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The Bryan daily eagle. (Bryan, Tex.) 1895-1898, 1896-09-12
CONE TO LIFE TOO SOON.
Hypnotic Experiment Almost Ended the
Life Of John HughgilL

Life Of John HuEhgllL
Providence. Sept. John Hugh.
gill, who allowed himself 20 be buried
alive ON the theory OF hypnotic sugges-
ton, induced by Professor Watson Of
London, has been unearth. Hughgill
went to sleep. but he woke mp IA min.
utes ahead Of schedule time. When
Hughgill came TO life he made II known
by pounding upon the coffin. and during
his struggles disIocated his knee pan.
When he was brought TO he lapsed into
a deaihlike stupor which the physicians
almost mistoOk for death. lie was
rubbed with whisky and Alconol, and
revived. Hughgill says he will never
do II again. When he awoke he i'm.
agined no had been buried alive and
this almost crazed him.
The Bryan daily eagle. (Bryan, Tex.) 1895-1898, 1896-09-12

SALisRrRY, Tex, Sept. if.-nfl ac
a light show lightning struck ia me
pasture Of A. W. Thornton, near this
place, igriiing the dry grass The ere
burned over 1900 acres before = was
stopped,
The Bryan daily eagle. (Bryan, Tex.) 1895-1898, 1896-09-12

Z RIlN, Sept. il.-Herr Oskar schus.
ter director nordeutscher handles gesel.
schaft, has been arrested on the charge
Of cmbezzlement Newspapers est.
mate the defaloation at 1900, 900 to D..
100000 marks. Other arrests are said
10 10 pending.
The Bryan daily eagle. (Bryan, Tex.) 1895-1898, 1896-09-12
PARKS & WALDROP.

You can build mp your city trade
wonderfully by advertising 10 the Daily
Eag'e. II goes everywhere 10 the city
and is read by hundreds Of people every
morning.
The Bryan daily eagle. (Bryan, Tex.) 1895-1898, 1896-09-12

PoRrsMoRE, o., Sept A. Willie Elan.
agan. rgsl years, daughter Of Michael
Flanagan, an engineer on the Findlay.
Fort Wayne and Chicago railroad, ATTIC.
mpicd to commit suicide by swallowing
carbolio acid. Prompt attention saved
A
The Bryan daily eagle. (Bryan, Tex.) 1895-1898, 1896-09-12

YOUNGSTOWN, o.. Sept. iI.-An ex.
rlosion Of powder AZ the mi Is Of the
Ohio Powder company today result.
Sd in the instmi death d two men.
The Bryan daily eagle. (Bryan, Tex.) 1895-1898, 1896-09-12
Charrsd WIlh Ems...I.msn,.

DETROIT. Sept ll.-Charlcs Y. Bry,
an, cashier Of the Detroit customhouse,
was taken into custody here charged
with the embezzlement Of 5000 o. the
governments money.
The Bryan daily eagle. (Bryan, Tex.) 1895-1898, 1896-09-12

CfDAR RAPIDS, Ia. Sept ii.-Rev,
DR.. James Marshall, president Of Coz
! llege. prominent for years as an edu.
Gator and Presbyterian divine, died sud.
denly this morning Of pneumonia
after an illness Of short duration.
The Bryan daily eagle. (Bryan, Tex.) 1895-1898, 1896-09-12

board, With gas aud bath appli' nee,
Ills Poeloflice 81. galveston. $50
Mrs. = r. wooten.
A Mexican ,tring baud arrived yes
lerday and have been dispensing melo-
by for contributions on the street.
Ira Gooch - three pairs Of the
finest matchea h.rscs IN Bryan and
i've Of the bes, reagle siasle-d'iyers in
town. Phonetic. Oct ]
The Bryan daily eagle. (Bryan, Tex.) 1895-1898, 1896-09-12

inuusaaaA "a "a. ~ C0rsuMpilon.
Asthma. Coughs. Colds ami Group are
cured every day by shllph's Cnr. Sold
hy I'D sIrlIsaIas
The Bryan daily eagle. (Bryan, Tex.) 1895-1898, 1896-09-12
ChnrconIl CHARCOAL

From one bushel To l0Co bushels
10 % cents a bushel. cave order. at
W. j. Christians gun shop.
30t JouN Wn.rg
The Bryan daily eagle. (Bryan, Tex.) 1895-1898, 1896-09-12
A Good Thing.

lfyou want to mend broken china,
glass, etc, by "siamese Cement the
best, not affected by water or heat
Sold and guaranteed by sam b. Wilson
& Co. Oct 10.
The Bryan daily eagle. (Bryan, Tex.) 1895-1898, 1896-09-12

Cotton seed hulls 81 per ton; de-
liyered, $3.50; meal 81 per sack.
Oct Ira Gooch, Phone ~
The Bryan daily eagle. (Bryan, Tex.) 1895-1898, 1896-09-12
Cotton Iseceipts.

