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The Bryan daily eagle. (Bryan, Tex.) 1895-1898, 1897-06-10

LILLIAN STEELE
Holman. the IA
nous Indiana con-
gresham. who died
In Washington re-
Gently was born at
a pioneer home
stead called Verao-
stan. near Aurora.
Dearborn county,
Indiana. Sept 6,
is-2 and his home
The Bryan daily eagle. (Bryan, Tex.) 1895-1898, 1897-06-10
HAD A SURE THING.
BRACE OF CRlMlNALB ADOPT
NEW PLANS.

Pair Of Them Have iicrn Arrested
IN Port Townsend. Washington Prove
TO Rc the Principals IA - Celebrated
nold Rnhbcry.
The Bryan daily eagle. (Bryan, Tex.) 1895-1898, 1897-06-10

why, yes. my dear
We'll. won't God have lots Of fun
teaching Aunt Susan 90 ny2"
The Bryan daily eagle. (Bryan, Tex.) 1895-1898, 1897-06-10

AIR maid" I said.
and may l ask
The Hu m m q ra
you have accnT'
And bluahing red.
she glanced az
me,
And faltcred.
Just sixteen"
"Ah! baHhful little
country lass.
40 bcauX you
hnyp, ! wccn."
And c1yly then shs
glanced az me.
The Bryan daily eagle. (Bryan, Tex.) 1895-1898, 1897-06-10
MEET JAS0N'S WIFE.
1By Emma NJ wLso.l

" 40 only 2 IfaN-
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but the great events
OF life all comes 10
MS In fragments.
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son. Rachel was
his daughter. He
was not a man OF
prepossessing APP
pearance. His coat
was rough and
The Bryan daily eagle. (Bryan, Tex.) 1895-1898, 1897-06-10

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press
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by medical journals with some ncredu- Iity It is said that the victims knew nothing of the presence of the robbers untl they awoke late the next day and found that the house had been footed. This is the point which raises tEe 6oubts of the medical experts. They hoId that it would be next to impossible for the robbers to have accomplished this without disturbing the slumbers of their victims. Scientists have tried with poor success to place sleeping pa tients under the influence of chloroform without disturbing them. DOlbear is said to have only succeeded in the ex- neriment with ten persons out of total of twenty-nine whom he treated. This was when trained scientist worked with the greatest care. Physicians say that it is rarely, except in the case or infants. that the chloroforming of sleep ing persons is successful. That burg lars untrained in the use of anaesthet- ics should succeed so completely as ID this case seems most improbable.
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roc about 14,O0O,0OO, scarcely lla Io the size of the fraternity mem
 n,ba development of these fraternal or1 benevolent organizations has been 1oroest in recent years because of the extension of what is known as the 'sys- tom of sick benefits" Members have been guaranteed a certain means of support in case of sickness and a pro- Dortionate return in the way of life in- surance for the money paid in when they die. and these features have serv- ed to popularize the various oroers to an extraordinary degree. In this re- spect also the organizations have been oI marked benefit.
 The aid which is given to members is in no sense a charity and does not de- preciate the recipients self-respect, while at the same time the public is re- lieved of many burdens which would otherwise be imposed on it. These or ders, in caring for their sick and provid- ing for the families of their dead, are really doing much of the work that formerly was done by the church, only they have enlarged this work to an i'm mense extent. They are wholesome factors in every community, and be- sides the direct financial benefits they distribute they exert a moral influence which cannot be overestimated.
The St. Johns herald., 1897-10-16

