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Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1903-09-18

Dubic that many inventors and scien-
lists mad been working along toward
the same results and on parallel lines
so that it was almost a matter of
chance which among them should sue
ceedsin the first discovery.
Ii happens that Washington has
been Center for experiment in the
development of the flying machine.
Prof. Bell and Prof. Langley are
known to have advanced far IN the
direction OF the aeroplane; and now
comes another inventor-Emile Ber-
liner. who obtained the first patents on
the telephone transmitter-with the
announcement CT a successful test of
flying machine model on plan not
hitherto considered by anybody else
Berlinor has Constructed a model of
a lying machine which even at this
early stage lifts in flying a weight of
over one pound for every square foot
Of horizontal area at speed estimated
at 20 miles an hour. The inventor con-
f1dently expects that with increased
speed the best performance of birds,
which is the flying of two pounds
weight for every square foot of hori-
zontal area, will oe considerably sur
passed. If this becomes true people
before long will be flying around like
birds. because two wings each five by
Fl feet would then carry a person of
average weight together with a small
propeller driven either by foot or by
Gmachinc.
Mr.. Berliner has been at work on
the flying machine proposition at inter
walls for 80 years and has only Just
reached anything approaching success.
He analyses birds flight as having
two principal actions-the production
of ca current of compressed air by the
beating of wings and the lifting for
ward on this air current of the body
of the bird. This lifting forward, kite
fashion. is greatly helped by the tail
OF by back wings taking the place of
he tail. In his opinion therefore fly
ing machines will be possible with a
structure which when moved forward
horizontally will produce current of
compressed air. with a tail surface for
lifting the structure and combined
with these sufficiently light motor
moving the whole rapidly forward. A
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1903-09-18
A|RSHIPS ON TRIAL
Washington Is Center Of Activity
for Flying Machine Inventors.
BERLlNER MODEL THE LATEST
Built on the Plan OF a Bird-Every-
body May Be Using Wings Re
fore LOng-Other Notes of
the Capital.

Washington.-This seems to be the
season for flying machines. 1t is the
one great ambition of inventors all
over the world, and especially in the
United States, to bring to a successful
conclusion the experiments which have
been going on for years in the direc-
tion of transportation through the air
The air literally seems to be full of
schemes and projects, so that many
scientists believe that the conditions
are ripe for the discovery of a prac-
ficabla method.
1t is as it was with the steamboat
The locomotive, the telegraph, the tele-
phone. the Roentgen ray. When the
successful invention or discovery in
zach of those cases was announced it
was learned for The first time. by the
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1903-09-18
THE AMERICAN BEAUTY.
3 Composite Made OF Photographs Of
Society Women Noted for Their
Acknowledgement.

Both in it's modelling and compost
ton the typical American face is en-
drely distinctive. A characteristic
style in architecture or literature in
the United States remains perhaps to
be developed. but the American char
acter. temperament, spirit, call it what
you will, has already stamped itself
tndelfbly on our physiognomy. The
American woman as a. type is famous
for beauty touched with intelligence.
And although the type is comparative
ly new her character is indicated as
Enthusiastically as that OF any of her
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1903-09-18

too, for she always brings them truck
that has been gathered but q few
hours.
Eleanor's farm is loaned to her by
the Philadelphia Vacant Lot Cultiya,
ton association, a charity of an unusu-
ally benefcent kind. This association
has two hundred acres of vacant land
that certain wealthy Philadelphians
have intrusted to it until the time when
they shall need the land to build upon.
These two hundred acres are loaned
in patches to such people as are unable
to keep up the fierce struggle for an
existence in great city.
The association lends one patch to-
a shoemaker whose sight has failed
another to laborer whom a blast has
ruined; a third to an aged man ana
woman who are childless; a fourth tn
the Keefauvers.
And its poor pensioners cultiYatinx
their patches under the eye of the as
ISOLATION acquire in this way enough
vegetables to supply their tables aIs
the. year round
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1903-09-18
.LIEescHEN..

