffice
address is No. 1915 Carondelet Walk, New
Orleans, La; 2, Mr.. Paul J. Dufour, whose
postoffice address is No. 1915 Carondelet
Walk, New Orleans, La.J ), Miss Emile Du-
rand, femme sole, whose postoffce address is
Miss Jeanne Durand femme SOLE whose post
office address is No. ll2l Short Street, New
Orleans, La; ), Mr.. Gilbert Durand, whose
postofice address is P. o. Box SIC, New Or
pOstoffice address is p. o. Box SO, New Or
leans, La, all of the full age of majority, who
severally declared that awaiting themselves
of the provisions of Act No. 267 of the Legis-
lature of this State, for the year, 1914, and
of the general laws of this State, they have
covenanted and agreed, and do by these pres
ents covenant, agree, bind, form and consti-
tute themselves, with those who may here
after JOIN with them, into a corporation and
body polite in law, under the following agree
ments to-wit:
Article l. The name title of this corpora.
tion shall be the Colbert Realty Company
Inc. and under said name, it shall have au.
thority:
l. To contract, sue and be sued; in any
competent court;
3 To have succession by its corporate name
for ninety-nine years from the date hereof;
). To make and a common seal and
alter the same at pleasure;
4. To acquire property by grant, gift, pur-
chase, and TO devise or bequest; to lease, hold
and dispose of, and to mortgage and pledge
the same, all subject to the limitations pre-.
scribed by law;
5. To appoint such officers and agents as
the business of the corporation may require
and to nix their compensation;
3. 10 make bylaws. not inconsistent with
any existing law, fixing altering the man.
agement OF its property, the regulation of the
government OF its affairs and the manner of
the certihcation and registration Of its stock;
z. To conduct business in this state, Other
states, the Federal districts, the territories
and possessions of the United States, and in
foreign countries;
s. To change, modify or alter this act, or
dissolve this corporation with the assent or
vote OF two-thirds in interest of all the stock
holders expressed at a meeting called by the
Board OF Directors for said purposes, after
mailing to the last known place of postoffce
address Of each stakeholder, at least ten days
before said meeting. a copy Of the resolution,
of the Board of Directors looking 10 said
amendments or dissolution, and a notice of
the said meeting;
9. To issue certificates of stock to the
stockholders signed by the president. and by
The herald. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1905-1953, 1915-01-28
SHOWS RAIL PROGRESS
WONDERFUL DEVELOPMENT OF
THE LOCOMOTIVE.
LARGEST Now Built Are Sixty Times
Heavier Than the One With Which
Stephenson Hauled His First
Train Of Cars.

The rails in use during the first days
of the railroad were very light, weigh
ing about twenty-three pounds to the
yard. Today the rails must be 100
pounds to the yard TO withstand the
tremendous pressure Of the gigantic
modern locomotive. In 1Si9 the aver
age speed of passenger trains was %
miles an hour; today the average
speed is fifty to sixty miles an hour,
and sudden spurts of 80 miles are at
tainaDle, or about twenty times as fast
as the first locomotive could move.
The first of the high-speed engines was
but In use in 1872 on the Pennsylvania
railroad; It weighed 81 tons. In 1892
still larger type was designed,
Weighing 50 tons, and during recent
years the weight of passenger engines
has increased to 400 tons-or 60 times
heavier than Stephenson's first loco
motive.
Today there are over 100000 miles
OF trackage in the United States and
more than 65, 90 locomotives in use;
150,000,0O0 tons OF coal are needed to
keep them supplied with fuel, and
over a billion passengers and nearly
two billion tons of freight are trans
ported on this enormous railroad sys-
tenn every year.
The locomotive has been carried to
its highest development in this coun'
try, and the United States now leads
the world in its manufacture. not
only supplying all that are needed in
this country, but shipping many hun
dreds yearly to other parts of the
world.
The locomotive is being made larger
and larger to meet the growing de
mands upon it. The largest engine in
use today IS a compound one, which
measures 100 feet over all and weighs
$4,000 pounds. 1t is an oil burner
carrying 1000 gallons of oil and 1900
gallons Of water. 1t cost S43,3 $50 tC
build. Modern locomotives, as they
get bigger and bigger, must increase
in the direction of their length only
and this makes it necessary to con
struct them with a series of joints sc
that they can turn a curve without up
setting.
The herald. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1905-1953, 1915-01-28
new IDEA OF ECONOMY
RAILROADS AIM TO MAKE EN-.
PLoYEEs MORE CAREFUL
Move Has Resulted In Cutting Down
the Heavy acquisitions for Small
supplies-Better Than Old
System Employed.