One effect of the great changes which have taken place in modern warfare, and especially the improvement in the destructive power of modern gunnery, is the abandonment of the use of colors in the armies of Europe. Lord Wolseley pointed out this the other day when he presented a set of the colors of the cele- brated regiment, the Sixty-fourth foot, to be placed upon the walls of cathe- dral In the wars of the future the sol diers will have to draw their inspira- ton from something else than the regi- mental colOrs. This, too, will do away with the brave and useful officer, the color sergeant, for, as the English gen eral says, it would be madness and crime to order a man in a war nowa- days to carry the cOlOrs into the battle. Every color so displayed would be shot away at the first fire and its bearer killed. The German army, while dis carding the colors themselves, has still retained the poles upon which the flags once waved, but these have to be car ried so as not to be seen by the enemy. This, 1t would seem, could be of little service to their own soldiers. It takes the actual sight of the national or regi- mental colors to inspire the warrior. Not to be able to see them will, for the veterans, be almost like seeing defeat.
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Some men in Chicago are working up- on an umbrella sail which they pro- nose to experiment with upon small sailing craft. This sail was tried at the Cowes regatta and made a sensation among the sailors of yachts. Scientists and navigators believe that with cer- tain notifications this sail will be made to take the place of the ordinary can vas article manipulated by ropes. The new sail resembles a Japanese umbrel- la. and its upper edge is secured neal l the top of the mast with blocks anG I...1,..I us 4auu man sheet Is Iasueu ed at some distance from the bottom of the sail The shape may be changed at will to suit the occasion by opening or shutting it just as though it were an umbrella. It can be adapted to the ease or violence of the wind with much more facility than the ordinary sail Not only landlubbers but expert sailors have long thought that there could be improvements made in the present manner of handling sail ships. The old method of sails has always seemed very clumsy and uncertain, and maybe this umbrella arrangement will sim plify and make much safer the hand ling of small boats.
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Old Glory.-our flag is the symbol of


 intelligence, equality, freedom and Christian civilization.-Rev. J. O. Will son, Methodist, New York City.
 Amusement-A certain amount of amusement is absolutely necessary to health and happiness. It is the spice Of life. It gives zest to labor.-Rev. M. Benham, Presbyterian, Pittsburg, Pa.
 Cultures Enemy.-Culture and ignor- ance from time immemorial have been at war. The one elevates and emanci- pates, while the other degrades and en- thralls.-Rev. G. c. Houghton, Episco- palian, Hoboken, N. J.
 Brotherhood.-In the true religion the open sign of fellowship is well-do- ing, and the servants of humanity, whatever their varying names and tongues, are brothers.-Rev. N. M, Mann, Unitarian. Omaha, Neh.
 Mutual Help.-The nations go far and best when they are mutually helpful. Wealth or power gained by crushing or cheating a weaker power Is no gain. but loss.-Rev.- E. S, Todd. Methodist, Baltimore, Md.
 Mormonism.-When Joseph Smith prophesied to his Mormon dupes that the day would come when he would be President of the United States he was a poor prophet.-Rev. s. w. Brown, Methodist, Kansas City.
 Human Creation.-We might as we'll try to stop the incoming tide as to try to alter the generally accepted fact that the law of human creation was by develOpment.-Rev. D. B. Warner, Epis- copalian, New Orleans, La.
 Profanity.-American are said to be the profanest people in the world. The men swear, the women swear, and children with the lisp hardly out of their speech swear.--Rev. F. Nj. Good child, Baptist, New York City.
 Sons and Fathers.-Those of the younger generation are no longer satis- fled with the simple recording of their fathers deeds. As their fathers were men of action and conviction, so would they be.-Rev. Lyman Ward, Uniyer- salist, New York City.
 Missionary Work.-The devotion to a sublime standard is the only motive that can sustain the missionary spirit In the inevitable hardships and sacri- fees that attend the preaching of the gospel to the heathen.-Father Joseph V. O'Connor, Catholic, Philadelphia, Pa.
 Woman's Way.-The best service pos sible to any woman, however richly lowered, is to do womanly things in a womanly way, thus illustrating in her life and character the loftiest type Of womanhoOd.-Rev. Arthur Little, Bap- tist, Dorchester, Mass.
 Marriage.-There are tricks in love as well as in trade. One of them is to make things seem to be what they are not AS you value your life, young woman, do not marry manikin, hat ter's show block, tallor's lay figure Rev. Madison c. Peters, Reformed New York City.
 Yellow Journalism.-A stamp of newspaper Is being spread broadcast over the land which not only is a dis grace to the high vocation of the press, but Is debasing the tastes, destroying the loftier aspirations and running the souls of thousands upon thousands Rev. Robert l.. McFarlane, Episco. palian, Medina, Ohio.
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Naval MisharS.

