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The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1916-07-13

Apple and pear trees in town
show great ravage Of leaf blight
this summer,
There will be a festival in the
grove at Dublin Mills, Saturday
evening, July 22nd.
Huckleberries, were never
known to be more plentiful than
on Cove mountain this summer.
Our thermometer has touched
96 in the shade several times re-
Gently, but we are not Dragging
about it.
Large crops of hay are being
reported this summer. S. A.
Nesbit took 35 large loads of clo-
yer from Ia acres.
Last Saturday night, sneak
thieves entered the Fulton House
cellar and helped themselves to a
large quantity of liquors.
Rev. Lewis Duvall will preach
at Sideling Hill Christian Church
at 1920 next Sunday morning
followed by communion services.
Last Thursday, Hon. and Mrs.
John P. Sipes and their grand
daughter Anna Mary went to At
lantic City, and returned Satur-
day.
Miss Pauline, daughter of L.
C. Reisner, Of Millersville, is
visiting her uncles Messrs. Jacob
and George Reisner, in McCon-
nellsburg.
Misses Lillian and Bess Griss-
niger, Mrs. A. D. Holman and
Mrs. Charlie Scott were recent
visitors in Chambersburg and in
Greencastle.
Rev. and Mrs. R. E. Peterman
are expected home to-day. They
have been spending their mid
summer vacation in York and
Adams counties.
Mrs. Jennie Wagner and daugh-
ter Susie, of Johnstown, and Mrs
Nancy McQuade and Miss Ethel
Rider, of Altoona, were guests of
Mrs. George Suders, east Lincoln
Way, part of this week.
Miss Vernona Mellott, a stu
dent of West Chester Normal
School, who had been visiting in
the home of O. S. Difbaug and
family of New Holland has re-
turned to her home in Sipes Mill.
Do you read the Bank adver-
tiSement that appear weekly in
the NEWS? They are full of
good advice-how to plant"
seed that will surely grow into
fruitful source of comfort some
day.
Last Saturday afternoon, Miss
Mary Jane Johnston entertained
about a dozen ladies at her home
with Rev. and Mrs. j. l.. Grove.
The guests were AYR township
ladies', members of a local sew
ing circle.
Mrs. Rosa Pittman of Ayr
township, her sister, Miss Nettie
Barber, of Licking Creek town.
ship, and John C. and son James
Deshong, near Green Hill, took
dinner on the Fourth at the j. j.
Harris Hotel, in McConnellsburg.
Mr.. and Mrs. Clarence Mock,
Of Allentown, came home about
aweek ago and are stopping at
the home of theformer's father,
John Mock, in Tod township.
Their stay will be about three
weeks, during which time Clar-
ence will bronze up" in the har-
vest fields.
Ruth, daughter of William H.
cooper, near Webster Mills, came
nome from the Chambersburg
Hospital last Saturday. Ruth
mad been attending school in
Chambersburg and suffered an
attack of appendicitis a few
weeks ago and was operated on
IN the hospital.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ellis Lynch spent
.ne weekend in the home of DR..
~ Z. Trout, and on Monday they
" went to Red Lion to DR.. c. N.
lr0ut'e IN &ho;,. ,.,t,,r,, N fau,
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1916-07-13

While everything soaring glad that
account of early purchases give
patrons the benefit of old prices. which will
surprisingly low. Note the following:
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1916-07-13
FLOOR COVERING

nice assortment of Floor Covering Mattngs Rugs
Some of these goods be duplicated
matter. Our prices astye rvhIet
last Mattngs, IL cents to % cents; mattngrugs
20 to 80 cents; L6O to 2.6O O of fvery
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-05-01

