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

Mary Mcdonald ls o. gl'1rgl woman
Twins Boo Philadelphia who Says tho
Chicago World doesn't know Do gu.
For why.' she asks JuH Calls Re
Gently, thla pink paper vh.ea. MAR
0a'F. has mo- rcgrrd f.r ifs own rlpu-
iHtlon. tuil about woman iu Gale
lou.a val Dr. Do, yD1rs of age. "Now.
mistah. DID, Gays MARY els $50 mahs., "
As She srya Co., there can D., u1 doubt
oi iis truth Nay o. foar fcrt m
hoiEEt 500 much taller than when
Boz is,N. she used tD slyc butter. eggs
aud mlF iu tho soldiers of Washing
ton a' Valley Forsc. lu behalf OF bog
mis,g,El
The Bryan daily eagle. (Bryan, Tex.) 1895-1898, 1897-06-06

ST. Patricks Church, Galway. Ire.
land, a magnificent structure, has not
bgcn opened Cor thiriy-n,c years, be-.
cause plot ut ground iu front of the
building WAS owned by O man who had
% bitter dislike 20 the f0rm 90 worship
carried oa within. and ho built a high
wall directly n front of the church.
preventing access The man however,
recently died. and, the bishop having
boueh, the ground. the church will soon
De rcopenod for the nrat time since 1852
Exchange.
The Bryan daily eagle. (Bryan, Tex.) 1895-1898, 1897-06-06

Mr. 'rrrn-Tba vomau's paec On thls
here paper says that women o. tce.l-
MIN 90 learn how TO think Dor thcm-
solves Whore ON earth win YOU bo
90 whom THAT comes into ash,onG Mrs
jasou-l s'pasc I'M go ON "a the old
way; th.nkin' Tor you. indianapolis
Journal.
The Bryan daily eagle. (Bryan, Tex.) 1895-1898, 1897-06-06
DEFENDS DEAD MANS HONOR,
Murat IIalstead Has the slayer Of his
Cousin Indicted.


Murat Halstead's vigorous defense
OF the honor OF Louis w. Halstead Of
Chicago. mis- cousin. who was shot and
killed In Atlanta on April by Charles
N. Reid. resulted the other day In most
unexpected action by the grand jury,
who indicted Reid. his wife. Eugenle.
her brother, Jere Garfield and Edwin
bennington. The killing was a most
unusual one. Halstead was In town
The Bryan daily eagle. (Bryan, Tex.) 1895-1898, 1897-06-06

Mr. Cay0ri "GouJ-ty. love IN case
I am really prevented from coming
home 90 dinner I viii send you o. telc-
gram Mrs C.-"Nou need not trouble
20 send a. have already taken il out
% your poclot Tit-Bits
The Bryan daily eagle. (Bryan, Tex.) 1895-1898, 1897-06-06

4 very unusual even, was the hang
ing % Lee Tons. a Chlnaman. at
Spokane. Wash Tong went straight "a
Mclean mans heaven. having pro
icsscd religion shortly before be died.
The Bryan daily eagle. (Bryan, Tex.) 1895-1898, 1897-06-06

Mrs. Grsy-lts positively dlsgraccful
Black has begun counting again before
bis dead wife Is hardly cold. Mr.. Gray
My dear think you wrong Black
happen TO know that his wife vas Gre
mated--Ninneapolis Times.
The Bryan daily eagle. (Bryan, Tex.) 1895-1898, 1897-06-06

Y sister Kate and
/ we're nearly Of an
age. but we were
not alike IN any
way except that We
were both tlll aud
both had irccklCs!
These troubled us,
many were the Ok
pcrimcnts We trie
to remove from our
faces the objection
The Bryan daily eagle. (Bryan, Tex.) 1895-1898, 1897-06-06

FootpAd Hold up yer hands"
Pedestrian tealmlyl-" have been out
shopping all day with my wife" by
links Here, take this quarter. New
York Weekly.
The Bryan daily eagle. (Bryan, Tex.) 1895-1898, 1897-06-06

Hushand-What DO you want with
that thing. Youu never have any use
Tor q In the world. Wife-But just
think. Il was marked down from 1i.iG
10 % oontsl-Cloyelan Leader.
The Bryan daily eagle. (Bryan, Tex.) 1895-1898, 1897-06-06

