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The Bryan daily eagle. (Bryan, Tex.) 1895-1898, 1896-12-16

wmKsBARRE. Pa, Dec 10. During a
family quarrel here Morris Pope shot
John Keithline fatally wounding him.
Then Pope placed revolver In his own
mouth and blew . portion Of his head
OF, dying almost instantly.
The Bryan daily eagle. (Bryan, Tex.) 1895-1898, 1896-12-16

A ring, a watch, a piece Of slyerware
a novelty In gold or silver-ii fact you
can find anything you want az John NJ
CaldWelps. 10
The Bryan daily eagle. (Bryan, Tex.) 1895-1898, 1896-12-16
ANNOUNCEMENTS.

We are authorized to announce
WN. A. BANKS
as a candidate for Secretary, Assessor
aud Collector Of the City Of Bryan AZ
The ensuing April election.
We are authorized to announce
JENKINS
40 a candidate Tor the Office Of city sec.
retary, assessor and collector OF Bryan
at the ensuing April election.
We are rnihoriieitn announce
H.. G RHODES
a. candidate Tor Ci,y N;ecr, tary, Tax
Assessor aud Collector Of Dr., an -Elec,--
ton first Tuesday N April. 1887.
We are authorized 10 announce
CT. WILSON
a. candidate Tor city marshal ~ Bfr.
an at the ensuing April eltoiioA.
We are authorized T. announce
&C. SHELBURNE
a. canuldatc Tor reelection 10 the
Office Of city marshal OF Hryan at the
ensuing April election.
We are authorized 10 announce
T. 7. BOYETT
as a candidate or City Marshal O
Bryan at the ensuing April election.
Why suffer with coughs, colds and
Ia grippe when LAXATIVE DRoMo QutN.
ISE will cure you in one day. Does
not produce the ringing in the head
like sulphate Of Quinine. Pa, M IN
tablets convenient for taking. Guar.
anieed 10 cure, or money refunded.
l'uce, 25c. For sale by
N. n Jane
sam y. Wilson,
+. J Fountain,
Apl Halls Drug Store.
The Bryan daily eagle. (Bryan, Tex.) 1895-1898, 1896-12-16

The best cough cure ~ Shh, Ia > Cure.
A neglected cough Il dangerous. Stop
Il at once with Shlloh's Curc. Sold by
all druggists.
The Bryan daily eagle. (Bryan, Tex.) 1895-1898, 1896-12-16

most successfully and are V ~ cheap.
Gardeners will buy them Ike hot
cakes" for they will see at glance The
pots will pay for themse YES three
times the fret .eason. 10000 viii pay
for an outfit that will turn on 300 pot.
per day at a profit Of $40. But this Will
moi supply the demand, and ! haven't
the $4,000; 40 I will make the
above offer this week only. IL will pay
YOU 10 zee me at once u You have 500
toihvest, for II IL my honest belief u
will bring big returns in mort time
Phone 1884,. q McDun simpson.
The Bryan daily eagle. (Bryan, Tex.) 1895-1898, 1896-12-16
ANOTHER COMPANY ORGANIZED
Ready 10 GO to CUBE and Flsh, VIII,
the Guiana

DBSvEa, Dec. i5-rhe fact has BE-
come known that aside from the reei-
meat Of Cubsh volunteers being organ.
The Bryan daily eagle. (Bryan, Tex.) 1895-1898, 1896-12-16

The Eagle made very material mis-
take in figures in Mr.. Mcbnf simp-
sons ad yesterday. Where 81, read 200
pots per day turned out II oald have
res 2OOOpots per Gay. TIE al read
right this merning
Karrs Clover Root Tea Is sure
cure for Headache and nv vous dis
eases. Nothing relieves 80 quickly.
Sold by all druggists.
Fisher takes your picture Tor 8 cents
and finishes II In three minutes. AZ
Buy your Christmas liquor Of Tay lor
& Cox. They have the puru 4 and best
liquors that can be- bought ~.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1896-12-09

