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The Bryan daily eagle. (Bryan, Tex.) 1895-1898, 1895-12-21
EDIromA PARAGRAPHS

In writing upE swell wedding
at Nayas.ia, tlieihagmary young
man on the Reyie0Fayc Again
the orbits Of two statS ia the celes'
lial sphere Of mairAnony hav'
been disturbed by the attraction
Of mutual grayilation, aud henoe
forth they will he as one.
The Bryan daily eagle. (Bryan, Tex.) 1895-1898, 1895-12-21

There ere only lwcniy-nIne con'
tested seats In the lower house OF
congress
The Bryan daily eagle. (Bryan, Tex.) 1895-1898, 1895-12-21

Whiiecaps are repQriedin Wnlk-
cr county, and Sheriff Hunter aud
a posse are on their trail
The Bryan daily eagle. (Bryan, Tex.) 1895-1898, 1895-12-21

Still leads in good things to eat
Look over this list. ring UP PHONE % and
If haven't got what YOU want win goi h.
Buv GLORY or WHITE CROSS Flour.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1895-09-07
Physiology Of Suffering.

The sufferer may br called one of
ma lures failures, for naCure is by no
means always perfect in the results of
her working; very Ear from it. Into
normal voice and articulation three
main factors enter, and it is essenti al
for the production of perfect speech
that these three factors be put in OPP
Grafton simultaneously. The want of
complete power to put all three in
action simultaneously is the cause of
suffering. The three factors are:
The respiratory apparatus, which must
supply the blast of wind needed for
the production of sound; the larynx,
which converts the blast into definite
sound; and .ne musculature of the
tongue, lips and palate, which makes
out of mere sound articulate
words. All these three factors
are put in operation, each by its own
set of muscles, and the muscles in their
turn are operated by discharges of
nerve energy. If the discharges Of
nerve energy act simultaneously upon
all three sets of muscles. and if they
are of adequate force to bring all three
into due operation at one and the same
time, normal voice and speech are the
unvarying result. 1t is conceiva BILE
that in some rare instances the mus
cular apparatus of any one of the fac
tors may itself be the faulty part. But
in the vast majority of cases of slut
tering it is the nervous energy which
is irregularly supplied, and suffering,
in ultimate analysis, is a nervous or a
nervo-muscular abnormality. = The
Hospital
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1895-09-07

and letting out yell which could have
the side of pretty Mrs. Anterior, sat a
stranger, a vision, an angel The as
tonished ranchman blushed and STAN
mered like school boy as he bowed
awkwardly and apoIogized for his
Apachelike descent. Who was this
divinity in palest pink. this radiant
creature with hair like gold and eyes
of heavens own blue? my friend,
Miss Lingard, from New York." Mrs.
Anterior had said. Pshaw! She was
a celestial being straight from Para
disc.
1 have always pitied Weatherby.
Never for one moment could / blame
him. He was a primitive man with
savage instincts lurking in his breast.
Brave, loyal, straightforward himself,
how could he dream of the treacherous
cruel blows one little soft white hand
was capable of dealing?
Violet found this sturdy, brawny
ranchero delightful study, and de-
cided he should be the hero of her next
novel. His quaint wit and poetic fan
cies born of the mesas and the noun
NAUTICAL speech were faithfully noted;
his emotions were played upon, his
heart was probed. And he never
dreamed he was being experimental
on. He loved this exquisite creature,
this dainty, soft, purring beauty, as he
loved his life. He coveted her and
longed to shut her close to his big,
faithful, honest heart.
At last came the night when Viole
carried her passion for atmosphere"
and local coloring" to it's climax.
They had gone for their customary even
ing stroll, and had climbed up lofty
butte to broad ledge of rocks. At
their feet yawned the canyon, ire
mendous, awful, black, save where the
moonlight touched the opposite wall
with ghostly fingers. Back of them
doomed the range like the battlements
of a phantom city. Through the pines
in the canyon the wind came signing
in mournful cadence. While far, far
below sounded the faint rushing Of
water-the river tumbling and foam
ing along over it's rocky bed.
what a weird place." cried Violet
with pretty little shudder, land
what ghost-like night. Why did we
never come up here before, Jack?
What a scene''
Weatherby was lying at her fee.
where he had thrown himself to rest
after their climb. He turned his face,
white in the moonlight, toward her,
and fixing his dusky, unfathomable
eyes upon her, said: Il kept this place
for this hour. I meant to bring you
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1895-09-07
FAMILY LIFE IN BABYLON.
Glimpses of Ancient Customs Given by the
Tablets in the British Museum.