teaspoon ginger. Beat all together.
add one-half cup hot water in which
has been dissolved a level teaspoon
soda. Bake in angel food or square
shallow cake pan. Excellent. You
car serve this for dessert with a dress
ing of whipped cream.
The Table.
Sweet Potatoes and Nuts-Chop two cups
hot sweet potatoes, cup nut meats, one
cup melted butter, one beaten egg, one
Mix two cups chopped hot sweet potatoes
and one cup chopped nut meats stir in cup
with one-half teaspoon salt, press into
square molds; when cold. cut into slices,
dip in egg and bread crumbs and fry.
Rice Pudding With Stewed Fruit-Two
cups rice pudding tcold), one cup stewed
and chopped tart prunes. prune juice,
sweetened and thiekened with a little corn
that has become very stiff when cold and
mix with it cup of stewed and chopped
and serve it with the prune juice. sweetened
and thickened with a little cornstarch-
Other fruits may be used
Floating Island-One and one-half cups
milk, two teaspoons graduated sugar, two
eggs. two tablespoons powdered sugar. one
vanilla. Method-Scald milk: separate
yolks from whites. Beat yolks until thick
Add granulated sugar and salt, then hot
milk slowly. Return to double boiler and
cook until it forms coating on spoon
Beat whites until stiff Add powdered
sugar and one-fourth teaspoon vanilla.
Veal Croquettes-Mince cup of cold
i veal in a chopping bowl. adding little
cold ham and two slices of onion. a pinch
of mace, powdered parsley and pepper,
some salt. Let pint of milk come to the
boiling point, then add a tablespoon OF cold
butter. then the above mixture Beat up
two eggs and mix with one teaspoon OF
flour and add to the rest: cook it all about
ten minutes stirring with care. Remove
from fire and spread it on platter roll
it into balls When cooled flatten each;
dip them in egg and bread crumbs and Try
in a wire basket dipped in hot lard.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-05-01
EUening Chat

BY RUTH CAMERON.

.-...- Being Ancestors.
A friend of mine is very proud of the
half dozen pieces of mahogany which have
come down to her from her grandfather
and great-grandfather-
The other day when 1 was calling on
her the door bell rang and she excused
herself to answer. When she came back
to me she explained that she had been
making arrangements to sell some furni-
ture, among other things, black walnut
bedstead that had belonged to her parents.
Don't you think your grandchildren will
be sorry some day that you sold that -
I asked. Just as you can never get over
the fact that your grandmother traded
that pineapplet, bedstead for some new
But this is that hideous black walnut"
she said.
Yes said 1, land probably your grand
mother called the pineapple bedstead that
hfdeous old mahogany thing"
The black walnut bed of which she
spoke is plain, massive thing with really
good lines. l don't doubt that there will
come day when it will pc valuable
Black walnut at the present time is al
as a tree is practically extinct 1t will
be many. years before we get another
Consequently the antique dealer is he
ginning to collect black walnut furniture.
This does. not mean that all black walnut
furniture is, or ever will be, valuable. Too
much of it made at a period when
everything was ornate and ugly.
Someone has said that, judging from the
architecture of the period just after the
Civil war, one would think the architects
of the United States left their brains in
stead of their bodies on the battlefield One
might well think the same of the cabinet
makers.
Nevertheless, there are some good pieces
that are worth keeping for heirlooms. Our
children may not think so much of them
even as our fathers did not think so much
of the mahogany we prize, but our grand
children will surely bless us.
We all have ancestors, many of us are
going to be ancestors Practically all of
US think more of the former fact than the
latter, probably because no one cares much
to think of the world going cheerfully on
without him.
But have we no obligations as ances-
tors? We grateful to our ancestors
for the heirlOoms end the traditions they
have left Will those to whom we are
to be ancestors have reason to be grateful
to us?
To pass from black walnut (which was
only the hook on which l wanted to hang
my reminder that we are as well as have
ancestors-though it seems to have grown
disproportionately large for hook to less
worldly considerations:
Consider whether ought not to be
more in the habit of seeking honor from
our descendants than from our ancestors
thinking it better to be nobly remembered
than nobly -Ruskin.-( Protected by
The Adams Newspaper Service.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-05-01

