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Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1899-08-04

heliotrope, rose de Berry, Vert de Chine
and the hundred and one other shades
that annually mark the creative ability
of the French silk manufacturers.
1t is for this season of summer festiv-
tiles that the Partisan woman is now
preparing. Hardly has there been Il
season that has been so extensively pre-
pared for as this, both in designs of cos
tunes and in the maguiicence of the
same. Everywhere that one will go this
season one will meet with the same
array of costumes in the many beautiful
colors for which the season is destined
to be noted. For long months past have
these preparations been going on, in
mill and factory, in store and work
shop, until now the Paris woman, and
her sisters from across the seas who
will spend the season with her, are
ready for the opening that is but few
short days away.
What the season is to be is well illus
trated by the gowns that are now to be
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1899-08-04
ated by the gowns that are now to be

seen in the shops of the modistes just
ready to be delivered to the fair women
who will wear them. Among them one
can find no particular style or no par
dcular color predominant At one time
it may seem that the POlonaise is the
prominent feature of the season, then
again it NAV seem that the princess
gown is leading in popularity or the
tailor-made of the summer material.
But when one has gone through the list
of all the shops and seen all of the pref
ty things so willingly shown one is at
loss to say that any one style is leading.
So it is in coloTs- At one time during
the season of preparation it seemed as
though the blues and grays were to be
the features of the season. at another it
was yellow and the more brilliant
shades were being given first choice,
but to-day it is all of them. and all of
them equally as stylish as the other.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1899-08-04
LANCDON'S GOTHAM GOSSIP

than they did few years ago. She is
beautiful enough-for great heiress;
fortune does not often shower all her
gifts upon one person She has in New
York a home finer than any other save
two or three in the city, and the choice
of a Newport debut rather than one in
New York, for her, is considered great
social card for that resort.
1t is remarkable how little time the
so-caIled New York society set manages
to spend in the city. Taking a repre-
sentative family, their absences in AL
giers, Bermuda, the Riviera, London,
Lenox, Tuxedo, Newport, Aiken, or as
many of these places as they find time
to visit, will take up fully nine OF ten
months of the year, leaving but two or
three for New York. 1t is a regular
thing now for train loads of society peo-
pie to come in from their country places
to attend any especially smart func-
ton in town. The London season is
about four months; the New York sea-
son bids fair to be even shorter, though
less we'll defined. London, which is cool.
is pleasanter in the spring and early
summer. New York, whose season does
not become lovely until after Christ
mas, is deserted in the very early spring
because of the March winds, while the
heat of June, or even May end, drives
people away who are rich enough to
have few cares.
Reason enough for a Newport debut;
by the end of August more swell peo-
pie will be gathered in that favored
resort than New York saw at any time
last winter except during the Wander
bilt weddings.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1899-08-04
-Four Tbousand Mi1lionatre,.

An article in Ainslie's magazine states
that there are to-day in America 1000
miIIionaires, 1,4O0 of whom are in New
York city. OF this number 1850 are
simple, ordinary millionaires, six are
worth 100000 900, one is worth 5O,OOO,-
600, one is worth SIS, OO0. 900, and three
are worth over 500, 600 each. The
same authority states that in 1867 New
York contained only ten millionaires
and that the richest of these, William
Astor, was worth only SIG. 00o. 0oe.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1899-08-04

wealthy, as such things go nowadays.
What McMilIan's fortune may ultimate
~ be is not known-it is comparatively
modest, perhaps; but the Perkins es-
tate is enormous. Mrs. Lars Anderson
is one of the five richest women in
America.
Perhaps there is to be a fashionable
revival of American husbands. If there
is, it will be one of the results of the
war. American men are more in de-
mand now than they were two years
ago. Take the case of Lieut.. Winslow,
of the navy. He is the hero of the cable
cutting exploit, and, though As years
old, he is to marry Miss Dora Have
meyer, who is less than half his age, and
immensely rich in her own right, with
more money coming.
There was never a time when a young
man of presentable appearance, with
the aid of the cachet of a fashionable
college and few choice friends, could
so easily pick up an heiress as now in
New York. There are so many of
them; and the only titles that New
York counts worth while-English
ones-are so much in demand and so
hard to get. AS for young heroes of the
war, those who went from smart fam
lilies to serve in the rough riders are
much sought after.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1899-08-04