When the god of dreams Is good sometime
All, then soft accents flow,
And visions of the glory vines
And ways used to go
Come down through Sunderland to me,
We're back beneath the old elm tree
We're back toSWhere long to be,
hear her whisper low
i hear the 'liebschen" like a sigh
Well from her ripe red lips,
see the Ioveiight in her eye
Days orb swings low and dips
Below the far horizon line
The world, my world, is all, all mine,
Our lips meet-fngers intertwine,
All, heavens in those sips!
She is my world! All mine. My owni
Beneath the old elm tree
learned she loved. loved me alone.
All. would tonight that we
Were where we stood that far-off tinae,
Beneath the elm, and glory vine;
Just she and I: just me and mine;
WoulQ.Ase- might ever be-
But Well win back and scorn the years
That seek to intervene,
And we'll forget the longing tears
And miles that stretch between,
And love shall make US glad again.
AS glad again as we were then,
I'll hear the 'Liebschen" soft as when
No years had come betweeni
j. M. Lewis. in Houston Post.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1903-09-18

nodef built on these lines has lifted it,
elf from the ground and in perfectly
steady flight has reached a height of
eight feet from the ground. 1t has also
maintained itself for SO feet at height
Of three and one-halfs feet from the
ground.
The model is altogether different
from either Langley's or Bells The
main body consists of arches some
thing like funnel in shape, open be-
:owsto catch the air, and sloping down
In the rear, where wide tail ends are
attached. The arches in moving for
ward produce a current of compressed
air and at the same time exert para
chute action to support the structure
and to facilitate gentle landing.
1t is not strange that Washington
should have the distinction of being
most conspicuous In the matter of the
development of the flying machine
For Washington is becoming more
and more tie home of scientific men
Ind the center of scientific thought
Tor years the tendency has been for
men who loved study and research to
aEe Washington their home. The
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1903-09-18

thin that mowt a-sp,iIed by gettin'
that bite he says. And mebbe he mowt
DO 1t again That bear must be settled
he says. and over he goes to Joe's Ium-
Der camp, berries Joe's rife, and comes
back to the creek.
1T was his belief not KNOWN much
| about bear, that this aggravatin' old fel.
Ter had headed for the swamp up the
creek mile or SO, and SO Cyrus took a
short cut through the down timber for
| the swamp. When he got there he didn't
see no sign % bear, but pretty soon he
heerd snort and grunt, and lookin'
toward where they came from. he see
bears head stickin' up out of a muck
hole at the edge of an old log road
When the bear see that Cyrus see him
too he stuck his head little further out
OF the hole, and snorted a louder snort.
'Rily up the creek on me when FIN
flshin' will your says Cyrus, n hs
whanged away.
The bear sunk back in the muck hole,
and Cyrus had a sweatin' time gittin'
him out on hard ground He was LOOK
in the dead bear over when he heerd
noise in the bushes on t'other side o the
road.
Cyrus looked that way, and if Els
Sam could a-see him then he'd a-been
sorry, bet you, that he hadn't put his
weddin' off till Cyrus got back from the
pond a-fishin', for Cyrus's eyes was bulg-
in at the great big head of another bean
that was stickin' out O. the bushes with
look on its face that said as plain-as
could be that it was lookin' for somethin'
TO clutch and claw, and didn't calc'late to
look no further than Cyrus. But there
was another load in Joe's rifle, and hav-
in gone as fur as he had in burnin' pow
der and scatterin' lead, Cyrus throwed
conscience to the winds and banged
away. Tother bear come tumplin'
down, and Cyrus says:
I'm sorry for you, he say, but you're
jest as dead as the unmannerly bear
yender that made the creek rily on me-
he says.
But the bear wasn't. Not jest then
1t riz on its hind feet and started fer
Cyrus and Cyrus didn't have no more
lead to scatter
Providence says he, 1T looks to me
now that if you don'tta care o. them
boots of Ellis Sam he'll have to go bare
foot to his weddin'!' he says
But Cyrus was wrong The bear only
come few steps. Then he fell over back
ward and was deader than June shad.
Two BEARS says Cyrus, 'tand only
started out to git sole leather to finish
them weddin' boots, and mebbe some
trout for supper he says.
And then what do you think Cyrus
discovered that the first bear he killed,
and the one that ought to had six pistol
bullets in it for rilying' up the creek,
didn't have nothin' but a rife bullet
right betwixt the eyes, and the bear that
stuck his head out O. the bushes, and that
Cyrus wasn't expectin', had six pistol
bullets right scattered around in him.
besides rifle bullet betwixt the eyesi
Ding it, says Cyrus, lookin' at the
first bear. I didn't have nothin' as'in
you! What did you go and raise your
conk up out O. that nruckhole for, and
snort?'
But it was too late then. And. Proyf-
dence or not, Ellis Sam got his weddin'
boots; but if they don't give him corns
then Cyrus is the fergivin'est feller-cit-
1zen that ever disappointed his ownself
to 'commodate neighbor. IN. Y. Sun.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1903-09-18
HARD TINES IN HONDURAS.
Commercial Paralysis Expected to
Result When Panama Canal
Is Built.

