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The Penn's Grove record., 1916-02-04
Pre- iudiced

Whitney Warren was talking at the
Metropolitan club in New York about
the central empires submarine policy.
Amy American who supports that
policy" he said, ANY champion of the
sinkers of the Lusitania and Ancona,
must have a taste Ike the old Scots.
AN old Scot was once boasting that
Scottish apples were better than our
splendid Oregon ones-our sweet,
juicy, enormous, red-cheeked Oregon
apples that sell in the restaurants Of
Europe for 40 or so cents apiece.
Yes said the Scot, our Scottish
apples are the best
Come now said a fruit farmer,
you can't mean that
Yes, l do mean it, said the Scot;
but maybe I'd better tell We, ladies,
that for my ain taste l prefer them
sour and hard"
The Penn's Grove record., 1916-02-04
COFFEE WAS 1T.
People Slowly Learn the Facts.

All my life I have been a slave to
coffee. 1 kept gradually losing my
health, but used to say nonsense, it
don't hurt me-
Slowly l was forced to admit the
truth and the final result was that my
nervous force was shattered.
MY heart became weak and uncer-
tain in its action and that frightened
me. Then my physician told me that
1 must stop drinking coffee or 1 could
v expect to be well again.
Il thought of Postum but could
hardly bring myself to give up the
coffee.
Finally l concluded that I owed it
to myself to give Postum a trial. I got
a package and carefully followed the
directions, and what a delicious, nour-
ishing, rich drink it was! Do you
know, I found it very easy to shift
from coffee to Postum.
Almost Immediately after made
the change l found myself better, and
as the days went by l kept on improv-
ing. My nerves grew steady, I slept
well and felt strong and well-balanced.
Now the old nervousness is gone and
l am well once more"
1t pays to give up the drink that
acts on some like a poison, for health
is the greatest fortune one can have.
Name given by Postum Co., Battle
Creek, Mich.
Postum comes in two forms:
Postum Cereal-the original form
must be we'll boiled. 15c and Csc pack
ages.
Instant Postum soluble powder
dissolves quickly in a cup of hot wa.
ter, and, with cream and sugar, makes
a delicious beverage instantly. soc and
SOC tins.
Both kinds are equally delicious and
cost about the same per cup.
There's a Reason" for Postum.
sold by Grocers.
The Penn's Grove record., 1916-02-04
FOLK SONG AS OLD AS MAN
University Professor Has Told of Its
Compelling Influence on Abso-
lutte Music.

ever since human beings began to
use musical sounds to express feel
ings, some sort of folk song has IN
doubtedly existed, writes Prof. Fred
erick Holmberg of the University of
Oklahoma, according to the Spring
field (Mass.) Republican, but most of
the folk songs as we know them to-
day are of fairly recent origin, having
been written not more than five or six
are both father and mother of modern
music. 1t was a great struggle when
the early Christian musical scientists,
with their technical perversions, had
to give up using music as a handmade
to their poetry and their ritual church
service, and to accept the living hui
man folk song as a basis for the music
of their churches. 1t was a great
musical discovery when gifted COM
posers found that folk songs of diff
ferent characteristics could be welded
into one composition giving the need
ed contrasts and still retain their
unity.
When this was done we were given
some of the essential forms of musical
composition and were fairly on the
way toward creating a new art, name
ly, absolute music" such as is found
in the works of Bach, Haydn, Mozart
and Beethoven. The folk song caused
a musical revolution and the end of
this revolution is not in sight. Our
best composers are striving at all
times to idealize the folk songs and
dances of some great nation, and the
material is still abundant.
Naturally a question one may ask
regarding this interesting subject is,
What is the folk song? how did it
originator" We know the names of
very few composers of folk songs;
most of the songs have come into be-
ing suddenly, without generalization,
dictated by the feelings of some in
dividual living under certain social
conditions. One thing alone is sure
the folk song is not a premeditated
composition by some skillful profess
sional composer.
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A GLASS OF SALTS WILL
END KlDNEY-BACKACHE
ommends Only Salts, Particularly
If Bladder Bothers You.

