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Barbour County index., 1906-09-05

KEEL RNED HOME WITH A CRUSHED
HAT. A MUDDY COAT AND A
MIND ILL AT EASE.
gan talking to friend, and Miss Glare
and | edged away together.
Are you quite stranger here, Mr.
Amor" she said so archly, so-but
never mind.
Quite" answered, but I'm nor
sure that shall be in future"
have way OF expressing a great
deal with my eye, and l turned it iull
on to her glorious face as / spoke
Now, will you, my dear Miss Clare,
take pity on me, and act as my guide,
philosopher and friend to-day"
She replied that she should be de-
lighted. Most fascinating girl this;
quite eclipsed divinity in train.
Whilst hounds were drawing the first
covert, Hixon. in his usual interfering
manner. ranged up alongside, and
whispered to me-awfully rude Of the
man to whisper
Il say. my boy, take care! The lady
knows a thing or two. and" but
merely nodded distantly. and resumed
my tete-a-tete with Miss Glare.
We had been talking for abou. ten
minutes, when some one rode round
the covert, and SAID, rather pointedly:
Il wish you gentlemen would be a
little Quieter, or We shall never get a
fox tn break this way"
Now. I don't know how to sneer. but
did my best; and then that idiot Hix-
on asked me what / was making
faces" for.
Soon after this. we found" and
away streamed the pack out of the
wood and across the lower end of our
meadow. 'Toot, toot." on the horn
and of we went"
We jumped two-foot high rail- and
across the heavy arabic we pounded
slowly on. my charming companion al
my side. Hounds had got well
through fair-sized post and rails
as we began gathering our horses to
sether for the jump. Then Miss Glare
turned bewitchingly to me, and ex
claimed:
Ny horse will be so disappointed
he. loves jumping; but I'm really tor
great coward to ride at this. Womb
you mind coming with me to that gar,
and opening it,"
Would l mind Ask Lancelot IL h,
would mind riding alone with Guine
we're!
The gate was some distance left
handed OF the line which hounds wer,
running. and the divergence lost us
great deal Of ground; but we rode dog
sedly on. hoping for check.
Poor Marmaduke.'' sighed Mis-
Glare: he II really too bold for timi,
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tasseled plants in the breeding block
B, in order to secure enough seed to
plant large field the next or sixth
year. In this multiplying field, which
on small farms may be the general
crop, the seed of the select ears is
mixed together, care being taken in
the summer to detassel all inferior
plants in order to prevent the possible
fertilization of the seed by the pollen
of undesirable plants. The breeding
block C should be planted from one
ear selected from breeding block B
and one ear from b. The breeding
block should be planted from the
remnants Of the two ears producin z
the best two rows in the precedin z
years test plat.
The sixth year general crop can
be grown for distribution from the
seed selected from the multiplying plat
of the preceding year. This corn can
be sold as pedigreed seed corn, and
the record of the parents. both male
and female, as shown by their per-
torrance in the test plats, can be
given to the purchaser. In the sixth
year the multiplying field. the two
breeding blocks, and the test plat
should be arranged as before. This
plan can be continued each year, and
after the fifth year general crop can
be grown every season from highly
bred seed of known ancestry. At this
time, or at any future time, it may
become desirable to introduce other
strains grown by breeders in other
localities. so as to get the beneficial
effect of outbreeding in added consti-
tutional vigor and produstiveness. II
so. special test plat should be plant
ed. using one-half the kernels from
the ears Of the new strain for ths
rows
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tested in test plat, using one-half the
kernels from each ear for this pur-
pose, planting this seed in individual
rows, and so labelling the rows and
the remnants of the ears from which
they were planted that the parent ears
can be readily traced to their progeny
in the test plat. The remaining seed
of each parent ear should be kept
separate and saved for the next sea-
sons use. The third year two breed
ing blocks are planted with the rem
nants of the sears producing the four
best rows, as regards both yield and
quality of corn, of the preceding years
test plat. These breeding blocks must
be isolated to prevent accidental cross
ing with foreign pollen. In each
breeding block two of the ears are
planted in alternate rows, conven-
lent arrangement being ten rows Is
hills long from each ear. The plants
Barbour County index., 1906-09-05
About the Care
of Finger Nails.
Little Daily Care and Precautien
All That Is Necessary.

