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Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1906-03-09
McNown & Hayes are shaping

McNown & Hayes are shaping
up to add considerably to their
building they recently bought
from G. W. Moore. They will
put in a cold storage plant in con p
nection with their meat shop, and
otherwise prepare to handle
their increasing business.
FOR SALE hardware and
implement store carrying q stock
of about $1,000. We'll established
trade. Located at Garden Plain,
Kas., surrounded by a first class
farming community. Also a good
butcher business. For further
particulars call on John Kaiser
Great Bend, Kans.
There ought to be two tickets in
the fed for councilmen and
school board members this spring,
so the voter could have a selection
to choose from. 1906 is going to
be a year that Great Bend will
grow some, and we want the very
best of officers to look after the
public welfare.
FOR SALE Eggs from snow
white, large size, and good lay
ing White Plymouth Rocks, Fishel
Strain, at $3.50 per Is. Satisfac-
tory hatch guaranteed.
AL. Redmon Ellinwood, Kan.
A gentleman who has been
familiar with the raising of wheat
in Barton county for the past %
years told US this morning that be
: did not believe the wheat was in
jured more than 5 per cent by the
recent high winds. We hope he is
right.
Get in on the ground floor and
order your stationery printed at
this Office. Printed letter head.
ings (anything you want on them)
and envelopes cost but little more
than the blank paper bought a
little st a time. and they look G:
much nicer and business-like.
| FOR SALE-Two glass floor
cases, six feet long, at bargain.
Cyclone.
That Friday wind DID not pre-
vent the Stork from going his
rounds, all right He left a fnt
boy baby at the homo of Harry
Baldwin, the Mo. P. brakeman, il
the first ward. that day.
WANTED A girl for general
housework. j. Wesley Brown.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1906-03-09
A CYCLONE
in THE south.

hoIiuldi, MISS. mdTCu D. "A
lcyclone last night took the lives
of probably thirteen white people
and twenty negroes and a prop
erty loss of over three hundred
thousand dollars.
Brick buildings for nearly two
blocks, upon both sides of Front
Street, were totally demolished.
A path one block wide and four
teen squares long was cut from
one end of the town to the other.
In this strip practically every
building was partially or alto
gether leveled to the ground dur
ing the twenty mi nutes the storm
lasted.
A partial list Of the dead is as
follows Patrick McGinDis a con-
ductor, and John Smith an engi-
neer on the Mobile & Ohio rail
way, both killed, E. l.. Mires a
restauranter Mrs. s.. N. Singleton
and little grand daughter killed in
their home; W. r. Nelson exchief
of police, and Policeman larry
both killed in Thornton's stable;
Claude Williams; one unidentifi-
ed white man, and fifteen unideD-
Titled negroes.
The seriously injured include
John Sherrer, W. j. Woodside.
Will Marlborough, Frank Wood
ruff, w. A. Garrett, Grandy
Stone, George Dean and Charles
Elmire.
Most pitiful scenes met the eyes
of the rescuers as they made
their way across the devasted area.
f. q. Woodruff, a book keeper,
was found pinned fast by the foot
under the debris. His body and
arms we're free, but he was unable
to extricate himself and lay fol
twelve hours while the flames rag.
ed about him. He was chopped
out and taken to the hospital.
The streets we're piled high
with debris this morning. Mem
bers of scattered families were
rowing about seeking each Other
and their property. Ii may bC
many days before the list of deaC
is secured. An effort is being
made to list all those missing. I
is feared many are buried in thC
5 wreckage. The only communi
cation out Of town is 10y a singI,
.. telephone wire.
2 The cyclone was ushered in by
J a tremendous rain. Then camC
, the frightfuI rush OF wind. ThC
electric light plant was one of thl
first buildings destroyed, and thC
} city was left in darkness.
+ The panic stricken people rush
ed into the street and saw The
wind rip out scores of structures
| Near the passenger station the
path of the wind was two blocks
wide. Buildings along 22d avenue,
from first to second streets, were
wrecked. A fire soon broke out,
T adding terror to the scene,
Vandals we're active during the
; night.
The Grand Avenue Hotel. Ole
Sulphus Hotel and the passenger
l station are among the larger
bui ldings that are ruined. The
: local militia was allied out by thu
! mayor and went on duty thil
morning, and voluntary police
force was also formed.
The town of Marion. twenty
miles away, is reported devastated
last night, but no details are OBJ
= tainable from there.
jackson, Miss, March g.
Mayor Rivers has issued al
appeal TO other cities in the stat,
for funds for the relief of tn,
a Meridian sufferers. Hundred
l of families there are homeless
! The legislature adjourned upol
d hearing of the disaster, man!
< members going to the scene.
nj New Orleans, La, March g.
t A message from a correspondent
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1906-03-09

