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Bryan morning eagle. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1898-1909, 1898-12-24

The steamer s. Paul has arrived here
with Christmas mail
The first American flag was raised
over the Maiaie school house THURSDAY.
It was sent by the University OF Penn.
sylvAnia Tho honor OF raising the flag
was accorded Father McKinnon Of Cali.
fornia In recognition Of his services in
reopening the schools.
Native troops encampsd In the suburbs
are again causing anxiety. The atti.
tude Of an insurRent detachment al
Paniuchan bridge on Wednesday was
sucn that the California, Idaho and
Washington regiments were concentrat.
ed for marching order, but trouble was
avoided.
Bryan morning eagle. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1898-1909, 1898-12-24

Washington, Dtc % Information
has naohei the administration that the
governments Of cities aud large towns
In Cuba and Porto Rico are constantly
being besieged by capitalists and pro-
motors with a view OF securing valuab e
railroad and other franchises and con.
oessisns a. agures below their value.
Matter was discussed AZ a cabinet meet.
ing, and instructions will b. sent ai
once 10 military governors 10 exercise
care In approving such grants, and Il
any grants be found to b. not in the in.
torest Of the people. or II secured at a
figure below their real value, 10 yoto
them forthwith.
Bryan morning eagle. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1898-1909, 1898-12-24
OVERT ACT OF cueANs.
They Make = R,eh sPAnlard Cry 'viys
Cuba Libre~

Havana, Dec 2J.-Some Cubans en-.
tered tho residence of the marquis of
Pinar del RIO. in Cerro, a suburb of la.
vana, Thursday ami compelled him %
cry "viyo Cuba Libre.' The marquis,
who Is one of the richest men on the
island, ANA of a noted family. complain
ed 90 Captain General Case.lanos, and
note on the subject was sent 20 the
American evacuation commission. The
marquis and other prominent Spaniards
are determined to leave Cuba, their
friends say, unless the United States
establishes strong government and
thev are assured ample protection"
United States transport Florida ar.
rived 40 Matanzis Thursday.
The United States flag was formally
ho.sted AZ Cardenas by Lieutenant G..
H. syburn OF the Eighth regulars.
Bryan morning eagle. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1898-1909, 1898-12-24

81. Joseph, No, Dec. o. In Pc.
tition now IN the hands Of Judge
Philips OF the United States circuit
court. receiver for the State
National hank Is asked FOR.
Il is claimed by Il. H. Faucctt and Jo-
seph Tullar, the petitioners, that the AZ.
fairs Of the hank, now in liquidation,
are not being conducted satisfactorily 10
some Of tho .tockhn.ders.
Bryan morning eagle. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1898-1909, 1898-12-24

Washington, Dec 28. The following
has been received here:
Havana. Dec 20 To Mr. Mckinney,
president of tine United States: The
city council In solemn session resolved
in the name OF tho people o. Habana %
return is warmest thanks to you fus
contributions sent In AID OF the needy
and poor
MARQUIS EsrEniy President"
Bryan morning eagle. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1898-1909, 1898-12-24

Chicago, Dec. %. Chicago Is In the
clutches Of an ice cream trust, the four
leading companies Of the city that man.
uiacture the frozen product having unit.
cd 20 form what IL incorporated as the
United company. but will be known a.
the Chicago Ice Cream company, is com.
posed OF the Thompson, Collins, Reid
and Bloch companies A. usual, the ob.
ject Is 10 reduce expenses aud destroy
cnmnetltinn.
Bryan morning eagle. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1898-1909, 1898-12-24
MI. ns.. Admitted to Tho nar.

Macon, Mo, Dec % 3-Bertha Helen
Hess, the 2O.year.oid daughter of Judge
Charles p. Hess, passed a successful ex.
animation and was ordered enrolled as a
member OF the bar by Judge Ellison.
Miss Hess il the first lady ever enrolled
here as an attorney.
Bryan morning eagle. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1898-1909, 1898-12-24
siIih ordered to Cuba.

Knoxville. Dec g3.-The Sixth Ohio,
Colonel McMakin, has received orders
10 move The regiment goes from here
10 Charleston, s. c., where trans.
port will b. taken for Cieniuegos, Cuba.
The Sixth expects % leave Camp Po-
land tomorrow night and will spend
CHRISTMAS on the road
Bryan morning eagle. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1898-1909, 1898-12-24

Chicago, Dec 23-Dr. John Il. Ham.
ilton, former surgeon general In the
marine hospital service, who underwent
a surgical operation several days ago, Is
still IN a critical condition Dr. Nicho.
las Sem, who Is attending him, Is how.
ever hopeful, as the present symptoms
are encouraging.
Bryan morning eagle. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1898-1909, 1898-12-24
AoWcEs FROM MANILA.
In'urgsnt. Camped In the suburb. Are
Again Causing Anxiety.

