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The Bryan daily eagle. (Bryan, Tex.) 1895-1898, 1896-01-14
Ewr-Eatinr liens.

a coFrsspondent writes: 1T seems
.hat too much cannot be said or done
y prevent this worst Of evils hen can
iaii heir to. II Ia very disgusting 10
any poulterer. or even aey person who
keeps poultry. wAen built my hem
merry | put In Just a few nest boxes
Ior the time being. until had time 10
get more, and would no, believe II took
only two or three days TO learn the
haoit OF 'egg-eating.' They would guar
rel over the nest and break the eggs.
'hen all would run to have a piece. until
~ last my two largest pens were full
OF good-looklng egg-thirsty hens. and
were ! thought. entirely ruined. for
"hen Ibid give them more boxes they
would pick a hole In the shell quite
ieisurely and eat the contents What
was to be done was more than could
think or for a while: then I devised a
plan which | thought would break some
at least Of the habit made nest boxes
as follows: Eight feet long. fourteen
inches deep. and eleven inches wide,
then divided II into eight nests. with
one side OF the box six inches high, so
that when II was covered they had
eight inches left 10 enter the nest; then
! set them oAe foot from the floor.
In there Il was dark. the space covered
by a lid over the box TO remove the
eggs. In this secluded spot they would
deposit their eggs. and only one heh
could occupy each nest. and she hadn't
room or light enough to do much dam
age. This was six weeks ago and to-
day don't think have a hen that will
eat an cgg. II some pouterer who Is
troubled In Ike manner will give this
a trial ] am quite confident he win be
amply repaid. Poultry chum
The Bryan daily eagle. (Bryan, Tex.) 1895-1898, 1896-01-14

Eng her youth IN her fathers residence,
which occupied the site upon which the
Four Courts has since been built. Mrs
Maint also resided Tor many years In
one OF The two houses which occupied
the site upon which the William Barr
Dry Goods building Is situated. This
building Ia partly owned by Mrs Maj
a., and is known as the Julia Build
ing" She and her brother. Charles P.
Chouteau own the property. from which
she draws a rental OF $1,000 a month
The res, Of her fortune n invested In
bonds and stocks and she owns most Of
the Olive Street Cable railway. She
has six children, two Of her sons are
unmarried and her daughter. Miss
Emily Mafit, Is still at home with her
mother Mrs. Matht Is very quiet IN her
taste. and lives In strict retirement In
the handsome and old-iashioned resi-
dence on Eighteenth and Locust street.
While her daughters were In society
Mrs. Manit entertained lavishly ut times
and during the arohblshops jubilee
she gave handsome reception In his
honor, which Is stin remembered as
The Bryan daily eagle. (Bryan, Tex.) 1895-1898, 1896-01-14

Transmission Of Color-Mr. wllekens
Of Vienna has found that two pure
hlooded English horses transmitted the
color OF their coat TO the progeny
In $50 cases out OF one thousand. when
the parents are Of different colors, the
offspring are almost always Of the color
OF the mother. With Arabian horses
the facts are more striking still, Tae
white color Of the coat Of the mare was
found to be clearly transmitted In 72s
cases out Of one thousand In other
cases there was a more or less marked
mixture.-Ex.
The Bryan daily eagle. (Bryan, Tex.) 1895-1898, 1896-01-14

represent the immense resources Of
Mrs. Allen. but she is possessed Of sew
eTal millions.
Although she appreciates the wealth
which Providence has bestowed upon
her, she does not lose her rest at night
puzzling her brain as to the prospect OF
making another million or two TO keep
her from want. Mrs. Allen has be-
tween S5,OOO.OOO and 100000. It Is
said, and she brought the bulk OF this
The Bryan daily eagle. (Bryan, Tex.) 1895-1898, 1896-01-14
WOMEN OF ST. LOUIS.
SOME WEALTHY DANES OF THE
GREAT MOUND CITY.
Who They Are and What They Arc
wor'h-Annie Russell Allen aud IIer
-,normous Fortune Mrs. Julia Mamt
aud Others.
sd. LouIs Correspondeneo.