EIimpses of Ancient Customs Given by the
Tablets in the British Museum.
Glimpses of family life in ancient
Babylonia are given by the Scriptures
from Sennacherib's palace. now in the
British museum From the tablets it
appears that the family and the laws
concerning it were the foundation of
the social system of Babylonia. Take,
as an example, the relation of father to
son. A son could repudiate his father
by the payment of certain sum of
money, but not his mother. In the
tablets on family law it is written that
son who wished 20 deny his mother
should have his hair cut off
and be banished from tire COM
munity. The law relating to hus-
band and wife was curious. If
wife should say to her husband.
Thou art not my husband" which
was the Babylonian way of saying
that she did not want to live with him
any more, then the offending woman
was to be thrown into the river. But
if the husband wanted a divorce, it
was a comparatively easy matter for
him to obtain it. All he had to do was
to return to his wife her dowry, ifany,
and pay her certain sum of money;
he was then a free man. and could
marry again if he felt disposed to do
SO.
The position occupied by women in
Babylonia was very different from
their position in the east at the pres
ent day. The harem did not exist at
all, and the wife was looked upon as
the head of the household. A woman
could buy or sell property independent
of her husband, could enter into agree
ments or contracts, and could possess
slaves. In Assyria, which was a col
ony from Babylonia, the modern harem
system was in use, and women, on the
whole, occupied a very inferior posi-
ton.
That slavery existed in Babvlonia
from the earliest times there is ample
proof, but the power and authority of
the owner or master were limited. A
slave had definite position, and could
not only enter into contracts and
agreements to his own advantage but
could even buy and sell as well as pos
sess property, and after a certain time
could buy his freedom. The slaves,
from some cause or other, seem to have
come upon evil days during the reign
of Nebuchadnezzar, for about this time
many of their privileges were with
drawn, and the custom of branding
each slave with the name ofhis master
came into use. This custom led to all
sorts of disputes, which had to be set
tied at law, and a large number of
tablets relating to such suits have been
found. Education was common
throughout Babylonia, and schools
of theology and astronomy were found
ed and attached to every temple of inn
portance IN. Y. Sun.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1895-09-07

here when l got my courage to the
point where could say all that is in
my heart Many time down there"
pointing to the ranch lying below, Il
have looked up here and thought of the
time would bring you to tell you how
l love you"
For one instant Violet felt a queer
little thrill The simple dignity of his
declaration almost moved the worldly,
cold looded girl. Then she thought
of her local coloring. What situa-
ton for my novel;" she said to her.
self; then aloud, gently: $50 you real.
ly love me, Jack?"
"Love you?" he echoed, passionat ely,
as he rose and sat down beside her.
violet, look" taking her hand, my
heart lies here in this dear little hand. :"
Then throwing all reserve to the
winds, he seized her and kissed her,
madly, tempestuously.
She struggled to free herself and at
length succeeded. "Aow dare your"
she demanded; "how dare"
''How dare I?" he cried. "Why,
dearest, love you-I love you, do you
hear? And you, you love me a littlet
do you not?" He was approaching her
again, when she said, CONTEMPORARY:
mo; not a bit I have simply been
studying you"
He stood as if turned to stone
Studying me-" he sand, in queer
voice, studying -why-why?'' he saw
agely demanded, as he caught 1G%
wrist and held it in an iron grip.
You were so different" she fall
% /,
ferocity. 81 wanted a new type for
my book, you know. I suppose Tom
told you write books"
An absolutely murderous look swept
over Weatherby's face. NO." he
said, mo one told me that. So yoL
write books? And you wanted to put
me in twas that it? Answer me,
answer me-"
YES" she murmured, family.
'And that was all? You never loved
me-never meant to marry me?"
"Why, no, how could 1? am to be
married in the fall to a man in New
York"
A snarl like that of an Infatuated
beast interrupted her. Livid with rage,
he sprang toward her. Once again he
crushed her, shrinking and trembling,
to his breast, then, dragged her to the
very edge of the canyon, gaping like
the bottomless pit to receive them
And as her agonized screams pierced
the soft summer night, Weatherby,
still holding her against his outraged
heart, stepped of.
They found them next day In the
bottom of the canyon. Violet's lovely
face was past recognition, but on
Weatherby's fingered smile of such
awful triumph as would have pleased
the arch-fend himself Truth.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1895-09-07
FROM ROYAL TABLES.