Chairman Dem. TX. Com
The herald., 1896-12-15

and that in the west and south, where
the people had been actively engaged in
discussing the question of bimetallism
for several years, majority was in
favor of the Chicago platform. The prog
ress made by the free coinage people in
the eastern states is regarded by Mr..
Bryan as most encouraging, and he
argues that, on the basis of the election
returns, there is nothing to guarantee
permanence in the victory for the gold
standard. He regards it as certain that
the issue will be sprung again in 1900,
and that the free coinage people will be
successful. OF course that question will
have to be determined by other people
than Mr.. Bryan; still it may be as well
to say for his benefit, as well as of those
who will pass upon the question officially,
that any revival of the agitation will
result in the permanent transfer to the
ranks of the Republican party of what
has been the most distinguished and eff
fective element in the personnel of the
Democratic party. There will always,
we suppose, be a certain element in
political parties that will stand ready to
declare for free leather. or free wam-
pun, or free anything. but that element
is not the one that secures victory for
parties, and doubtless the leaders" of
the party, whose main concern is after
all. for the commercial side of politics,
win see the futility of revivifying dead
issue.
The herald., 1896-12-15
REEDS PROGRAM


Speaker Reed has decided to have a
perfected tariff bill ready to submit to
congress by the middle of February, and
then rush it through in about a week
when it will be sent to the senate. His
plan is to throw the blame for failure to
reconstruct the tariff schedule upon the
silver senators. Republican and Demo-
cratic, who last winter insisted upon a
free silver. rider. Reeds first purpose
is to show the high protectionists that
he is ready and willing to carry out the
pledges of the st. Louis platform, and
second to belittle the senate The next
congress, which will be convened in ex-
ira session, and over which Reed will
preside, will then rush the same bill
through and leave the senate to wrangle
over it all summer if it likes.
If the plan works all right Reed will
stand before the Republican party as it's
best man, for If the bill fails in the SEN
ate the fault will not be his, and If it
goes through he will get the credit for
The herald., 1896-12-15
BRYAN REVIEWED

The Herald of yesterday contained the
leading features and argument of w. ].
Bryan's article in the North American
Review, entitled, Has the Election Set
tied the Silver Question" The following
is Bradstreets review of the article and
it will be found decidedly interesting,
the more so because Of the bipartisan
character of Bradstreet's:
Mr. Bryan's official relations to the
late canvass give to the expression of his
opinions degree of interest which they
would not otherwise command, and for
that reason the article which he con-
tributes to the current number of the
North American Review cannot be
passed over without remark. No ques-
ton of contemporary American politics
possesses greater interest for the cti-
zens of the country than that as TO
whether the silver propaganda is to be
renewed in the next campaign. If it
should be, it will produce political re-
suits of the first Importance. For one
thing, it will bring about a lasting
schism in great historic party and will
insure the ascendency of its political op-
ponents for many years to come. The
men who left the Democratic party this
year believed that they We're doing so
temporarily, and that after the brief
midsummer madness which overlook
the official representatives of the party
at Chicago, the organization would re-
turn to condition of sanity which would
enable it to carry on its work of aiding
in the development of parliamentary
government by party in the United
States. IL the word of Mr. Bryan is to
be taken, however, this view is an err
roneous one, and we may look for per-
manent division of the party hereafter.
According to Mr.. Bryan's view. while
the election resulted in a temporary de-
feat for the cause of bimetallisin, that
cause scored permanent gain He saws
that the fact is significant that the sill
yer sentiment was strongest where the
question had been longest considered.
The herald., 1896-12-15
IN THE PUBLIC EYE.

