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Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1906-06-15

after the ceremony for their home
at Hoisington. and take with them
the best wishes of all their frienls
and acquaintances in this city.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1906-06-15
As TO uses OF ALCOHOL.
Great Things Predicted From The De.
ndtured Product.

State Journal tells What benefits
may be expected:
If denatured alcohol comes half
way up. to its advance notices, life
on the farm is about to take on a
new glamor.. Rural free delivery,
the rural telephone and other
modern improvements have done
much tomake farm life pleasanter,
but if the predictions about
denatured alcohol are true it will
do fully as much as these other
agencies.
. Not only will it furnish an ad-
ditional market for many farm
products, but it will enter directly
into farm life. The farmer will
. be able to. make his own alcohol,
and it will heat his house, cook
his meals and run bis machinery.
There will be no more chopping
wood or hauling coal. 1t won't
be necessary to get up on cold
winter mornings and labor long
to start fire when everything in
the house is frozen solid. The
tank of alcohol, connected with
the stoves by.pipes, will keep the
fires going at all times, or they
can be started by simply striking
a match. The farmers wife won't
have to work over red hot stove
: during the boiling summer days.
Alcohol will make as good sum-
mer fire for her as gasoline or gas
does foe her city sister. An
alcohol motor will pump the
water, do the churning, grind the
feed, and do all sorts of things.
Doubtless the time will come when
many farmers will have automo-
biles, and they will make the
alcohol with which to run them.
1t will run the threshing machines,
and for those farmers who do
things on a big scale, it will
doubtless haul gang plows and
other machinery.
9 1t is asserted, too. that extracting
the alcohol from corn and other
grains does not interfere at all
with its value for feeding pur-
poses. The alcohol is of no
value as feed anyway. 1t is said
that at the Walker distilleries.
across the river from Detroit, five
g or six thousand head of cattle are
fattened continuously on the corn
mash that comes from the dis
tilleries after the alcohol has been
extracted from the corn.
1t is said that no costly ma
chinery is necessary for making
alcohol. 1t is not even. necessary
to make it on a large scale. So
simple is the process of extracting
alcohol, it is predicted that every
farmers soil will become an
alcohol distillery by the simple
addition of steam pipes 70 heat
the fermented contents to a
sufficient temperature to give off
the light gas which, precipitated
by passing through cooling tables,
, becomes alcohol.
1t is said that the actual cost
of manufacturing the alcohol
ranges from 6 to Is cents a gallon,
and the amount of heat energy in a
gallon, combined with its cheap
ness, makes alcohol the most
desirable known substitute for
coal and oil products.
Frank Norris has been having
the time of.his life the past day
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1906-06-15

Frank Norris has been having
the time of.his life the past day
or two hanging screen doors at
thee. Samuels Co. store. Frank
says it is hard work to get them
up right.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1906-06-15
County Commissioners ProceedIug

The Board of County Commits
sioners sitting as a Board OF
Equalization in addition to the
changes made in our last report,
made the following changes in the
assessed valuation of property:
Lundblade Bros, merchandise
stock, raised $4,000.
Rock Mill and Elevator Co.
raised $4,000.
j. w. Downey, merchandise
stock, reduced S335.0O.
At Pawnee Rock the property
of the Farmers Grain and Eleva.
tor Co. was raised $4,000.
Olmitz.
j. +. Schenk, merchandise,
raised $4,000.
7. B. Keenan,, merchandise,
raised $4,000.
E. D. Renter, merchandise,
raised $4,000.
Frank Mentz, merchandise,
raised $4,000.
The following changes were
made in the real estate valuations
Eppar RvSn Ctry
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1906-06-15
ARE You READY, FARMERS?

