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The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1918-09-05
ALCOHOL NOT A sTiMULANT.

Fifteen years ago, it was believed
by competent scientific authorities that
alcohol to some extent stimulated res
piration because it seemed to cause
an increase in the volume of air pass
ing through the lungs, which was
thought to increase the absorption of
oxygen. In the interval. 1t has been
learned that the mere amount of air
that goes into and out of the lungs
does not necessarily measure its value
to the tissues and the cells where
gases are exchanged. The air must
not only pass into the lungs, but 1t
must get out into the tissues beyond
the "dead space" in the lungs. Some
new careful experiments in the nutri-
tional laboratory of the Carnegie insti-
tuition of Washington, lately reported
by Harold L. Higgins, show that after
taking into consideration all the fac
tors of respiration, alcohol, when given
in way to exclude other factors such
as activity or the digestion Of food,
In amounts of from one to one and
one-half ounces, indirectly acts upon
respiration as depressant, not as Il
stimulant. There is not much, If any
thing, left of the old stimulant theory,
and it Is time that everybody stopped
using the term "stimulants" as a syn.
onym for alcohOl.-The Union Signal.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1918-09-05
BEER CRIMINoLOGY.

A woman physician, DR.. Mary F.
Cushman, of Maine, writes as follows:
'If anything has ever demonstrated
the evil of beer drinking, 1t is surely
the present war. Years ago, when
specializing in mental and nervous
diseases, was taught that allenlsts
had proved the crimes for which dis
titled liquors were responsible, are
crimes of passion unprecedented, and
often horror to the perpetrator when
he RECEIVERS from the effects Of his
drink. The habitual use of malt
liquors, however, so affects the moral
sense as to lead to deliberate crimes,
carefully planned, coolly executed,
without compunction or remorse.
Germany, the great beer-drinking ma
ton, has simply illustrated this in a
war conducted along the above lines
Of beer criminOlogy. What does our
nation want of the drink that makes
men capable of the atrocities perpe-
trated by Germany?"
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1918-09-05
Paul Smith Is MAKING Good.

Paul Smith, former International
league outfielder, who was denied
a chance with the Boston Red Sox
this year because of the draft, is shin
ing as an athlete in army field days.
In a recent meet at Camp Dodge in
which scores of crack army athletes
took part, Smith won the running
high jump and was a close contender
In several other events. He also has
been starring as member of Camp
Dodge baseball team. One Of his
teammates is Fred Beck, former major
and minor Lacquer. Smith is in a ma
chine-gun battalion and expects to be
in France soon.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1918-09-05
BASEBALL BAT SAME
AS SIXTY YEARS AGO
Few Changes Have Been Made
in Stick Used by SIuggerS.
Originally Decreed That II Should Be
Made OF Wood Not More Than
Two and ore.Half Inches In
Diameter and Round.

Baseball was referred to as bat ball
In some communities in the early days
Of the national game. The modern
baseball bat had its origin just SO
years ago.
March 8, 1859, at meeting of the
fathers of baseball held In New York,
1t was decreed that the bat should be
made Of wood and have q diameter
not to exceed 2ls inches and length
not greater than AZ inches. In the
years that have followed fewer
changes have been made in the bat
than In any other thing connected
with the game. The provision as to
length still stands, but since 1895 the
swatter has been permitted to use n
slightly thicker bat. The early rule
that the bat be made Of wood wasn't
binding enough in the early days of
professionalism, for some Of the play
ers sneaked in bats into which holes
had been made and filled with lead.
The rule of 1859 prescribed that the
bat should be round, and this pro-
vision Is In effect today, although in
the intervening years there have been
some variations. In the early eighties
f0ur-slded bat was introduced and
was indorsed by the governing body
of amateur players, but it didn't last
long and was never used by profess
slonals. Later in the same decade
bats made of soft wood and fiat on
one side were introduced to be used In
bunting. This variety of bat gained
the recognition of the National league,
and was used in nearly all profes-
sional circuits up to 1893, when it was
discarded and outlawed
Prior to the adoption of the rule of
1859 any old kind of stick was per.
misslble in baseball. Even fiat bats
were not barred and many star swat
ters used implements of prodiglous
size. 1t takes real man TO WELD
heavy bat, say one that is five feet
long and five inches wide, but many
tf the old-timers did it. Those were
the happy days for the knockers as
batsmen were called in that period.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1918-09-05
MRS. FANNY DAVIS IN NAVY
Secretary Of American Association for
Many Years Has Enlisted as
YeoWoman.

