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The Bryan daily eagle. (Bryan, Tex.) 1895-1898, 1895-12-30

NO berth left N The Sleeper sir
hut tell You must have a berth
I can't sit up az night ard Morris
Holmes shlycrcd 81 ihe ,sonrh, o. 'neh
q hardship
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For bad bread Is not the only article
that is able. when taken into the hui
man system, to induce the belief that
life is not worth living. There, for in
stance, Is the potato. This savory es-
culent, highly nutritious when pre-
pared by hands skilled in arts culinary,
becomes potency for evil should the
presiding genius of the range and
saucepan be inspired with the idea that
potatoes can be cooked anyhow" and
still be good. Furthermore, there is a
pet superstition that potatoes boiled or
baked and left over from one repast
can be made equally savory and nour-
ishing by the simple process of slicing
them, mixing them with some descrip-
ton OF grease and frying them until
they are as tough as disks Of leather
and quite as digestible. The potato.
like the oyster, must be perfectly fresh
to be eatable at all; and then again,
like the oyster, must be prepared in the
simplest possible manner All the arts
OF the cook school professor can not
make potatoes fried i'm grease anything
but insults to the digestive apparatus.
and although there are human ostriches
who can swallow fried potatoes. and
glass, and horseshoe nails, and hot bis
cults, and marbles, and for the moment
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Man Always n Carver.