When your kidneys hurt and your
back feels sore, don't get scared and
proceed to load your stomach with a
lot of drugs that excite the kidneys
and irritate the entire urinary tract.
Keep your kidneys clean like you keep
your bowels clean, by flushing them
with a mild, harmless salts which re-
moves the body's urinous waste and
stimulates them to their normal activ-
ity. The function of the kidneys is to
filter the blood. In "a hours they
strain from it 500 grains of acid and
waste, SO we can readily understand
the vital Importance OF keeping the
kidneys active.
Drink lots of water-you can't drink
too much; also get from any pharma-
cist about four ounces of Jad Salts;
take a tablespoonful in a glass of
water before breakfast each morning
for a few days and your kidneys will
act fine. This famous salts is made
from the acid of grapes and lemon
juice, combined with lithia, and has
been used for generations to clean and
stimulate clogged kidneys; also to
neutralize the acids in urine so it no
longer is a source of irritation, thus
ending bladder weakness.
Jad Salts is inexpensive; cannot in
jure; makes a delightful e~ffervescent
Whitewater drink which everyone
should take now and then to keep
their kidneys clean and active. Try
this, also keep up the water drinking,
and nc doubt you will wonder what
became of YOU kidney trouble and
backache.-Adv.
The Penn's Grove record., 1916-02-04
THE BUILDING
OF A COUNTRY
The Natural Pride of Those Who
Take Part in 1t.

To those who have built railroads
through and across the prairies of
Western Canada, connecting that great
empire of grain and cattle, horse and
sheep with the worlds markets in the
east, must be awarded the privilege
of looking upon their work, and its
results with pardonable pride. If they
Renaissance, and tell of the hardships
and the %privations, why shouldn't
they? The broad prairies on which
the buffalo roamed and fed, are now
alive with cities, towns and villages.
Farms-large and small-on which
machinery has chased the bugaboo of
laborious work off the farm, and max
ing farm life one of the most pleasant
and prosperous of occupations-are
being cultivated by men Of the highest
stamp of manhood. Many of these
have inherited from their forebears
the physical strength and the high
type Of manliness that was theirs in
the days when they hewed their homes
out of the virgin forest, and made
them what may be seen today, beau
tiful farms in the east. On the whole
the western prairies breed a high type
of manhood, wrest from him faults
and diseases which would be his were
it not for the upbuilding influence and
character of prairie life.
When the builder of the western Ca
madam prairie looks upon the result of
his work, why shouldn't his chest ex-
pand? 1t was probably some of this
feeling Of pride that took possession
of Sir Donald Mann, vice president of
the Canadian Northern Railway the
other day in Winnipeg, when he said:
Il am not in the habit of giving adj
vice, but l have no hesitation of advis-
ing the young men of Canada, every
young man, to get out and get a piece
of western Canada's land that now
"a be had for the asking and be their
own masters"
1T was Sc years ago when I first
came to Winnipeg" he said. cat that
time there were less than $50, 900
people west of Lake Huron in Canada.
and the only bit of railway in opera
ton vas between st. Boniface and EN-
erson-about sixty miles. Today there
are nearly 10000 miles of railway in
actual operation and the population is
over two and a quarter million, a won
derful achievement in such a short pc
riod you will agree, when you have
contemplated it a moment"
"At that time all the flour, meat and
many other %SuDD1ies for orr oon4raoto
were brought from the States. Now
consider what the west is doing to-
day. You have a grain production ex-
ceeding a billion bushels and yet only
a comparatively small area of the till
able land of the country is occupied.
Five years hence you will be more
than doubling hat."-Advertisement.. :
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Fault of the Clerk.

The court clerk was examining an
applicant for citizenship papers. IN
fortunately the clerk didn't ask his
questions in the order in which the
man from across the seas had been
taught the answers.
"Do o speak English? ?" asked the
clerk. -
Sure Mike" was the answer.
How long have you been in this
country"
Michigan"
How tall are your"
Forty years."
The clerk sighed. Il think you'd
better get an interpreter" he said.
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49,