Nothing responds more readily to
treatment than the finger nails; just
little daily care and precaution in
tending them and a woman may keep
her nails neat and prettily shaped.
The first thing, where they are brit
tie, is to harden them; teaspoonful
of warm olive oil. heated over any
convenient fame, and the nails Of
each hand soaked five minutes in 1t.
II this is done every night for .
month. the change will be most sat
tsfying, and then the nails may be
kept short for awhile until entirely
cured of the tendency to split and
break
Two months give an entire new
nail; that is. it takes two months for
the base of the nail to become the
tip projecting just beyond the tin Of
the finger itself. In addition to the
oil. the nails should be filled with
plain yellow vaseline, well rubbed In
at night and any good cold cream. e
any time through the day: this makeo
them supple and prevents the edccn
from rougheuing.
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The Selling Of Marmaduke
BY Fox RUSSELL.

How brightly the wintry sun shone
out as I watched the detraining of my
horse at Mudbury! Hunting IN a
strange country delights me; new
scenes, other faces, everything fresh.
I was tired of the old pack-no go"
no dash; above all, no pretty faces
there.
So l thought run down into the
Blazington country might brighten me
up. In the train / sat opposite divin-
-ity ir black-must admit that divinity
rather scowled when l tried to open
conversation by offering her my paper
TO read-who thrilled my too suscepti-
BILE heart to such an extent that-but
really, this has nothing to do with my
story.
Before | had gone mile on the .oad
TO the meet | was overtaken by Hixon.
a man knew living in the Blazington
country.
''Oh. delighted to see you." he ex-
claimed. But how comes 1t that
you've deserted your own pack? Good
morning, Miss Clare" he broke off, as
a very pretty girl trotted gently past.
favoring Hixon with the sweetest of
smiles. Hixon is rather an old fool
about women. l don't like to see it in
him. man OF a certain age; he is at
least year older than | am.
Who's the lady, Hixon?" l asked in
Indifferent tones.
That's Miss Clare, of Broughton:
you must take care not to" But just
at that moment the lady pulled up and
looked back at Hixon. Really, it was
nothing to be conceited about; bu: he
became positively ;nsufferable when he
saw the glance. l determined ther
and there to save him from making an
ass of himself. If | could. so said:
"Hixon, you must introduce mel"
and he had TO do it.
Miss Clare, allow me to introduce
nay friend. Mr.. Marmaduke Amor"
Miss Clare bowed. Oh what a bow,
what grace! what abandon! what-but
never mind. at once attached myself
TO her. and commenced thinking out
some scheme for shaking E:xo1.
Arrived al the meet. he fortunately. be-
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They Had Met

