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The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1906-03-04
NINETEEN KILLED IN THE
TORNADO AT MERIDIAN
ssga: ;: J. Z x IA
FLAGRANT VIOLATION
OF THE BANKING LAW
Rv Associated Press.

Chicago, Mar. 3.-Subpoenas
have been issued by the gov
eminent prosecutor for four
former employees of the Chi
cago National Bank, in connec-
ton with the arrest of former
President John r. Walsh.
It is declared that govern
ment officials have notes ag-
lgregating hundreds of thOus-
ands of dollars signed by clerks
in the bank. These were all
signed by one man with the
name of another in fragrant
violation of the banking laws.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1906-03-04
ONLY TWO HOUSES
LEFT STANDING
BY Associated Press

Antanarvo, Madagascar, Mar. g.
Details of the obstruction caused by
the waterspOut which recently de
stroyed the village of Mahanorce,
show that only two houses were left
standing. Thirty bodies have been
recovered. The material losses are
very heavy.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1906-03-04
lie Calls Meeting for Next Thurs.
Gay to Discuss Subject of
Making hardi GraS CeIe>
hTati0n Permanent.

resident Walker Ingraham Of the
,..al8a- Association has issued the
'.aFiag call.
To Business Men.
f'nsacOla, Fla, Mar. 3, 1906.
'' The Business Men Of Pensacola:
i-. Carnival Association is facing
osae.t Of more than 100000 for
| 1906 celebration Of Mardi Gras-
3D. o,ler words the Association is now
...e han 100000 in debt. This is
To several causes. chief Of which
-.. The facts thar a number of firms
INDIVIDUALS who are direct bene-
ares Of the annual carnivals have
- - 10 subscribe 70 this years car
and many OF those who have
-1''aIed have failed to subscribe
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1906-03-04
Ter thousand Lives Said to Have
Been Lost on the Island of
Tahiti Alone.
MILLIONS DAMAGE
Hurricane Reached Velocity of l20
Miles Per Hour.

CITY OF PAPEETE INUNDATED
AND SEVENTY-FIVE BUILDINGS
DEsTRoYED-SEVERAL ISLANDS
SAID TO HAVE DISAPPEARED
FRENCH GUNBoAT GONE TO
SCENE WITH SUPPLIES OF
FOOD AND WATER.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1906-03-04
Total Precipitation for d Hours
to I a. m. Saturday Was
3.07 Inches.
HIGH WIND AND HAIL
For One Minute Wind Velocity Was
So Miles Per Hour.

HEAVY ELECTRICAL DISTUR-
5ANcE PRECEDED DoWN9oUR
or EARLY MORNING HOURS
STREETS WERE FoAMTNe TOR
RENTS WITHIN FEW MOMENTS
BUT SLIGHT DAMAGE WAS
REPORTED.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1906-03-04
TWenty-FOur Injured and Property
Loss Estimated at Over a
Million Dollars.
Greatest Loss of Life Was in the
Cotton Mill District.

MANY HOUSES DEMOLISHED AND
FIRE ADDS TO HORROR OF
SITUATION - STORM LASTED
ONLY FIVE MINuTEs-cLAUDE
WILLIAMS CUT HIS THROAT
WHEN CAUGHT IN DEBRIS OF
WRECKED BUILDING.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-12-27
A BEAUTIFUL HAND

The pretty hand has a charm that is
second only to the charm Of a pretty
face. The pretty hand should have
character. 1t should be graceful and
expressive, significant of something
besides prettiness. It should be firm.
and it may be brown or white, but
never red or notified. It may be dim
pied, but it Should not be fat. like a
cushion After reaching the age OF
thirty or thereabout the skin is apt to
lose some Of its youthful moisture, and
it is then that the hands begin to de-
velop telltale wrinkles.
1t is an excellent thing to soak them
in sweet oil before going to bed. while
to whiten a pair of obstinately red
hands nothing is more ef1cacious than
a mixture Of equal parts Of lemon Juice
and water, with the addition of a little
boracic powder.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-12-27