While Colonel Powell was explor.
ing the canyons of the Colorado his
camp was visited ono day i'm winter
by an Indian hunter and trader
named johnson. He had no fixed
home, but informed Colonel Powell
that he intended the next spring to
plant corn, potatoes and other vege.
tables on a certain long island in the
Uinta river.
You will be along there in the
summer, he said to Colonel Powell.
Stop and help yourselves to any.
thing you wish.
True enough, on one of the early
days of July the Powell party came
to the island and on looking about
came upon q garden. It was i'm q
sad condition, having received no
care since it was planted. The sea.
son was early, moreover, but one of
the men suggested that potato tons
were good green's, and in their
strong desire for something to vary
their salt meat fare they gathered
quantity and cooked them for din.
ner.
Soon afterward one man and then
another was taken with nausea, vio-
lent pains and other symptoms Of
poisoning till the whole company
lay tumbling about the ground
groaning. Colonel Powell was real
ly alarmed and administered emet.
les to as many as would take them.
By the middle of the afternoon all
hands were much better. Then. as
Colonel Powell says, Jack Sumner
recorded in his diary:
Potato tops are not good greens
on the 9th day of July. YOUTHS
Companion.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1896-12-09
Had to Work Their WAY.

A great many years ago., said
an old army officer, Il was station
ed on the government reservation at
Kibisillah, on the coast of Mendooi-
no county. About the only amuse-
ment l had was working tramps,
and they were scarce.
1.-The hills along the coast from
Kibisillah to Fort Bragg are very
precipitoue. and in those days there
was nothing but q little trail that
wound along the sandy beach at the
base of the bluff. Whenever a tramp
came along and begged a meal. I
would caution him against the dan
gers of the beach and warn him that
the tide might catch him most any
where. Then, to insure his safety, /
would strap on him an old life pre-
server, from which / had removed
nearly all the cork and substituted
scrap iron. He would carry that IS
miles to Fort Bragg, and there a
friend of mine would relieve him of
it. In a day or two would see it
coming up the trail on the back of
another tramp. I don't know how
many hundreds of miles that scrap
iron was carried, but it was kent on
the move the greater part of a year
and half. San Francisco Post.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1896-12-09
More Men Than Women.

There are l, 500, 900 more of "the
male sect" than of the female in tie
United States, yet people persist in
talking of 1.-THE excess of women in
this country" just because there are
some thousands more women than
men in Massachusetts,. Or is it be-
cause of the excess of the female
population in England that this no
ton prevails regarding the land If
the free? We inherit good many
ideas from English forbears which
really DO not MT us at all.-Boston
Transcript.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1896-12-09
ALoNpoN IDEA.


Whfh Array amd Nawy.
The army and navy store i'm one
OF the curiosities of London. It had
O very small beginning. The foun-
dation of it was years ago, when
some naval officer, wishing to have
a superior quality of tea. arranged
with some of his fellow officers 60
take part Of a consignment. The
plan proved so satisfactory in this
instance that it was tried with other
choice commodities in bulk, and
finally a club was formed for the
purchase of things in quantity and
for distribution to members at cost
price. The club grew and extended
to the army, so that now every off,
Ger and nonoom. of the army and
navy is q subscribed member of tho
company or club. One who is eligi-
BILE, having paid his fee and dues,
receives a numbered ticket with his
name on it, which is his certificate
of membership, and tho original
shareholders draw dividends - for
though prices are comparatively
cheap in the great establishments q
profit is made. Dealing is strictly by
mum ber-that is to say, the clerk or
salesman with whom you have been
preparing a purchase will produce
his tablets and before taking entry
of the articles designated for the
purchase will ask, his pencil poised
expeotantly, Number, if you
please?" You reply with a number.
Usually this suffices, and the check
is made out, but not infrequently
the name is asked for in addi lion,
and then the name corresponding to
the number must be given.
1t happens that q goodly part OF
the trade of the stores is transacted
with persons who are neither mem.
bers nor entitled TO be members. but
being friends of members are 40
corded the privilege of trading on
the numbers of those friends. Deal.
ing at the stores is by cash or depos-
lt-that Is to say, you can deposit
31O or 92O or more and trade against
that, the cashier sending you a no.
tice when you have reached the linn
it. You can get anything you want
in the stOras-dry goods, meat, gro
ceries, provisions, coal, furniture,
linen, millinery, tailoring, tapestry,
etc. You can book a servant or hire
a carriage, prepare for wedding or
arrange for funeral; in short, from
the tea caddy of a few years ago has
grown a great establishment of uni. !
versal supply. The top floor has
refectory, where one may get q
lunch unexcelled in London, and as
the stores are thronged from 10
O'Clock in the morning until OIL
O'Clock in the afternoon the refresh |
ment room is generally fully occu.
pied. Limited to tho service of tick.
ct holders, the stores may be said 70
have an exclusive patronage, and ID /
is 1.-THE proper thing to trade mt the
stores. Letter.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1896-12-09
AMERICAN LlsRARIEs.
Comment ON Them by q writer In ana
London Times