When you go to New Zealand. I
wish you would inquire after my great
grandfather. jeremiah Thompson. +.
Certainly" said the traveller, and
wherever he went he asked for news
OF the ancestor, but without avail. ac-
cording to the Dundee Advertiser. One
oay ne was introduced to a fine old
maori OF advanced age. Did you ever
meet with an Englishman named Jere-
miah Thompson" he asked. A smile
passsd over the Maori's face. Meet
nim : he reDeated. why. / ate him!s
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rider like me. I'm afraid | must sell
him and hunt my old cob again. You
wouldn't be ashamed of plotting me,
even then, would you, Captain-Cap-
tain-er-do forgive me, but I've for
gotten both your. name and regime 1t"
Mr.-not captain-and l haven't got
regiment" l replied, inwardly resolv-
ing to join the Volunteers forthwith
We'll, do you know, 1 was wonGer-
ing at an officer proving such an enter
tanning companion, and yeti suppose
1t was your military appearance tnat
deceived me-"
What nice, sensible girl thisi We
went on little farther only enc3un
tering the easiest fences Presently
she said:
How strange that my horse should
be named Marmaduke-your own
name"
had remarked this. 1t was strange.
because Marmaduke is an uncommon
name.
I suppose you don't know of any.
one who wants really good hunter.
DO you?" she observed in somewhat
ooWncaSt tones.
NOW, this was rare good-looklng
morse. Why should not I?
May l ask the price," 1 said.
Well, what l particularly want is a
good home for him. You know .nors
ABOUT these things than l, Mr.. Amor.
would timidly, would $3.50 be too
much to ask, do you Think"
II send you check tonight. and
you can let me have him when YOU.
hke, l answered gallantly. Shall |
make it payable to you?"
oh, thanks so much. Make II out
10 Alicia Clare" with one of her
brightest smiles. Then, patting her
steeds glossy neck. she murmured:
Poor Marmaduke. you're sold!" I
remembered those words later on.
That evening dispatched my check
to Miss Alicia Clare Alicia. how I
fingered over the writing of that dear
name. 1t seemed so full of pathos, SO
never mind.
The following Tuesday hunted my
new purchase for the first time, and.
in the course of short run, he refused
every fence but two, at both of which
ne fell. | couldn't understand it. Miss
clare said that he. was big, bold
jumper, and 1 returned home with a
crushed hat, muddy coat and a mind
Ill at ease. Next night met Hixon n.
the club
Hello! he exclaimed; what be-
came OF you and the pretty horse
| breaker that day."
What pretty horse breaker do you
refer?'' l asked. stif1y.
why, Ally Clare, of course. I tried
to warn you about her horse dealing
games, but you were so stand-offish
my dear Marmaduke" wish he
wouldn't dear Marmaduke" mel that
| couldn't"
Then-then-Miss Clare is-?"
Miss Clare is the daughter OF old
Jake Clare, the horse dealer. She f,rts
outrageously with every man she meets
and sells her brutes to the biggest
fools' (this man is insufferableD
Ihe wretch she rode the day you
were down-they only gave 500 for
MIN. as he couldn't jump a straw-shs
mad him two days, and then paimed
MIN OH upon some silly idiot for $75O!"
and he roared with laughter in his own
underbred vulgar manner till | co1ld
have kicked him.
POOR Marmaduke, you're sold!" Ths
words required to me with a distinct.
ness which was positively painful. |
have not renewed my acquaintance
with Miss Clare.
Copyright by Joseph B. Bowles.)
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Baby Pillow and Tie Case Designs.

while
Have YETI
really sensible easily
air plain, ostume .
Barbour County index., 1906-09-05
THE sILENCED GRUMBLE.

Ihere was humble humble 1bee
VINO grumbled while he bummed:
But his grumble soon was humbIed
BY the tune he humbly hunl>ned.
After rumble and much humble
was his humble grumble dumbed:
For Il Want You. Nah Honey"
was the tune he humbly hummed-
Judge
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minutes changing from one direction
to another.
Four Ghoulish Looters
- Shot by Funston s Orders