History does not treat of time when
carving was not apparently well
known. Tradition does not appear to
approach much nearer to its genesis.
Carvings were well executed during
the period of mans early occupation
of the caves Of Europe, and most per-
sons who have familiarized themselves
with archaeological research knew the
figures of fish or seal engraved on the
canine teeth of large carnivora, and the
bear, reindeer, muskOx. horse, man.
moth and other animals carved on rein
deerhorn implements or on plates of
ivory, the figures of animals being at
the time cut fully in the round and
found in the lowest strata of the caves.
under many feet of cave earth and
stalagma, and associated with the
bones of quarternary and, at times.
an arctic fauna. The similarity of much
of this cave work with much of the
Eskimo production of the present day
has given rise to innumerable theories
concerning a common origin for both
peoples.-The American Anthropolo
giSt.
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bands linen buster loosely fitted to her
fragile form, and her husbands last
summers straw hat mounted above her
brow, with q brush in one hand, a dust
pan in the other, she bustles about from
room to room, giving directions as 20
how things must be done. The spot OF
SCOT on her nose is trifle; in vain does
her husband protest; the house has got
to be cleaued, and that settles it," SO
on she goes in her mad career with
bitterness in her heart, with q pain in
her back that makes it feel like it would
break, with a certainty that she is
destined to be laid up" on the morrow,
and yet with grim determination that
the house shall be clean, though hus-
bands rage and imagine vain things.
She knows her business. Other women
clean house, so must She The fact that
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the house needs no cleaning is not Of the
slightest consequence; the motions must
be gone through with If for no other
reason than to teach the tyrant man
that there are times and seasons when
the -trodden wife, like the crushed
worm, will turn and assert her SUI
premacy.
SO in many directions there are fields
Of usefulness open TO the University OF
Housekeeping. Departments of wash
ing, scrubbing, sweeping, ironing, linen
folding, will doubtless be as useful IN
their way as those of the various branch
es of culinary art. Above all. there
should be an especial professorship es-
tablished in each to give instruction In
the art of doing all these things In such
n way as to cause the lord OF the manor
to be not sorry that he is still living. To
him the various operations connected
with the management of the establish
ment are WEAKNESS, but that fact does
notin the least interfere with their regu.
lar order, so that his insignificance on
high and mighty occasions such as
house-cleaning time is painfully prom
inent. Any relief that could be fur
nished him by the housekeeping col
leges would cause millions of his kind to
shower down benedictions on their
roofs.
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stead Of q snappish and discordant two.
Blessed, therefore, forever blessed,
be the memory Of him or her, as the
case raay be. who invented housekeep-
ing and cooking schools; that is, of
C 'urse, provided they teach people to
housekeep and cook; IL otherwise, they
ere worse than receptions, leading con-
tiding men to yield gracefully to the
wiles of the charmer i'm confident an
ticipation that, rs she has been to an
establishment where housekeeping and
cooking are taught, she must neces-
sarily understand how house is to be
kept and cooking to be done. There are
those who say that there is no better
school of instruction In such matters
than the young lady's own home and
no better professor than her mother,
Tut such ideas as this are necessarily
old-fashioned, for, as the adept will
prove to your entire satisfaction, moth
els do not know everything, even if
they do sedulously cultivate that idea
in the minds of their offspring, and the
best appointed kitchens in the most
luxurious homes lack many things
which the cooking school professor will
prove to be absolutely indispensable i'm
the pursuit of her calling as chief cook.
No cook who does not prepare food for
Il restaurant or hotel can expect to keep
in her kitchen the impedimenta which
constitute the stock in trade of the pro-
fessional trainer OF cooks, and it is with
reason therefore that not few of these
instructors in the art of catering TO the
wants of the inner man have discarded
tie array of implements which, to the
beginner, is rs terrifying us the display
of a dentists case of tools, and have re-
stricted their efforts to showing what
can be done with n frying pan, an egg
beater bake oven and coffee pot. The
move is in the right direction, for if n
young wife can be trained in the correct
Use of these and few more equally
simple pieces of kitchen mechanism,
there are good hopes that her husband
will escape being driven to drink in the
hope Of finding relief from the miser-
les of her cooking
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hap-hazard. This opinion once thor
the immense number Of institutions
which propose to teach anything that
the human mind is capable of grasping
The principle is, If anything Is worth
knowing, 1T is worth learning In man
ner at once business-like and as thor
Oughly systematic as BELTS the spirit OF
the age. For this is the age Of system,
and whether the knocker at the gate Of
wisdom proposes to teach the young
Idea how to shoot or designs TO prepare
the food that gives the young idea
strength to do the shooting, it is all one (;
course of preliminary training must
be undergone before the thing can be
understood to have been done in conso-
nance with the eternal canons of art,
or, to put the matter more Familiarity,
according to Gunter" At bottom the
idea is not bad, for if thing is capable
of being learned at all, it is best learned
under the instruction of those who know
oil about it, and there is no earthly rea-
son why there should not be education
nj establishments where young women
can be instructed in the duties that they
are expected to perform when engaged
In the various occupations incidental TO
housework, and the st. Louis Globe
Democrat is of the opinion that if no
young woman were allowed to be mar
ried until she had been through a course
of training preparatory to housekeep-
ing, particularly of cooking, the amount
of domestic misery would be lessened
% per cent. in single generation.
In the matter of bread, for instance,
the possibilities Of the staff OF life in
breeding domestic strife are innumer-
able. A young wife, ignorant Of the
mysteries of bread manufacture, may
make up her mind to a married life OF
misery, for the reason that no husband,
no matter how devoted he may believe
himself, can retain his devotion for
any considerable length Of time il reg
ularly furnished with heavy bread. He
inoy try. For time he may succeed.
Morning after morning he may worry
down the soggy mass in the hope that
nature will be good to him and by the
kindly operations of her mysterious la
boratory remedy the deficiencies of his
wife's knowledge. Nature, thus adj
>tured, falls to and does the best she
can, but sooner or later, generally the
former, throws up the job In despair,
and admonishes him that there must be
change. Often he does not know
what Is the matter with him. He be-
comes cross, surly; is guilty Of that
most grievous and unforgivable Of all
ouenses In married life, talking back"
to his wife, and she, poor thing, thinks
he has ceased to love her, and goes to
her room and cries about the change,
when 1t is only in accordance with the
order OF nature. She thinks his love is
vanishing. when, I'm fact, It Is only his
liver out of order, and prompt change Of
diet would soon speedily remove every
cloud from the domestic horizon and
make the twain an harmonious one In
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Bloomingdale asylum. This actor had n
knack of always pleasing his audience,
whether by word or gesture His wit
was clean and quick, and was due partly
to his Celtic origin. His failing mind and
incarceration was cause of deep regret
TO thousands of his admirers. Scanan
wrote quite number of popular songs.
Molly o. was the one that had the
greatest vogue. Scanlan's career has
been strangely romantic one. When a
boy he was boot-black i'm New York. and
here he first displayed his talent by anus
ing his patrons. When the dreadful mall
ady came on him he was the leading
Irish comedian i'm America.
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Of the man who all day long sits at his
desk, but also of him who wears out his
shoe leather in the effort TO collect bills
| during bad season. Nor should the
pastry be forgotten. The pie, like the
hoopskirt, and the roller skate, and the
ladies sewing society, is a product of
| the highest civilization, for the mon
strOus messes dignified in ancient
| culinary art with the name of pies bear
no more resemblance to the delicate
dream of the kitchen which now APP
propriatcs the name than a wash boiler
bears to Il steam engine. But there are
pies and pies, and the flaky pasty cir
Gle which covers but does not quite con-
ceal the fruit beneath is quite a differ
ent thing from that nightmare with
crust of caoutchouc, an underlying
stratum of half raw dried apples and
Il foundation of soft dough. The pie,
however, like woman suffrage and
diphtheria, has come to stay, and the
best that can be done is to manage
that as little harm as possible will re-
suit from 1t. The cooking schools can
their attention to the solution Of the
problem, and when they do the gener-
ations of men who have suffered anX-
ious days and sleepless nights, who
have become convinced that they had
heart disease and pleurisy and con-
sumption, who have fancied that they
were going to lose their positions and
their money, all on account of indiges-
ton chargeable to pie, will rise up and
call them blessed.
But there are other miseries Of domes-
tic life that the cooking and housekeep-
ing schools should be able to mitigate il
not entirely to abolish. There, for i'll
stance, is the sweeping to say nothing
of the busting. Humanity is progress
ing so rapidly along the lines of solid
Improvement that it is possible to con-
ceive of time in the not distant future
when house can be swept from cellar
to garnet without sitting the inmates
with the dust; when n doorway can be
cleaned without broomfuls Of rubbish
being fired from ambush on the unsus-
picious passer-by; when a rug or floor
cloth can be cleansed without shaking
it out of an upper window and allowing
its accumulated treasures to fly into
the open rooms beneath; but humanity
has not as yet, apparently, gone so far
Nor up to the present time, has the
average feminine mind been able to
conceive that on a mans desk there
may be order i'm the midst Of apparent
confusion. The zeal for putting things
straight" in not a few cases amounts to
q mania, and when woman turns her.
self loose in the presence of table or
desk covered with books, papers, man.
uscripts and memoranda, she is in her
element. 1t is true that the proprietor
of the desk may be compelled a little
later to search an hour for n paper he
needs Immediately, but that is nothing
to her; the desk has been Strengthened
up so as to look decent" and this, of
course, is the main object for which q
desk was created. A schedule of stud
les for housekeeping school should
contain a special course on this line.
and by impressing on the minds Of stu
dents the fact that when man can find
what he wants to him his desk is in per-
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feet order, although to others il NAV
seem In hopeless confusion, they will
confer favor of no little magnitude on
host of men who keep desks and like
TO have them remain undisturbed.
The relation of house-cleaning to do
nestle comfort is subject which might
profitably find place in the list Of do
mestico-economic studies. There are
probably few boys in the land but who,
when in gladstone spring they beheld
an array of buckets and scrubbiny
brushes on the back porch, have hidden
their caps under thsir jackets and sur
reptitiously hied them away for days
fishing, counting the thrashing upon
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HUSBAND AND WIFE DIE.
Destitution in n Nebraska Family
Leads to Double Suicide.