NJ MI some of Mary Roberts
EN&I Rinehart's thrilling mys-
EE9J terry stories, such as The
Man in Lower Ten," THE
Circular Staircase" THE Case of Jen-
ME Brice." Maybe you have enjoyed
some of the plays she has written
Seven Days" or Cheer Up" Like
AS not, you've found your interest cen
tered in the remarkable war reports
winch she wrote from Europe to one
OF Americas widely circulated weekly
magazines, several months ago.
Mrs. Rinehart was writing a group
OF tales for this magazine when the
war broke out. Because she is a pop
ular author whose name is widely
known to the reading public, because
she is a trained observer with a mind
quick to compare values and because
by her ability as a writer she com
mands the highest rates of any wom-
an author in this country, she was
sent abroad to cover" the news of
the worlds greatest catastrophe.
1t is hardly necessary to say that
she did her work well. Perhaps be-
cause she had been educated as a
trained nurse land possibly because
she is the wife of a physician). Mrs.
Rinehart gave us wonderful word pic
lures OF conditions in the trenches
and on the b%attlefields of Bulgaria and
North France. She was given some
remarkable privileges, too.
For instance, the allies permitted
her to go into the trenches on the
battle front a little more than a year
ago. She is the only woman writer
who has been granted that privilege.
She interviewed the king and queen
of Belgium, and General French. then
commander of the British forces on
the continent-an exploit which was
shocking to European newspaper and
periodical reporters. Mrs. Rinehart
has been active for many years in
civic and philanthropic work in Penn
sylvania, her native state. Especially
has she been interested in the fight
on consumption that is being waged
by the state, and in the patients at
the public hospitals for t~ubercular per-
ons
The worlds largest tuberculosis
sanatorium is at Mont Alto, Pa. The
patients there publish a bright little
magazine, called "Spunk.' Mrs. Rine-
hart frequently contributes to
"Spunk." From her experiences in
war reporting she has drawn a les
son for the inmates Of this and other
sanatoria and sent 1t to "Spunk." Here
it is:
ITO the Patients at Mont Alto, Ham
burg and Cresson: | am sorry not
to be able to write a Christmas arti-
Gle for Spunk this year. One of
the things l promise myself, with great
regularity, is to try to return to all
of you some of the messages of cheer
fulness and hope hat you send me
each month.
But time goes by, and 1 grow buster.
and life presses very hard. So |
fail, and 40 n is sorrier than 1
am.
1t is a great thing, this message bust
ness. There is some sort oil a mes
sage in every printed word. | am
learning that every day, in the work
that | do. So it is odd to think that l.,
who am well and strong. should be
looking now and then for a word of
cheerfulness from people lot so fortu-
nate.
1t is really a great lesson. How
wise you all are. at Cresson and Ham
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The Captain of Industry.

did you hear about the DETACHMENT
of Mr.. SINNERS tombstone?' asked
Mr.. Brown a few days after the funer-
al of that eminent captain of indus
try.
No, what was it?" inquired his
neighbor, curiously.
Some n added the word friends
to the epitah."
What was the epitaph?"
He did his best.'"-Life.
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with families who had sent them
gifts, men who smiled and who sang.
They were moved on, and the fight
ing began again.
So l say that there are worse things
than being i'll. There is hating, and
the business of war. and sickness of
nations.
And now, to those of you who are
so cheerfully and brave1y fighting
your battle against the enemy, dis
ease. and fighting, like the soldiers
at the front, away from your homes,
let me wish for all of you a Christ
mas truce.
(Signed)
MARY ROBERTS RINEHART.
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PNTIENT EDITORS AT Work.

:, SAIlE%T LDFTORS AT WORK
burg and Mont Alto! How we'll you
know that of faith and hope and char
ity, the greatest of these is hope!
Hope and high courage, and battles
are won.
The ARE worse things than i'll
ness. There is sickness of the heart,
which is despair, and there is sick
ness of the soul, which is death. And
there is a very terrible thing, which
is the sickness of nations.
This Christmas, when we are think
ing of the birth of the Man of Peace,
many nations of Europe are sick unto
death.
Last winter, just a week or so later
than this, | was at the front in Elan
ders. The men were being changed
about in the trenches. Why? Be
cause of Christmas day!
There had been a Christmas truce.
At midnight on Christmas eve, here
and there in the CO Fronting trenches
men sang the hymns of the Nativity.
The Germans sang, "Stiile nacht,
heilige nacht." The English sang,
the French, the Bolgians-each the
Christmas hymn of his country. The
long line took it up. Think of it,
Four hundred miles, from the sea to
Switzerland, men singing hymns of
peace. Eight hundred miles of armed
men singing.
The artillery duel ceased, and after
breakfast, where the trenches were
close enough together, the men held I'D
their Christmas gifts for the other
side to see.
At first they raised them cautiously,
Then when no one showed a DISPOSE
ton to fire, and the Christmas truce
was an established fact, they grew
holder.
The Germans, full of sentiment
about Christmas, had many gifts. The
French and English we're we'll pro-
vided. Men stepped out of the
trenches onto the forbidden ground
between.
A few threw cigarettes across to
those of the enemy who had similarly
emerged. officers forbade it, and
turned their bac6s.
At first cautiously, then without
fear. the men mingled. What an ex-
traordinary sight it must have beeni
Men who had been trying to kill each
other but a few hours before, and who
on the next day would again be kill
ing, meeting there between the lines.
and exchanging gifts, candy for Gig
a%rettes, matches-those ~luxuries of
the trenches-for pipe tobacco.
All but the Belgians. Christmas
dawned a sorry day for them. They
were cut off from their homes. Not
even a card could come to them
through those lines that stretched
across their country.
Even could things have been sent
around by way of England, who was
there to send them? Many of their
families were refugees, and they knew
not where. All were impoverished.
But on Christmas morning came
gifts to the Belgians after all. An
Englishman had thought of them.
They got, every man of them, pipes,
pipe tobacco, cigarettes and matches.
All of that day, the strange truce
went on When night fell, the sing
ing began again. They sang the day
out, as they had sung it in.
But the next day the men were
moved in the trenches. Hate had died
of a Christmas day, and wal cannot
live without hate. The unseen enemy
across had been seen and talked
to, and proved to be men. men
The Penn's Grove record., 1916-02-04
ITCHING, BURNING SCALPS
crusted With Dandruf Yield Readily
to Cuticura. Trial Free.