We have good navy, and we do not appreciate it. AS matter of fact, cas- ualties to our new armOrclads and cruisers have not been particularly ire quent when their size and their number are considered. In this country every trivial mischance Is caught up and ex- plotted by the sational newspapers, but nothing is said of similar accidents in foreign navies. Barring the destruc. tion of Admiral Kimberly's fleet by the Samoan hurricane in 1889, which no skill or foresight could have prevented. our naval service for many years has been remarkably free from really seri- Ous disasters.
 There is nothing in our records to compare with the caIsiZing of the Brit ish frigatp Captain with half thou sand men in 1870, or tLe fatal collision of the British lrOnclads Vanguard and Iron Duke in 1S7J CT that of the Ger man irOnclad Kaiser Wilhelm and Grosser Kurfurst tic year following, when 300 men perished, or the loss of the British training ships Eurydice and Atlanta in 1878 ihd 1880 with GJ? OIfi- cers, sailors and apprentice boys. or the sinking of the British flagship Victoria, with Admiral TyrOn, twenty-two off cers and 33O sailors, by collision with the Camperdown on June 22, 1898, in the Mediterranean, or the wreck of the Spanish cruiser Reina Regente, on March 10, 1895, with 42O officers and Seamen.
 The list of minor accidents to foreign naval vessels in the past few years would be too long to enumerate. But the standing of the British ironclads Howe and Anson, the flagship Am phion and the cruiser Sultan were far more grave affairs than any such acci- dents winch have occurred to any of our own heavy vessels within this De- riOd. We have lad DIT fair share of troubles, perhaps, LUt no more than that.
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There is no great loss without some gain. The depression of the past year has been accompanied by a noteworthy diminution of immigration from the Old World. The completed returns of the arrival of immigrants in the fiscal year ended June 30, 1897, show that one hundred and eighty thousand, in round numbers, landed in America. This was a smaller number than in any previous year since 1879. The num- Der was less by one hundred and sixty two thousand than in the fiscal year ended June 30, 1896, and nearly hun dred thousand less than in 1895, which was reckoned year of small immigra- tion. As compared with the immigra- tion for 1892, which was more than six hundred and twenty-three thousand, the figures for last year are indeed small. They represent, however, a large mass in the aggregate; and the fact that among them there were about thirty-eight thousand, not including young children, who could neither read nor write, shows that the immigration was larger than it should have been by at least that figure. Until such Hitter ate immigrants are definitely excluded, our immigration laws will certainly be in a defective state. The total amount of money brought into the country by immigrants, presumably to be expend- ed here, is commonly spoken of as con- tuting a new element of wealth for the country. The immigrants of 1897 brought with them a total amount q trife in excess of six hundred and sev- enty thousand dollars. This Is q re spectable sum, but as it amounts to less than four dollars to each imml- grant, it will be seen that the line which separates them as a whole from destitutiOn on their arrival is very mar row. Moreover, it is highly probable that more money was sent out of the country, earned here, to bring these immigrants, than they brought with them, in which case the balance of the account is on the wrong side of our ledger after all.
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DANES IN AMERICA.
They Are IndustI ious, Economical
 and Make Good Citizens.