Large Perquisites for the Attendants
Sales in the Easements.
In the Austrian court it is contrary,
to custom for perishable articles to APP
pear twice on the imperial table. The
result is large perquisites for the at
PENDANTS. To one man fall all the un-
corked bottles, to another the joints,
and to another still the game or the
sweets Every morning a sort of mar
ket is held in the basement of the pad
ace. where the Viennese come readily
to purchase the remains. And there is
no other means of procuring Imperial
Tolxay than this.
Long ago in England even the great
est men in the land were pleased to re-
ceive such perquisites. In the reign of
Henry H., for instance, the lord chan
cellor was entitled to the candle ends
of one great and forty small candles,
per day. And the aquarius, who must
be a baron in rank, received a penny;
for drying towels on every ordinary
occasion of the kings bathing. The
ceremonial that the revolution swept
away the first Emperor Napoleon was
careful to revive in a less extreme form,
and it is characteristic of the man that
he made special study of it, and vent
so far as to prescribe the special forms
to be observed on great occasions.
The ceremonial of the Chinese court
is somewhat exacting. IL used to in
clude, if it does not now, complete
prostration before the throne. Last
century Persian envoy refuse to GO
through the degrading ordeal. Direc-
tions were given to the officials to
compel him by stratagem to do SO. On
arriving one day at the entrance to
the hall of audience the envoy found
no means of going in except by a
wicket, which would compel him to
stoop very low. With great presence
of mind and considerable audacity the
ambassador turned around and en-
tered backward, thus saving the honor
of his country-N. Y Post.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1895-09-07
SCHOOL AND CHURCH.

The Protestant Episcopal conven+
ton Of the diocese of Maine has
granted to women the right to vote in
parish meetings.
The German Evangelical Presby7
terrain Missionary society has opened al
theological academy at Toxic. It's liz
brarv has nine thousand volumes.
Rev. D. BIZ Whitman, PRESIDENT
OF Colby college, Waterville, Me-, has
accepted the election to the presidency
of Columbian university, at Washing
ton. d. G. i,
1t is announced that the SCOTCH
Free Church assembly, by vote of
274 to Isl. has declined to interfere at
all with Prof. Drummond as teacher in
the church college at Glasgow.
The French Catholic missions learn
from Shanghai that the persecution of
Christians in the province of Sc Chuen
has ceased. An imperial edict orders
that compensation be paid for the dam
age done to the missions by mobs.
Rev Wolcott Calkins has resigned
the passionate of the Eliot church at
Newton. Mass, on the ground that,
having for thirty-Seven years preached
to wealthy congregations, it is his desire
now to minister to the poor and needy.
1t is stated that the empress dow
ager of China has sent valuable pres
ents to the twenty missionary women
who arranged for the gift to her of the
New Testament. It is asserted that
this testament is really being read in
the palace.
1t is announced that there has been
ixic IN ho
Lutheran church, a body that was
formed a few years ago by the union of
several Norwegian synods. Thirteen
members have been expelled by the
synod of the united body, and it is es-
timated that fifteen thousand members
will follow them. The seceders will
control the Augsburg seminary &C
Minneapolis.
The Christian press is tremen-
dous power in the celestial empire.
From the Methodist publishing house
at Foochow were issued $4,000, 900
pages last year; from similar Presby-
terrain establishment in Shanghai, ST.
900 copies of the Scriptures and 6,70O,-
900 pages of other books, tracts, etc,
and the Central China Religious Tract
societ issued about LOCO, 600 copies of
publications.
The Catholics of Germany certain
ly have no right to complain of not be-
ing represented in high places. The
new president of the imperial reichstag
is Catholic, as is also Prince Hohen-
lobe, the chancellor of the empire.
The bundesrath, or senate, represent
ing in Berlin the various state govern
ments, is also presided over by an ad-
herent of this church, and the leading
general in Berlin is Catholic. Even
the minister Of justice in Prussia is of
this faith.
When investigating the vatican
records Pope Leo XIII. said to Dom
Gasquet, the librarian: Publish every
thing of interest, everything. whether
it tends to the discredit or credit of the
ecclesiastical authorities, for you may
be sure that if the Gospels had been
written in our day the treachery of
Judas and the denial of st. Peters
would have been suppressed for fear of
scandalizing weak consciences." So
Lord Halifax told the English Church
union the other day.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1895-09-07
HUMOROUS.
Dicks a big man in the nation
DOM lots an lots BLOWN;
Jerry's plowin' the plantation
Makes enough to keep Dick goin'l
Atlanta Constitution