~. -
- not In India, where
miracles, view
from this distance, seem natural That
the souls OF human beings. for purposes
which men can hardly pretend TO IN
derstand, may enter the bodies OF the
lower animals and dwell there for years
is a conviction familiar 20 all who have
ever read a word OF Oriental mysticism.
But no one would expect TO find the be-
lief In the transmigratiun OF souls spec
ialized In the everyday affairs OF plain
people IN the state OF New York. The
strangest things happen. however, and
not always In PARKWAY places. Some
times they are at our very doors, as In
the present instance No opinion Is eX-
pressed or even limited at. This Is a
question Of fact. This is the way the
doctrine OF mctompsychosis appears
when II Is viewed al close quarters. II
one should hunt the whole country over
Il would be impossible 90 find n more
firm believer In theosophy, In all It's
forms and phases. than Mrs. Henry X.
Gillette. OF Vestal Centre. n. Y. for she
"a certain that the soul OF her sister has
taken refuge In the body Of a Maltese
cat Il Is also safe 10 make the state
ment that no cat IN the entire world
receives more attention and better care
than this same Maltese cat. Il has a
bedroom. fully furnished. for its own
exclusive use. has ~ place At the fam
ily table. eats with the family and Is
guarded with as much care az Il would
b. II Il were one OF Mrs. Gilette's own
children.
vestal Centre Ia a typical country vii
lage. situated IN bronze county. about
fifteen miles from Binghampton. The
only public conveyance that stops at
this village Is an old stage. once paint
cd rcd. The Gllettes for several gen
erations have been farmers. and the
homestead. with its eighty acres OF
more. Il situated on n branch road. near.
~ a mile from the cluster Of houses and
the country store and postoffce com.
blned that form the village OF VestA
Centre. The farm house Ia a fair-siled
comfortable looking dwelling. two stor
les high. with a small lawn and mum
erous trees In front. n garden with cur
rant and berry bushes In the rear an,
n cluster OF barns. sheds and out
houses near Il. Mrs. Gillette IA n ros.
matron OF thlrty-hve. and well educat
ed. She Is the mother OF three children
two boys and a girl. A oonsplcuou
The Bryan daily eagle. (Bryan, Tex.) 1895-1898, 1897-06-06
CATS WELL TREATED
ITs MISTRESS BELIEVES THAT
1T HAS A SOUL.

Mrs. Henry X. Gillette Of vestai Centre,
New York. believes That the Departed
Spirit Of Her sister Has Taken ros-
session Of Feline Body.
The Bryan daily eagle. (Bryan, Tex.) 1895-1898, 1897-06-06

The whlpplng-post has been revived
In Missouri after four years Of disuss
The Bryan daily eagle. (Bryan, Tex.) 1895-1898, 1897-06-06

In all Europe there are 6.27l protco-
tors "a the colleges and universities.
The Bryan daily eagle. (Bryan, Tex.) 1895-1898, 1897-06-06

HIS is n plain state
ment OF the facts In
a peculiar caAf-a
case illustrating
one OF the strange
beliefs Of tbeo-
sophy. exemYlined
In an everyday
woll-ordered. hap
by American home.
not In India. where
miracles. vie W e d
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1897-11-18

The bright days--they are coming, NO
matter what they say;
Beneath the SHOWS of winter dreams
the violet of May.
And sometime-in the future, In the
golden years to be,
Therell be blossoms In the desert and
the streams'll sing to sea.
The bright days-they are coming:
there's twinkling of the light.
IN the storm that sheds its shadows on
the starry brow of night.
And some time-in the future, when
the clouds have faded far.
The sun will greet the morning and
a. the night will claim star.
The bright days-they are coming; In
the cities, in the dells
There's a whisper Of the music from
the mornings golden bells.
And sometime-in the future, when
the skies are bending blue,
Therell be angels at the windows and
they'll kiss their hands to you!
r. L. Stanton, in the Constitution,
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1897-11-18
Army OF Russia.

The army of the Car of Russia is
composed of twenty-one corps d'arme,
divided up into fourteen conscriptions.
The strength of each corps is about
$4,000 men. The infantry comprises
about l6J regiments of the line, TWEEN
ty regiments of chasseurs, sixteen regi-
ments of the guard, says an exchange.
This is very fine army well orga-
nized, of great resisting power and pro-
digious tenacity. IL is armed with a
repeating rifle very much like the
French Lebeland and which is highly
by the Russian Generals. The
artillery is composed of ninety-six
siege batteries. 1914 field batteries. If
teen mountain batteries, forty-three
batteries a cheval, and three mortar
Observation-Disclosures nearly 5000
light pieces and I 800 siege guns. Be.
sides this, there are brigades of engi-
neers. military train, railroad electri-
clans, torpedoists, velocipedists, police,
etc. AS to the imperial cavalry, 1t is
well known to be one of the finest and
by far the most considerable In Eu-
rope. II is composed of regulars and
regiments like Cossacks, for example,
who enjoy a certain degree of indie
pendence and some privileges. and who
yet submit to the usual discipline. This
cavalry is divided into GIL squadrons,
of which 352 are regular cavalry, cui-
rassiers. dragons. uhlans, and hus-
hars, and 80 Cossacks.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1897-11-18
Black Spots on Railways

