The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1915-03-25
W. 7. HUGHES LETTER.
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before the twenty-first day,
when the calendar tells us the
sun enters the constellation Aries,
and spring begins with no.
ticeably increasing periods o (
light and heat. | found one fa-
miliar friend, the Skunk Cabbage,
in bloom about a month ago: and
on the same day, viz. February
23rd, a half dozen Silver Naples
laden with blossom. No tree
comes into flower earlier than
the Silver Maple. The Red Ma
pie may be the next, but there
is always the chance that the
White Poplar will beat it. The
next tree to flower is the Ameri-
can Elm. When we think of the
next flower, it must be Chick
weed, Hepatica, Bloodroot, or
Spring Beauty:-or, it may be
Dandelion, or even Quaker La
dies, or Innocence. found Dan
delion yesterday on a sunny hill
side but no others, except a patch
or two of Chickweed, which is
said to bloom every month in the
year. All these plants grow in
Fulton county, and | wish my
botanist friends would keep their
eyes open for their earliest bloom,
which should be prior to Arbutus.
Then | wish to request you all to
look for Viola rotundifolia-the
round leafed violet, which is the
earliest of its class. You will
find it on rocky, wooded hillsides
close to the ground-who will
send me the first one? And please
let all my botany friends remem-
Der that am at their service to
endeavor to identify for them any
plant they may send me. The
only cost will be the payment of
the necessary postage. Now, go
to work and acquaint yourselves
with many wild flowers this sea-
son. You will not regret it.
BILLY SUNDAY.
Dear Editor, it is a difficult |
matter to write from Philadel-
phia at this time and say nothing
about the most momentous thing
now happening in it. / refer, of |
course, to Billy Sunday and his
work. He is the most talked-of
person in the City, and rightly so;
for he gives opportunity to all
persons, of all classes, to pro-
nounce judgment, favorable or
otherwise, upon him. He has
many friends and many enemies,
the latter being composed chiefly
of Catholics, Jews, High Episco-
palians, Unitarians, Brewers, Sa-
loon Keepers, and Tobacconists-
a fine combination, truly. Most
Protestant denominations support
him, and despite his oddities and
eccentricities, he has done a won
dersul work here, and many souls
that never would have heard the /
call in a city church, have truly
hit the trail" under Billy's
preaching. 1t is a pity he must
leave US, but the work he has so
we'll started will likely go on with
joyous effect. This modern Bab-
ylon needs a Billy Sunday on ev-
cry corner-the Devil has the up
per hand, and Billy has not only
fought him tooth and nail while
here, but he has showed minis
ters how to fight him: there will
be fewer wishy-washy sermons
hereafter. A spade will be called
a spade; the rumseller, the intel
lectual highbrow, and the ex-
ploiter of the laboring man may
not occupy so high seats in the
congregation hereafter-it is to
be hoped, at least that Gods true
people may find a place where
they may go to worship Him
without being looked upon with
disdain. | regard a city church
as a poor place for the Christian,
at best. He is lost in the crowd;
does not receive the fellowship
he needs; is not ministered unto
spiritually by the minister of the
Word. 1t is no wonder to me
that thara ara hackslidinns- -thn