ROBABLY THE
.woaithies; ST. Louis
woman Is Mrs. An
nile Russell Allen.
who spends most OF
her time In Pitts
field. Mass. the
birthplace OF her
husband, Thomas
Ii. Allen. II is diff
hcuit to get the
exact figures which
The Bryan daily eagle. (Bryan, Tex.) 1895-1898, 1896-01-14

ASlllNGTON. DC.
Dec. g. In his
sermon to-day, Dr..
Talmage chose the
universal theme u
the season TIL e
Christmas tide.
The text selected
was, Nov when
Jesus was born In
Bethlehem" Matt
II, l.
The Bryan daily eagle. (Bryan, Tex.) 1895-1898, 1896-01-14

Why Creameries FaiL-Creamofies
are bound to continue to fan as loag
as they are planted In sections Of the
country where the people are not edu-
Gated In dairylng. When the people
understand and appreciate the value OF
good COWS. and TO learn to discriminate
in the care Of them then that neighbor-
hood has reached a point where II Is
ready to do It's part toward sustaining
a creamery whose business shall be
profitable to itself and lts patrons alike.
Nebraska Farmer.
The Bryan daily eagle. (Bryan, Tex.) 1895-1898, 1896-01-14

A good. cool. well ventilated milk
house Is one Of the essentials Of sue
cessful dairying Such a house may
be made OF wood, stone or brick. and
II properly constructed the kind OF
material Is not essential.
Cows do not milk any easier with
wet hands than with dry hands. II the
udder Is covered with dust and mud
Il should be washed OF and dried with
a clean rag.
The Bryan daily eagle. (Bryan, Tex.) 1895-1898, 1896-01-14

II was because Daniel kept his win
dows open toward Jerusalem that ho
had no fear Of the lions den.
The Bryan daily eagle. (Bryan, Tex.) 1895-1898, 1896-01-14
HOPE on THE WORLD,
TURN TOWARD CHRIST IN OUR
ADVERSiTlE5.

This Refers Alike % Indiviauais and
Nations -Christmnstids Sermon by Dr.
Taimare beautiful Picture of the
Redeemer.
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ON INTERNATIONAL B!NETAhLIS)N

who is intent on marrying Tony, and he fear
the combination would be dangerous for
Hicks. His solicitation for Hicks brings Old
field under the girls magic spell, and now
Hicks has q secret and jealous rival in Old
field, who finds it difficult to screen his feelings
Tony laughs at the love suit of Hicks. She
laughs at the attentions of Oldfeld. She chat
ters to both about third person who is bad
man already married and whom she calls her
Jabberwock. This is joke to Hicks, but
serious matter to the old bachelor. ball is
given in Tony's honor. At midnight she sud-
denly disappears from the dance hall Old
field has been studying certain strange sig
mails. He follows the girl and prevents an
escapade. The Jabberwock is in waiting in a
cab, and Tony had plainly been on the way to
She is permitted to have farewell talk with the
Jabberwock and then returns home. But Tony is
now taken i'll and dies. Life had nothing
more for her, anyhow, she had said. The doc
tors said her demise was due to a brain
malady. Oldfeld alone knew the cause, but he
keeps TO himself the secret of the suicide. He
had been deeply in love with Tony, and couldn' {
tell why. Her death leads him 10 specula-
tions on Immortality and heaven and God.
Why had he loved little brown. reckless girl,
who had suffered pain which had finally
grown too big for her small heart and brain ?
The whole thing resolves itself down TO be-
lief that the more staid and cireumspect the
elderly heart has been, the more OF fool heart
1t is capable of becoming. Hicks thinks for
few days that he is broken-hearted, and
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ait is only through similar, daily and incessant
practice that the degree of facility in writing
the mother tongue is acquired which always
enables the student or adult TO use it as tool
in his work" The author remarks that there
is a great difference between set formal
exercises in any art as an end IN
itself and the habitual use of the same art as a
means or instrument to accomplish some other
end For instance what difference there is
between the writing children put in their copy
books and that which they put into their
familiar letters Nothing but plenty of writ
ing non-formal and extemporaneous, under a
moderate tension of criticism, will transmute
the Students specific skill and formal skill.
More extemporaneous composition is needed
in the schools.
The Lindley Murray view OF grammar is held
to be mainly false and sentence analysis is
now taking the place of parsing. The aims
and purposes of this excellent work are briefly
set down as follows:
First-To state fully and illustrate clearly
the principles that underlie all practical Ian
guage culture, whether it assumes the form of
speech, reading or composition.
Second-To emphasize the value OF such cul-
ture-the education that grows directly out of
the use and study of the vernacular.
Third-To present to teachers some methods
and devices that, intelligently followed, will
enable them to carry on the child's instruction
in the language-arts in harmony with the un-
deriving principles. These methods and de-
vices cover in a general way the whole field up
to the college; they even touch the college
and reach far into the field of self-cultivation.
Fourth-To discuss grammar and rhetoric
with a double purpose: first, to determine
The San Francisco call., 1896-08-02
SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN.