sentence is down in olack and white.
and I make i a rule never 20 erase.
It takes too mich tiTe.
Well. 10 return 70 our nuttons, this
woman little. and she always picks
out a tall painter of the staff employed
about her apartment house.
Once they sent her short man, and
she could get nothing cut of him.
Only what the landlord rad ordered
which is synonymous you know
But why a tall man?
Listen and marvel.
Of course he comes to the apartment
determined TO touch up only those
spots which the landlord has impressed
upon him. But there are others. There
always are.
There are also pots of paint left lying
around and stepladders.
The little lady mounts 4 stepladder
(she looks well on a stepladder, but a
tall woman should never attempt the
STUNT, and she starts to touch up, let
US say. the chandelier. That is a good
thing TO begin on. She does the lower
ornaments and begins on the stem.
Then. alas, she must stop her work I'M
com pleted, for her little arms can reach
no farther.
In her distress she appeals to the
painter He is 50 big, so tall, so
strong-will he not finish it for her?
Now he ought to be simply furious at
this waste of his employers paint, for
that particular chandelier was not to
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torial years were what made her great
souled and helpful and pitiful to others.
Wherever a particularly fine character
appears in this world we may be sure
that bitter and supreme tests not a
few went to the making of it.
After ten years of unhappiness the
singer divorced Heink and married Carl
Schumann, taking the name of Schu-
mann Heink. The Schumann marriage
was an ideally happy one, ended by the
death of Schumann in 1904. A year
afterward Schumann-H eink married
her secretary, William Rapp. a hand
some young German American, de-
voted to the prima donna, as every
body who knows her seems to be.
One evening lately the Arion singing
society of Paterson, N. j., gave a sur
prise serenade to Nine. Schumann-
Beinl1 at her Singac home. On that
occasion she made a characteristic
speech to the serenaders. She said:
81 am now q citizen of the United
States. the greatest and best country
the sun shines on and 1 am going to
bring up all my sons to be good citizens
CT this country l appreciate the honor
and kindness that have been shown to
m during my career abroad, but your
coming here tonight makes me more
than happy. This is my home now, and
should like to show you all the fine
things have here. including six horses.
two pigs, three cows, many chickens
and two dogs. love them ALL and my
American friends even better"
ELIZA ARCHARD CONNER.
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houses must be built and goods bought
and sold and the prosaic business of
life go on just the same.
With the average girl it is quite diff.
ferent Nothing else in the universe
matters quite SO much as what he said
when he was with her, exactly how he
said it, what he may say next and the
awful possibility that his feelings may
undergo some change between this time
and that.
She thinks about him when she eats.
She dreams of him when she ought to.
be sleeping the deep sleep of the ra-
tional and sane minded.
OF these two attitudes the mans is
ten thousand times the better. 1t is
good for him physically and mentally.
and it insures against his being hit
too hard should his little dream end in
smoke, as the most roseate little
dreams sometimes do.
If love fails. he has kept a tangible
hold on material things. and these VIII
chain him to life until it gets bearable
again, whereas a woman under the
same blow, having kept no hold any
where, may go entirely to pieces.
When women learn not to give love
the whole stage. when they can keep it
in its rightful place. when it will help
and not hinder the normal duties of
life, it will be infinitely better for their
happiness.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-12-27
LAucA-

Women laugh too little Whether
this is due ID their lack of humor or
to childhood's training in gentle man
nerss may be questioned. Certain it is
that a hearty laugh in a womans voice
is rare music. An audience of women
rusries with amusement. but seldom
laughs. A group of girls giggle. but do
not laugh A woman reading the most
brilliantly humorous story seldom gets
beyond a smile.
A Paris doctor has recently opened
a place for the laughter cure It is a
private institution. and large fees are
charged The patients sit round a
room. and at a given moment begin to
smile at each other. The smile broad
ems to grin and at a signal to a peal
of laughter Two hours a day of this
healthfuI exercise is said to cure the
worst cases of dyspepsia. But whether
the habit of laughing easily and nat
uraliys could be acquired by this process
is doubtful
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-12-27
woMEN md LOVE.