half-closed eyes bordering over the
odd situation Evans was his inti-
mate friend, it happened, so Granville
knew he was on the right track.
"Peach! was the inelegant ex-
preston Evans used to picture Anne
to his inquiring friend. GLORIOUS red
hair and a pair of eyes that make
you blink. I've proposed to her
half dozen times, but there's nothing
doing in that line. One of those we'd
ded-to-art, temperamental girls, you
know"
After sufficient good-natured delay
on Evans part, Granville was given
Anne's address. and that afternoon he
donned his most attractive habili-
ments, ordered Stubbs to bring around
his car and motorcd over to the Nor
reli home.
Bridget pointed to the summerhouse
at the foot of the garden when Gran
vile asked for Miss Morrell
Sure yen be sorry man if We dis
turb her in wan of thin frances" she
admonished Granville as he turned
quickly toward the thatch.
Anne looked out of her tiny window
when crunching footsteps warned her
of some ones approach Then she
popped her head over the rustic rail-
ing and Granville smiled in appre-
citation Evans, he admitted, had not
exaggerated. Then memory turned
exaggerated. Then memory turned
him back to youthful days when he
had sat in that selfsame summer
house and wasted perfectly good
paints, canvases and oil in wanton
recklessness.
I'm Granville he said by way
of introduction, stepping without in
yitation into the attractive little den
ST am the person whose canvaSes you
found in the thatch." Then he seat
ed himself precariously on a camp
stool and beamed genially upon the
astonished girl, who was quite breath
less with interest and amazement.
"But-yOu-surely you didn't sue
ceed-with that start" she gasped,
ending a covert appraising glance at
his prosperous appearance. She drew
out from beneath her table some of the
fearfully inartistic daubs and spread
them out before Granville.
At which he laughed merrily and
II kept them close beside me for
inspiration" Anne said. with a dry
smile.
Lord! What fool I was!" he COM
mented.
But how did you ever succeed
with such a start?" she insisted.
by selling automobiles" he con-
fessed. But my awful daubs have
served one good purpose" he said
I'D like to have them-if you don't
mind
But I do mind" she declared. II
want them. I paid fifteen dollars for
this summerhouse and 1 wouldn't take
anything-for it now''-she was blush
ing furiously and she knew it. Il
am going to make some tea" she
faltered.
Il don't mind being called thing
any old thing-under the circumstan-
ces," Granville acknowledgements
1915, by Mcclure Newspaper Syndi-
cate.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-05-01

vided, yet, in viewing the convention
from the Nicaraguan point of view.
the fact must not be overlooked that
the independence and safety of that
republic are assured through the inn
piled protection of the United States.
Whether the United States will ever
exercise its right of traversing Nicara-
qua with an interoceanic canal is
hardly worth consideration at this
time. The real value of the treaty in
this respect is on the negative side
what it does is to effectually prevent
any European power. or any other ma
ton, from establishing an interoceanic
canal over this much-debated route.
Moreover, it removes the danger of a
possible infringement of the Monroe
doctrine at this point, and it precludes
the possibility of building, except by
the United States, of a nearby route
rivaling the Panama canal The adj
vantages of the Nicaraguan treaty do
not lie altogether, however, in the
fields of politics and strategy There
is the added advantage of that local
stability which underlies and must
precede any thought of closer rela-
tionship in the commercial field. Diff
fering from, but in the same general
direction as the conventions with
Cuba, Panama, the Dominican Repub-
lie and more recently with Haiti, the
Nicaraguan treaty now takes its place
among those mutual agreements
which have for their main purpose the
promotion of general welfare in and
among the republics of the American
continent.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-05-01
MEMBER:
Associated Press.
Audit Bureau of Calculations.
American Newspaper Publishers
Association.

1.-The parole system could not have
possibly suffered a greater setback
than was the case when it became
X Rown that Fred Bissell. who murdered
little Edna Dinsmore was a paroled
prisoner, for this will simply mean
that many good men who are now
subject to parole will have to submit
TO a longer confinement in prison for
this mans deed, for am sure it will
have a deterrent effect on the pardon
board" This is a statement from Mr..
Codding, the warden of the states
penitentiary But has the parole sys-
tenn been given d greater setback than
it deserved? And isn't the deterrent
effect that the outraging of and
slaughter of Edna Dinsmore will have
on the pardon board most crying
need2 And how terribly regrettable it
is that the stable door was not locked
and carefully guarded in this most
essential particular before the heinous
crime of Fred Bissell brought home
the fact that the state has not been
using the caution it should have to
protect its people from criminals dan
gerous to them.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-05-01
Jayhawker Jots