1t is a peculiar fact, but one well
within the knowledge of railway Of
ficials, that no sooner is one person
found killed upon the line than other
similar fatalities may be expected at
the same spot. More especially does
this apply, says London Answers, to
places where are found the bodies of
persons mysteriously killed.
A little over year ago an aged man
was discovered almost decapitated
upon a Yorkshire railway. The dis
covery was in less than two months
followed by the deaths of three others
at the same spot-an out-of-the-way
one, to which access was difiicult--un-
der similarly inexplicable circum-
stances.
At one place on Midland line no
less than four people we're found with
in twelve months-all within ten yards
of the deathplace of the first person
killed there, and all having ended their
lives with almost similar injuries, in
flicted by the engine of the same ex-
press.
From these and similar instances
railway officials have arrived at the
conclusion that, however the first per-
son is killed at any place, II immedi-
ately becomes a point of attraction to
morbid-minded persons In the locality
who seek II out for the purpose of sui
eide, and now, when any two persons
have been found dead in succession at
one place it is common practice to
have the spot watched.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1897-11-18
SMALL FRUITS.

The current bushes and grape vines
can very easily be increased by taking
well-ripened wood of this years
growth, as soon as the leaves fall, and
cutting into pieces of three buds each
Set these so that only the top bud Is
above ground in good soil upon the
south side ST some building or wall,
about 10 inches apart, and when the
ground has frozen an inch or so deep,
cover with mulch few inches deep.
Do not uncover until the ground thaws
out in the spring, and IL the work is
well done, nearly every one will live
and begin to grow. Keep them free
from weeds through the summer. and
they will be ready to set in the fall or
the following spring. as may be pre-
ferred. One can scarcely have too
much Of these fruits, and the greater
number do not use them half freely
enough. But little space is required to
grow enough of them for family use.
and not only every farm, but every
village lot should be supplied with
them. Neither those who own or
those who hire tenements like to ex-
pend much in growing fruit around the
houses, yet IL the owners would try TO
improve their grounds in this way
they would possibly get better class
OF tenants and keep them longer and
some of them could use money to pay
rent that now goes to the fruit pedlers.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1897-11-18
A MIGHTY NIMRoD.
A North Carolina Hunter Who Has Killed
400 Bears.


400 Bears.
Captain w. H. Basnight of Roanoke
Island, who Is on visit to Roanoke,
is the celebrated bear hunter OF Dare
County. He has helped to kill over
400 in his time.
1.-The season for hunting bears Is
near at hand" said the captain, and
1t will be a good season. judge from
the berry crop. 1t is cut off back in
the woods and there is plenty on the
water The bears will come out to get
the gumberries and then we will Kill
them and have fine sport. We ship
the meat to Baltimore, after eating all
we want selling it at 121a cents
a pound we sell the bears skin for
500 and bear oil sells WE'LL
"How do you kill the bears" /
asked
II have a big double-barrel muzzle-
loading gun. / use that on account Of
shooting big load. You cannot use
such lead as l want out of breech-
loader"
what is the biggest bear you ever
killed." l next asked the captain.
81 can't tell you exactly. The largest
ever killed 1 could not weigh. have
killed bears weighing 500 pounds.
They average perhaps something over
10C pounds.
Are they hard to kill, I asked.
81 have killed some that fell dead
at first shot. But IL bear gets fully
mad before he is killed you can hardly
kill him by shooting him all to pieces.
I have been in some close places.
had a bear once to grasp me around
the shoulders, and IL my brother had
not shot and killed him, the bear
would have killed me. have never
been hurt except little Squeezing
and no man ought to mind a proper
amount of hugging," said the captain.
do you love the bear meat as food"
You ought to have seen the good
captains mouth water and his eyes
brighten as visions Of broiled bear
meat came into his mind.
Eat bear meat" he said. "Why 1t
is the best meat in the world. can
eat two or three messes of bear, and
feel strong enough to jump ten feet
high"
Captain Basnight has charge of Du-
rants Island. which is owned by John
z. Reyburn of Philadelphia, who
comes down for hunting and fishing
about twice a year. This island con-
tains 4,25O acres, is fourteen miles
around and is located at the mouth of
Alligator river.
"On the island" said the captain.
eve have 500 head of cattle, hogs and
sheep. fine poultry and an abundance
OF wild game, including deer. swan,
geese and ducks, and many varieties
of smaller birds. We feed the wild
fowl, and at times have as many AS
700 wild geese that come regularly to
the camp to get their feed.-Raleigh
Observer.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1897-11-18
A PRODUCT OF POOR FARMING.