ia EVoSt. heineInOer Lney only
cost very little sum and if you
have to run to town for it in
harvest, it will cost you much
more. We are able to sell you a
granite iron dipper for nine cents,
and granite iron pans for ten cents
ecah, a granite iron bucket for
siXty-fve cents, granite iron tea
pots for twenty cents, coffee pots
for th;rty-fve cents, tin coffee
pots for ten cents, tin tea pots for
fifteen cents, tin coffee BOILER,
copper bottom for thirty-6ve
cents, ten-qua-t tin pals for
twenty-five cents, ten-quart
galvanized buckets for twenty-five
cents, live quart, coffee boilers for
twenty cents, one granite tea-ket-
tie for fifty cents, two-quart, tin
buckets with covers, ten cents;
three-quart tin buckets, with
covers, fifteen cents; and tin ket-
ties with copper bottom for sixty
five cents.
We are bound to sell you as
cheap as any supply house in the
country and give your feight be-
sides. We can sell you frying
pans for ten to twenty cents,
bread raisers, large size, one dol
lar and twenty-five cents, the best
patent cream SeparatOrS for five
to seven dollars; galvanized oil
cans from twenty-five to forty
five cents.
We keep full supply of belt
ing, canvas Stats, monkey
wrenches chisels, punches, ham,
mers, hay rack fixtures, oils, axle
grease, pitch forks, shoels, spades,
screen doors and windows, wire
screening, barb-wire and different
kinds of lawn and field fence.
If you are going to repair
headers and binders, better do it
early and get your extras early. if
you are going to run cook shack,
get one of our gasoline stoves. 1t
is just the thing you want; you
are not troubled with carrying a
large amount Of coal or excessive
heat. Every farmer ought to
get gasoline stove for. his wife
and daughter; because it is health
and money saved for tine folks and
if you are going to need any cups,
saucers and plates or a set of
dishes, we have them at any price
that you want.
WE WANT YOUR TRADE
because we can give you the goods
at right prices. You will want
the exact time in harvest, so come
in and get a watch or clock or let
US repair your watch or clock.
We can do either. You will want
an iron or wood bed or cot, din
ing table, some dining chairs or
sofa, wall paper, carpet, or cur
tain to make the home complete
for harvest. We have them, come
and get them.
WE NAVE FOUR OR FIVE
HEADERS LEFT, SHIPPING
IN SEVERAL CAR LOADS
AND WE STILL SELL THE
HODGE AND CRAVER
HEADERS FOR $3.50 AND THE
7 FOOT QUEEN BINDER FOR
SIPS. We have the extras and We
have as good machines as there
are made. Leave your order
early so we can supply you.
There is no time in harvest time
to wait for machines or extras.
IF YOU WANT ANY TIN
WORK DONE or any vessels re.
paired send them in now. We
are prepared to do it, or if YOU
want any cave troughs put up or
plumbing or pipe work or pumps
and windmills put up, we can do
it now and have it ready for
harvest. Don't you want a steel
or wood water tank and truck
wagon or good farm wagon for
sixty dollars. or one of the best
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1906-06-15

The turnkey press of the coun.
. try which speaks of Mrs. Con-
gresham Longworth as Princess
sAlice" is doing much to belittle
that'lady in the. eye of the average
Americans citizen. Even the
Topeka Capital has caught the
serElecraze.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1906-06-15

g The health committee has warn,
ed The people about the cess pools
and places where Stops are thrown.
It would also be a good plan if
measures were taken to have the
weeds about the city, on the
streets and vacant lots cut down.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1906-06-15

Mrs. G. N. Moses entertained a
number of young ladies Tuesday
afternoon in honor of her daUgh-
ter, Mrs. Susan Cole, of lola,
Kansas, who has been visiting
here for some time past.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1906-06-15

Jospeh Eggersweisner, of
Olmitz, was down to Great Bend
Wednesday to take home his
daughter, who has been attending
school at the Convent.
Mrs. DIR. F. G. Smith left
Tuesday evening for Canon City
Colo., to visit her parents for
several weeks, and to attend the
wedding of her sister, Miss Oakie
Robinson.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1906-06-15

DOdru duIOurueu aS DOdru Ol
Equalization to meet June 7tr
1906, for the transaction Of regu.
lar business. go
Attest: H. D. Ashpole, Clerk.
81. Williams,
F Chairman,
County Clerks Office,
June 7th, 1906.
Commissioners convened pur.
suant to adjournment of June 9Th,
1895. All membres present.
The resignation of H. w.
Laudick as trustee of Cleveland
township was accepted and Ed.
Oeser was appointed to gill the
vacancy.
In the matter of the valuation
of railway property in the city Of
Holsington that is now certified
to the township of Homestead by
the Board of Railroad Assessors,
and inasmuch as the city of
Hoisington, by a vote of the
people of said city. has become a
separate municipal corporation,
and that said city should have its
proportion of the Rail Road valua-
tion that is now certified to the
township of Homestead, of which
said city was formerly a part.
Now on this 18th day of June,
1906, the Commissioners of Bar
ton county in regular session
assembled do hereby instruct the
county attorney to take up the
matter with the Board of Rail-
road assessors for the purpose of
correcting the error that now
exists in the valuation of Railroad
property in said township of
Homestead. A refund was order
ed made of the 1905 tax on
$4,000 valuation on the NV
quarter and ne quarter and east
one-half on a valuation OF $40. 90,
all in section Sc town 90 range II
west of the 9Th P. NJ.
No other business appearing,
the Board adjourned.
Attest: H. D. Ashpole, Clerk.
S. j. Williams,
Chairman.
The Tupelo journal., 1906-11-16
PRAYER WAITS ON PIE.
Father" Taylor Evidently Believed In
a Time for Everything.