Love at two and twenty is a terribly
Intoxicating draft" says an old time
philosopher, an assertion easily be-
Iieved when one notices the effects of
Cupid's wiles upon some girls.
No matter how deeply a man loves.
he has wit enough left to think of other
things. He takes time for his meals.
He gets a sound nights sleep. Unless
his passion is the first stage of calf
love. he is able to look after his Gus
tomary business with a fair degree of
intelligence. and the fact that one wo-
man stands to him for all the world IL
nowise blinds him to the fact that
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-12-27

A. $50 6hi.k Of it, thirty minutes
af-=r crsra bcursD he starts Tor
avenue 4 ana home slightly exhila-
rated ~ her stimulating conversation
ami wishing all the women where ne
worked were as agreeable
q -
ru.ay how soma people Ike 70 taik
Of sqasa.nisa things a. table. isn't 1t:
seems Amos as II they Just Couldn't
was visiting some intimate friends
recently. and this is a sample Oh ths'
conversation:
Il think janitors are the limit; o.
servad the wife. when Bridget sent
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-12-27

He struck for 10 cents foot extra
when the paper was half on the wall
This is q simple method, but have
never known it to fail
As 1 had squared" the landlord by
paying for the paper. I naturally look
ID upon this new assessment with
strong disfavor But as his idle paste
brush was drying in midair promptly
answered: "An right Go ahead" "
And I told the landlord Cwho was
standing by enjoying proceedings) that
II he paid the man l would give him
back the money.
y y
The next morning in walks a very
angry paDerer.
I'm trough, miss" he remarked,
gathering up some things he had left
the night before I'm union man,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-12-27
SHE LOOKED Ike THAT

You'll have to pay for that little
boy. you know" said a car conductor
aggressively to an unprepossesstng
passenger with thin lips and a pronni-
nent chin. "Of course" she replied
handing him the fare Il expected to
pay for him. Do 1 look like a person
that would try to cheat the comDa11~
out of cents?'' We'll" exclaimed fhs
aggrieved conductor. you do That,s
what made me speak!'
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-12-27

wheat between
the upper and
lower MILL
stones
You see. I
wanted my bed .
room repapered
& . g q 0 u sly.
Nothing would
do but a paper
with 4 crown to
It, repres enting
peoples having
artistic fits along
the side OF the
wall.
I am 4 bru-
nette; hence the
pOppies.
The landlord
kicked. So did
the paperer-
TIL q la t 2 =
took the most
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be done" until next year. but the
painter is a man and a human being
in spite of the fact that he has a wife
and six children on the east side.
An appeal has been made to his
strength Chat most "fatterable" of
masculine attributes).
He looks down at her and then at his
six feet two of Drawn and muscle, and
he smiles foolishly in his vanity.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-12-27

'-Aw, come down from there, LADY,
he growls. and don't get no paint on
youse, I'll finish datl"
And he not only finishes that, but a
few other choice jobs as we'll
The little lady is so fond of using a
paint brush (when she doesn't have to
buy the paintD. Il just love it, she
gurgles. and I'd just adore being a
painter
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gave her further lessons free of
charge. By and by somebody suggest
ed that she sang well enough to appear
in opera chorus She borrowed some
money to take her to Vienna, had her
voice tried and-failed. She was shah
billy dressed and frightened out of her
wits. and that was why she failed. She
was broken hearted. Life seemed over
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admire the paper, and he has a tenta
tive look in his eye.
Then, behold. the positive school of
conversation at work once more.
Il see your paperer has left you." I
open fire by remarking.
'Oh, he was no good. that mani"
No, he cheated you every way he
could, but I'm glad you got the best of
him on one hing"
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too for her pay was not great in those
days.
Il know how to cook. wash and iron,"
says Schumann-H eink, the rich woman
with every comfort money can buy II
know how to because once 1 had to do
it I. too. know what it is to be poor
Ten years Nine. Heink endured her
unhappy life. Perhaps those purga-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-12-27