Private Boarding House, Mrs.
W. Fl. Rediger. Phone 257. 1923
Stone st.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1906-03-09

FOR SALE-Two glass floor
cases, six feet long, at a bargain.
Cyclone.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1906-03-09

That Friday wind DID not pre-
vent the Stork from going his
rounds, all right He left fine
boy baby at the homo of Harry
Baldwin, the Mo. P. brakeman, in
the first ward. that day.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1906-03-09

The McFarlan Buggies are best.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1906-03-09

FOR SALE Eggs from snow
white, large size, and good lay
ing White Plymouth Rocks, Fishel
Strain, at $3.50 per Is. Satisfac-
tory hatch guaranteed.
AL. Redmon Ellinwood, Kan.
The Topeka state journal., 1906-06-02
THE DAUGHTER
OF THE REGIMENT

It IS curious to note the contrary
steps France and Germany are taking
with respect to women in the army.
The French have recently mustered out
of the military service over a thousand
cantinieres and vivandieres. or "daugh-
ters of the regiment" while the Ger
man emperor is seriously considering
compulsory military service for young
German women. Their duty would
never be upon the field of battle, but
in the various military offices of the
empire, thus releasing for field work
thousands of men now detailed as clerks
and employees. The emperor believes
that such service would not only great
ly augment his army, but would ma
terially benefit German women, train
ing them in punctuality, order, obedi-
ence, business procedure, and increas-
ing their mental and physical well be-
ing.
Whatever her career. the German
army girl will have none of the pic
turesque features which have pertained
to the French daughter of the regi-
ment7 This interesting character first
appeared in the French revolution, and
for over a hundred years she has
fitted over the French battlefelds of
the hungry, moistening the parched
lips of the dying. The daughters were
generally mature women. called moth
ers'' by the officers and men-wOmen
able to rough it, mannish in attire and
speech, but respectable, the confdants
of their Children courageous, merry.
devoted, patriotic.
The ambulance system on the field
renders the services of the cantinieres
-
on the rolls have been retired with a
trifiing pension. Heretofore the canti-
Mere has been pensionless, although
often more deserving than the male
soldier with whom she marched
Now the daughter of the regiment .
theme of novels and plays and verse, SO
picturesque in professions, SO devoted
to suffering humanity, so blindly indif-
ferent to self. passes from the scene.
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alarms, 50 to speak She knows there
is nothing she ever got into that she has
not likewise got out OF in safety, and
that knowledge makes her compara-
lively fearless. Again. the number of
tight places she has got into already
makes the middle aged woman know
they are scattered all along the way,
so she is in 4 measure alert and pre-
pared for them. The middle aged wo-
man is therefore more cautious as well
as more cool headed than the girl.
Maybe, too, there is another explana-
tion OF the superior expertness of the
mature woman autoist 1t is no libel
on the fair sex to say that wherever
public appearance and outdoor func-
tions are in question numbers of them
think more of clothes than anything
else The middle aged woman has
reached that wise stage of the game
where she thinks more of what she is
doing than of how she looks while do
ing it. That alone would send her far
ahead on the road toward expert
''chaumng."
An automobile instructor says that
among his pupils was a woman of fifty
or past who was determined to under
stand thoroughly the mechanism of her
machine. She got a book of instruc-
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SOME ROYAL MECHANICS.