Leads to Double Suicide.
As result of restitution and their
helpless situation among hundreds of
starving people, John Harris and wife,
| living near Paxton. Neb., committed sui
eide with a razor. Mrs. Harris was
| found living on the bed entirely nude, with
| her throat cut from ear to ear, and the
bedclothing saturated with blood. John
Harris, the husband, was found lying on
the floor near the foot of the bed with his
throat likewise cut. The couple had only
moved to their present place month ago.
The house in which they lived was n sod
dugout, situated seven miles southwest of
Paxton. The surroundings of the place
went to show that the pair were in very
poor circumstances. No motive can be
given for the deed except that the wife
was expecting soon TO become mother
and was on the verge of starvation and
suffering. They were probably too proud
to beg. The following letter was found.
written by the husband in clear and
steady hand
Dear Old Parents-We have decided
to end our lives together. Ida took sick
before daylight and it is now Z o'clock.
Ida cut her throat and / cut mine.
would give the world to see my poor old
father and mother. 1t seems like year
since / saw any of my folks"
The country round about Paxton has
produced good crops in times past, and
will undoubtedly do so again, but the
failure in 1893 and again in 1894 was al
most complete, and the situation is most
pitiable. Among the different families in
Keith County now in n state of destitu-
ton there are between 500 and 600 chill
dren The commissioners confess their
inability to cope with the situation.
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seem to take no hurt, their fate is but
deferred, for nature, though long suf-
fering, neither forgets nor forgives.
There can be no denial, therefore, Of
the fact that the limits of the cooking
schools usefulness are practically
boundless, for besides bread and pota-
toes there is coffee, which can be made
a drink fit for the gods, but I'm the or
binary household Is simply hot, black,
bitter liquid, which bites the tongue
and scalds the throat. and in so doing
confers a benefit, as thus the sense of
taste is blunted to that extent that the
drinker can not tell what the potation
resembles. And there Is beefsteak,
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LOSS MAY REACH EIGHT MILLION
Pierce's Victims Said to BE More Nu-
merous than Supposed.