British Honduras is sometimes called
the Ireland of America. Blessed with a
soil OF unsurpassed fertility, mild and
equable climate and a variety of natural
productions but rarely found within SO
restricted an area, the colony is vet af
f1icted with hard times. Although one
OF the most thinly populated of the hab-
liable regions of the globe, the number
OF It's inhabitants is constantly decreas-
ing; the labor market is overstocked.
agricultural industries are declining.
trade and commerce languish and the
pinch Of depression is felt by all classes.
according to the Brooklyn Eagle
Inc reason for this state of affairs is
not hard to discover 1t is the same
curse that has crushed Ireland-ab-
sentee landlordism-in little different
but not less fatal form. The area of the
colony is only 1896 square miles. Of
this $500 square miles, or one-third. is
owned by one London land company
In all more than four-ffths of the col
ony is the property of a handful of
English proprietors who will not sell
nor lease nor permit settlement nor cuI-
tiVation. They derive sure, steady
and perpetual income by working the
mahogany, rosewood, cedar, logwood
and other natural products of the for
ests, and for this reason desire to keen
their domains forever a wilderness.
An effort has been made to compel
these absentee landlords to sell their
holdings at an appraised valuation.
However, so overshadowing is their in
nuence that the laws passed for this
purpose have proved imperative. 1t
therefore seems probable that the coun-
try will long continue to be held in pawn
by few English proprietors who have
never even visited its shores and that
its wealth will be sent abroad to enrich
the Golfers Of the strangers instead of
remaining to stimulate trade and in
0uStry at home
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1903-09-18

finest traditions of the military service
OF the United States. He has a record
which is not excelled for efficiency by
any officer in the service First. in the
civil war he served in a subordinate
position, doing his duty faithfully and
well and coming out of it with all the
credit that belongs to determined
fighter. Then there were long years of
thankless service on the plains fight
ing the Indians, IN engagements where
splendid valor met with Insignificant
reward. The war with Spain was an
opportunity and the training Chaffee
mad received in Indian campaign:
served him well, for the fighting at San
tago was much like that which he had
encountered in the rough west But
ChaHee's greatest service, or rather
his greatest distinction, came to him
in the Philippines and in the march on
Picking, when he showed a military
capacity which compelled the admira-
ton of the military authorities of the
old world.
Chaffee is a plain-spoken soldier
who acts without talking and who
hates. above all things, the glamor and
prestige Of dress parade
1t is not often that federal statute
justifies its enactment so speedily as
the law passed by the last congress for
the restriction OF the manufacture and
sale of oleomargarine
The manufacturers of oleomargarine
have been utterly unable to devise any
scheme for successfully evading the
law. They cannot by chemical expe-
riments secure the color which is nee
essary if their product is to pass mus
ter as pure butter, and so they have
been compelled to abide by the law.
The governmentreportss show that in
the year just preceding the one in which
the new law changing the oleomar.
gar1ne tax went into effect there was
manufactured and sold 126,315, 42l
pounds Of oleo. Under the new law the
production fell the next year to 71,211,-
pa pounds. decrease of A per cent
1t is said by the dairymen that this
reduction in the production of cleo re-
suited in an additional consumption of
butter to value OF over $1,000. 900
placing the average price of butter at
20 cents a pound. They say that the
decrease in the manufacture of oleo
equals the output of $50 creameries.
LOUIS e. COOLIDGE
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1903-09-18
PLUCKY LITTLE GIRL.
She Conducts n SmaIT Truck FarR
and Takes Care OF a Family
OF Seven People.