~@NmmA@@M@A@w
London Times.
The Englishman, it in said, in NOT
n book buyer, but a book borrower.
In America the reverse has hitherto
been the case, There have been few
facilities for borrowing books at
least the books which people want
to read, and SO genuine booksellers
have been a necessity. Why circulat-
ing libraries have not long ago
made headway in New York or Bos-
ton is not altogether clear. Probably
the cheApness of reprinted novels,
combined with the natural spending
proolivities of Americans, initiates
against their chances. In England,
when all novels were issued in three
volume form, it was practically i'm
possible to read them except by the
aid of Nudes, but in proportion as
the original price of a book is low
cred the function of circulating IL
brary disappears. In America there
were not enough copyright novels
to support the three volume system
prior TO the international aot of
1891, and now that the system is be-
ing discarded here it is hardly like
ly to make fresh headway in the
United States. For a circulating IL
brary to be successful its subscribers
must live within a certain radius;
otherwise the cost of carriage NJ axes
the process of exchanging books too
expensive.
In America the distances are so
vast that Mudie's library could new
er have served the whole country.
They must have established branch
es in all the great centers of popula-
tion, and the expense and time oo-
cupied in keeping their depots sup
piled and organized would have
made the business improbable.
Some idea of the difficulty even now
of supplying books in large quanti-
ties to the faroff western states
may be found from the fact that it
IS not uncommon for New York
publishers to send consignments to
the Pacific coast around Cspe Horn,
and that it is usual to allow month
or six weeks for transit by freight
trains to the same destination.
During the last few years, howev-
er, the gap caused by the absence of
circulating libraries has begun to be
filled by the public libraries which
have sprung into existence in nearly
every large oity. At the present
time there are over 500 of these
public libraries, which are regarded
as standing sufficiently high to be
entitled to gratuitous copies of all
the United States government pub
hcations, and the number is con-
stantly increasing. Most of these IL
braries have a reference department
and lending department. But the
lending departments are much more
enterprising and up to date than
those of similar English institutions.
They lay themselves out to meet the
requirements of the citizens. When
a new book is in demand, it is not
considered sufficient answer to re-
ply that it is 'out" and leave you to
solace yourself with one of the old
masters. The American librarian
considers it his duty to supply
enough copies to give reasonable
satisfaction to his clients. For in
stance, one librarian informed us
that he had bought 80 copies of
"Marcella, " and so on. OF how
many English libraries could this
be said?-London Times.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1896-12-09

It is certain that the elephant, the
fhinoceros, the bear, the hyena and
other wild animals were at one time
common in England. Several bones
on these animals have been found in
Aens's cavern, about a mile from
Torquay. Science.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1896-12-09

The first CLOCKS manufactured in
this country were by Eli Terry, at
plymouth, Conn, in 1898. The man.
ufacture soon became extensive, and
Connecticut wooden CLOCKS were
famous all over the country.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1896-12-09

Papa, what is noon hour?'"
Well, son, at our bank it is from
10 until half past for the clerks, but
the officers generally get from half
past IL to 8. louisville Courier
Journal.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1896-12-09

The first glass made in this coun-
try was manufactured at James
town by the English oolonists in
1909.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1896-12-09

Do YoU wANT a WHEEL FoR YoURsELFf
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1896-08-26
NEARLY A BILLION.
The Pennsylvania Railroad Has a
Capital of SS57,O75,6 600.