Manila, Dec. 90 Tho United States
cruiser Boston aud gunboat paual have
arrived here from Chinese ports
The steamer Union, which returned
here from uoilo with native Spanish
foldiors, has been refused landing hore.
Private Tyler, Nebraska regiment,
VINO has been suffering with typhoid fe.
zer IS dead.
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sal. WIN Not c.rrr Nan.

Washington, Dec. 23..-The postmas.
ter general has received word from the
postal agent at Porto Rico that be has
stopped the practice which has been car.
ried on by certain mayors IN Porto Rican
cities aiiixing simply the mayoralty seals
to mail matter when postage stamps
were lacking nc their Office.
Bryan morning eagle. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1898-1909, 1898-12-24

Quincy, Ills, Dec, 23 James r.
shannon. brakeman on the Port
Arthur route fell from a car at Green
City, Mo. and the wheels OF the car mp
over him, cutting oil both legs just
above tho knees. His remains were
brought hers for burial.
Bryan morning eagle. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1898-1909, 1898-12-24
ssv.uty-a,s Ysar.' sentence.

Houston, Tex, Dsc %. George
Smith, colored charged with the mur.
der Of Ike Klotz, young clerk IN the
store Of Simon Roos on Preston avenue,
was given 70 years in the pen by the
lury.
Bryan morning eagle. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1898-1909, 1898-12-24

Aurora, lis, Dec william
Wright, alias William Fortified, alias
John Carr. OF Dowrrs Grove. Ills, gave
himself up 20 tine Aurora police, con.
Tossing 20 be- bigami.t According o
bis story. Wright hl. four living wIve..
Bryan morning eagle. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1898-1909, 1898-12-24

Edna, Tex, Dec 23-Sumpter Girls.
som, aged u, has been arrested, charged
with the murder OF bis brother in.law,
DIR J. W Bowers, OF Red Bluff. 10 miles
south OF Edna
Bryan morning eagle. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1898-1909, 1898-12-24

Madrid, Dec. 25. PRIMER Sagasta /.
worse. He i very feverish.
Bryan morning eagle. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1898-1909, 1898-12-24

a DealelNN\ Chicken, Turkey, Pheasant. Grouse,
Woodcock, shrimp, Lobster, Her
NInpe Beef Ham, Crabs Chicken female Sausage etc.
Bryan morning eagle. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1898-1909, 1898-12-24

y. aved every Monday and Friday Gran.
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"MARQUls EsrEnly, President
Bryan morning eagle. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1898-1909, 1898-12-24

NJ sardncs in Olive Oil, Tomato Sauce and La Bor
Bryan morning eagle. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1898-1909, 1898-12-24

* . Mixed, Sweet and Sour-in Bottles
- and Barrel. Chow.Chow; India
W. il Caisup. our stock Of PickIed Goods
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1898-08-11
HE'S A LOBSTER"
An Expr ession Now Popular That
Originated in Now jersey.

An Expression Now Popular That
Originated In Now jersey.
The expression hes a lobster"
which has now become 50 general in
colloQuial. use about town as t. convey
a c%lear-cut message OF, contempt or de-
rision, has a somewhat, peculiar ORR
gin. says the Philadelphia Times. There
is nothing about'a lobster, which the
elder Dumas, it may. be recalled, de-
scribed as'"the cardinal Of the sea-" to
invite derision; but a few years ago
when all winter racing was a custom
airy thing in the vicinity of New York,
especially in n~eighboring New Jersey,
a mud horse that failed to realize the
expectations of those who bet money
upon II wal called a lobster" an allu-
sion to Its mode of progression,
Horses which, had been generally de-
feated were lobster horses, md as this
colloquial expression got to be. more
general in use on the race tracks It
began to be applied not only to horses
but to men and things as well. A lob
ster cart was q cart that made slow
time; a lobster boat was a boat in
which. rapid time could not be expect
ed. A lobster calculator was a man
who took too long, In the judgment
OF his critics, to add up an account, and
so gradually the name lobster has
come to be accepted as a, designation
of sloth or inferio.ity and hes a lob
ster' has come to be regarded as n
phrase Of disapproval.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1898-08-11
THE FEMININE OBSERVER.