General Funston realized that stern
measures were necessary, and gave or
ders that hooters were to be shot at
sight Four men we're summarily exc
cuted before 3 o CLOCK this afternoon.
At meeting of fifty citizens called
by the mayor, it was announced that
1,40O tents will be pitched in Golden
Gate park and arrangements have
been made to feed the destitute in the
public squares.
A meeting of the citizens commit
tee has been called for 10 CLOCK to-
morrow (Thursday) morning. It is
probable that even with the spirit and
willingness shown by the people of
San Francisco that outside aid will be
necessary. A message from President
and it had a cheering effect. George
Gould also telegraphed, offering aid.
The city in the face Of it's appalling
disaster is fairly quiet and orderly.
Liquor cannot be had anywhere, and
the formida BILE presence Of federal
troops, militia and naval reserves has
had it's effects on any element that
might be disposed to be disorderly. .
The mayors proclamation, authoriz
ing the shooting of looters on sight
has been scattered broadcast on cir
culars, and little reports of thievine
are being received.
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destitute, and all day long panic -strick-
en- refugees have been fleeing from the
devastated districts to places of safety.
It was Sis O'Clock this morning
when terrific earthquake shook the
whole city and surrounding country
One shock lasted two minutes and there
was an almost immediate collapse of
fimsy structures in all parts of San
Francisco.
The water supply was cut off and
when the fire broke out there was moth
ing to do but to let the buildings
burn. Telegraph and telephone com
munication was shut off for a time
The Western Union was put out of
business completely and the Postal was
the only company that managed to get
a wire out of the city. About 10
clock the Postal too was forced to
suspend in San francisco. Electric
power was stopped and street cars
could not run. Railroads and ferry
boats also ceased operations. The
various fires have been raging all day
and the fire department has been
powerless to do anything except dyna-
mite the threatened buildings.
The explosions shook the city and
added to the terror of the inhabitants.
Following the first shock there was
another within five minutes, but not
nearly so severe. Three hours after
there was another slight quake.
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located the chambers Of the state SUI
preme court, the lower floors being de-
voted to an immense department store,
was ruined, tho it's massive walls with
stood the heat.
q .. Burned Like Tinde-.
A little further down Market street
ME Flood building and tho history
building kindled and burned like so
much tinderd. Sparks carried across
the wide street, ignited the Phelan
building and the army headquarters of
the department of California, General
Funston commanding, were burned.
Still nearing the bay, the waters of
which did the fremen good service, the
fire took the Rialto building, hand
of solid business blocks into shoulder
ing piles Of brick.
Banks Burned.
Banks and commercial houses, sup
posed to freproof. tho not of modern
build, burned quickly and the roar of
the flames could be heard even on the
hills, which were out of the danger
zone.
Here many thousands of people con-
gregated and witnessed the awful scene.
Great sheets of flame rose high in the
heavens or rushed down some narrow
street, as tho the passage way were a
horizontal chimney.
Smoke Is Dense.
the dense smoke that arose from the
entire business district spread out like
an immense funnel and could have been
seen for miles out at sea. Occasionally,
as some drughouse or place stored with
chemicals was reached, most fantastic
effects were produced by the colored
flames and smoke, which rolled out
against the darker background.
Playhouses in Ruins.
All efforts to prevent the fire from
reaching the Palace and Grand hotels
were unsuccessful, and both were COM
pletely destroyed, together with all
their contents.
All of San Francisco's best play
houses, including the Majestic, Column
bia, Orpheum and Grand operahouse are
a mass of ruins. The earthquake de
molished them for all practical pur-
poses and the fire completed the work
| of destruction. The handsome Rialto
and Sasserly buildings were burned to
the ground, as was everything in that
district.
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A Night of Terror Falls
On Sadly Stricken City

Night added to the horror and as
darkness fell the sky was Illuminated
in all directions. AS the flames spread
into the residence districts people left
their homes and fed to the parks and
squares.
The series of rather severe shocks
att o'clock further increased the ter
ror and many left homes that were not
in danger.
No afternoon papers were issued, and
it is doubtful if the morning papers
will appear. The Southern Pacific
tracks are in such condition that only
a crippled train service is. possible.
The Chronicle building and its New
street annex are still standing. -
The city hall, structure costing
100000, was first wrecked by the
earthquake and then destroyed by fire.
The Palace hotel, value estimated at
$3,000,000, also burned, The beautiful
Claus Spreckles building, at Third and
Market streets, was Quilted. The Rialto
building and dozens of other costly
structures were also destroyed. The
Hall of Justice is threatened and will
undoubtedly go. The Examiner and
the Call buildings are gone and the
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Worst Damage Was Done
In Tract of Made Land

The greatest destruction in San Fran
cisco occurred in that part Of the city
which was reclaimed from the bay.
Much Of the district was at one time
low marshy ground entirely covered by
water at high tide. The Merchants
Exchange building, History steel
structure, was situated on this re-
claimed ground. 1t had just been COM
pleted and the executive offices Of the
Southern Pacific company occupied the
greater part of the building. ....=r
, The damage by the earthquake to the
residence portion Of the city, the finest
part Of which is Knob Hill and Pa
cifc Heights, seems to have been
slight. On Knob Hill are the resi-
denccs Of many of the millionaires who,
in the early seventies, became wealthy
thru mining Investments or the con
struction Of the Central Pacific railroad.
They include the stanfords, Hunting,
tons, Hopkins, Crockers, Floods and
others. The Paramount hotel, not yet
completed, stands on the brink of Knob
Hill overlooking the bay. It was not
seriously damaged. The hotel was
started by Mrs. Herman Oelrichs of
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STORY OF SUFFERING
TOLD BY NIGHT WIRE
With Power Gone, San Francisco Had
Only Light of Conflagration:;