Following the Dresden operate en-
gagement comes the only time in her
life that the singer never speaks of.
She made a foolish marriage with a
German army officer named Heink. OF
grief, of bitterness, humiliation and
despair Ernestine Heink drank her cup
to the full There was dire poverty.
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am, and / don't work for no boss that's
too mean to pay wages he's agreed on.
And 1 didn't get no 10 cents a foot
neither for that paper. So don't you
give it to him, for he'll try to get it
for himself
Having thus satisfied his grudge by
"squealing" on his employer, he de-
parted
Enter the landlord, who proceeds to
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-12-27

for her. But about that time the great
Materna heard her sing and gave her
hope and Inspiration again. Materna
recommended her to the director of the
Dresden Opera House; he sent for her;
she made her debut as a contralto in
1873. After that the Dresden opera di-
rector offered her an engagement tor
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-12-27

three years at salary of 5000. a year and
asked her if she would be satisfied with
that
Satisfied" exclaimed the girl. and
she ran to the director and threw her
arms about his neck 1t was like her
warm, impulsive nature.
To the poverty stricken girl of sew
enteen $500 year was million
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-12-27
WISDOM OF RUskIN

WISDOM OF RUSKTN.
IF you want knowledge" wrote fSus-
kin. you must toll for it; If food. you
must toll for it, and if pleasure. you
must toll for it. Toll is the law. Pleas
ure. comes through toll and not by self
indulgence and incidence When one
gets to love work his life is happy
one"
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DESTINED FOR cREAr ru,Mcs

Il say, Smith, cried a man to ne
friend. your boy is about three or
four years old now. isn't hep" Just
three and a half We'll how Is =
you never tell us any of the hris~ht
things he says?' He never saws any,
Look here, Smith, responded the IN
quirer gravely. take good care OF that
child-he is destined for great thinwsis
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Prague, Bohemia. Her father was an
officer in the Austrian army. E.rnestine
displayed musical talent early in life
and received the foundation Of her
education at an Ursuline convent in
Prague. She sang in the convent
choir. Her father was poor, and after
she left the convent a singing teacher
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- REAT is diplomacy. and equal
Fl ~ useful is a knowledge Of
human nature-for instance.
~ since I have a maid who nys-
teriousiy allows things to disappear, 1
have adopted the positive school OF
conversation.
Supposing I miss tablecloth, I do
not say. Have you seen that table
cloth in the Kitchen
If I did she would answer. mo.
nla'am. I haven't And then, where
would I be2
No. I say. Where is that tabiecloth
/ saw in your kttchen9" And this i'm
proved style Of address never fails 70
bring forth the missing article
y y
Following the same line of reasoning
/ extricated myself from the following
situation-
I have a mean landlord. He employs
al equally mean paperhanger. In the
hands Of the two l am as the grain of
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-12-27