Mrs. Fanny r. Davis, who has been
secretary of the American Association
for nine years past and before that
was an employee Of the Chicago White
SOX and the Western league and who
probably Is the best posted woman in
the country on baseball, obeys the
work-or-fight order along with the rest
Of baseball. She gets as near as she
can to the fighting line by enlistlng
as yeowoman in the navy, a job she
is fully as well qualified to fill doubt
less as those "heroes" of-well, say
the Red Sox-who became yeOmen as
soon as it began to look like 1t would
be case of fight or do clerical work
in navy yard. Mrs. Davis didn't
have to get her orders-she just saw
her duty, figured out how she could
perform 1t and proceeded to get on the
job, showing there are some people in
baseball who don't have to be kicked
into service of some sort or other.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1918-09-05
JUNGLE SAM" IDEAL FIGURE
Old Gentleman Happy Blending Of the
Cardinal Virtues Typical Of the
American.

My father used to tell me that his
great-uncle, Major Samuel Wilson was
quartermaster in Washington's army
and that when the supplies came in
marked u. S. the boys in the army
used to say, More food for Uncle
Samp When the war was over the
army took this saying to every part
of the land, and Uncle Sam soon dis
placed Brother Jonathan as the IA
vorite nickname for our country.
"In picture and phrase Uncle Sam
is still, for good or i'll, our national
figure. He incarnates the American
character. What con you see in him'
"To me he means happy blending
Of four cardinal virtues which are
typical of the American-shrewdn
and energy, kindness and humor
Uncle Sam were only shrewd and ener'
getic, he might be n very stingy ola
specimen, not at all to be admired
Sometimes our good friends across the
water have only seen this side of him.
If Uncle Sam were only kind ana
humorous, he might be shiftIeSS
gOodfor-nothing. But, fortunately for
us all, energy and shrewdness give him
power without waste, while kindness
and humor make him human ana
friendly."-H. N. Maccracken in 81
Nicholas.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1918-09-05

"A grlzzled Scotch banker In New
York was bidding goodby to his son,
a young lieutenant, ordered overeas.
Dad" said the boy, "you could give
me something I'd rather have than
S25,000." "What's happened to you,
my boy, that big bunch Of money
like that seems trlae?" "Nothipg,
father, but there's a thing you could
do that I'd rather have than all kinds
Of money" "And what might that fine
thing bs?"
Then the young man with the single
silver shoulder bar looked his gruff-
tender father straight In the face ana
said, as If he meant 1t, "Dad, wish
you'd promise me to cut out the whis-
ky while I'm gone" The father brlstlcd
up. "Why, boy, you know never take
too much. You know how little / drink
here at home, and l don't booze In
business hours. What's got into you,
boy?"
But the boy persisted until the man
said, "Son, you're going into tempta-
tions you never dreamed Of over there.
You'll need all the stltfenlng you can
get to keep straight. I'll promise you
to be prohibition IL you'll promise me
not to forget your mother and your
covenant vows"
And father and son shook hands on
1t.
When the bankers friends down
town see him refuse to join them In a
noon-day cocktail or an evening high
ball, they wonder what has come over
him. He Is thinking Of the lad who Is
with Pershing, and he will keep faith.
There are many American fathers
and mothers in these days who are
living nearer to the level of their
better selves, for the sake Of the
knightly sons who have embarked on
the great adventure overseas.-The
Christian Advocate.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1918-09-05
HOW HE is HANDICAPPED.