SunSndOc OF tue
cart down over the baby's eyes. man
passed her on bicycle. He looked and
passed again. After he had ridden back
and forth eight times he alighted and
politely asked to be allowed to look at
the baby.
The strange request was smilingiy
granted-though at another time it
might not have been-and when he
saw that the child was nearer four
months than four years old, the man
wheeled away with many apologies.
a detective? Not at all; the lady rec
ognized him as a prominent business
man, though personally unknown to
her. He was simply making it his bust
ness, as millions of other people were
doing. to look carefully at every baby
he met; thus he might-who knows p
be the means of restoring Marion to her
mother.
Child stealing is easy, and not Easy.
Any person can get possession of even
a well-beloved baby easily enough, so
long as women are so careless in the
employment Of nurses; but it is difficult
to avoid the lynx eyes Of million anna
teur detectives. Probably a hundred
babies are mporarily-every
day in New York through sheer care
lessness. A wonderfully small proper
ton of them are lost for good. The sue
cessfu1 kidnapping of the child of well
TODD parents is about the rarest of
crimes OWEN LANGDoN.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1899-08-04
LaVeAS
l NDief

/ was incredu- ConeY Islands Savages
lous, but the su- As they Are NOW
pervisor took me about and proved
his assertion. 1 suppose that to-
day there are as many as 500
places, big and little, holding no.
tel licenses, in spite of a fairly high Ii
cense fee At least two dozen of these
places would be big hotels anywhere
Besides, there are literally hundreds of
temporary summer "theaters," muse
ums and dance halls, of the most dis
gushing kind. Dozens of "roller-coast-
ers," acres of shooting galleries, neigh
borhoods of side-shows, two steamboat
piers, the termini of ~ lines of railroad,
besides the al1-embracing trolley cars
this is the great popular resort, a
small part of which is now in ashes.
There is even yet half mile of per-
fectly open beach, public property, and
part of the park system, over which
anyone is free to wander. And there is
a strong movement to clear away all
the sheds and side-shows that disfgure
the island when they do not actually
pollute it. If this is done, and Coney
Island again becomes common land, i
will return to pretty nearly the uses de-
signed for it by the far-seeing Lady De-
borah.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1899-08-04

Tor any but a y eW
Yorker to under
stand. 1t is hard
ly too much to say
that every mother
in town has wor-
ried herself half
i'll over the loss of
another woman's
baby.
A friend of mine
was the other day
wheeling her baby
wagon along a Jer-
sey street. The
sun was hot, and
she had tipped the
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1899-08-04

She has missed a
good deal of fun,
yet is p e r h a p s
hardly to be pitied.
Miss Fish's de-
hut in Newport
this summer viii
be the chief socie-
ty event there. She
is the daughter of
[ b e i N M ensely
rich a n d aristo-
cratic Stuyvesant
Fishes, and a cous-
in of II a m j ! t o n
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1899-08-04

tree is probably the best of all species
of trees as lightning conductor.
From observations taken in this
country it has been found that not only
the beech but the birch and maple as
we'll, are seldom struck. Walnut trees
are not often struck, and when they are
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1899-08-04

Island and laid
out the colony of
Gravesend, wi t b
40 village lots and
10 farms, whose
b o u n Diary lines
rayed out from
the village Ii k e
the spokes of a
wheel, so that all
might drive their
cattle in at night,
safe from Indians.
In the village were
and are the church
a n d t h e town
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1899-08-04

was an event of
S o m e social and
much financial i'm
portance.
7 b e Anderso ns
are now spoken of
as those marry
in g Andersons."
Lars A n d er S o II
married the very
wealthy Miss Per-
kins, of Boston,
and his sister has
carried off the rich
senator's son, yet
the parent Ander-
- oil
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1899-08-04
SociaIIx An Eaff

Mrs. Scrubbem-I DON tknow wheth-
er shall recognize dem new neighbors
or not. 1 haven't seen deyr washin'
yet.
Mrs. Wringer-Oh, dey is all right on
dat score, assure yo'-dey washes To-
de very best families in town.-Judge.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1899-08-04

VISOR, l was one
day walking with
him over his do
main, VIII e n b e
turned to me and
a S ked, suddenly:
How many hotels
do you suppose
there are on this
island 2"
"Oh, so, per-
haps."
well, there are
more than 300."
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1899-08-04
Five Hundred Hotels.