They Are IndustI ious, Economical
 and Make Good Citizens.
 The State of Iowa has one Danish CT. Most of these Danes have been in the country less than twenty years. Many of them came without a cent and hired themselves out to American farm CTS.
 It has been an interesting study to watch the steady rise of these young men, some of them in time buying their employers farms. In Jackson Town ship, Shelby County, within a radius of about two miles, can be found five farms of POO or more acres each, be longing to Danes who, twenty years ago, were considered very poor. In the settlement are a number of Danish farms of over 800 acres each. When we consider that these men came here un- able te speak our tongue, unfamiliar with American customs and laws, un- used to the products of Yankee inven- tive genius, and withal, lacking the al mighty dollar and the Danish krone, their success must be declared phe- nOmenal.
 The secret of their advancement seems to lie in their unceasing industry and rigid economy. Every nook and corner of their land is carefully culti- vated. Reproductive points and ridges upon which so many farmers shower nothing but curses are treated to load after load of fertilizing ele- ments. Nothing is wasted. Sometimes, however, this spirit of thrift reaches a degree not sanctioned by asthetic hor ticulture. On certain road leading through the settlement lives a man whose home life seems to be no less glad, sweet song" from the fact that his front yard is planted to onions!
 No less rapid has been the reward of Danish talent engaged In pursuits oth- CT than agriculture. Every town of any size in the district in question has fiOurishing stores managed by Danish merchants. Nearly all trades have some Danish followers. Many of our teachers are Danes or DaniSh-Ameri- cans, the county superintendent of Shelby, for example, graduate of the Iowa State Normal School, being a Dane.
 AS regards good citizenship, no fault can be found with the Danish people. They are thinking class, as a rule, and know something of current events and the issues of the times. The aver age Dane votes as intelligently for member of Congress as he votes for member of the Danish Rigsdag. As to party allegiance, the Danish voters are almost evenly divided between the Democratic and Republican parties. There are also few Populists among them.
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Another attempt has been made, thi:
 time by Colonel Higginson, to write ( suitable national anthem for our cOun- try, and to furnish 1t with music which shall be at once original and dignified. The endeavOr is a worthy one. But one cannot help remarking that the nation al songs which find places in the hearts of a people are rarely if ever the prod uct of deliberate and conscious effort however patriotic. They are struck out, as by inspiration, in the heat of some national crisis, In the stress of some na- tional movement. The conditions have never yet been ripe for the birth of the real national anthem of the United SfafoS
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at the seaside. A Newport correspond ent says the golf widows have hus. bands who play all day, stay away to lunch, then come home at night all tired out and want to sit down to SUD- per of beefsteak and potatoes, declar- ing that they are too hungry to trifie with course dinner" After a hearty meal they smoke a strong pipe on the veranda and go to bed at 10. Golf wid. ows are of all ages, even grandfatherly husbands deserting their wives to ''chase a bouncing ball over half of the island" The game should be modified so that the grandmOthers may share in the fun.
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Fishermea orst. Pierre and Miquelo


 Near the west coast of Newfoundland are the islands of St. Pierre and MiQue- lon. They are the last relics of the once great possessions of France in North America. They have French governor and a uniformed French police Many French fishermen make their headquar- ters on these islands. These Frenchmen "sail their trawlS." Their fishing yes sells are much larger than ours, and ill., clude even barkS. Instead of dOries they carry sail boats. The vessel comes to anchor, and near her each boat drops its first trawl-keg overheard. Then one boat will set a zigZag trawl by tacking against the wind, another will run a straight-away course, so that the travis, while all converging toward the vessel, do not interfere with one an- other. Then, too, the fishermen can in foggy weather get back to the vessel by simply undermining their travis. Our fishermen set theirs where they think they will hook the most fish, and the vessel, instead of coming to anchor, cruises about where she put the dories over.-St. Nicholas.
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Atlanta Journal: The city boy grows up in contracted space. The square upon which he lives is his world, the little things of earth he despises, and he begins to burn the candle of exist ence too soon. For him there is little opportunity for the display of sterling manhood or the enjoyment of life in it's relation to nature. The country boy is, from the first, a child of necessity, and early learns the lesson of how to make ends meet. The ways and means of life Is hard and effective school from which to graduate. The pupils therein cannot sit 0own with folded hands anG wait for help, but they must help them selves, and at once. The broad fields give scope to the mind and strength to the heart-the country boy is a man at 10, though he does not know it. and at 2O he stands young giant, while his city cousin is the dyspeptic victim cG vile cigarettes and bad hours.
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The town of Lewiston, Me, is gov erned by Mayor who pays only SPA in taxes, seven Aldermen who pay an average of $4S and twenty-one Council men who pay an average of $37 each. There are busybodies in Lewiston who thing that this is not fair to the tax payers of a town of that importance. As matter of fact, all things being equal. there should be no question as to the ability of the authorities of that place to govern it properly, irrespective of the amount of their individual taxes As rule, however, the men who govern cities are not the heavy taxpayers. II Is too often the case that the disposi- tion of millions of public funds is in the hands of a saloonkeeper or some man who has failed in the retail grocery business. By the way, how many figures would 1t take to represent the taxes of the average alderman of Chicago?
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According to a Tacoma special a whale has been utilized as a motive power for boats in that vicinity. This Is hint that may be of interest to gold seekers impatient to reach the Klon- dike region. but unable to find vessel room. The most serious objection to the whale as a motive power grows out of the fact that the power might take 1t into it's head to go in the wrong direc- ton or even take deep sea sOundings, which might prove little inconvenient to the "argonauts" following him.
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blurred and second was taken, the exposure Of her cheek to the rays last ing fifteen minutes. The effect was soon after evident in the unnatural red ness of the cheek and blOodshOt eyes, and the next day the pain was so in- tense as to make her hysterical. Her face, too, was almost black, and her hair began to fall out.
 fer family physician, Dr. Griswold, who was called, says the extent of the blistering is most remarkable. It runs down the neck, through the linen of the nigh collar. The discoloration is still very marked, and the doctor cannot say whether the hair will grow again. All Of it on one side of her head has com pletely fallen off.
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While most institutions of learning are reaching out for students and mak- ones, Williams, always an exclusive college, is preparing to restrict the number who will be taught there. Not only are the standards to be raised and the requirements to be increased, but fewer pupils will receive financial aid. As this is not done to meet the require ments of economy, the advisability of the policy may be questioned. But our colleges are undergoing some strange changes of late.
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Kaiser WiIhelm's plan of making war in a Pullman palace car looks little like an attempt to revive the methods of the ancient Greeks at the siege of Troy. The wooden horse worked beau tifully, and so may the Kaiser's on paper, as many of his devices do, but the latter might prove slightly inn practicable if the enemy should happen to capture the track upon which his car fortress runs
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The EraaernaI nrdera.