To commemorate the conclusion of fifty
years. service in the departments of art,
science, mechanics and chemistry, Mum &
Co., the proprietors of the Scientific American,
have issued an anniversary number of their
journal.
The number contains valuable matter of
more than ordinary interest to the average
reader Full reports are published of the ad-
vance made during the past five decades in
ship-building, railroads, engineering, tele-
graph and cable laying, as well as in inven-
tions that have had more recent birth, as the
bicycle and the newer Photographic processes.
A feature is made of an essay entitled. eThe
Progress of Invention During the Past Fifty
Years" This gained the prize of $3.50 offered
by the proprietors of the Scientific American.
Its author is Edward NJ. Byrn of Washington,
D. c., and it forms remarkably comprehen-
sive statement of the subject.
In France third edition has already been
called for of Albert Vandars work, sLouis XIV
ct Elisabeth de Russie.' The volume is an ex-
haustive study of the relations between France
and Russia in the eighteenth century. Itmay
be added that it has been crowned" by the
French Academy.
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In his preface to this attractive book, ga
miliar Trees and Their Leaves" the author
saws: "Pos sibly there are some OF US who may
not think that a leaf is thing of beauty. We
are prone TO use the expression. Nothing but
leaves as though leaves were the worthless,
homely and uninteresting things of an other
wise beautiful cres ton. They certainly are
common, but they are far from commonplace
If we doubt this let US try to draw or paint
single leaf Only great artist can depict all
of some one of its manifold truths. One may
draw ever so well, and yet he cannot tell with
the pencil or the brush all the truth and
beauty of one Leaf
1t will be seen from this brief extract from
an eloquent preface that we have the work OF
an enth usiast before US; and study OF the
pages will show that the task OF describing
and picturing the leaves of our trees has been
done with care and exactness as well as with
love and ardor Mr.. Mathews says: "I have
ventured to draw the trees and their leaves
inst as have found them. My two hundred
and odd sketches were all taken from nature
and only sixty of them from pressed speci-
mems, which were obtained in the Harvard
Botanic Garden" As a result of this study
direct from nature we have the true leaf OF
each tree portrayed and not the conventional
leaf as it appears to the average observer
Most readers of the book will find world of
information they never dreamed OF about
leaves that have long been familiar to them
The study will open TO them new sources OF
pleasure in every tree around their houses,
and prove interesting as well as instructive.
The illustrations are good and the work is
supplemented by systematical index OF the
names of trees of the Eastern United States,
including the botanical names according to
Asa Gray and C. s. Sargent.
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protection by appealing to the religious sense
of the men around her. This plan works we'll
until she accidentally drops her telltale
cigarette box, and then leader of the camp
tells her the game is up. He sends for a clergy
man and wants her to marry him and become
the queen of the camp. She is in a terrible
predicament. Her vetuals are drugged soon
after, and, as she feels faintness stealing over
her she calls to dwarf who waits upon her
and implores him to save ner. he thereafter
drugs the food OF the men and puts the camp
to sleep, whereupon he takes horses and speeds
away with the woman to Vancouver and
friends The experience of week worked
change in the world-wise woman, who "knew
now that never again could she see man de-
graded from man estate without knowing that
woman might have held him up; nay, rather,
exalted him, had woman been pure enough to
do the work that she was given to do"
The San Francisco call., 1896-08-02
GOOD WOMAN'S INFLUENCE
IN THE WORLD.

THE MADONNA OF A DAY-By L. Dougall.
New York: D. Appleton Il Co.. publishers. For
sale by William Doxey; paper, price so cents.I
Here is novel with moral to it. A young
woman starts East from Vancouver and walks
off the train in her Sleep She is brought to
her senses in a bank of snow, and then she
travels to the nearest habitation, which is
rough mining camp filled with desperate, law
less characters. Before commencing the train
journey just referred to, the heroine drinks a
brandy and soda with some men, and then
argues with missionary that the world would
be better off without so much religion. She is
a woman of the modern school and somewhat
of journalist. Thecamp OF men hadn't been
visited by woman in an age before Harm
might have come to the heroine, only
that her sudden appearance there in
such beautiful garb as she wore awoke
the slumbering superstitions of some of
the men, who had an idea that she was
the Madonna. This belief being exploded, she
conceived the idea of winning sympathy and
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THE WHITE METAL.