The late Gen. John L. Swift OF Bos-
ton, a native of Falmouth, told the fol-
lowing story of Father" Taylor:
MY parents were members OF the
Methodist church. Father Taylor was
stationed in Falmouth in the early
Methodist period, and he and Mrs.
Taylor were dear friends of my par
ents. At one camp meeting Father
Taylor came to my mother and said:
Priscilla, I'm starving; have you any
thing to eat?' Come right in, Edward
said Priscilla, we are Just at break
fast Elder Otis and John Newland
Mafit, then at the height of his popu-
larity, were already seated, and 'Fa-
Their Taylor took his place the other
side OF Mafit, who. being very full
Of zeal, put one hand on Father Tay-
lor and the other upon Otis and ex-
claimed: "Oh, brethren. may there be
such a bowling down Of the sinful to-
day as the bending Of the cedars OF
lebanon.
".All right. Brother Maf1t.' said 'Fa-
The Tupelo journal., 1906-11-16

wolves came to a stand directly in
front of the camp. For a moment they
hesitated, and then they rushed upon
the campers in a wild, furious, howl
ing avalanche. Everyone quickly
sought a tree, the guide s cutting loose
with their repeating rifles while back
ing into the timber and covering their
charges.
The guides feared that in this strait
Mrs. Hemstreet might lose her nerve.
but She. was admittedly much cooler
than her uncle and assisted him be-
fore she swung herself into a low
limbed spruce. The party was kept
freed until sunul when the wolves
withdrew, after killing the ponies.
tearing the tent to ribbons and de-
vouring all the edibles except some
canned goods.
The following day one of the canoes
which had been picked up 13 days
out on the return trip sprang a leak
crossing a lake, and had it not been
for the young woman's presence of
mind would have sunk. She was sit
ting in the prov when she heard the
guide utter an exclamation, and turn
ed to see water entering through a
hole.
There vas NJ time to close the
abrasion with pitch and bark. but
Mrs. Hemstreet was equal to the
emergency. She placed a bare hand
over the leak. pressed down with all
her might. and although the water
was SO cold that her arm IA soon
numb to the shoulder, she prevented
further leakage until the guide had
padded a mile and a half to lani.
Mrs. Hemstreet nearly lost her life
by sinking to her armpits in a bog.
where she was held for hours before
discovered. She had gone out hunt
ing alone.
The Tupelo journal., 1906-11-16
Gravestone Of Poacher.

The last man hanged in England for
~poaching was sufficiently respected to
be honored with a tombstone above
the ordinary. This stone, which Is
in perfect preservation, is to be seen
in the churchyard of North Bladder
ley. FIVE miles from Romsey. The in
scription explains the situation: In
memory of Charles Smith. who suf'
fered in Winchester on the 23d of
March, 1922, for resisting, by fire.
arms, his apprehension by the game
keepers of Lord Viscount Palmerston,
when found In High Coppice, looking
after what is called game. Aged 80
years.
IF thou seest the oppression Of
the poor, and violent p~erverting of
judgment and justice in q province,
marvel not at the matter, for he that
is higher than the highest 'regardeth.
and there be higher than they.'-Eccl.s
s CHI. Sv."-London Graphic.
The Tupelo journal., 1906-11-16
PROPER WEARING OF Wells.
Fashions DEGREES That Are Worthy
Of Remembrance.

Some long wells are seen, but the
majority are face walls. of various
colors, with large or small dots as are
most becoming, and a great number OF
real lace wells are noticed. These
seem most becoming when worn
thrown back from the face, thus soft
ening the somewhat hard lines OF the
brims which fashion has ordained
must needs be seen on most OF the
hats. The lace wells are in all colors
and must be in accord with the color
of the hat. There has been a a
for brown wells of all kinds for the
last few months, and it now has ex-
tended to the brown lace veil, which
Is the fad Of the moment, and, while
becoming, is not a good contrast with
anything but a hat with which brown
looks we'll. Some m make the
mistake of wearing it with q black
hat and the result is anything but sat
isfactory. Small hats are for the mo
ment more In evidence than large
ones. the fact being that the picture
The Tupelo journal., 1906-11-16
RULER OF AMMAN ACCUSED OF
CANNIBALiSM.
KILLS AND EATS A WIFE
Horrible Tortures Provided for Some
Helpless Notwithstanding
News from cochin-China
Stirs All Paris.