Attention is called by the Erie Rec
ord to the fact that this is the season
of the year when the carpenter, paint
er and paperhanger, each try to hold
down fifteen or twenty d1fferent JOBS
at the same time
Here is a curious thing, as Tom
Thompson points out in his Howard
Courant: The boy who lives in the
country and gets plenty of fresh fruit,
vegetables and milk considers canned
goods a luxury.
Attention, grouches, The Sabetha
Herald says: A crouch usually thinks
he is impreSsing people with his dignl-
ty and offishness. But as a matter of
fact, folks know he is stupid and uses
the grouchy method to conceal his
ignorance.
There is still another angle to this
prodigal son business, says the Cha
mute Tribune For every prodigal who
is Toasted with fatted calf on his re-
turn to the old homestead, there are
ninety-nine prodigals who are put to
work hauling manure.
This earth is overburdened with
brainless, spineless, idiotic, egotistical
and eXasperating nincompoops, writes
Editor Henning in his Athol Record,
and then he slips one over on his
clientele by adding: But, then, we
haven't any of the breed in this town,
so why that sudden flush on your
noble brow? Have a smoke-on your
self.
AS Ruth Alexander People prose-
poems in the Erie Record: Breathes
there a sport with pulse so dead who
never to his wife has said Sure. we
will own-will own a car Whose
heart has ne'er within him burned
while at the steering wheel he turned
while touring over lands afar? If
such there be-and much 1 doubt so
great is his desire to flout its gleam-
ing body, highflown name, boundless
his nerve, just to be game. Despite its
gear, horsepower and might the end
will come as they alight, and, lying
flat at last go down, to the vile dust
with springs inspiring, tearing and
cussing, good, and stung,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-05-01
Household Hints
Company Cakes"

Following are two delicious cakes
for entertaining-''An Food and
Lemon Yellow"
Angel Food-One cup egg whites
beaten stiff (Which equals nine eggs)
1 " cups sugar, one cup flour, one tea
spoon cream of tartar. Into the beat
en- egg whites sift the dry ingredients,
add one teaspoon vanilla Pour into
an ungreased pan. Bake in slow oven
about foIty-five minutes.
Lemon Yellow Cake-Y olks of eight
eggs beaten well; cream with one cup
sugar and one-ha1f cup butter. Add
one-half cup sweet milk, IA cups
flour sifted, two teaspoons baking
powder. Flavor with one teaspoon
ten minutes. Bake in moderate oven-
Lemon Filling (from the other
yolk): One lemon (grate little
rind). one yellow of egg Cor more if
left from the cup of egg whites you
use in angel food, one cup sugar,
one tablespoon flour, little butter
and pinch of salt. Add one-half cup
water and cook until th=ckens. When
cool spread between yellow layers.
Ice both cakes with white icing.
Chocolate Sponge Cake-One cup
sugar, one cup milk, four tablespoons
cocoa; put on stove until melted and
thoroughly mixed. When cool add
one egg. one cup flour, one teaspoon
soda. Beat thoroughly. ADD vanilla.
Molasses Sponge Cake-One-half
cup sugar, one-fourth cup each of mo-
lasses and shortening, one beaten egg,
one heaping cup flour sifted with a
level teaspoon of cinnamon and half
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-05-01
THE NICARAGUAN TREATy.

The Nicarag guam congress-tbe
mouse on April IL and the senate a
week earlier-having ratified the
treaty between Nicaragua and the
United States which was approved by
the United States senate on February
Is, all that remains to put the con-
vention in operation is the formal ex-
change of notifications and the pay
ment of the consideration stipulated,
says the Philadelphia Commercial
Museums bulletin. This treaty con-
fers on the United States three rights
in Nicaraguan territory. 1t grants the
exclusive proprietary rights necessary
and convenient for the construction,
operation and maintenance of an in
teroceanic canal by way of the San
Juan river and the Great Lake of
Nicaragua, or by way of any other
route that may be selected. Then, in
order to protect the rights granted by
the treaty and to protect the Panama
canal, Nicaragua leases to the United
States for the term of SO years, sub
ject to extension for like periods, two
small islands in the Caribbean, known
as Great Corn Island and Little Corn
Island. And third, and for the same
reason and for the same term, the
United States is granted the right to
tablish and maintain a naval base at
such Nicaraguan point on the Gulf of
Fonseca as it may select. In view of
the fact that Costa Rica, Salvador and
Honduras claim certain territorial
rights around this Gulf of Fonseca, it
| is expressly stipulated in the treaty
that all such rights shall be respected
and protected by the United States. In
exchange for these three grants the
United States agrees to pay Nicaragua
the sum of three million dollars, to be
used for the purpose of reducing the
present Indebtedness of that republic
or to be applied to other public pur-
poses for the advancement of its well
1 fare. The expenditure of this money
| is not to be left to the determination
of the Nicaraguan authorities alone,
however, for there is a clause in the
treaty which provides that disburse-
ments out of the fund may be made
only on the order of the Nicaraguan
minister of finance with the approval
of the secretary of state of the United
States. This monetary payment is the
| only consideration specifically pro-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-05-01
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
[From the Chicago News ]