W Il a newspaper girl wanted some
lively and taking copy she should
be recommended to visit Nine.
h Schumann- Heink, the great con-
traito when she is at home surrounded
by her numerous family of children,
horses. dogs. chickens. pigs and cows.
Nine Schumann- Heink is invaluable
Tor copy" The reason is that she is
just her own frank humorous, great
hearted self She has no grudge
against any human being, and it is to
be hoped nobody has any grudge
against her. for she certainly does not
deserve any. She IS too big hearted
liked in her private capacity of any
renowned singer in America. She talks
right out in meeting. Having not an
evil thought she needs not to be
guarded in speech.
When not busy with professional en-
gagements Schumann- Heink lives at
Singac. \. J.. where she has a beau
tiful home If you go to see her hav-
ing any reasonable reason therefor, she
will welcome you as if she had known
you all her life, and in ten minutes you
viii feel as if you had known her all
your life.
Excuse me. was feeding the hens, >
she said to an interviewer recently
After that I had a romp with Scotti
Washington"
Franz George Washington is ma
DANES youngest child. now six years
old Franz G. ". was born in New
York during one of his mothers
tours. Her other seven children saw
the light in Germany Franz calls him
self a Yankee He was named after
George Washington bee ause his mother
admires America and likes the people
OF the United States so well that she
has obtained naturalization papers and
proudly calls herself an American citi-
zen
What she is probably proudest over
Of all. however, are her eight children,
and they on their part adore her. She
laughs to scorn the idea that mother
hood Injuries a singers voice On the
contrary. she declares babies improve
a mothers voice.
why" she says, 4 got a new note
with every baby. When I began sing
ing my voice covered only two octaves.
Now can reach within one note of
three
OF the eight children. the eldest, Au-
gust is twenty-one. The next a
daughter. Charlotte. aged nineteen. is
married When Charlotte was seven
teen her mother. speaking of her, said,
-Lottie is already engaged, poor
thing."
After the death, several years ago, of
Herr Schumann. the singers husband
and manager. she determined to leave
Germany with all her family and be-
iongings and settle in America She
wanted the children to be Americans.
Gut then came difficulties almost in
credible to a woman brought up in the
United States. First, madame's sons
we're liable for military duty in Ger
many and would not be permitted to
ave until they had served as soldiers.
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quiet until des- did its naughty milk
sert was reach make IL siekvf
ed. Then she
heard the baby cry in the next room,
and as she rushed out we heard her
COO:
ooh. mammals itty precious ootsy,
did its naughty milk make 1t sticky and
did it pit its naughty bottle out and
Diet it's itty hair all nazzy and sticky.
mammals lamb?"
We all waited awhile before finish
ing the rich cream sauce on our plates
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down the gar
bage this after
noon
MY dear" in
terrupted th ?
husband. don't
you think that
at the table you
might postpone
mention of that
particular arti-
Gle to which you
have just re-
ferred ?"
w e were eat
ing a fine dish
of spinach just
then and some
how or other its
flavor seemed to
change.
The lady kept
quiet until des-
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Nine. Sehumann- Heink's hands were
tied. She could neither bring her sons
to America nor get possession of the
property her own brave earnings had
paid for. But madame is of the kind
that cannot be downed. If she could
have been-well. 1 will tell you about
that little later.
Declaring herself an American citi-
zen and under protection of the laws
of the United States Schumann- Heink
boldly appealed TO the state depart
ment at Washington for aid in getting
her children and her property out of
Germany and into this country There
are ways Of Juggling these matters If
Schumann- Heink had been merely a
poor, unknown widow and not one of
the most famous and beloved singers
in all the world, it is quite likely her
boys would have been doing time and
the courts would have been administer
ing her property in Kaiserland to this
day.
But our state department interested
itself on her behalf. and German courts
suddenly saw a light They became
complaisant to a great and powerful
nation. They thought it over and de-
creed that. since she herself had earned
all her money, she might take it out
of Germany; also being an American
citizen she might have her sons. 1t
does at length seem worth while to be
a. citizen of the United States. Ameri-
cans who got in trouble away from
their own country used to have to ap-
peal to British officials for help.
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BY the time they ended the military
term the golden years of their lives
would be gone, so far as beginning ex-
istence and enterprises in a new land
is involved.
There, too, was madame's large prop
erty in Germany, every penny of
which she herself had earned, though
much of it was in her husbands name.
No matter if she had earned it forty
times over, however. German law will
not let a widow own even her own
property. If a married woman had an
estate and her husband died. German
law would step in and take her house
over her head and administer her
property. This is a bit of Information
that may come useful to American wo-
men who contemplate marrying Ger
man noblemen.
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Nine Schumann- Heink was born
Ernestine RoessIer, IN Lieben. near
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Last spring. accordingly, the Schu-
mann Heink progeny were packed up
bag and baggage and brought to
America to grow up with the country.
their merry. enthusiastic mother hap
py all through at the thought of it
Lately. talking on the perennial1y in
teresting topic of her children, she
said:
And. don't you know, two of my
boys are actually earning money. One
Of them gets SIS a week, the other. 81.
But is it not fine ?"
Nine Schumann- Heink. foreign born
and bred, appreciates better than some
native Americans do the golden op-
portunity for workers in this land