SILVER; IT'S TRUE PLACE IN THE CIRcULA-
TIoN-By j. w. Treadwell. GSan Francisco; II art
well, Mitchell d Willis, publishers: pamphlet,
price 10 cents.
In this little work Mr.. Treadwell treats the
silver question from the plane of known facts
of currency in every part of the world, dealing
with the problem on the well-known method
followed by the Bank of France and also
by the Government of Switzerland. His
solution is that if paper money be removed,
there will be created in the currency of every
nation a vacuum, into which silver will flow,
and that the demand for silver to fill that
vacuum will be SO great as to raise silver to
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tells his friends how sad he is; but
Oldfeld, even after he has gone back
to his books. often steals out in secret to be-
stow care on Tony's grave, and he takes pains
to fling aside such flowers as he thinks were
put on the mound by the Jabberwock. The
story is out of the usual order, cleverly writ
ten, and not at all tiresome, although the
reader would certainly have just as much ap-
probation for the story If the author had
neglected to run in the catalogue OF 0ldfed's
library toward the close
The San Francisco call., 1896-08-02
ENGLISH IN AMERICAN SCHOOLS.

TEACHING THE LANGUAGE-ARTs-By B.
A. Hiusdale PhD., LID. New York: D.
Appleton q Co.. publishers. For sale by William
Doxey; cloth, price 81
Professor Hinsdale's volume is a valuable
addition to the International Educational
Series Heholds that Improvement is not only
attainable, but decidedly necessary in the
teaching particularly of English) in our
schools of to-day. His present work is the re-
suit of practical experience and it has been
matured by reflection. The author lays stress
on imitation in teaching the language-srts;
insisting upon good models and emphasizing
the need of practice under suitable correction.
Proficiency in baseball and other athletic
sports is not acquired by studying rules print
ed in books devoted to athletics, but by
practice Harvard College committee hay
ing in mind the same principle, has said:
The San Francisco call., 1896-08-02

feature of this mum Der is an article on the
Christian Endeavor Society by Rev. Francis E.
Clark its president and founder, with many
attractive illustrations. The Lee series is con-
tinued with the first of two papers on General
Lees part in the battle of Gettysburg by
Colonel John J. Garnett, Confederate Artillery.
GoDEY's
Godeys Magazine for August contains much
entertaining summer reading. Half dozen
pieces of fiction in as many Keys give very
readable variety in that line, and something
stranger than fiction is told in Albert L. Parkes'
anecdotes of Anna Bishop in the series of
"Great Singers of This Century" 1t seems
that this prima donna was under the control
of NJ Bochsa, the harpist and musical director,
in much the same way that Trilby, the tone
deaf, was dominated by Svengan in the story,
and there is said to be reason to suppose that
her career suggested this pert of Du Maurier 8
novel. "Some Armenian Notables' gives many
unfamiliar and interes ting facts in regard to
the ill-treated nation of Asia Minor and its
greatest men and women.
M'CLUREs MAGAZINE.
The August McClure's is the Midsummer
Fiction Number" Octave Thanet contributes
a strong story of Western life; Stephen Crane
relates dramatic epi isode in the later life of
the hero of 'The Red Badge of Courage" /;
Clinton Ross tells booming battle story,
based on Perry's historic victory on Lake Erie /;
E. NJ Thomson tells humorous tale of the
Canadian fishermen; and Annie Eliot de-
scribes double love episode in Yale and
Harvard boat-race. 1t is not often that FIVE
really good stories, as these certainly are, get
into single magazine. .tiThen, in addition,
The San Francisco call., 1896-08-02

Here we have an analysis, not of foolishness
in general but of particular case and phase
OF foolishness. Other characters in the book
may have their follies; but James 0ldfeld,
bachelor, aged 40 selfish, cultivated, peculiar,
lover of books, stranger to sffairs of the
heart, somewhat of sportsman, is the fool
study. He is dissatisfied with his past, and at
40 he is suddenly led to sigh for ~outh long
gone, for he hears a laughing voice that re-
minds him of Turkish music, and that voice,
that contains melancholy rather than merri-
ment, changes Oldfelds whole life and makes
a fool of him.
The owner of that voice Is Miss Tony Jones,
a little, saucy, crippled girl of Is, who has
just returned from long stay in Paris 'sGreen
Gates is the Jones' country seat near
New York At first shot Oldfeid's
analysis of the girl Is that sne has
call that wins, all that is plaintive, un-
usual, odd, senigmatic in woman, along
with something which is perhaps wrong"
oldfeld has q young friend. Thaddeus Hicks.
The San Francisco call., 1896-08-02
CURRENT MAGAZINES.
Frank LEsLIE's POPULAR MoNrHLY.