Ten years and more ago, as l started
to say, while McKane was still super
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1899-08-04

A quarter of thousand years ago
Lady Deborah Moody came to Long
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1899-08-04
The Child StealerS.

The excitement over the stealing of
little Marion Clark has been difficult
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1899-08-04
Marion Ftsh,s Debut.

1 do not suppose that Marion Fish
was ever at Coney Island in her life
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1899-08-04

Las Guasimas. She is 10 years old; girls
go into society full year later now
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1899-08-04
The Anderson weddtnr

Tht ANDERSON WeddinE.
The wedding of Philip Mcmillan and
Eliza beth Anderson last Wednesday
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1899-08-04

The effect of lightning on various
species of trees is an interesting study,
even of nothing more can be said of
1T, and it may in time prove even more
valuable than it has at the present
time. MAX OWEN
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-08-31
CLINTON PLEASED.
Action of County Demo
Gratis Is Heartily
Endorsed.

Clinton, Aug. 3O.-A large delegation
of democrats went to Jordan pond to-
day to assist in the formation of a
Worcester county democratic club. The
party left on the 1910 car. The party
was met at the Union depot, Worces-
ter, by members Of the reception COM
mittee. The bad weather did not pre-
vent the local delegation from enjoying
itself. The individuals comprising the
delegation returned much more hopeful
for the democracy of Worcester county
than they were when they went away.
In the party were P. H. Morrison,
Herman Dietzman, Thomas Dawson
Tate, William Whitelaw, William G.
McGlinchey, J. E. Leahey, P. F. Can
non, Capt. w. F. Shaughnessey, Joseph
E. Harrity, William H. Fay, P. r. Fin
nerty and Richard f. Connery.
The delegation returned jubilant and
overloaded with honors. The delega-
ton was particularly pleased over the
election of Joseph E. Harrity, as treas
urer of the temporary organization
that precedes the formation of a Wor-
cester Democratic Club, but were
pleased over the election of two Gin
ton men to be members of the executive
committee, namely, D. H. Morrison
and David T. Walsh.
Mr.. Walsh Is chairman Of the demo-
cratic town Committee. Mr.. Morrison
is a member of the board of registrars
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-08-31
PREPARE FOR SCHOOL.

Clinton, Aug. S0.-Children are getting
their school things together. They will
return to their studies Tuesday. Super
mItendent c. L. Hunt calls upon all
children who have not recently been
vaccinated, to call upon the doctor and
be prepared to show their vaccination
certificates. The disposition of pupils
who have been attending school in old
No. 10 has been quite problem.
Grade 8 is assigned to the room in the
basement of the high school building.
Miss Leonora Teasdale will be in charge
of the grade. The entrance to this room
is on Mechanic street. Grade 4 is as
signed to the basement room of the
grammar school building. Grade is as
signed to the east room in Bigelow hall,
and grade 6 to the west room in Bigelow
hall.
The arrangement is not without in
conveDiences, but Superintendent Hunt
feels it is the best that can be had,
pending the completion of the new
school, which VIII not be ready for use
probably before next year.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-08-31
NO KICK COMING.

The several Clinton persons who have
been arrested for violation of the
liquor law by Chief Bates men are con
graduating themselves today upon
their more or less fortunate escapes.
Herman F. Pragler was acquitted alto
gether, and held a reception at the
home of his mother last night, where ne
received the congratulations of his
friends. John Hastings, who had his
case placed on file feels that matters
might have gone much worse with him
Luigi Roma, who said guilty, and had
his fine reduced to $50, escaped just $25
easier than he did from Judge C. c.
Stones court.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-08-31
MILLIONS OF BUGS.
Sleepless Nights and
Days Of Concern
In Clinton.
THE PERSEVERING MOSQUITOES.
They Sing and Bite Until
All Patience Has Be-
come Exhausted.
The PERSEVERING MOSQUITOES.