With the responsibility of a family
Of seven on her diminutive shoulders,
little Eleanor Keefauver, of 10 North
Fffty-seventh street, West Philadel-
phia, is making plucky fight for ex-
istence. and already she is known as
the youngest and one of the most sue
ceSsful farmers in America
This small farmer is only twelve
years old. and yet she carries the re-
sponslbility in supporting her family
with the Hght-heartedness OF the
weaTthiest and most care-free little
girl in America.
Little Eleanor operates an extensive
truck patch, and the product she gath
ers size sells from door to door, and by
this means: earns, during the summer,
at least $40 week, besides supplying
enough to last all through the year
the table at home with vegetables
enough to last all through the yetr. :,
Her father is paralytic. and though
it rs true that there is a little Keefau-
yer boy who brings home every Satur-
day few dollars from a stocking
factory where he works. and that Mrs.
Keefauver does an occasional Job of
laundering, still Eleanor is the main
support of this poor family
Every morning she digs and hoes on
her small farm, and every afternoon
she pushes through the streets with
her little go-cart, selling her fresh and
excellent vegetables.
She has host Of regular customers,
and these customers wait for her every
day. They do well to wait for her.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1903-09-18
FraErance and Color.

Plants with white blossoms have =
larger proportion Of fragrant flowers
than any others. Next come red flow
ers, then yellow, and then blue. After
these may be reckoned. and in the same
order, violet, green, orange and brown
flowers. Spring flowers contain the
greatest proportion of white fowers
and, therefore, are those most generally
fragrant, while the reds and yelloWa
belong to summer
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1903-09-18
women. Business DIRECTORY.

Business women of Boston have had
a new honor thrust upon them. namely,
that or having directory OF their very
own Not mans name appears in any
light But it does show women engaged
In occupations which many believe to
be controlled exclusively by men, In
fact the book reveals that woman can
do just about everything that is worth
doing at all. And of course they DO /.
well. The -rsines women's directory
may be called an enlightening as well
as Interesting work and in time may be
found chained in every drug store along
side of its big brother.-Boston Trans
script
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1903-09-18
Rain Bath In. Pu,o-.

Feather pillows, If the coyerss are
quite clean, are benefited by leaving
THU out in summer rain, aftervard
summing them for several days on the
clothesline. Down quilts may be treat
ed similarly without the slightest dan
ger Of injury. There will be some shrink
age.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1903-09-18
Rai.ins Anord stfmulu..

Raisins are specially valuable in cases
where sustained physical exercise is nee
essary, affording both nourishment and
stimulus. A bunch Of raisins eaten
when faffgued often serve the same
purpose as q glass Of wine. Figs and
dates are both valuable in certain con-
ditions. but should be thoreughiy
washed and looked over before eating.
Green ags are an excellent food.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1903-09-18
c.uliaower with Mayonn.t...