We generally think that the wide
awake and up-to-date farmer has the
advantage in everything. He gener-
ally has, but the old saying that no
rule is without its exception holds
good here. The farmer who keeps the
best hogs cannot grow good quality
Of bristles. If he has one of the hairy
breeds that show strong vitality, the
bristles from two or three-year-old
boar may be worth keeping as bristles
But they will be far inferior to bristles
from the wild hog as it ranges the for
ests Of Continental Europe. The best
brands of bristles have always come,
and probably will continue to do so.
from Russia. They are very stiff, and
not even the bristles from the wild
hog as 1t runs in Southern woods are
as good. Probably our Southern wild
pigs are mostly killed before they
have attained age enough to have their
bristles mature.-Boston Cultivator.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1897-11-18

The story is one of many of her
kindly, self-unccnscious acts. One OF
her family, visiting the hospital In
Washington, had examined the list OF
soldiers received there. and discov-
cred one veteran OF the War of 1872,
who had participated In the defense
OF Fort Stephenson, at Fremont, Ohio,
the home of the Hayes family.
1t was notable battle when, under
Major George Croghan, a youth of n
years, a hundred and sixty nine men,
having but a single small cannon, de-
feated the five hundred English SOL
diers and eight hundred Indian war
riors, and this was followed by Perry's
famous victory on Lake Erie a month
later
An act was passed by Congress that
the old survivor, who had since served
many years in the regular army,
should be created an orderly sergeant.
Then a uniform was ordered for him,
and word was left that at a certain
time the Presidents carriage would
call for him and take him to a pho
tographer.
But the old man, trembling with
weakness and excitement, had discov-
cred that the stripes for the seam of
the trousers had been sent loose, to
be used at the wearer's discretion,
and, greatly troubled, he had begged
to be driven first to the White House.
There in the Blue Room, the scene
of so many brilliant receptions, he
had poured out his grievance, and Mrs.
Hayes had promptly assured him that
she herself would sew them on.
A workbox was sent for, and 1t was
in the act of finishing the stripe at the
foot that the visitors had found the
first lady of the land, and seen the
mingled pride and delight of the old
veteran as he turned to leave her.
II was little, this thing she had done.
Nothing" she herself said gayly; but
it transformed the rest of life for an
old man.-Family Companion.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1897-11-18
A Good Appetite.

"A good appetite is sauce for poor
food" according to the old udage, but
voracious appetite might be both
announcement and expensive. II man
we're built on the same lines as a cat
erpillar, the whole round earth would
shortly become desert waste. This
small creature will In the course of
four OF five weeks eat more than six
thousand times its weight in food. An
adult human being must have a most
excellent appetite to consume within
three months time an amount of food
that will equal his own weight. A
few persons eat more than this. but
by far the greater number take less
An estimate of the food consumption
OF the world would show a general
average far below these figures The
majority Of persons get food enough
to satisfy their cravings. but there Is A
very considerable minority that scarce
ly know what II is to be free from the
pangs OF nunger.--The Ledger.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1897-11-18
POULTRY NOTES

First crosses produce vigorous fowls
the second cross produces mongrels.
Cater to the wants of your patrons.
II they want white eggs, supply them.
Now is a good time to market the
old non-laying hens. The hustling
singers will fill the egg basket.
Do not let your fowls suffer for wa
ter during the dry weather. Thirsty
hens will not lay.
When the combs and wattles of the
fowls are of bright red color it indi-
Gates a condition of health.
Provide nice, new nests for the hens.
so they will not be compelled to seek
the straw stack or half loft
There is no lack of interest in the
business, but there is much to learn
and SO many obstacles to overcome.
Those who expect to raise poultry
without devoting constant care and at
tention to them will generally make a
failure.
When you can enter the hen house
after dark and hear no wheeling ii
proves there are not any roupy fowls
in the flock.
When the fowls are kept busy
scratching, the hens laying and sing
ing and the cooks Growing, these are
signs of good health.
Gull your flock. Resolve to keep
better fowls and give them better care,
and you will soon see an improvement
that will do you good.
II you are fancier, begin now to
prepare your birds for the shows.
Groom your fowls as you would your
horse-therein lies half the battle.
Pick out yard of the early pullets
and feed them for eggs. II they can
be got to begin laying before cold
weather they will make the much-de-
sired winter layers.
More and better stock Is what Is
needed. and to secure II takes work
and patience. Attention to the small
details and constant care and watch
fulness are absolutely necessary.
When fowls are judiciously fed.
made to take exercise. and their quar-
tiers kept clean and free from lice,
there is comparatively no trouble with
sickness, except in cases OF contasion.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1897-11-18