Cuticura Soap to cleanse the scalp of
dandruff crustings and scalings, and
Cuticura Ointment to soothe and heal
1tchings and irritations. Nothing bet
ter, surer or more economical than
these super-creamy emollients for hair
and scalp troubles of young or old.
Free sample each by mail with Book.
Address postcard, Cuticura, Dept. L,
Boston. Sold eyerywhere.-Ady.
The Penn's Grove record., 1916-02-04
British columbia's Minerals.

The annual mineral output of Brit
ish Columbia is valued at approx
mately 100000. 900. The figures for
1913 exceeded that amount, while the
product last year was some 81, 200, 900
short of that of the previous year
The decrease in the value of minerals
produced in the province last year,
as compared with 1913, was due to
the European war, which disturbed
the metal markets throughout lthe
world. pl 3ucing a depressing eject
IN the industry in British Columbia.
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Vacation.

SCook-What is your definition Of a
vacation?
Hook-A vacation is something that
enables a mar to get away from home
for a time, so he won't have to live
up to his reputation.
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SYRUP Of FIGS FOR
A CH|LDS BOWELS
1t is cruel to force nauseatinq,
harsh physiC into a
sick child.

Look back at your childhood days.
Remember the dose mother insisted
on-castor oil, calomel, cathartics.
How o hated them, how you fought
against taking them.
With u children it's different.
Mothers who cling to the old form Of
physic simply don't realize what they
do. The children's revolt is well-found-
ed. Their tender little "insides' are
injured by them.
If your child's stomach, liver and
bowels need cleansing, give only deli
cious California Syrup of Figs" It's
action is positive, but gentle. Millions
tpf mothers keep this harmless fruit
exative" handy; they know children
va to take it; that it never fails to
he liver and bowels and sweet
stomach, and that a t~easpoonful
oday saves a sick child tomor-
at the store for a 50-cent bottle
t%ifornia Syrup of Figs" which
directions for babies, children
7ages and for .grown-ups plainly
kh bottle. Adv.
The Penn's Grove record., 1916-02-04
Dipiomacy.

1T takes diplomacy to get on with
a husband" said the woman who
speaks her mind freely.
i believe it does" replied Miss
Cayenne. AS understand it, diplo-
macy consists largely in seeming to
be deceived whether you are or not. u
The Penn's Grove record., 1916-02-04
The Difference.

kidder-A man enjoys himself at
the theater when he has had a good
laugh.
katherine--And a woman when she
has had a good cry
The Penn's Grove record., 1916-02-04
Not That Kind.

| see a man sitting in a
trolley a reading Plato. | feel sure
of one thing"
And what is that %
isn't or his way to put through
a deal that will net him a fortune"
The Penn's Grove record., 1916-02-04
A small boy says the road to knowl
edge has too many branches.

Piles Cured in s to IL Days
Druggists refund money II PAZ0 OINTMENT falls
70, cure Itching, Blind, Bleeding or Protruding
Piles. First application gives relief. Soc.
The Penn's Grove record., 1916-02-04
Either Wav.