The sound of the saw is now heard
In the land.
Time never flies SO rapidly as when
you have hired a cab by the hour.
The shad is nc as popular as SONS
other fish and he knows It, too, He
feels 1t in his bones.
The sense of work done is apparent
~ as satisfying to the average person
as a sense of Its being we'll done.
There is nothing left to the imagina-
ton In the new spring hat. Everything
that is possible to crowd on 1t is there.
II you are not sure of the key on the
bunch It. is pretty safe to gamble that
the one you want will be the last one
you try.
Some women are fiustered when they
undertake to indorse a check, as:thoush
they were signing their own death war
rant.
Many a man wishes war would
break out during house-cleaning time.
1t would give him such a splendid ex-
cuse for staying away from home.
True love shows itself in a tender
thoughtfulness in time Of trouble rath-
er than in a disposition to run away
and wait until the sun shines out again.
Philadelphia Times.
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centage, usually One-fifth, OF all the
revenues of the colony, in addition to
money which the law does not allow
but custom never questions.
Masonry Spreads Socialism.
Masonic lodges were introduced into
the archipelago by socialists driven to
Manila after the insurrection of Car
tagena. 1t is true that these people
closed their lodges as soon as the ere
oles and half-breeds showed their in
tention Of joining them, but the mis-
chief was done with the lesson. The
natives began to establish societies in
all parts Of the islands. and in a few
years had enrolled 3d. members. The
mysterious and symbolic attracts. the
imaginaticns otsthese people, and the
opportunity OF secret meeting and dis
cussion of grievances without fear of
betrayal was seized upon enthusiastic-
ally. 1t is the custom for a new mem
Der to make a gash in his arm. and
over the blood he mixes with that Of
the initiator he wear his allegiance.
Each member, Therefore, bears a scar
on his arm, and this. mark makes him
a suspect OF Spanish authorities. It
has happened many times that a pris-
oner has been convfctedtand shot on no,
other evidence than this ~teIitale mark.
Many women associated themselves
in these orders. Sedition has thus been
fostered, free from civil. religious and
military authorities. and a regime of
liberty roughly formulated. The lodg-
es are most numerous in Cavite, the,
principal theater Of the rebellion. while
in B%atangas, Bulacan, and Pampanga
there are ten to twenty branches of
the order, and at least n in each Of
the other provinces. Their growing
influence and implacable hatred of the
clergy was a source Of grave apprehen-
sion to. the priests, who petitioned the
minister to order General Ramon
Blanco, then governor general of the
archipelago, now of Cuba, to put an
end to Freemasonry. But General
Blanco was not energetic in carrying
ont this command, being too much oc-
cupied in a contest against Mohamme-
danism in Mindanao. The government,
again appealed to by the priests, and
peculiarly susceptible to this influence,
peremptorily ordered Blanco to take
the rigorous measure of deporting 400
members of the lodges.
This order was the direct cause of
the uprising in 1896, which began in
Manila, and extended to Cavite, Pam
panga, Laguna and Bulacan, but not to
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1898-08-11
CURIOUS FACTS.

The total number Of colored troops
enlisted during the civil war was 1885,
OH.
A Prince of Wales is of age from his
birth, n a chair is placed for him on
h right Of the throne in the house
Of lords.
The amount of silk produced by each
spider is 80 small that a scientist COM
putes 663 ,522 would be required to pro-
duce a pound Of thread.
More men have died and are buried
on the Isthmus of Panama, along the
line Of the proposed canal, than on any
equal amount Of territory in the world.
The first and sixth days of January,
the twenty-ninth of September and the
twenty-ffth of March have been cele-
brated as Christmas day, and 1t was
not until the middle Of the fourth CEN
fury that the church council fixed the
date as at present.
1t is said that the ~castor-oil plant
Is abhorred by nearly all members of
the animal world; that moles may be
driven from a lawn by planting a few
castor-beans in 1t, and that neither
the terrible "army-worm" nor the all
destroying locust will eat It,.
Swiss funeral customs are peculiar.
At the death Of a person the family
inserts a formal, black-edged an
nouncement in the paper asking for
sympathy, and stating that "the
mourning urn" will be exhibited during
certain hours on a special day. In
front of the house where the person
died there is placed a little black table,
covered with a black cloth, on which
stands a black jar. Into this the
friends and acquaintance Of the family
drop little, black-margined visiting
cards, sometimes with a few words of
sympathy on them. The urn is put
on the table on the day of the funeral.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1898-08-11
The Gar ut Home.