The drinking man is the first man
60 get sick, and the last man to get
well, says Rev. NJ. A. Lambing in the
Pittsburgh Observer.
He is the first man to lose his
friends and the last man to appreci-
ate them.
He is the first man on the toboggan
70 poverty and the last man to get on
his feet to find his way out.
He is the first man to get hit by
accident and the last man to recover.
He is the last man to get a job ana
the first man to lose it.
He is the first man to die and the
last man to provide for his family
The Pioneer.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1918-09-05
MANY Baseball Parks Idle.

The next question that arises is
this-what to do with the ball parks.
If il wasn't that building Is at a stand
still In most cities because of the war,
doubtless some of them would be cut
up and sold for building lots. This
much Is pretty certain: in cities that
have two major league parks there
will be a getting together during the
layoff period and arrangements made
for Joint use Of the most available
park site after the resumption
granting. of course, that any city has
two major league clubs after the war.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1918-09-05
The American Sailors Dollar

Here Is a story of American good
will and its sequel, told to me by Mr.
George Robey. An American sailor
had paid for gallery seat at his Liz.
erpool concert last Sunday. The sal.
or said to the program seller; 81 want
to buy one of those programs and helm
the French Red Cross. But I've onIy
got one dollar note-the last Of EN-
Could you change it?" The girl gave
him two half crowns for it and he IN
sisted on giving one for the cause
Robey told the story on the Liverpool
Exchange next morning, and sold the
sailors dollar bill for E3l. He Is going
to sell it again Sunday.-London Eve
ming News.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1918-09-05
4 ove of Truth,

The love of the truth is the great
engraver of the divine on the mind.
It hacks away prejudice, bigotry, un-
charltableness and error. 1t lifts the
soul above the petty things Of the
world and supplies a reservoir of joy
that when paying the price of devotion
to truth becomes a perennial source Of
strength. The love of truth Is the
surest sign of Christian faith. With
out it all professions are vain. With
1t no torch was ever lighted that can
extinguish its gain. The love of truth
makes the martyrs stake an altar of
triumph, and even the poor are made
rich by It.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1918-09-05
MADDEN DECIDES TO RETIRE
To Forsake' Breeding Of Thorough
breds and Devote His Time
to Producing Trotters.

John e. Madden has decided to re-
tire from breeding thoroughbreds and
will devote his time to farming and
producing trotters at Hamburg Place,
Lexington, Ky. He has been identified
with the latter since the eighties. the
gray gelding Glass Leader, half
brother to Pilot Medium, being one Of
his first horses. He is now racing Da-
gastan and Periscope, both Of which
are by his horse SilikO ir the Grand
circuit.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1918-09-05
SeIf.Disclpjlne Needed.

There is always the self-discipline
needed to correct errors of the i'm
agination or of the will; and, at the
same time, at no period of life are we
incapable of the inspirations of de-
voted love, though, as we advance In
self-discipllne and moral effort, we be-
come the more fitted to receive the
higher gifts of grace. The supernatural
power of conformity with the all-holy
will of God, in the love and obedience
of Jesus Christ, finds its true support
In moral virtue.--T. Il. Carter.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1918-09-05
TEACH GAMES OF ALL SORTS
Athletic Directors at Springfield
(Mass.) College Given Instruc-
tion In All Sports.

Springfield (Mass.) college Is IN
structing athletic directors for work
in overseas camps. Courses are being
worked out to harden men who come
from offices and business life so that
they will be fit for the strenuous work
in camp. More than fifty mass games
are taught the instructors which are
suitable for playing in camp and large
groups, Mass boxing, cage ball, gre
made ball, multiple soccer football and
various sorts Of games are introduced.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1918-09-05
DISTANCE RUNNER IS SAILOR
Herman Gross of Brooklyn Athletic
Association Is at Pelham Bay
Naval Station.

Herman Gross, the distance runner
of the Brooklyn Athletic association,
Is now in the service of Uncle Sam
and has left for the Pelham Bay ma
val training station. Gross expects to
improve his speed by practlcing with
Charles Pores, national five-mile
champion, who is also located at the
Westchester station.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1918-09-05
inspirations From the Bible.