The railroads, the greatest spenders
of the age, have recently been pro-
pounding to their employees the CO
nundrum: How long will a broom
last?" writes George Ethel5ert Walsh,
In the Sunday Magazine of the Chi
cago Herald.
II the once-a-month broom can be
converted into the two months broom,
the economical station agent saves
for his railroad the cost OF hauling
one ton OF freight 80 miles every two
months; which, six times year,
means the cost of hauling a ton Of
freight 210 miles.
But the broom is merely taken as q
symbol in the new railroad economy.
Take lamp Chimneys, several of which
have to be used in each station. Every
time one breaks a charge must be
made against the railroad equal to the
cost of hauling a ton Of freight 1Oh
miles. Twenty lamp chimneys broken
a year in a single station means that
some poor locomotive must stagger
under an extra ton of freight over 21O
miles just to pay for them.
Even the lead pencil must not be
despised. A requisition for a new lot
of pencils can be made out in few
minutes; but ton Of freight must be
hauled two miles to pay for each new
one. The same is true of each track
spike that works loose and is thrown
aside. A track bolt is similarly treat,
ed as waste; but it is worth three and
a half miles of haulage of ton of
freight.
The man who was responsible for
working out these details of cost Of or
binary trifies in railroad language was
something of an economist. He had
the idea that waste in trifles had some
thing to do with the high cost of rail.
road operation. The monthly requi'
sition for supplies Of trifling nature
reached the huge sum Of $4,000, or
100000 a year, and he forthwith de-
cided to cut down the cost.
After figuring out the freight haul
age of the different items, he offered
rewards ranging from 500 to $40 to
every station agent who showed the
greatest annual saving Of general sta
ton supplies. He paid out $500 in
prizes, and cut the acquisitions down
1000 the first year. The second year
the acquisitions for lead pencils
brooms, lamp chimneys, lanterns, coal
shovels, waste and pals decreased sc
generally that the suspicion was
aroused that many Of the agents were
buying their own supplies in order tc
get in on some OF the prize awards.
At one time railroad economy gen
orally meant laying OF a few men, cut
ting wages of others, and postponing
the purchase Of much needed new
equipment and rolling stock. In the
end this sort Of economy resulted in
more inefficient service, grumbling and
strikes, and deterioration of tracks
roadbed and general equipment. Soon
er or later the railroad had to pay fol
a policy that was about as economical
as killing the old goose that laid the
golden eggs.
The herald. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1905-1953, 1915-01-28
CHARTER.
BUILDING REVIEW PUBLISHING COM
PANY. INCORPORATED.
cTATE OF I0UrcIANA

Parish OF Orleans City of New Orleans
Be il known, that on this fifteenth day oil
dred and fifteen, before me William Waller
Young, a notary public, in and for the Parish
of Orleans, State of Louisiana, duly commits.
stoned and qualified, and in the presence OF
the witnesses hereinafter named and under.
signed, personally came and appeared the
several persons whose names are hereuntc
subscribed, all above the full age of majority
who severally declared, mat, awaiting them.
selves of the provisions of the laws of this
state relative to the organization of corpora
tions, and particularly Act No. 267 of the leg.
islative acts of the General Assembly of the
State of Louisiana, for the year 1914, approved
July 9. 1914, they have covenanted and agreed
and do by these presents, covenant, agree and
bind themselves. as we'll as such other persons
them their successors. 10 form and consti.
tute corporation or body polite in law, for
the objects and purposes and under the agree
meuts and stipulations following, to-wit:
Article l. The name and title of this cor.
porRtion shall be Building Review Publish.
ing Company, Incorporated" and under its
corporate name il shall have power and au-
thority to have and enjoy succession for the
full term and period of ninety-nine years from
and after the date hereof; to contract, to sue
and be sued, TO make and use a corporate seal
md the same TO break or alter at pleasure; to
hold, receive, lease, purchase and convey, as
well as mortgage and hypothecate property
real, personal and mixed, corporeal and incor-
poreal; 10 name and appoint such managers,
terests and convenience may require, and to
make and establish, as well as alter and
amend from time to time, such bylaws, rules
and regulations for the government of the af-
fairs of said corporation, as may be necessary
and proper.