Clinton, Aug. 3O.-A few days since
The Spy printed a story about the
plauge of mosquitoes. Several evils that
existed here have been cured by being
exposed in The Spy. Not so with the
mosquito evil. The bloodthirsty insects
are more troublesome than ever. No
screens avail to keep them out of
houses. They bite all night, and in the
day time roost on the whitewashed
walls of the homes they have invaded.
1t is no unusual thing for house
holder to count 40 or so mosquitoes on
the ceiling at any hour of the day.
Nothing has been discovered that will
coax them down, or get them to go
somewhere else. They will not go from
dark room into a light one, as flies
will, and they can't be induced to shift
from light room into dark one.
By the exercise of rare skill a mosqui-
toe can occasionally be crushed This
method leaves black and red splotch
on the white ceiling, which is very Of
tensive to the eye of well trained
housekeeper.
Some persons have tried cupping
them with glass full of soap suds It's
no use. Occasionally q householder is
lucky enough to put the cup over one
but it flies around between the suds and
the ceiling, as if 1t had the whole room
for race track. A fly in the same po-
sition will accommodatingly fall into
the soap suds and get drowned
Neither sticky nor poison fly paper is
of any use. Insect powder only enables
them to sleep better in the day time,
and sting harder after folks go to bed.
The instant lights are lit they come
down from their perches, and sting and
sing until morning, making hundreds
of people in this unfortunate commun-
ity sleepless, and causing hundreds of
others excruciating pain. Some lucky
persons are immune in the presence of
certain other persons.
AS between a man and his wife, the
mosquitoes will in some Instances sting
one, and merely hum in the ears of the
other
There are millions upon millions of
mosquitoes loose here. At the lowest
calculation they are extracting gallons
Of blood from the veins of aged and
feeble persons, helpless children, and
strong men and women.
These things may sound funny, but
they are not. They are true.
The sum of suffering from sleepless-
ness and itching stings caused by these
mosquitoes can hardly be estimated.
Nothing like it has been known here be-
fore.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-08-31
VARIOUS TOWN TOPICS.
Cuttings of Interest From Dozens of
Clinton Nooks and Crannies.

Cuttings of Interest From Dozens of
Clinton Nooks and Crannies.
The BARRIERS and plumbers are fit to
play the ball game of a lifetime, all ex-
cept Barber Daniel F. McCauley, who
twisted his ankle in practice game re-
Gently. McGauley has the ankle in
bandages, and is hoping for the best
The game will be played Friday after
noon. Tickets are reported to be sell
ing like hot cakes. Everybody appears
to want to see the game, and nearly ev-
erybody wishes to help the Clinton hos
pital, to which the gate receipts are to
be given. Yesterday afternoon the bar
bers and the plumbers practised on the
same field.
Austin O'Malley, whose case against
Division 8. A. 0. H., was withdrawn re-
Gently, is not in the best of spirits over
the offer to pay his claim from individ-
ual contributions by the members of
the division. Mr.. O'Malley says that
any member who is charitable enough
to be willing to contribute needs the
money more than he does.
Clan Forbes will hold its concert and
hall on the evening of Oct. 81
Lichenstein Lodge, Order Harugari,
is making preparations to entertain Wis
itors from Worcester and Fitchburg,
who are coming to town Saturday to at
tend the prize shoot. The marksmen
will meet at Harugari hall Saturday af-
ternoon at 230 and march to Vale
street, where the range is. The lodge
has offered suitable trophies. The hor-
ticultural exhibition of the lodge will
be held, according to established Gus
tom, on Labor day.
Selectman William Rodger has caused
a granite monument to be erected on
his lot in Woodlawn cemetery. The
monument is exceedingly massive,
The Bennett and Moulton repertoire
company is the next organization billed
for the Clinton theatre. The date is
Sept IL.
Clinton Savings Bank will hold its an
nual meeting September 20, at o'clock
n. N. The vacant office of president
viii be filled and the regular annual
business transacted.
The following persons have been des-
ignated to control the Clinton Cooper
ative Store Company: Manager, Robert
Lawrence; treasurer and secretary
Wilson B. Killingbeck; directors, George
f. Toothill, j. w. Donahue, Robert
Lawrence, W. B. Killingbeck: record
ing secretary, William McRell; audi
toPs, James Burns. John Mullen, Thorn
as Burgess. For the present the store
will betcontinued on Sterling street. al
though some stockholders would pre-
fer to do business on larger scale on
High street.
Edward Coughlan is matched to meet
Patrick Fadgen in a running race of 100
yards al Lancaster Driving Park La
Dor day. Mr.. Fadgen gives five yards.
A stakeholder and a starter will be
agreed upon in a few days.
One of the hIiYoOTc ne +ha rt,,tia 49,
campaign is postal card, written from
the Eiffel tower, Paris, to Ora l.. Stone
BY Wellington i. Parkhurst, asking
how the Guild campaign is progressing
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-08-31
HOBO FRATERNITY.
Clinton Officers Be-
lieye That Such
Exists.
MARKS FOUND PERIODICALLY.
Changes In Officials Made
Known By Tramp Free
Masonry.
MARKS FOUND PERIODICALLY.