Nicknames are very prevalent among
British royal princesses. most of whom
have names by which they are affec-
tionately known by their relatives. The
kings youngest daughter, Princess
Charles of Denmark, was always Harry
with her brothers at Sandringham.
while her eldest sister. the Duchess of
Fife, earned for herself the nickname of
Her Royal Shyness. which is as appro-
pirate now as it was then
Princess Victoria Of Sleswick-H -Hol-
stein, the elder daughter of Princess
Christian, is called Thora, and in her
case the nickname is almost a neces-
sity, for among her late majesty's de-
scendants the name of Victoria is too
general to be distinctive. That no
doubt, is why the Prince Of Wales lit
tie daughter, who started as Princess
Victoria is now known as Princess
Mary
Princess Thora was one of the most
constant companions of Queen Victoria.
and the death of her royal grandmother
was a great grief to her She IS a most
charming and lovable woman and has
many friends. Among her cousins she
is esDeciallv fond of the czarina- who
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and exercise, woman at
tempts, and in most cases
with entire success.
only a few years ago women auto
mObilists were scarce as angels in this
naughty world. Now they even take
part in motor races, steering their cars
with skill and GOODNESS. At the last
motor racing meet at Cape May Mrs.
Clarence C. Filter entered as a con-
testant, steered her own machine and
won one of the races. Her auto car
was Of twenty eight horsepower. and
she ran it at nearly a mile a minute
clip. For this fine dash at Cape May
Mrs. Filter did not mummy herself in
cap and goggles and veil and clumsy
auto coat, but Wore simply a white
gown. The weather was not cold, and
she went bareheaded. her eyes fixed
with unobstructed vision on the road
and a blue ribbon bound around her
hair to keep it from blowing every
which way
Mrs. Filters ambition had long been
to take part in a real auto race, and
the first for which she entered was
won by her. Her husband accompanied
her in the car during the dash. sin
case anything happened" but moth
ing did happen, except that she came
off victor.
In the winter season the social cen
ter of this country is Washington, so
entirely that it is now common for
members of the New York millionaire
set to take houses in the national capi-
tai from December till March or April.
There automobiling was taken up from
the first with enthusiasm, owing per
haps to the pleasant weather and the
fine roads Women are among those
most devoted to this exhilarating, even
maddening sport, if one let's it run
away with his nerves. In Washington
numerous women are no longer depen-
dent on what an Independent American
citizen calls Showers but operate
their machines with their own feminine
hands
Before she left Washington. the dash
ing young Countess Cassini was an
expert chauffeur. The same is true Of
Alice Roosevelt, the presidents inde-
pendent, fearless daughter who has
done more to put feminine NERVES"
out of business than any other young
woman of her time Miss Roosevelt
delights in whirling about in q. big car,
which she herself can guide as easily
ami safely as railway engineer guides
a long train
once some Washington policemen
saw a large auto flying through the
streets with what their experienced
eyes told them was dangerous swift
ness. They pursued and were on the
point Of arresting its occupants. when
suddenly they stopped and had press
ing business elsewher They had been
slsnost caught in the act Of arrestiug
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broadcloth which I saw recently was
cut with circular fiounce, giving it a
pronounced flare. 1t was belted in un-
der the arms empire fashion and had
a wide shawl collar of Irish crochet
lace which fell in a decided point down
the back.
The sleeves We're elbow length and
had wide cuffs of the irish crochet lace
Another evening coat equally smart
was cut like a shawl with no sleeves
visible. It was made of pearl gray
cloth, with a turnover collar and revers
of orange velvet covered with ecru
passementerie
The day of the long train is utterly
past. Everything seems to be cut
round length now. The longest dresses
touch a few inches in front, as well as
in the back, and the effect is certainly
much more graceful
The circular skirt is a great favorite
It is especially smart in Scotch goods
skirt made up in this material usual
" has a jacket of black or of blue
cloth to accompany it, as the Scotch
goods itself does not make a very
pretty coat.
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tions, sat down by the car and studied
that book by the hour. at every para
graph taking note OF the relation of the
directions to the PARTS to which they
referred. She learned even how to
clean her machine and how often it
needed oiling and fuel replenishing.
She can even lie upon the ground under
the car and tighten a screw and see if
any of the gearing is out of order. No
wonder this woman is an expett motor
ist
In New York city Mrs. S. Moore is a
skilled autoist She owns a two cylin-
der machine and steers it herself
through the great city's most crowded
streets. She understands its mechan-
ism well and never has had an accident.
Mrs. Moore is fond of all outdoor ath-
letic sports.
French and English women took up
motoring before American women did.
All our fads are imported. Not so many
French as English women are motor
lists, but one French duchess exceeds
IN automobile recklessness even any
Frenchman.
In England the beautiful and famous
Countess of Warwick not long ago
Travelled all over Great Britain on d
political tour in her big red motor car
England has also at least one woman
professional chauffeur. She is Miss
Clauden Lasell, who operates a ninety
horsepower car.
"She's the picture of health, and she's
a perfect lady" says one of New
York's experienced professional chauf-
feurs. There is no reason why any
woman who keeps her head on should
not run an automobile as well as q
man can. There is not much danger
only you must watch every moment
that's all. Now there's our machine
No matter how fast its going, you can
stop it in its own length. To be sure
you'd rip off a couple O. tires in doing
it, but you would stop it
A woman in England who enters for
racing contests is Miss Dorthy Levitt
Several years o-she came under thu
spell of the motor madness, and she
can scarcely speed fast enough to salts
fy her. She owns an eighty horse
power racing machine She declares
the racing auto is a very docile mon
ster." and she says:
Fancy bounding off the mark and
keeping on and on and on at about a
hundred miles an hour IN a steady
eeaseless flow. with the air roaring past
ones ears. and the engine singing its
song of triumph It would be a SEN
sation worth years of ordinary life"
CHARLOTTE VAN BECK.
The Topeka state journal., 1906-06-02
INDIVIDUALS WHO
SHOULD EAT ALONE