Croker building, across the street from
the Palace hotel. is on fire.
At o'clock last night an Associated
Press man, who went to a high hill
overlooking the city, noted that the
sky On the east and south sides was
illuminated for a distance of four or
five miles. The illumination on the
south was Of duller glow, showing
that the flames were not consuming
property of such great proportions as
was the case of the east side.
Many fine buildings were leveled to
dust by terrific charges Of dynamite
in the hopeless effort to stay the fire
horror. In this work scores of heroic
soldiers, policemen and firemen were
MANNED or killed outright.
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New York, as monument to her faith
er, the late United States Senator
James Fair, but she recently sold it to
local people for 100000.
Many Notable Structures
Are Now Down or Ruined
To the westward on Pacific Heights
are many fine, new residences. But
little injury was done there.
The Palace hoted, burned, was
square, was built thirty years ago by
the late Senator Sharon. The Palace
was then considered the best-equipped
hotel in the west.
The Offices of the three morning pa
pers, the Chronicle, the Call and the
Examiner, were within 100 feet of each
other: The last two were destroyed:
The Chronicle, situated at Market and
Kearney streets, has ten-story steel
frame building, one of the first struct-
ures Of its character put up here. The
Spreckles building, in which were the
business Offices of the Call, is sixteen
stories high and very narrow. The edi-
torial, composing and press rooms were
in a small three-story building immedi-
ately In the rear.
just across Third street was the home
VI ;Iue EAdHllucI, seven SCOT1eS n1gQ,
with frontage of 100 feet on Market
street.
The postoffce is fine, gray stone
structure, and has been completed less
than two years. 1t covers half block
on Mission street between Sixth and
Seventh streets. The ground on which
the building stands was of swampy
character, and some difficulty was ex-
perienced in obtaining solid founda-
ton. This accounts for it's collapse.
The city hall, which was badly
| wrecked, is a mile and half from the
waterfront. It was an imposing struc-
ture, with dome $50 feet high. The
building covers about three acres and
cost more than $5000000.
The Grand opera house, where the
Metropolitan Opera company opened
| two-weeks engagement Monday night,
was one Of the oldest theaters in San
/, Francisco. 1t is located on Mission
street, between Third and Fourth
| streets, and for a number of years was
the leading playhouse of the city. In
1885 this playhouse was closed for a
time and later devoted to vaudeville.
Within the past four years, however, it
has been used by many of the leading
independent theatrical companies.
The buildings that collapsed were all
/ fimsy wooden and old-fashioned brick
/ structures. The damage by earthquake
does not begin to compare with the loss
| by fire.
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Vendome hotel collapsed and fires broke
out. ~ .
Stanford university and Palo Alto
suffered. At Stanford many of the
handsome buildings were demolished
and two people were killed. One Of
them was Junius Robert Hanna Of
Bradford, Pa. and the other was Otto
Curtis, fireman. Six other students
are lying in the Palo Alto hospital
with bruises, cuts and internal injuries.
These are Ross D. Howard of San Fran.
cisco, Henry L. bearing Of Santa Ana,
CAL, Froli, Halbert R. Thomas Of
Los Angeles, Robert Westwick Of Santa
Barbara, and W. H. Masters of Port
land, Ore. t.s..
The courthouse at Redwood City and
other buildings collapsed. Menlo Park,
Burlingame and other fashionable SUI
burban towns suffered Santa Rosa, to
the north, Napa, Vallejo and all towns
around the bay were damaged. These
reports, alarming as they were, created
little interest in San Francisco, where
the people were so frantic that they
rushed into the streets in night gar
mentS
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By Associated Press might Report).
San Francisco, April 1S.-Earthquake
San Francisco in ruins. At least two
hundred people have been killed,
thousand others injured and the prop.
erty loss will exceed 100000 900.
Thousands Of people are homeless and
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BIG STRUCTURES
BURN LIKE FINDER
Buildings, Supposed Fireproof,
Fall Prey to the Con-
flagration.

San Francisco, April 19.-Fire ragged
in so many sections and its progress
was SO rapid that it was extremely diff
fcult to trace it's destructive march.
Following the destruction of the Grand
operahouse 1t moved on the Parrott
building and, later, the Palace hotel.
The Parrot building, in which were