1aris.-Mail advices from Indo-
china bring another and more revolt
ing story of the doings of King
Thanh-Thai of AMMAN. showing that
he went to the extent of c~annibalism.
After killing one of his wives he
caused the body to be cooked and
served up for dinner, forcing the
members of his court to eat it under
pain of death. Some of the kings
wives were bound and burned with
boiling oil and subjected to other
cruelties, while naked women were
thrown into the cages of wild beasts,
where they were devoured before the
king. One of his pastimes is, it is
affirmed, to drive enormous pins into
their shoulders and thighs and hen
means of ropes attached to these
pins.
Finally the French authorities
stepped in and made a prisoner of
Thanh-Thai, who had been adjudged
insane by DR.. Dumas of the French
colonial staff. The royal guard has
been disbanded, the palace has been
placed under the protection of $50
native soldiers and the terror-stricken
inmates of the palace have been res
cued from further suffering. The
majority of the latter We're women,
who bore the marks Of revolving tor
lures. Some of them We're terribly
mutilated, their faces being slashed
and their tongues cut out, while 9th
ers had been suspended by pincers
attached to the fieshy parts OF their
legs to increase their agony.
Thanh-Thai, king of AMMAN. or
Cochin-C China, who has recently been
guilty of such terrible atrocities, has
caused trouble before. Several years
ago, owing to the scandal caused by
his barbarous torture of several of
his personal attendants, the French
resident, at the head of the gend-
armerie, entered the palace to save
the lives of the attendants and re-
store order. In August last the king
was seized with homicidal mania, or
dered seven of his wives to be IKE
cuted and looked on while they were
tortured to death. A few days later
the king shot down a prince who was
20 years old, a member of the coun-
Gil of the royal family and the last
surviving son of King Mimi Mang.
The Tupelo journal., 1906-11-16

Their Taylor, but do let me finish this
custard pie first in peace"
Father Taylor was in Falmouth
when there vas much delay in set
Ting a minister owe the First Congre-
cation Church. The church was will
ing to proceed but the council were
unrelenting, and so adjourned over
from time to time. At a prayer meet
ing during this hating state, Taylor
fervently remarked: "Oh, Lord. we
are weary Of installations. If it be thy
will, let u brother begin his work
in this vineyard, and may the lost
be found and the fatted calf be
killed. Amen"
The Tupelo journal., 1906-11-16

papers of Indo-China have been ex-
pressing horror at Thanh-Thais cru
city and have appealed to France to
dethrone him and recall Prince Nam
ughi, who is an exile in Algeria. The
latter married a French woman.
AMMAN is a kingdom of southeast
ern Asia and since 1884 a French pro-
tectorate and virtually a division or
French Indo-China. 1t extends from
Tonkin on the north to French Co
chin-China on the south and from
Siam and Cambodia on the west to
the sea on the east. The area of the
protectorate is about $1,000 square
miles and the population in 1901 was
about $500, 900. of whom 1000 were
Chinese and $50 Europeans. In re-
ligion the Annamese are chiefly
B~uddhists, but there are several
hundred thousand Roman Catholics.
The Tupelo journal., 1906-11-16
WIDOW MAKES TRIP
FILLED WITH PERIL

Carver, Ont.-To determine the ac-
curacy of the particulars furnished
her of the death of w. X. Hemstreet,
a Chicago sportsman, while on a fish
ing expedition, $50 miles north of
here, Mrs. Margaret Hemstreet, the
young widow, made a journey to the
scene of the accident.
On the trip to the interior there
were few incidents to vary the mono
tony, but the return journey was
fraught with accident and excitement.
Camp had been made n night in a
rocky ravine, and close to a stream,
The Tupelo journal., 1906-11-16
Watch the Expenditures.