Capitat OF SS01,O1O,oUO.
In recent number of Current Lit
erature All English writer asserts that
"the- greatest corporation on earth is
the London and Northwestern Railway
Company Of England, with its capital
of 1886, 900, 900, a revenue of IS, 500
an hour, $500 engines and 10000 en-
ployes, and repairs that cost $l30, 600
a month" The Northwestern Railway
Company is no doubt gigantic cor
poration for little country like Eng
land, and worth Dragging about, but
we have bigger one here in the
United States that might absorb it
very easily. The Pennsylvania railroad,
for example, has capital of 1857, 075,-
600, aud Is, 430 miles of track, which
traverse thirteen states. 1t has 8, 1855
locomotives, which consume 10000
tons OF coal day, and make runs
equal to the distance around the globe
every two hours. 1t has 3, 935 passen-
ger cars, $4,000 freight cars, $50
Pullman cars and 241 other cars for
construction and other purposes, max
ing total of 15S, 524 cars, which make
journey equal to the circumference
of The earth in every eight minutes.
The locomotives and cars. if placed
upon single track, would reach from
New York to Chicago, or ten times the
distance between Philadelphia aud
New York. The rails of the Pennsyl-
vania railroad, if laid end to end,
would encircle the globe and overlap
about 4, 1000 miles. The total annual
revenue of the road is $135, 900, 600
equal to 1912, SOC day and Sl5, ,525
every hour of the day and night
which is two and half times as much
as that of the Northwestern Of Eng
land.
Tho Northwestern boasts of $4,000
employees, but the Pennsylvania COM
pany has over 100, 900, who, with their
families, make mp total of about
500, 900 persons dependent for their liv-
ing upon the $50, 900 it distributes
in wages every year. Last year the
Pennsylvania Railroad Company moved
IA, 1895, 256,375 tons OF freight per
mile and carried 1,577, ,891, ,050 passen-
gers. The freight carried was equal
to ton around the world every min
ute of the year. The money invested
in the property was equal to a double
line OF silver dollars 5000 miles
in length. In 1895 the Penn
sylvauia Company owned FIVE
per cent. of all the railway
milenge in the United States, 10} per
cent of all the locomotives, liz pcr
cent of all the freight cars and had l3
per cent of all the railway employees in
the country upon its payrolss. Itcar-
ries II per cent OF all the passengers
who travelled by rail during the year
1896, and it's earnings were II 2 5 per
cent of oil the earnings OF all the roads
in the country. Like the great North
western, the Pennsylvania company
makes almost everything it uses, and
with its plant could build locomotive
every day in the year if it chose to do
so.-American Exporter.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1896-08-26
The Banana.

Something over twenty years ago a
New England skipper used to make
several trips O year from Boston to
the northern ports OF Jamaica, and
would return to Cape Cod Bay, his
feet schooner laden with bananas, for
which lie found ready and remunera.
tive sole. Other vessels were added
to the business, which grew and pros.
rercd, and soon became too import.
ant longer to depend upon the uncer-
tain winds, and steamers replaced the
schooners. Bananas were offered III
quantities greater than our Yankee
mariner, with his limited means, could
handle, and company was formed in
1877 with capital of 5000, 600 and
two steamers, and the business OF sys-
tematically growing the banana for
export to the United States COM
menced. From such small beginnings
sprang tho American company which
now practically controls the fruit ex.
port trade of Jamaica. It's present
capital is $500, 900, and it has sur
plus of s1,oOO,O 900, and employs
twelve steamers. 1t ships to the Uni
ted States every year about 100000
punches of bananas, besides upwards
of 5000. 900 cocoanuts, and quantities
of pimento (allspice), coffee, cocoa
and early vegetables. 1t employs
nearly two thousand men. More than
six hundred mules are daily in har.
ness engaged in drawing to ports of
shipment its varied products. 1t owns
and controls more than twenty es-
tates, comprising nearly 80, acres.
Free SCHOOLS are provided for the chill
dren of it's employees. It has brought
great prosperity to languishing
country and practically created an in
dustry; and its President, the man
whose foresight began ali this great
work and whose energy is now push
ing it onward, is commonly known
among the Jamaicans as the Banana
King. -Harper's Weekly.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1896-08-26
His First Plea.