The Sultan of Turkey gets E1, ,460. 900
year, the emperor of Austria manages
with G912, 500, while Emperor William
only receives eI30,000 year.
Professor Koch, who is on his way to
Cape Town, intends to study not only
the rinderpest, but also inherent
local forms of leprosy, in which he has
been taking great interest for some
years.
Sam Bettes, the cowboy preacher of
Yale. has plan for furnishing the poor
people of overcrowded cities with
Rome and a chance to make living by
going to Wyoming, where he will es
tablish colony.
Representative Boatner OF Louisiana
says that there are very few men in
congress from the south who honestly
believe in the theory of free coinage of
silver, and the majority of their con-
stituents do not believe in that theory"
1t is said that it was in his winter home
at ThOmasville, Ga, that Mark A. Hanna
began to lay his plans, two years ago,
for the nomination of Mckinley. The
presiGent-elect was then governor of
Ohio, and was Hanna's guest at Thom-
asville.
Lady Harcourt Is an American by
birth, and the daughter of the late John
Lothrop Motley the famous author of
The History of the Dutch Republic. She
first married a Mr.. Ives, and was a
widow when she became the wife of
Sir William Harcourt in 1876.
Wallace S. Jones, consul general of
the United States at Rome, is persona
grata at the Italian court, all because
Of deft compliment at an opportune
moment. When he was presented to
the king and queen the latter asked
him about his home in Florida Eve call
Florida the Italy of America" said he,
ready colonel and the queens favor
was won.
A curious and novel experiment has
been tried in Berlin. A number of prom
inent artists were requested to seDd to
an exhibition picture embodying their
idea of the personality of Christ. Among
them were Brutt, Kampf, Marx. Ga
briel. Max, Skarbina, Stuck, Thoma.
Uhde and Zimmerman. The Saviour
was represented at hagf-lengths, de-
tached from the surroundings ordinarily
in such pictures. with merely a land
scape or cloud effect for a. background.
Each painter also sent explanatory notes
with his work. stating why he had rep
resented the sacred figure in that par
ticular way
The herald., 1896-12-15
VOTE THE APPROPRIATIONS

The Los Angeles chamber of commerce
is deserving the good opinion of all Cali
fornians for agitating the question of
state appropriations to cover the expense
of making exhibits of California pro-
ducts at the Nashville. Omaha and the
Paris, France, expositiops There is no
doubt at all that great good would come
of such exhibits to the whole state, and
the legislature may be sure that liberal
appropriations for this purpose would
have the sanction of the business inter-
ests of the commonwealth 1t is esti-
mated that 10000 for the Nashville ex-
position, $4,000 for Omaha and 100000 for
Paris would be ample to make an elabor-
ate display of the raw and finished pro-
ducts of California.
No better way could be suggested to
advertise California than a good display
of the products of the soil, and with
liberal amount of printed matter descrip-
tive of the climate, topography and the
many advantages which this state pos
sesses over other sections of the country
for free distribution, no doubt immigra-
ton would be greatly stimulated. This
is a matter which should interest every
one who wants to see home seekers
coming this way and if other trade CEN
ters will follow Los Angeles lead the
required appropriations will no doubt be
forthcoming
The herald., 1896-12-15
AMERICA AND ENGLAND

The treaty of arbitration between the
United States and Great Britain, which
has been under consideration for some
time, is substantially completed and will
be ratified by the nations in interest in
the near future. No doubt this is the
most pronounced action America and
England have ever taken toward bring
irg the English speaking people of Eu-
rope and the western world in close
offensive and defensive relations as
against all other tongues 1t means that
hereafter war between these two ma
tions will be practically impossible, and
it also means that the influence of the
English-speaking people in the world
will widen and deepen until it dominates
in all the channels of trade, commerce
and ethics of the nations.
Very many political economists pre-
dict that the time will come when the
English language will be employed in
international official intercourse. and
that it will be taught in the public
schools of every country. But whether
so or not, it is true that the English
speaking people have in the past and still
lead in civilizations advance. 1t is en-
tirely fitting, therefore, that the two
great English-speaking nations should
draw closer together and be bound in
stronger ties of friendship. No doubt
the treaty will ultimately oblige the
United States to take official cognizance
of such affairs in the old world as the
Armenian question, and also of treaties
between countries which might restrict
or discriminate against American COM
merce. In short, this new agreement
between the United States and Great
Britain must of necessity grow into a
notice from the English-speaking peo-
pie of the world to all other peoples that
their standard of right, justice and per-
sonal liberty shall be the rule and guide
of conduct for all the nations.
The herald., 1896-12-15
MONUMENTAL IMPUDENCE