ward into financial ease A family in
the neighborhood with three times
their income, but none of their man
agement, were always on the ragged
edge of distress and were at last sold
out by the sheriff.
Fuel is always expensive and is the
one feature that resists the careful
manager. In winter we cannot freeze,
and in most parts of this country we
have plenty of cold weather. 1t Is the
provoking nature of fire to burn fierce
ly on a hot day and to smolder or
give out only little heat on a cold day.
Many a time the heads of the house
feel as if the shovels of coal that
rattle into the furnace in winter, are
menacing their very life, since coal is
never cheap and burns away like mad
once the match and the kindling wood
have set it going. Gas is scarcely an
economy because being In the control
of heartless monopolies the house
holder is almost certain to be pre-
scented with a bill that surprises him
by its size and extent, and against the
payment of which it is vain to protest.
On the whole, the stinting, pairing and
scraping must be applied somewhere
else. To live at all one must have fire
with which to cook food and to keep
warm, and the saving must touch
some other point.
Two cautions may be given people
who would live well on a small in
come. Economic in the matter OF the
wardrobe. A great deal of money is
needlessly frittered away on dress. 1t
is by no means essential to be always
at the height of the fashion. A good
cut of dress or coat should las two or
three seasons instead of n They
who understand economy and who pay
cash often do well by shopping a lit
tie out of season. Women are by no
means the only tra~nsgressors in this
way. Men are often as ~extravaga1t
as their wives, when the affair OF ex-
penditure concerns clothing.
Cut down the feminine folly OF
WdSlIHS ulOuey Oh SOud NdtV- anu
chocolate creams, cut down, too, the
masculine folly of cigars and cigar
cites. Put the money spent for these
indulgences in the savings bank n
you will soon have a margin for the
rainy day.
Avoid running accounts. They are
perfectly safe and a very great con-
venience if ones income is fixed n
large. Ii it be on the other hand,
small and uncertain. there Is no sense
In buying what one cannot at the mo-
ment pay for. Trades-people charge
percentage for the privilege OF cred
IT,. The customer would be amazed
should he stop to compute the inter
est he pays for the accommodation
given him by the butcher or the baker
who civilly waits 60 or 80 days for
;ic settlement of a bill that would
better have been paid, at the latest,
each Saturday night.
Everything depends after all on the
standard of living. One person may
live well and save on what is impos-
sible to another because the other has
not thought it worth while to regard
the homely virtue Of good manage
ment and the practice of wise econ.
omy as prudent and desirable.
Copyright, 1906, by Joseph B. Bowles.)
The Tupelo journal., 1906-11-16
AWFUL CRUELTIES
CHARGED TO KING.

When the French resident remon-
strated with Thanh-Thai the king de-
clined to permit him to enter the pal
ace.
King Thanh-Thai wanted to visit
Paris, as the king of Cambodia did
recently, but the French press pro-
tested that he ought never be allowed
to enter France. The kings atrocf-
ties were discussed at a meeting OF
the French cabinet, when the minis
ter of the colonies explained the On
dition of affairs at the court OF An
nam I'M the measures contemplated
in order to prevent any further out
breaks on the kings part. The news
The Tupelo journal., 1906-11-16
Test for the superstitious.

He-Now that / have your answer.
my darling Elizabeth, let me ask you
one question. Are you superstitious?
She-Superstitious2 Why do you
ask, Franz?
he-That | can only tell you when
o have answered my question.
She-Well, then. | am not in the
least superstitious?
He (greatly delighted)-Then | may
tell you. You are my thirtecnth
inancee.-Wiener Salonwitzblatt
The Tupelo journal., 1906-11-16
Convenient Pocket Fad.

About the ~queerest fad modern
woman has adopted is the wearing
of separate pockets pinned to her
waist, skirt or coat. as the case may
be.
These pockets are made of linen,
white or tan, and embroidered with
decorations to match the dress. which
is usually of wash material. They are
attached with fancy pins-an excel
lent chance to show of superfiuous
jewelry, by the way-and are used
to carry the handkerchief. or small
change, or a couple of tiny toilet ~.
ticles.
The Tupelo journal., 1906-11-16
Normans introduced Horseshoes.

William the Conqueror is believed TO
have introduced horseshoes into Eng
land. for he gave the city of North
ampton as a fef to a man in consider
alton of his furnishing shoes for his
horses. and Henry de Ferrers. who
went from Normandy with the king.
and whose descendants bear six horse
shoes in their arms, was SO named be-
cause he was in charge of the royal
farriers.
The Tupelo journal., 1906-11-16

when one of the guides was aroused
at II o'clock by the cry of a wolf.
The call was presently answered by
pack appeared to be sweeping down
upon the camp. There was just time
to awaken the party when a yearling
deer leaped across the brook, dashed
by the tent and disappeared in the
forest.
The next instant the pursuing
The Tupelo journal., 1906-11-16

hat is not in keeping with the tailor
gown that is worn at this time Of the
year, consequently the principal hats
now seen are quite small, extremely
smart and decidedly eccentric. They
are trimmed with flowers or large,
stiff ribbon bows, massed together I'M
til they form almost q cockade, and
this mass of ribbon Is placed at one
side or at the back Of the hat.-Dress.
The Tupelo journal., 1906-11-16
FOR LOVERS OF EMBROIDERY.
Pocketbook Cover That Will Make a
Charming Gift.

Embroidery designs for cover for
pocketbook. Half OF one side is
shown, and this again is to be dupli-
The Tupelo journal., 1906-11-16

Among the Atoms.
A little money Is Q dangerous thing