Caulifiower is good eaten cold as well
as hot. Boil without breaking the hssd
and throw into cid water until wanted.
Tear the roses apt carefully, dry and
put In -alad bowl With lettuce leaves
Serve with E.ayonnaise.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1903-09-18

AS soon as Lieut.. Gen. Young is re-
tired from the service he will be sue
ceeded by one of the most gallant and
modest soldiers in the American army
Maj. Gen. Chaffee is one of the fight
ing men who carry with him the
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1903-09-18
Smithsonian institution, the geological

Smithsonian institution, the geological
and coast surveys, the other scientifid
bureaus OF the government have at
tracted men of learning, and to add to
these there have come q number OF
educational institutions which are
doing remarkable work.
So great has been the influx of men
OF scientific attachments in the past
20 years that there has been estab-
lished social club primarily intended
for them. The Cosmos club has a dis
tinction which belongs to no other So
cial club in the United States. 1t has
in its membership more men of ma
tional and International reputation
than any other social club on the face
OF the earth. 1t is by far to-day the
most important social club in Wash
1ngton, though others may lay claim to
greater wealth. Presidents OF colleges,
professors, investigators, writer's, are
numbered in it's membership. Nobody
is even considered for admission un-
less he shall be shown to have accom-
plished something which entities him
to public consideration or to the re-
gard of men of attainment which is a
higher test of accomplishment
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1903-09-18

President Roosevelt and his family
will return to the white house on the
Goth of September. They will find as
usual that 1t is not the same white
house which they abandoned to paint
ers ard decorators earlier in the sum-
mer.
1t is a popularity of the executive
mansion that no matter how much
money is spent on it's preservation just
about so much additional money has
to be spent every summer while the
president and his family are out OF
town.
The white house is in a constant
state of repair. Only year ago more
than half a million dollars was ex-
pended in restoring Infringing it
back to the condition in which those
who first designed it planned that it
should be. The results were crafty
ing. The tawdry improvements of
decorators and architects for a genera
ton of presidents were calmly thrown
aside and scheme of architecture was
adopted which reestablished the SIM
plicity and dignity of an earlier day
But even with all this the expert
mentors cannot let the old mansion
alone, but must repaint and readjust
and change just because the presi-
dents family is away and the way is
clear.
In spite of all the refurbishing the
white house remains as it always has
the most dignified official residence
anywhere to be SEEN
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1903-07-20
Hawaiian Coffee 1u Demand.

Diversified agriculture finds a strong
cbampion in the Makaha Coffee Co,
owing about 700 acres of land at Wal
amaze. oahu. This company, when tue
coffee boom was on, planted 1SO,Ooo
coffee trees which are now in fine bear
ing: and since then it has ventured IN
lines and pineapples. The lines are
of such good promise that the company
expects. next year to, supply this mar
ket with them and have surplus TO
export. PineappIes have been raised
at a good profit, and now. owing to the
reputation Hawaiian coffee is getting
on the coast, there promises to be a
high price for this product Figures
are already nearing the top notch.
For years our coffee was turned in
with the gIut from Central America
and Java. and it is no secret that it
was mixed with these brands and sold
without its distinctive label. For some
time past it has been advertised on its
merits through firms in San Francisco,
Chicago and New York. with the re-
suit that coffe drinkers ask for it and
are ready 10 pay a fair price. Who
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1903-07-20
Worlds Best Medicine.
PAINE'S CELERY
COMPOUND
Has Made People Well When
Every Other Remedy
Has Failed.

Paine's Celery Compound cures disease I
1t has saved the lives of thousands of sufferers
1t has made the weak strong, vigorous, and
happy.
Paine's Celery Compound purifes the blood
and builds up the nervous system as nothing
else can do; 1t is pre-eminently the great life
giver and health maker.
Overworked and tired women stand in ur-
gent need of this health giving prescription to
make and keep them well. All women should
take advantage of the remarkable power of
this best of medicine for restoring vigor to the
blood and strength to the nervous system.
The al-important thing for nervous, run down,
and sleepless women is that Paine's Celery
Compound fortifies the whole physical system,
and by correcting digestion and regulating the
nerves, 1t insures sound, refreshing sleep. In
every case of sickness Paine's Celery Com
pound completely and permanently brings
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more, Ohio, saved by Paine's Celery Compound
after the failures of able physicians, gratefully
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"I also want to say to all mothers that
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