Unless Governor Morton of New York
is in his dotage and not responsible for
his acts, his advice to President Cleve
land to consult with Mr.. Mckinley con-
cerning the proper course for the United
States to take on the Cuban question
may be set down as monumental impu
dence. 1t is said that Governor Morton
had some correspondence with Mr.. Nc
Kinley before he undertook to advise Mr.
Cleveland, which, if true, involves the
president-elect in the discourtesy to a
degree that makes him appear insulting
degree that makes him appear insulting
ly officious.
visors about him In his official family,
but if he or they had occasion to con-
suit with outsiders, senators and con-
gressmen who are upon the foreign
affairs committee would be called to a
conference Governor Morton is very
old man, and it may be that his mind
is a trffle clOuded, out no sucn excuse
could be given for the part Mr.. McKin-
ley played in the affair; besides, no one
ever heard of McKinleys rails
ing his voice in Cuba's behalf
during the ten years war, but
it was the policy Of the Re
publican party, and it was in control of
the government all during those years,
to avoid even the appearance of extend
ing sympathy to the struggling patriots.
When Mr.. Mckinley is inaugurated
president he will have the right to talk
Cuba" to his hearts content, but mean
while it would become him better to re-
main in the background. 1t behooves
Manager Hanna to keep closer watch
upon his advance agent"
The herald., 1896-12-15
HUMOR OF THE HOUR.

Sam Singleton-"Do you honestly
mean to say that you spend less money
since you married?" Benny Dictus--
MY dear fellow, / have o'-Brooklyn
Eagle.
Fuddy-"Football was a crime in En-
gland during the reign of Henry VIII. -
Duddy-"The way they play it now is
blunder, which is worse than a crime
Boston Transcript.
Johnny (on Christmas eve)-"Mam-
ma, can't you give the baby something
to make him sleep tonight?" Mamma
why, johnny" Johnny-"Because if
Santa Claus hears him yelling he might
think we were all just as bad. Puck.
Will Take Them All.-Teacher-"Let t
US pray for the day when in our coun-
try there will be no north, no south, no
east, no west. Now, what is the great
agency that will accomplish this end 2"
Class-"Chicago go" Truth.
An interval Of Safety.-"Mr Tugby.
you must not speak so rudely to Nora;
you will hurt her feelings" Nonsense;
you could not hurt her feelings between
low and Christmas, If you pounded
them with a baseball club. Chicago
Record.
Aunt Dorothy had just finished her
preparations for bicycle ride, and ap-
peared at the door arrayed in boomers
"Qh, auntie." exclaimed Jerry, who was
playing in the garden, "are you going to
be my uncle? ?"-Harper's Bazaar
3, Preparing for the Worst.-"Vy, Hans,
how it vas dot you vos so mooch get
runken?' 1T like dis is. l vas heared
dot dere vas some talk dey vos going to
increase dot tax on beer soon yet So
/ get me pooty full vile dere vas yet
blenty time. e.'-Cleveland Plain Dealer
Mistress (reprovingly) - Bridget
breakfast is very late this morning.
noticed last night that you had company
in the kitchen, and it was nearly IL
O'Clock when you went to bed" Brid-
get-"Yis, mum; ! knowed you was
awake. fur I heard you moving around:
an / said to meeself y'd made slape this
mornin'. an wouldn't distoorb ye wild an
early breakfast, mum''-New York
Weekly.
Deeply Subtle Ratiocina tion.--'I be-
lieve saw you coming out of rum shop
this afternoon" said the Rev. Mr.. Will
gus Il guess you did," said the parish
ioner. ION business. hope?" mo; l
will be candid with you. went in to
get a drink. You see it was this way.
had plugged quarter passed on me-"
The herald., 1896-12-15

having expedited 1t. At heart, however
no doubt Reed sincerely wishes that this
and the next senate will insist upon
silver rider, for in that event Mckinley
would fail to accomplish the legislation
he is committed to secure and his ad
ministration would be a fiat failure, all
of which would be good for Reeds pres
idential prospects four years hence.
Reed knows that Mckinley is already
shaping things to carry the convention
in 1900, and he knows too that too much
prosperity would be bad for his own
chances. 1t needs no close observer to
see that congress is being handled for
political purposes and that the interests
of the people are not to be considered
to any great extent.
The herald., 1896-12-15
or any fact about the sta