FRANK LESLIE'S POPULAR MONTHLY.
"Cubas Struggle for Liberty" is the subject
of fully illustrated article in Frank Leslie's
Popular Monthly for August. 1t is written by
Fidel G. Pierra, one of the leading spirits of
the Cuban delegation in New York and con-
tains portraits OF Generals Gomez, Maceo,
Marti, GARLIC, Sanchez, Garcia, Rodriguez and
Palma and some interesting views. Another
The San Francisco call., 1896-08-02
STORIES OF DISTINGUISHED PETS

wherein their educational value lies, and, sec
ondly, to point out their relations to the Ian
guage-arts.
The teaching of literature and the functions
of criticism in the language-arts also receives
marited attention
The San Francisco call., 1896-08-02
THE ARENA.

All lovers of Whittier, and for the matter of
that all who love q beautiful life, will be in
terested in the article in the August Arena en-
titled "Whittier-The Man. This article is
one of series on Whittier by the editor, B. o.
Flower. Among other features of the Arena are:
photography of Literature, dealing with the
Land Question" by Thomas E. Will, AN; els
the West Discontented?" by John E. Bennett;
"Club Life versus Home Lite" by G. S. Craw-
ford "a Social Settlement" by Annie L. Muz-
zey; "Mahayana Buddhism in Japan" by
Annie E. Cheney; 1.-THE Convict Question" by
]. Kellogg; ethics TIE Only Basis of Religion"
by R. B. Marsh, MA; Associated Effort and
Its Influence on Human Progress" by NJ. L.
Holbrook. MD; philosophers Afloat," by
Helen H. Gardener.
The San Francisco call., 1896-08-02

All of Rudyard Kipling's poems and stories
and, for that matter, the poems and stories Of
other distinguished English authors are copy
righted in THIS country, and their quotation
in newspapers or elsewhere is violation of
the copyright law, carrying serious penalties.
The San Francisco call., 1896-08-02
STUDIES OF TREES.

FAMILIAR TREES AND THEIR LEAVES,
by r. SCHUYLER Mathews illustrated. New
York: D. Appleton e. Co. For sale by William
Doxey Palace Hotel; price 81 T5.
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Kate Sanborn Writes Of
:.
Ic -.
"A Aii 49, :

there is in this number a fairly stunning"
installment of Anthony Hopes new romance,
"Phroso."
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DO not fall to read Thomas slater's advertise
ment on page 2e for men.
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An Interesting Book
on the Question
Of To-Day

INTERNATIONAL BIMETALLIsM, BIZ Francis
A. walter, Ph.D., LID. For sale by Doxey,
Palace Hotel. price 81 2bl
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NO FOOL LIKE AN OLD FOOL.

GREEN GATES: AN ANALYSIS OF FOOLISH
NEss-By Katherine NJ. C. Meredith. New
York: D. Appleton d Co., publishers. For sale
by William Doxey; price 81 25.]
The San Francisco call., 1896-08-02

HARPER's.
In Harper's Magazine for the current month
the special features are: "The White Mr..
Longfellow." by William Dean Howells; a
poem by F. Whitmore; "Peeps Into Barbary,"
by J. E. Budget Meakin; "The Strange Days
That Came to Jimmie Friday" by Frederick
Remington; Doorstep Neighbors," by w.
Hamilton Gibson. The number contains the
first of two-part story by Mark Twain, enti-
tied "Tom Sawyer, Detective" illustrated by
A B. Frost; the second installment of Lang
don Elwin MitchelPs novelette,, 1.-TWO Nor
mons From Muddlety; five short stories, and a
fine dramatic poem by Laurence Alma Ia
dema, entitled 1.-THE Silent Voice. with Illus
trations by E. A. Abbey. The August Harper S
is fully up to the standard OF that excellent
publication.