The recently pUblisala statistics of the fraterral and .-nev0lent associa- tions of the United States present some facts that may be surprising to per sons who have never looked into the subject. The total membership of these orders is 7,350,000 o- which number about 1000, GOO nr1 Free Aasons, more than SOOO0O Odd Fellows and about 5OO,0O0 Knights of Tythias. The rest are scattered throughout many organ izations, the best known of which are the Ancient Order Of Foresters and the Ancient Order Of United Workmen. The size of this fraternity army can be better appreciated when 1t is consid- cred that at the last presidential cleo ton the total vote cast in the United
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CucuEnbers and Reaches.

"Housekeepers like 10 be reminded now and then. remarked a well-knowr lady to a Washington Star reporter, ''o1 lots of HttIe things tu connection with their affair II is u1J t1a- they do not know of then themselves. but with the thousands of other Htrie things to re member they for-et. } -s l0r nat req son that l would like to remind them that cucumbers are the most effective destroyers Of reaches If anything that I know of. It is not necessary to cut up the cucumbeTs, for the ordinary trimmings from them x hen icing pre- pared for tAc table will suffice Simply scatter the peel or trimmings about in the places where +be roacLes are seen. The roach eats them and thereby ends his existence. In case the roach does not feel hungry enough the first night and the cucumber Is not sufficiently attractive threw the trimmings into the stove the next morning and set out a fresh lot the next night. Tie green coloring matter that kills the reaches is the same thing that makes cucum- bers so annoying at times to the human family
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A woman recently returned from the Klondike says she received fifty offers of marriage before she was fifty miles up the Yukon. But she waited until she reached the mines and married 2 man who WAS panning out Ss't''tHh " month. Declining a score of proposals a day fin Alaska must be almost as try Ing as the mosquitoes.
The St. Johns herald., 1897-10-16
VICTIM OF THE x RAY.
Young Woman s Terribly Burned al

Young Woman Is Terribly Burned and
 Made Bald by Its Intense Power,
 Miss Josie Mcdonald of New York has had strange experience with the X rays, and her pitiable condition is evidence of their terrible power. Miss Mcdonald had some teeth drawn and a violent pain in the jaw followed which the dentist could not account for. He took her to a laboratory where a pho tograph of her jaw was taken by the rays, the sitting lasting ten minutes. This photograph was somewhat