He-So your father objects to nv
coming to see you. Ell?
She-Well, not exactly; but he oh
jects to my being at home when you
call.
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Contrasts.

Whats meaner than to peach?"
"Or lovelier than to be one!"-Al
bany Argus.
The Penn's Grove record., 1916-02-04

How is Doctor Wombat as a physi-
cian?"
"Best ever. When you get exhaust
ed over bridge he prescribes dancing
as a rest cure"
The Penn's Grove record., 1916-02-04

f4Oon't think because a mule takes
to his heels that he is a coward.
The Penn's Grove record., 1916-02-04
The Fad.

The Fad.
Knicker-Tired?
Bocker-Yes, l was up all night skat-
ing the baby.
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81 have 40 or so children here at the chfdren's home constantly. When
they are weak or III down l always give them Father Johns Medicine tt build
them up. They all gain rapidly under the treatment the medicine affords
Whenever they get cold Or have a cough Of throat irritation Father Johns
Medicine gives prompt and sure relief
"(Sgned) Ellen OLeary Matron, Chldrens Home, Lowell, Mass"
Father Johns Medicine does not contain opium, morphine, chloroform IT
any narcotic drugs-so it is a safe medicine for all the family.
The Penn's Grove record., 1916-02-04

ERHAPS you have read
some of Mary Roberts
Rinehart's thrilling mys-
terry stories, such as The
Man in Lower Ten" "Tha
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important to Mothars

midas railroads pension old en-
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1916-03-02
STATES
JOIN THE FIGHT
Want West Virginia Prohibition
Law Sustained.
DECISION WILL AFFECT ALL
brief Claims There Is No Difference
In Principle Between Right To
Manufacture and Right
To Import

Washlngton.--Attorney generals OF
Is States filed with the Supreme Court
a Joint argument in support Of the con-
stitutionality OF the West Virginia
liquor law prohibiting the receipt and
possession of intoxicating liquors for
personal use and of the Federal Webb
Kenyon liquor law prohibiting the
shipping of intoxicating liquors into
States for use in violation Of State
laws.
The States representing we're Ari-
zona, Georgia, Idaho. Iowa, Kansas,
Mississippi, North Carolina, North
Dakota, Oklahoma, Oregon, South
Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, Wash.
ington and Alabama.
The decision OF the court In the
West Virginia cases, now before the
court for oral argument is expected
to be the most important adjudica-
ton in the temperance fight in dec
ade.
1T seems strange at this late day"
the attorney generals stated to the
court in their brief, ito hear a claim
made that the State and national gov
ernments' guarantee to a citizen the
right to possess and receive liquor for
personal use and to drink the same in
unlimited quantities. II such had been
the case, II is difficult to see how any
sort OF prohibitory law could have
ever been sustained. since all OF them
have a direct tendency to reduce or
prevent the use of intoxicating bever-
ages, and II is the purpose Of all OF
them to promote temperance by the
prevention Of the consumption Of in.
toxicants. This purpose has found re-
peated expression in adjudged cases.
"If citizen of state has a right
to obtain intoxicating liquors for his
own use in any quantity. or in unlim-
tied quantities, 1t would seem to fol-
low he should at least have the right
to manufacture such liquor for his
own use from the products Of his own
labor, and yet it is settled he has not
such right"
Turning to the Webb.Kenyon law.
the attorney generals urged that to
accomplish the valid purpose Of pro-
hibiting the traffic in liquors II is
necessary for a state to have the right
to control interstate shipments even
for personal use,
This is a step which has fair
relation to the end to be accom-
plished." they contended. what is
the difference in principle between
the denial Of the right to manufac-
ture and denial of the right to i'm.
port3"
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1916-03-02
State Tax on Bonds.

kilograms were received at the
State Capitol that the United States
Supreme Court had upheld President
Judge Kunkel, of the Dauphln County
Court. in his decision that the Com.
monwealth OF Pennsylvania could tax
the premiums paid on bonds Of Fed
eral officers in Pennsylvania. The
case was decided in the Dauphin
County Court on the appeal OF the
Fidelity and Deposit Company, Of
Maryland. Judge Kunl:el ruling that
the State had the right and the State
Supreme Court subsequently affirming
his decision without an opinion. The
company then appealed to Washing
ton. The case was argued in the Su.
preme Court on January by Deputy
Attorney General w. NJ. largest and
the Court has upheld the States con-
tention and sustained the Dauphin
and State Courts.