Clinton, Aug. SO-Ofhcer John Stoe-
bel made his usual round of the freight
cars in the yards at the union station
this morning and found not single
sleeper. Three months ago an early
morning search was sure to result in
the dislodgment Of half a dozen hoboes,
and the arrest, perhaps, of three or
four.
In some mysterious way word has
been passed that the cars are not satc.
1t is an unsophisticated wayfarer VINO
makes his bed in a, car in this town.
Officer StoebeI believes that the
tramps belong to a union, or secret So
ciety, or something of that kind, and
that they have system Of signs and
signals, known only to themselves.
Moreover, he thinks that these means
of communication are changed once in
two or three months.
He has noticed queer marks on the
end of the freight houses, that must
mean something. He thinks that there
is enough tramp language, written,
marked and incised on depot property
to make an entirely new written Ian
guage, if policeman could be a tramp
long enough to get the key.
Officer Stoebel has made a close
study of tramp language as it is writ
ten. He does not know whether the
signs the tranps use are ideographs,
like the hieroglyphics Of the ancient
Egyptians or a picture language, pure
and simple.
Officer Stoebel remembers seeing
rude drawing on the side of a freight
car once of a policeman in a helmet,
roughly awakening a sleeping man. His
experience leads him to believe, how
ever, that the tramp writing is a sys-
tenn of arbitrary signs, to each of which
is attached the name of some letter OF
the ordinary alphabet.
No matter how they do it, tramps GER
tainly do make record of the attitude
of Chief Bates men toward persons of
the tramp profession, which serve as
warnings to members Of the society to
be wary.
Officer Stoebel is not alone in his ex-
perience Daniel Leary, the hobo who.
was arrested in the Sterling rape case,
told the correspondent Of The Spy the
other day that the Clinton police de-
partment had a bad name among his
friends on account of it's alertness in
roofing tramps from freight cars.
He said: "Such news as change in
the head of police department is rap
idly passed along, especially if the
change results in making life harder
for the profession. There is a stream of
tramps going both ways from the At
lantic to the Pacific.
'"They exchange information about
good and bad towns as they meet.
Why" said Leary, within three weeks
the news that the police in any import
ant town in this state have become ex-
ira vigilant in enforcing the law against
tramps will be posted in California, and
every tramp in this country will be CIV
ing that town a wide berth"
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-08-31
RoUsING CAMPFIRE.

Oxford Camp Entertains Comrades
From Spencer, Whltins and Uxbridee.
Oxford, Aug. SO,--A camp fire was
held here this evening under the aus
pieces of Albert Prince Camp, S. of v.
Camps from Spencer, Whitinsville Tx
bridge and Douglas were represented.
The procession formed shortly after
o'clock and marched along Main
street. Residents of the street illumin-
ated their houses.
After the marching the procession
entered Memorial hail. where the fol-
lowing program was heard: Prayer,
Rev. Albert Tyler; speech of welcome.
e. NJ. Eager, commander of Oxford
camp; f. f.. Warren, senior vice-com-
mander of the state division, who made
an excellent speech, which was received
with cheers. He introduced Past Divi-
sion Commander Edwin f. futile of
Uxbridge, who spoke very entertaining
ly Other speeches were made by Rev.
A. e. Bradstreet and DR. C. w. Lynn Of
oxford Capt. Burrlll of the Whltins-
Vile camp and Capt TownsenS OF
Spencer. A supper was served in the
lower hall and a social time entoyed
Members of Post o. @. A. r., were
present.
The switchboard has been put up at