I use the Scriptures, not as an ar,
senal to be resorted to only for arms
and weapons, but as matchless tenn
pie, where ! delight to contemplate
the beauty the symmetry, and the
magnlfcence of the structure, and to
increase my awe and excite my devo-
tion to the deity there preached and
adored.-BOyle.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1918-09-05
Lemon Juice
For FreCkIeS
Girls! Make beauty lotion at
home for a few cents. Try II!

Squeeze the juice of two lemons into
q bottle containing three ounces Of
orchard white, shake well, and you
have a quarter pint of the best freckIe,
sunburn and tan lotion, and complex.
ion whitener, at very, very small cost
Your grocer has the lemons and
any drug store or toilet counter will
supply three ounces of orchard white
for few cents. Massage this sweety
fragrant lotion into the face, neck,
arms and hands and see how freckleS
sunburn and tan disappear and how
clear, soft and white the skin becomes
Yes! 1t is harmless.-Adv.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1918-09-05
NO WORRY FOR HUGH BEZDEK
Manaaer Of Pirates Asked to Return
and Coach Football Eleven of
Oregon University.

Whatever happens to baseball, Hugh
Bezdek should worry. There will be
football in the fall and the manager
Of the Pirates has been asked to re-
turn and coach the University Of Ore
gon eleven. Reports generally indicate
that colleges plan to resume athletics
when their terms open, in spite Of the
embarrassments of war.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1918-09-05
UPS AND DOWNS OF SALARIES
Pitcher Caldwell Of New York Yankees
Formerly Received $4,000,
Now Gets $4,000.

The ups and downs Of baseball sal
aries are indicated in a petition filed
in New York court by Pitcher Ray
Caldwell of the New York Yankees.
When he was drawing salary of SS,-
600 season he had been ordered to
pay his wife $3.50 n month alimony.
Caldwell went into court, showed
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1918-09-05
Commission for Jim Guyon.

Jim Guyon, the rangy Indian, who
did so much to help the Georgia
Crackers to win the Southern gridiron
championship last season, has been
commissioned a second lieutenant in
the National army. He makes the
tenth varsity man of Helsman's squad
who has Joined the colors during the
summer
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1918-09-05

one years old or not, so he registered
with his home board anyway. Later
he found he was over thirty-one and
did not have to register.
Then the draft board sent out ques-
tlonnalres and he filled his out anyway
and was placed in class ., being mar
ried man. The time is now drawing
close when some class men may be
called and the matter of his being over
age was taken up with him by mail, by
his draft board.
"Let 1t co. was the substance Of his
answer. I'm no better than anyone
else and If called to fight, I'm going"
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1918-09-05
Sailors to Eiaht in France.

Ball players who have enlisted in the.
naval reserves and other branches of
naval service with the hope Of seeing
active service will be pleased to learn
that the government proposes to organ
lie some Of its half-million sailor lads
into land battalions and put them in
the thick of the fighting in France,
along with the marines and the dough
boys.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1918-09-05
A Diversion.

Father Ito youthful son)-Now
look here, my laddie, if you ever 40
that again I'll make you smart for IL
Son-You can't do it. Teacher says
l was born stupid, and no power on
earth can make me smart. He says
that come of stupid family.
Father-What I'll go and see tha'
teacher,-Adelaide (Australia) Chroh'
icle.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1918-09-05
CATCHER WILSON HAS SPIRIT
Baekstop for Boston Braves Registers
While over Draft Age, but
Says Let II Go.

The spirit that will help win is that
shown by Catcher Art Wilson Of the
Boston National team. Some men are
of draft age and don't want to be In
the army, but II Is different with Will
son. so goes the story.
Wilson doesn't pay special attention
to birthdays and when time came to
register a year ago last June he didn't
remember whether he was over thirty
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1918-09-05
WHY MOTT

"Why don't the saloons put their
finished product in their windows? a
merchant will put his best goods in
his window but the saloons call po'
liceman for their finished product,
have him carted off to Jail out Of sight
of everyone, and have him returned
after he has sobered up to refnish the
job."-W. ]. Bryan.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1918-09-05
Lamb Goes to Camp Dodae