maggots in such stun we do not know.
but we do know that they will do It.
and that 1t will kill them, too
$50, II disease comes along now. and
the chickens begin to die suddenly and
mysteriously, 60 and make q search
for the cause Of the disease and bury
1t. Bury all the chickens that die too.
Suffer nothing dead to lie unburied on
the premises" .ss,
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1897-11-18

A group OF persons entering unan-
nounced the Blue Room Of the White
House about twenty years ago were
surprised to find the beautiful mistress
of the place on her knees upon the
floor, needle and thread in hand. while
before her stood feeble old soldier
In the uniform OF an orderly sergeant.
The callers we're about to retire
when Mrs. Hayes caught sight Of them
and begged them to remain. She rose
from the floor, shook hands warmly
with the old man. and. skillfully par
rying his thanks and assuring him
that his uniform was now whole.
handed him over to the care of her
SON.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1897-11-18
DISEASES AMONG POULTRY.

These days many complaints come
in of various forms of disease among
poultry, while many run along year
after year without any disease. When
disease strikes flock it has a dis
couraging effect on the breeder. Writ
ing on this subject H. B. Geer in the
Epitomist says:
THE chicken business is all very
nice until disease comes along, and
then comes the rub. At this season.
August and September--when the
weather is hot and cool by spells, that
spectre of the poultry yard, chicken
cholera, is very likely to stalk abroad.
Now, we are free to say that we have
never yet, in all the years that we have
raised chickens, been able to define
cholera-to corner it so to speak, and
to tell just exactly what is is. Per-
haps the old-time chicken cholera of
our grandfathers has played out.
1--WE have dysentery among our
chickens at times, particularly among
the very smallest ones when in brood
ers. and then 1t often proves disas-
trous. But when grown fowls take the
dysentery 1t does not spread, only one
or two at time being affected.
There is. however, another disease
that comes In the autumn that carries
on the chickens young and old, and
will keep 1t sometimes till all are gone.
II Is what we call limberneck in the
South, and we suspect very strongly
that It was the cholera of the olden
times.
ut Is nothing more nor less than
the natural result of carelessness and
impurity combined. It comes of the
chickens eating the maggots contained
in dead animal matter lying about on
the surface of the ground In some
fence corner or out-of-the-way place,
and Il will kill the chickens just as
long as new one comes along and is
contaminated by II. why chickens
should pick, scratch about and eat the
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1897-11-18
PUT PELARGoNIeMs IN POTS.

The pelargoniums Uady Washing
ton geraniums) should be shifted into
larger pots when they are done bloom
ing, the branches cut back, the plants
kept partially shaded until autumn.
Let them grow slowly through the
winter in cool place, and toward
spring, when buds begin to appear,
they will bear heat, light and plenty
of water. Remember the pelargonium
is spring blooming flower.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1897-11-18
MAKING A MARKET FOR BUTTER.

Wherever a farmer sets himself TO
the work of dairying, he ought also to
find some place to sell his butter pro-
sell 1t to dealers, to be worked off with
common and inferior stock. There are
many in every neighborhood who
would gladly contract their supplies of
butter If they knew where they could
get 1t of uniform quality. But to make
this butter retailing. successful there
must be arrangements of silos and
grain feeding for the winter dairy, SO
that good butter can be provided for
customers in winter as we'll as in sum
mer.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1897-11-18
VIOLET DISEASE.

There are several diseases affecting
violets. the most destructive of which
are root gals and leafy spots. So far
no entirely satisfactory remedy has
been found. Air-slaked lime busted
over the plants and soil is the most
effective.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1897-11-18
CoRRECTING ACID IN SOIL.

Soils are said sometimes to be
sour" and lime is recommended TO
correct their acidity. In most cases
good underdrain will effect a per-
manent cure. These sour soils are us
ually very rich when drained, as their
acidity has kept the most exhaustive
crops from growing on them.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1897-11-18

A West African king has just had
an umbrella made for him 81 feet in
diameter When in use, this umbrella,
which opeNs and closes in the usual
way. is fixed in the ground, and there
Is room underneath 1t for the king and
thirty guests to take dinner.