Makes enough to keep Dick goin'!
Atlanta Constitution.
Mr.. Wheeler-'Why, yes, Mr..
Wheeler-even the beans go through
course of Browning before they
come to the table. p. & S. S. Co. Bull
letin.
-"Papa!' "What is it, Jonny?" II
read poem in my school reader which
spoke of dogs of high degree" ''Well?"
Papa, does that mean skye terriers?"
Pittsburgh Chronicle.
Mammal" "Well?" ''You licked
me last week for whaling Jimmie
Watts, and papa licked me yesterday
cause Johnny Phelps walloped me-"
"Well?' PPM wondering whatll hap
pen some time when it's draw
Chicago Record.
-"What kind of reptile is that?"
she asked, pointing to silver coil
with ruby eyes in the jewelry store.
Il think it's a garter snake" he re-
piled And she didn't ask any more
questions for five minutes. -Philadel-
phia Record.
ibid you hear about the burglar
who was arrested this morning?"
NO! w HdG LOT! ffcIIs SuppOSc III
must have been for breaking into song,
for l hear that he had got through two
bars when some one hit him with a
stave. Chicago Tribune.
And now" shouted the exhorter,
'what is to be done, when man is
rushing headlong with lightning speed
along the road to destruction"
Deacon Jones between snores)-''Re-
duce-size O. yer-sprocket! She's too
high gearr'-Cleveland Plaindealer.
TN the court of appeals in Dublin
not so very long ago. says the Lamp,
counsel, while arguing with earnest
ness in his cause, stated a point
which the bench ruled against him.
if l am wrong in this. have yet an
other point that is equally as con-
elusive"
-Unpardonable Obliviousness.-T
Little Viscount to Baroness de V
You wouldn't beliere how absent
minded am, baroness! 1t is difficult to
imagine how anyone can be so thought
less!" What have You done this time?:
81 had bought you bag OF sweets, and
while coming along" You lost
them?' mo, ate them LA Cloche.
Laura" said the young lady's
mother, not unkindly, sit seems to me
that you had the gas turned rather low
last evening" 1T was solely for
economy, mamma" the maiden an
swered ssThere is no use trying to
beat the gas company, my daughter.
have noticed that the shutting of Oh
the gas is always followed by CORE
spending increase of pressure.
| >fWeil, that lessons the waist, doesn't
/ it, mamma. dear?" replied the artlesl
Rirl.-Memphis Scimitag.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1895-09-07

and herds; had settled down some
what and had begun to think he would
Isilze wife and home.
He was handsome fellow, as fiery
as the mustang he rode and as tender
hearted as a woman-some women.
His ranch lay in the shadow of the
:Sangre de Christie range, next to that
4-of the Athertons, where the New York
sgirl was stopping. Its acres stretched
to the shadowy foot hills and over
them roamed the sleek, well-fed crea-
{ lures of which he was SO proud.
{ 1t was two days after her arrival
s-xhat he saw her first. He had ridden
over to see Tom Anterior, the big
5 muscular Englishman, who was his
! particular crony, and had come down
the trail with his customary clark"
land 'Whoop." As though riding the
sig htless couriers of the air, he dashed
mp to the little flower garden, spurs
land chains juggling, sombrero Tapping,
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1895-09-07
A National Preindiee.