Lyman Lamb, who finished the West
ern league season with the Joplin team,
is among the early draftees to be sent
from his home in Lincoln, Neb. He
goes to Camp Dodge, where he expects
to mix little baseball in with his mil.
itary training.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1918-09-05

Go all through the list of things the
trade union movement fundamentally
stands for, and then observe what the
saloon is doing in the world upon the
same question and you will find that
the influence Of the saloon is positive.
ly and unQualifedly against the prog
ress of every element Of human upllft
for which the trade union stands.-JohD
B. Lennon, treasurer American FEEDER
alton of Labor.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1918-09-05
Pitcher Ray Caldwell.

where his salary had been cut to $4,000
a season and asked relief. The court
ordered that hereafter he should pay
his wife but $50 month during the
playing season and $50 month during
the off season.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1918-09-05
II Is related that nt certain point In
Llncoln's presidential experience, when

the affairs Of the
Union were In
a precarious con.
dltiOn, a friend
remarked to him
that 1t was D
good thing tt
have the Lord or
our side. Mr.
Lincoln very Sc
riOusly replied
that he was more
concerned about
whether he were
on the Lords
side. There are
indications that
the German kai
ser Is more con
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1918-09-05

swimmer shown here
In beach, Alameda The thousands OF
wit
the last solo flying
impulse received seeing this
valuable bird
this
branch of the eservce lie well fitted for.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1918-09-05
liners to Have Eleven.

It seems certain that Princeton will
organize an eleven to play intercol-
legiate football next fall. Keene Fitz-
patrick probably will coach as well as
train.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1918-09-05
Real Lady Has Retired.

The Real Lady, 2:03, holder Of the
worlds record for two-year-old and
three-year-od trotters, has been retired
and turned out for the season.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1918-09-05
Pitcher BARNES over There.

jess Barnes has not communicated
With any of the Giants since he went
to Camp Funston the last week in May,
but It is reported that he is already
in France.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1918-09-05
Younq staIlinas Wounded.

A recent casualty list for the ma
rines contains among the names of
those severely wounded that of Law
renee 7. Stallings, son of the manager
of the Boston Braves.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1918-09-05
Mike Bennett Re-enqaqed.

Mike Bennett, famous as grldiron
and baseball player at the University
of Pennsylvania ten years ago, has
been re-engaged as athletic coach at
Hayerford college.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1918-09-05
War Work for e. Burns.

Catcher Eddie Burns Of the Phillies,
has gone back to California, where
he expects to go into some sort Of war
work, but says 1t won't be In ship
yard.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1918-09-05
stecker Brothers Enlist.

Joe Stecker, former wrestling cham
plon, and his brother Anton, also a
wrestler have enlisted in the navy.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1918-09-05
Accounted For.

"The young officer over there looks
like he was submerged In TINS
crowd"
Naturally; he's a sub marine"
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1918-09-05
Golf for Enlisted Men,

Small golf courses Of three, five or
nine holes may be constructed in army
and navy training camps next year for
the recreation Of enlisted men.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1918-09-05

Manufacture Of drink during the
war has destroyed more food than all
the German submarines put together.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1918-09-05
Who Is On the
Lords Side?
BY REV. J. H. RALSTON, D. D.
Secretary OF Correspondence Department.
Moody Bible Institute. Chicago

TEXT-Whoso Is on Jehovah's side let
him come unto me.-R V.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1918-09-05

Mountains OF Oil ksstsy kAsnatyHsi1 RGf RSTVsn snE Eye
and mineral values Of tl6 net Best lnye1i%,...,
ever offered the investor. Investigation s0ie,.t
Repre- esentatlves wanted. Box AIS, Remmefer w
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1918-09-05

God gives us abundant material for
food to sustain life. Man turns mil
lions of that material into drink that
destroys life Help stop it.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1918-09-05

Teams in Municipal League.
Kansas City, Mo-, has 40 baseball
nines In its municipal league.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1918-09-05
TEMPERANCE
AusNOteSn Aus n
Conducted by the National Woman's
FOR EACH OTHERS SAKE.

Conducted by the National Woman
Christian Temperance Union)