In southern city few years ago .
young lawyer undertook the defense
of an old darkey who had been arrest
ed as chicken thief, and who in the
days of slavery had been owned by
the lawyers father.
1t was the young mans first plea,
and was rot brilliant in either con-
struotion Or delivery. The darky re-
ceiyed pretty severe sentence, his
guilt being we'll proven.
''Thank you sah, said the prisoner,
addressing the judge, cheerfully, when
the sentence had been pronounced; !;
"dat's mighty hard, but it amt any
whar near what expected. thought,
sab, dat between my character and
poor Mars Franks speech dey'd hang
me, shore !"-Youth's Companion.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1896-08-26
Tcmperature of the Deep Sea,

Members of the United States Hydro.
graphic Survey located at the Farce
Islands have been making some inter.
esting experiments in their efforts to
ascertain the temperature of sea water
at great depths. At depth of 400
fathoms (2400 feet) the uniform tenn
perature was forty-fve degrees, and
at 500 fathoms 5000 feet) it was thirty
two degrees. The most interesting
fact established by these inquiries is
that even at q freezing temperature
there is an abundant variety OF animal
forms-even greater than in the shall
low water where it is much warmer.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1896-08-26
Foolish Women.

sI can't help thinking how foolish
women are" said the philosopher, with
sad shake OF his head.
"What's the trorble now?" inquired
his thoughtless friend.
ssI was only thinking of the old
days when they used to walk soberly,
calmly and sedately along the street. ="
explained the philosopher. 'You must
remember those days."
Certainly. What of them?"
"The danger of sudden and violent
fall was reduced to minimum then,
and there was no necessity of guarding
against it or arranging to break its
force"
every true" admitted the thought
less friend.
"And now there is constant danger,
and serious falls are of common occur
renee, persisted the philosopher.
'.Also true" admitted the thought
less friend.
s.And they wore bustles then and
they don't now, 9 asserted the philoso-
pher. Chicago Post.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1896-08-26
Two Cunning Rogues.

Two oily tongued adventurers re.
Gently played very neat trick on the
people Of Marseilles. When they ar.
rived at the city couple of weeks
ago, they said they were the sons Of
Lord Douglas, and were at once vel.
coined as wealthy Englishmen. The
Sub-Prefect OF the city, who had evil
IDENTIFY not heard OF the Oscar Wilde
scandal, became very intimate with
the well dressed strangers, the result
being that one of them became en-.
gagged to his sister. When the we'd
ding day arrived, however, the BRIDE
groom was not to be found, and in
yestigation showed that he and his
friend had decamped, carrying with
them $4,000, which, under various
pretexts, they had inveigled from the
ccnading residents Of the city,
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1896-08-26
Electric Sunsiroke.

One of the most extraordinary mod
ern diseases is o peculiar affection,
most aptly termed electric sunstroke,
which not infrequently beialls work
men employed in melting metals by
means OF electricity. Itaprears from
observations made at the great steel
and iron works at Creuzot, France,
that the intense voltaic arc between
the carbon and the metal to be melted
emits rays which, even at o distance
OF ten meters, produce painful, hot,
pricking sensation, like that of burn,
on such uncovered portions OF the
body as the throat, face, and, more
especially, forehead.
The skin of the parts affected be-
comes either copper .colored or as'
sumes bronze hue; the eyes, in spite
of black glasses, are 80 intensely
dazzled as to be useless for some min
utes, after which xanthopsia yellow
vision) sets in, everything appearing
saffron colored, the coniunctive ore
inaamed, and there is gritty feel
ing as OF sand under the eyelids. There
is frequently great pain, accompanied
often by sleeplessress, and in some
instances, fever, says writer in Pear
sons Weekly.
After few days these symptoms
subside, the skin OF the affected parts
peels, and the patient is restored to
health.
Now, the remarkable thing about
oil this is that very little heat is radi.
ated from the electric arc used; al
the trouble arises from the light rays,
ard though it has no. yet been expert
mentally proved, there can be little
doubt that the blue and violet, i. e..
the chemical, rays are to blame.