IF people were dogs. then It would be
1 permissible to snap and snarl over
their food or to eat in sullen silence.
it would be permissible to cast damp
er over the merry spirits of children at
table and chill and check the tender
sympathy of their mother with their
happy mood. If people We're dogs it
would be permissible for the biggest
dog to grab the choicest bits for him
self. not caring what becomes of the
rest.
People not being dogs, however. but
human beings. supposedly civilized. the
dinner hour should be for ali the family
the happiest. freest of the day. All un-
pleasant sights. sounds and ways ought
to be banished like a pestience during
that hour. Cleanliness. light, refine
ment, joy and good temper should
reign. If one talks let him tell merry
or interesting events of the day. Let
all wear clean garments and be neatly
groomed then, no matter what their
work is. Cheerfulness, cleanliness and
refinement at table promote long life
and digestion.
Long ago, in the gloomy age of asceti-
cism, notion somehow got started
that people must take their food IN
silence, perhaps to punish them for
the sins they had committed just pre-
vious to taking food. At any rate, the
frightful old notion got instilled into
the heads of numerous fathers of fami-
lies In their own households they i'm
posed this frozen silence. Unhappily
there are stin found such fathers.
They ought to be put into a cell to eat
alone instead of r1ar.rr7iftod fo
shed dyspepsia upon all around them.
Out with them!
Again, if people were cats it would
be permissible for them to lick their
paws, as nature provided that cats
should do. If the development theory
be true, many persons have apparently
brought the habit of licking their paws,
now transformed into fingers, down the
corridors of time from the period when
they We're cats. Ignoring the square of
linen provided for civilized man to
wipe his fingers on at table, these
abominabIe creatures revert to the cat
or monkey type while they feed and
take away the appetite of any well
bred person near them.
Turn out the distressing person who
licks his fingers at tablet Provide a
stall for him with the old curmudgeon
and joy killer and let them alike take
nourishment in solitude
Then there is the person who takes
medicine at the table. Usually the
nostrum is little pills, but frequently
it is a quinine powder. IN plain sight
of all the world. sickening to his fellow
man and not ashamed. is the medicine
swallowing diner. The sensitive in
dividual who witnesses the dosing
process rolls in his inward parts with
nausea, but what cares the drug swal-
lower?
Out with him likewise. Put him ir
a stall between the curmudgeon and
the human cat. Above the dining cell
of each respectively inscribe theil
The Topeka state journal., 1906-06-02
a cArsKIN RUG.

One woman has a hearth rug which IS
probably unique. It is composed en-
tirely of the skins of her deceased fe-
line pets. AS her cats died she had tht
skin of each tanned and added to the
rug, which is now complete and con
tains the skins of fourteen dead '-puss-
les" The rug is entirely of one color
black-as the lady in question has al
ways made a point of keeping cats o.
that color. On the reverse side of eacI
skin there is an inscription recordins
the name of its dead owner and the pc
riod during which he Cor she) was ths
lady's property Thus one Inscription
runs. Fairy. 1S92-94." and another
Beauty, 10000"
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EuRoPEAN AMAzoMs-