From the Chicago News.1
But too many men work off excuses as
reasons.
Why is watered silk classified as dry
goods?
Being on the right side in politics means
being OH the inside
Instead of speaking his own mind many
man echoes his wife's.
It's a good thing to have a temper if
you know how to handle it,
Good resolutions are now marked down
to make room for spring styles.
Good looks may catch a man. but it
takes good housekeeping to hold him.
A woman can adjust her figure to show
up best at the point she wants it to.
Even the youth who claims to have a
finished education has a lot to learn.
If our neighbors would mind their own
business we would be more apt to mind
ours.
The upstart who says trade is vulgar is
usually slow when it comes to paying
his bills.
When a woman tries to describe lecture
it sounds as if she had been consulting
her dressmaker.
The world may owe every man a living,
but lot of them haven't enough to show
up on pay day.
Poverty may be a sure cure for dys-
pepsia, but the most of us would rather
take chances with the disease than the
remedy.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-05-01
sENTIAIENTALITY.

Sentimentality is a kind of artificial
coloring matter, writes Lawton Mack
all in Judge. Just as a platefuI of
pink (grade E SKINNED milk chem
ically flavored) passes for strawberry,
so a magazineful of pink (same form
ula) passes for romance. Without
this adventitiOus glamo.r many of
the sugary connections now served up
to the public would seem as flat as
stale toothpaste. Some people find
this tinge very convenient To them
it makes the most drab things seem
tolerable. WED rather not know
what this really is they say. for if
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-05-01
Globe Sights
BY THE ATCHIsON GLOBE.

Sometimes a man is SO independent he
can't hold a job.
Paint without trimmings looks like a
shirt without collar.
A town gets some cireuses and other cir
cuses get the town.
A bedbug is the neat housekeeper's
notion of the Greatest Disgrace.
Why should a plain-spoken man always
have such mean disposition?
If all the facts were brought out the
scar factories would be worked to DEATH
When a man starts out by saying, Il
believe am a fair man. call the police.
Your good thoughts won't count for
much unless you put tnem into practice.
A guest shouldn't stay longer upon be-
ing urged to. Politeness is the biggest
fibber.
Sometimes one is led to believe that sim
plified spelling originated with the sign
painters union.
a reporter likes to refer to it as gather
ing news but some other people refer
to it as Quitting in
People who think they know about all
there is to know, can be right about it,
and still not very popular.
Alb Adkins has observed that love ism t
as blind as it Is supposed to be, when
better looking woman edges into the
scenario.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-05-01
Hurr1or of the Day

How did you leave all the folks out
home?" eFirst rate" replied Senator Sor
ghum. Il told them / was going to see If
I couldn't straighten out a few problems
for the Government between now and
spring. That eheered them up a great
DEAL ITO what problems did you have
reference?" 'Oh, nothing in particular. 1
never go into details with my constituents
If you get to explaining things, you are
liable to make them sound SO easy that
the voters get to thinking they don't need
you."-Washington Star
Il suppose it's a great comfort to have
your boy Josh home for the holidays
Yes, replied Farmer CorntosseL But
it's kind o. bothersome when he gifts to
putin airs. l dunno whether to take
him out in the woodshed fur a trouncin
or go on griffin my teeth an tryin' TO
treat him like company Washington
Star.
They're making lot of speeches
against you out home Let enl go
ahead" replied Senator Sorghum. If the
talk keeps up long enough it'll lose in
terest and begin to sound like idle gossip.
And then, maybe, 1 won't have to go any
further in denying it than merely to step
forward and say: Pooh. Poohr Wash
ington Star.