merous than Supposed.
Information received in Yankton, s. D.,
from London regarding ]. T. NJ. Pierce's
swindling transactions show that the.ag
gregate British losses may reach the stu
pendous sum of $S,000,000. A letter
from n London firm of solicitors says that
not a quarter of the fraudulent transac-
tons have yet come to light. 1t is stated
that the receipts by Pierce at his London
office were limited only by his ability TO
issue bonds and mortgages and other pa
per often exceeding 100000 n week, and
il is alleged i'm London that he received
no less than $500, 900 during his last week
there. 1t is owing to his gigantic trans
actions that his victims expect to receive
an offer of compromise after the matter
shall have cooled down. TO make these
losses known would impair the credit of
the losers, and also make them an object
of ridicule therefore they prefer to bear
their losses in silence. One million four
hundred and four thousand dollars of
forged bonds, mortgages and tax deeds
are now in possession of agents of credi-
tors of Pierce in Yankton. They have
been sent there as claims against the es-
tate Of Pierce, but this estate will not sell
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The law compelling Congress to adj
journ sine die at noon on March 4 will
compel that body to legisate on Sunday
this year. Our national lawmakers will
remain in session all Saturday night and
pretty much of Sunday. There will be an
interim for sleep. From Sunday after
noon both branches will remain In con-
tinuous session until noon of the follow
ing day. This was the case at the close
of the Fiftieth Congress. during Harri-
sons administration, and also at the close
of the short session during Hayes ad-
ministration.
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"A Big Pillow.

The largest plow in the world. per.
haps, is owned by Richard Grid, of San
Bernardino County, California. This
immense sod turner stands eighteen
feet high and weighs 10000 pounds.
1t runs by steam, is provided with
twelve II inch pillow shares, and is cap
able of blowing fifty acres of land per
day. 1t consumes from one to one and
n half tons of coal per day, and usually
travels at the rate of four miles an hour
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suits, not the least singular among the
number being the fact that so general
Is the respect for mental training, APP
parently no matter of what nature or
degree of efficiency, that not few
people have the idea that a
little knowledge, if acquired by the reg
ulation method, is preferable to no end
of learning picked up helter-skelter; or,
In other words, it is better to be a
blockhead by rule than wise man by
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their return as dross when compared TO
the toll Of rendering assistance In the
cleaning. Nor are their fathers much
better off than themselves, for when
housekeeping Is to be done all consid-
erations OF comfort must stand from
under. But lovely woman Is in her ele-
ment, for then, If never before, she has
something to complain about, and Is
thus perfectly happy. With her hus-
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which, In tho hands OF the young wife
or the inexperienced cook who has not
shared the blessings OF culinary train
ing, can be made rs black as your hat
on the outside. as raw as a country
pumpkin on the inside, and as tough
as prize-fghter all through, when by
delicate manipulation 1t could be rem
dered of even consistency throughout
SO as to sustain the strength not only
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1895-01-18
In Homer's Day.

In Homer's days the Greeks were
purely flesh-eaters; but few centuries
before Christ we find the Athenians
such thorough fish-eaters that, instead
of speaking OF the morning meal or
midday meals rs we do, they spoke Of
their midday fish or evening fish, just
as the North German speaks of his mid
day bread or his evening bread.
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INSURANCE FIGURES.
Losses by Fire i'm the United States
for the Year 1904.

The Journal of Commerce and CONNER
Cial Bulletin says: The fire loss of the
United States and Canada for the Month
of December, rs estimated from our
daily files. amounts to $10,321 900. and
the total for the year is therefore $12S,-
246,40O. The following comparative
table exhibits the losses by months
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for enough 60 pay the attorneys fees.
The claims which are accompanied by the
spurious security are as follows: Ameri-
can Mortgage Trust Company, London,
Bedford investors, 100000; Belfast in
vestors, $4,000; Glasgow, Scotland
S250,0O0; Huddersield, Eng. 100000;
j s. Pagan, Brooklyn. $4,000; W. s.
Johnson. London, $4,000; real estate
frauds in Yankton, $4,000; total, ST.
1Ol OOO
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DYING IN A MADHOUSE.
w. J. Seaman, Once "A Leading Come
dian, Is Now Near Unto Death.

VIM. j. Seaman, who was n universal
favorite on the vaudeville stage, is report
ed to be at the point Of death at White
Plains insane asylum, New York. He
first began to show signs of paretic in
sanity two years ago, and was sent to