Europe once had its republic of wom-
en- in Bohemia. The precise date of
this Utopia is given as 735. A French
writer states that at the death of
King Crocus his daughter Libussa
succeeded and at once surrounded her
self with a powerful bodyguard of wo
men, of whom she gave the command
to her maiden friend Wlast. Libussa
had been compelled by her people to
marry, but she contrived to remain
something more than the better half
until her death left. the widower mas
ter His first thought was to get rid of
the armed sisterhood, who then seeded,
seized a mountain castle after murder
ing the inhabitants and for seven years,
by treachery and violence, maintained
such u terrorism that the neighboring
states at last combined against them.
and, decoying the amazon army into an
ambuscade they literally exterminated
The Topeka state journal., 1906-06-02

,,..,a. tba T4unnaa cat, tI4e Medicine
esT...sssS,i,,vsy. fl,e Human Dog.
? night have a double cell
- S,,+a II sbo,,ld be thrust iogether
- e~on, the company of their fell
se5,.- fl,esnerson who talks about his
-sl,x.sioaf ailments at the table. par
ticularly if these include dyspepslas ana
49, ,,s,.soI, who ouarrels and gets intc
s,asts5 giise,5ssions while eating. /
iris latter one is not a dyspeptic al
,.ss.lx2 he soon viii be, and he and tbs
,,..,ster tbaf talks about his ailments
At ne dinner table can fight it out TO-
gether.
Rid of these fell destroyers Of humaf
-,ea.e of mind. the rest of the worit
will be able to dine comfortably
KATHERINE BLADES.
The Topeka state journal., 1906-06-02
THE Lee eEAuTIFuL.

The true mode Of life is to live more
beautifully than the occasions and cir
cumstances of the situation in which
you are naturally tend to make you live
You are to create out of yourself {
beauty of conduct which your surround
ings do not inspire. Little self denials
little honesties. little passing words o:
sympathy, little nameless acts of kind
ness, little silent victories over favorits
temptations - these are the si1en
threads of gold which when woven to.
gether gleam out brightly in the patterI
of life.
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ing pressed by her husband. she signed
her name on a blank piece Of paper.
hardly knowing what she did at the
time. Now It happened that her hus-
band was an unscrupulous man, and
when she came to herself and was on
the road to recovery she found that he
had possession Of all her property.
He is now suing for divorce. and
she is suing to recover her property.
Why do women do these things?
There ought to be a book of legal
don'ts published for foolish women.
The Topeka state journal., 1906-06-02
Women Expert
Automobiles

the daughter of the president of the
United States for violating the speed
ordinance.
If a woman keeps her head on and
knows her business, running a motor
car is really no more difficult than op-
Grating a sewing machine. But an alb
solutely cool head and steady nerves
likewise some courage, are required to
be a successful chauffeur. For that
reason, as an automobile instructor de-
clares, middle aged and even elderly
women are more successful chauffeurs
than young girls. as a rule. The mid
die aged woman has been seasoned to
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white felt, faced with deep blue velvet
and trimmed with a deep red breast on
the upturned side.
The vogue of the princess gown is
still very great. only the newer prin-
cesses are not made with so much full
ness shirred in through the waist line
A favorite mode seems to be to have
the eorselet part perfectly plain, with
the fullness of the skirt starting at the
hips, circular fashion, and becoming
very full around the feet
The upper part of the waist is usually
made to simulate a draped bolero, with
light yoke of lace or chiffon and in
sertion- A short coat made of the same
material often accompanies the smarter
costumes of this description.
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Signed her name on blank paper

style of headgear than this. and it can
be trimmed and tilted in so many ways
that it can be made to look each time
like a different shape One of the
s1nartest shapes at present tits up on
one side very sharply and las very
short front This style of hat is trim
med simply, as a rule, with a velvet
band around the crown and a breast
A great deal OF Shadow embroidery is
used on the new white blouse. This is
The Topeka state journal., 1906-06-02
1.-THE SPIRIT IS WILLING" ETC.

In Belgium, as rule. excellent Eng
Ish is spoken Now and then, though,
one comes upon some very curious mis-
takes. At musicale one day in an
Englishwoman's apartment an admira-
bic amateur on violin was the guest
of honor The man played until he got
tired. He wished TO say to his hostess
that he was too weary to play any lon
ger. Madam, der ghost iss ready, but
der meat iss feeble" That was what he
said