It was very hot day, and when Mr..
Dunnigan happened to meet his daugh-
ter with her friend, he, wishing to do
the polite thing, invited them to have
some ice-cream, an invitation which
was at once accepted. When they were
seated at the table in the ice-eream
parlor Mr. Dunnigan, addressing his
daughters friend, affably inquired:
AN pilot kOind will yez have, me
dearc" 81 will take some orange ice,
she replied. Mr.. Dunnigan's brow
darkened, and glariDg at the young
lady malevolently, he Numbered, "Av
yez do, yen arder it yersilf. "-Har-
per,s Magazine.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1895-09-07
PERSONAL AND LITERARY.

-Bulwer-Lytton almost adored his
mother. In What Will He Do with
TIP" he alludes to her as natures low
ing proxy. the watchful mother
Marquis de Maha Yotha, the Siam
csc minister accreditedsto the United
States has been recalled. lie has never
been in Washington. having transacted
his business with the state department
from London, to which he is also ac-
credited, by mail.
Sarah Bernhardt says: ''If / am in
a crowd of people and dog or cat is
near it will come naturally to me with
out my making the slightest move
ment. Why this is the case can not
say, unless there is developed in me
another sense, the existence of which
animals at once perceive"
Mrs. Mary Jean Bradford, of Bos-
ton, left a will in which she showed
her love for favorite parrot. One
clause reads thus: 81 give $4,000 in
trust to g. I'll. Pierce, to be invested in
good mortgage or mortgages, and the
income thereof to be paid to the person
who may take care of my poll-parrot."
"A funny young man IN Milledge-
vile Ga, rugged himself up as ghost,
and in the midnight gloom visited the
house of neighbor, to brighten him,
and have a laugh at his expense. The
ghost interrupted burglar at his
work, and the burglar turned the
laugh against the ghost by robbing
him of his watch and twenty dollars
The word prevaricator is from the
Latin, and originally meant a strad
der with distorted or misshapen legs.
In the Roman courts of law the ex-
preston was applied to one who in a
suit was discovered to be in collision
with his opponent to compass some dis
honesty. AS falsehOod was the neces-
sary part of such a performance, the
word by and by came to have the
significance at present attached to it.
Mile. Pauline de Grandpre proba-
bly, knows more of the prison life of
French women than anyone else in
France. She lived in the ST. Lazare
prison as the housekeeper of her uncle,
who was chaplain there during the
empire. In the twenty-five years that
nave elapsed since he died she has de-
voted herslf entirely to visiting female
prisoners and obtaining situations for
them when they have undergone their
sentences.
An enthusiastic admirer of Victor
Hugo has made collection of all the
black and white and colored portraits
of the poet that he could find. Alto
gether they number nearly 1000, of
which about $500 are caricatures and
cartoons. The collector, M. Beuve, has
also gathered together with infinite
pains innumerable pipes, canes, tobac-
60 jars, bottles, scarf pins, handiler
chiefs, even cakes Of soap, on which
the head of the poet appears
DIR. Emma johnson Lucas, who has
been appointed health commissioner of
Peoria, ILL.,, is the first woman in that
city to hold any public office. The
medical men of Peoria, as we'll as the
Women's club, strongly Endorsed her
candidacy. Mrs. Lucas is a native of
Peoria, where she has been practlcing
medicine for about a year. She stands
high in the profession and has built up
good practice. She is the daughter
of one physician and the widow of an
other.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1895-09-07
Wronc Comhination.

Willie Garvin always was good
fellow; and in due course of time he
got married, as all good fellows should.
He acquired his growth long ago; not
so with his family. Whenever he
makes his census returns he changes
the figures. Up to a year ago he had
accumulated ''one little. two little,
three little Garvins," three beautiful,
blooming sons. Each time, without
exception, it was a boy. Being a
school teacher, and not wishing to get
rusty in his addition, multiplication,
etc, he occasionally adds one to his
list. The last addition came recently.
A friend at once telegraphed: Call
him Lazarus on Scriptural authority:
the Lord said, Lazarus. come fourth. >"
The answer went back: Suggestion
good, but combination won't work.
The fourth boy is a girl. "-Boston
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