champagne, or any fact about the sta
ton whatever.
These gentlemen talked over some
trouble about very annoying "scien-
lists" These people, it seems. want to
get into this station and have tried to
tear everything to pieces in looking at
the forest trees. One scientist" from
Los Angeles, so the Times man reports,
even broke off a branch of eucalyptus
and took it to Los Angeles. These out
RACES by scientists are bad enough,
but they went further and asked the
authorities to allow them to study at
the station as botanists are everywhere
allowed to do. This piece of imperti-
nence was properly rebuked. The
scientists" then procured resolution
to be sent to the regents asking for this
privilege. This gross request was made
in the face of rules that say:
mo special (students) privilege will
be allowed and if any was asked for. 1t
must be politely but firmly refused"
The regents, with their large sympa-
thy for this section and complete knowl-
edge of forestry, have ignored these re-
quests and treated the askers with the
contempt their earnest desire for truth
so richly merits.
The story about the Los Angeles
Scientist" stealing eucalyptus is a good
story, even if it is not true. A litEe
thing like the truth does not matter in
an agricultural discussion of Berkeley
forestry by Times man. The truth i'll
such affairs is immaterial, incompetent
and irrelevant If-these parties do not
know one tree from another they know
a champagne bottle from it's democratic
fellow of common beer.
The trouble with the forestry board
of nine years ago was that it planted
trees, sowed forests, fought fire, secured
lands and stations, introduced the first
out the way for all the forestry work
done in this country or in this state
since. The trouble about this was that
it left to others the dissipation of $4,000
worth of property acquired by the board
without cost to the state. The thorough
competency of the Berkeley manage
ment is shown by the fact that in spite
of serious embarrassment from the
lack of funds all the property except two
stations, has been dissipated, the prop
agating houses are, and have long been,
empty and many of the rarest forest
trees have died or been destroyed. 1t is
in fact within the possibilities that with
an enlarged appropriation for Berkeley
the forestal-corn. crop can be fertilized; 4;
as the Berkeley inspector suggests. and
that they can shortly give away or in
some way get rid of what remnants of
the old boards accumulation Of prop
erty are still in their hands.
The herald., 1896-12-15

An evening paper rises to defend the
prominent ministers of the Parkhurst
society, whose sensational course the
Herald has had occasion to criticise.
but never to attack in a "scurrilous and
absolutely indecent" way, as insinuated
by the Express, which concludes its
apology for the ministers by the remark
that they are as respectable as saloon
keepers and should be fairly treated"
Will the ministers think such an ex-
preston fair treatment and how will
they appreciate being thus damned by
faint praise
The herald., 1896-12-15
ROMANTIC FORESTRY

The agricultural editor of the Times
has been to the Santa Monica forestry
station. This bold, brave man is known
for his Earp-like nerve, yet. even he took
his precautions before entering the
sacred precincts of the ancient forest
station where "the foreman's privacy
must not be invaded"
He had a letter from Prof Hilgard OF
Berkeley, introducing him. Under these
propitious circumstances the Times man
found Mr. Barber, the foreman, very po-
lite indeed. Barber might, however, have
assumed that the Times would take
sides with Berkeley against it's own
neighbors and against the peoples in
terests because it always does.
The most interesting thing found was
a plantation of champagne bottles in the
forestry back yard. This plantation,
set out by the jolly old board of forestry
1t must therefore be at least four years
old and probably goes back to the malg
nart incumbency of the lone" mysteri-
ously alluded to. This would bring the
champagne plantation into it's ninth
year. The distressing feature of the
find is that the bottles were empty
AIRY one knowing newspaper man can
understand what this blow was The
emptiness of the bottles after nine years
demonstrates the depravity of the old
board and ali it's works and clearly
shows the great capacity for forestry of
the present management. The one sad
fact still stands out, that some one got
away with the champagne.
The old board also planted the forest
trees at the station, but the Times
editor, standing in With the Berkeley
strangers, did not mention little thing
like that. That the board of forestry
obtained the forest station without cost
and planted the forest trees on it was
completely eclipsed by the far more cred
liable proceeding of sowing the back
The polite Barber and the brave truth
seeking editor also looked over one of
the station buildings. According to these
gentlemen this building was charged to
the state at $370O, while they claimed
that it could now be put up for $500.
This is another demonstration of the
forestry capacity of the last four years.
The forestry board was blowing in a
house surplus on champagne-ergo-t
present Berkeley outfit is doing good
forestry work The polite Barber is a
good judge of what 1t would cost to put
up house just now in that neighbor-
hood. He has just finished with his bo-
tanico-carpenter skilled hands a pri-
vate house on private lands 1t is only
fair to the foreman to say that he vol
unteered the information to a gentle
man. who repeated it in our hearing
that he had constructed this private
house on Sundays and in the evening. or
at night, or at hours not paid for by the
university. The well-known veracity of
the Berkeley agriculturists. backed
by the freedom from personal bias. SO
we'll and favorably associated with the
Times, makes these. stories quite relia-
hle, though related by persons who
knew nothing about either forestry o,
The herald., 1896-12-15

Yes" And there are only two places
a man can get rid of plugged quarter:
u church and a saloon. And, of course
l didn't want to pass it on the contribu-
ton box" ''Ah."--Indianapolis Jour-
nal
The herald., 1896-12-15

The murder Of Maceo has stirred the
people of this country as they have not
been stirred in many a day, and the con-
sequence is more than dozen recruit
ing offices have been opened since the
event.