Alexander Ill, the late car Of Rus.
STA, was said to be an autocrat even In
the bosom Of his family. Nicholas IL.
however, is the very reverse He re-
CARDS his consort as a good comrade
and when In urgent cases minister
seek an audience late in the evening
he is invariably to be found in her com
pany, chatting and laughing without
restraint. The car is generally occu.
pied at his desk, while the czarina bus.
les herself with embroidery work. I'm.
mediately a minister enters she rises
as II to retire, but more often than
otherwise the car informs her that
she Is not one too many. : .
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Spain would driveS them in disgrace
from the church.
While these funct1 onaries enjoy free
dom from taxation, any native, man
pand woman, without: reference to prop
.erty income or station, is compeIled to
pay a fixed tax. An Indian woman
without empioymeAl 1t and not owning
any furniture mus. pay 10 pesetas. A
man must pay 4J pesetas. DefaulNng
in this payment. The is forced toy work
for fifteen days on the roads. Every
individual w~hose.tude does notyexceed
the 'sale of a few betel nuts, a BASKET
of Inangoes, or Ia bunch of bananas,
must pay an add itional tax, as must
also the natives who go from the ccun-
try into Manila ito sell nothing more
sthan a chicken OF a fish. At one time
in every villages there were several
weaver whose dotton cloths, much
priced by the natives, had a ready and
remuneTative safe. This local indus
try has disappea red owing to a royal
decree favorable, to the manufacturers
OF Catalonia. which permitted their
goods to enter without duty. These
m anufaciurers asnt goods OF an in
ferior quality anil extraordinary cheap
neys and drove the native workmsn
ouA Of competition. This was the ONLY
industry known in the philippines, and
there remained only the cultivation of
the fields. Blu the native, IL owner of
a RIGS plantation or a. field of sugar
cane, almost always sells his crops
standing in the field cor plantation at
a price which barely pays for the cost
OF raising to the half. breed Chineke.
\ who in turn sen them to the German.
English or American traders at an
enormous profit Not satisfied with
the tributes of the rich Chinese and
foreign houses, the governors impose
taxes upon, the poor Observation-Disclosures
which take'from them everything they
NAV gain from their crops. The gov
erno.Ns are energetic in the collection
of these taxes, for they receive a per-
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1898-08-11

Islands. Within recent years a means
for secret meeting has been given by
the introduction of Masonic lodges,
which have increased rapidly in num-
Der and in membership. The clergy
brought to zeal all of its Immense in
f1uence with authorities both at Madrid
and Manila for the suppression of these
organizations, and Sc severe was the
persecution, of the Free Masons and SO
great became the. abuse of the arbi-
trary power of alcaldes to imprison and
deport suspects hat the Spanish gov
eminent issued a decree declaring that
every. Individual whose culpability was
not proved after forty-eight hours i'm
prisonmert should be given his liberty.
Places for Nuisancss.
1t has long been a notorious fact in
Spain that generals whose influence
among the people is becoming too great
for the entire comfort of the regency
or who resdisaffected Through the CON
slant shifting of politics are sent to
Cuba or to the Philippines to make or
remake their fortunes. If they return
to Spain with riches out of all proper
ton to the emoluments of their Office
nobody commits the indiscretion of
asking the source. Their commissions
are recognized as letters of marque CIV
ing them the right to seize upon what
ever they may. There are many and
celebrated, instances of this condition
of things. including General Weyler.
General Blanco, and General Riviera.
Still more extraordinary than the apa-
thy of Spain to this legalizing Of cor
ruption Is the fact hat the colonies
| regard with terror every change Of
| ministry, knowing that it means a
change OF governor general and anoth-
er swooping down of birds of prey,
whose ravenous appetites must be as
suaged. The hatred OF colonists for
| the mother country is made greater
because all minor Offices in the islands,
even to the c~lerkships. are given to
favorites of the new ministers, and ma
tives are never allowed to share in the
! feast. Moreover, the lands of the re-
1igious orders steadily increase. The
priests and monks possess enormous
plantations from which they derive
immense revenues. The people are
made to pay dearly for saoraments, and
the fees exactcd are much greater than
in any parish of Europe. The clergy
live in luxury, giving themselves up in
their isolation not only to every man
ner of secular indulgence but to the
paost atrocious excuses, which In
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1898-08-11
THE WAR IN The PHILIPPINES
The Natives HAD Good Cause to Revolt Victims Of the
Rapacity Of Their Spanish Masters They Had Been
Farried by ,Corrupt Officials and Clergy.
tFtom the Chicago Tribune.)

The primary cause of they rebellion
which has existed in the philippines
since JMy, 1896, was the corruption
and Unsuitable greed of Spanish off,
Gals, leading them to extremes of tax
alton and persecution in order to en-
rich themselves. The first cry of the
revolutionists was Down with the tax
es," which soon was. changed to Down
with the clergy and fnahy to
taxes" which soon was changed to,
Down with the SPANISH" The gov
eminent and ecclesiastical III horities
were Joined in an unholy alliance to
wiring profit from the misery Oh Qhe ma
tives. The richer class is made9 up or
foreigners, Germans, Chinese, English
men, and a few Americans, who, exac1-
ing a greater tribute from the native
agriculturists, pay a less to the COVER
nor and the host of greedy alcaldes n
minor officials. Briefly, these were the
causes which led to insu vrection in
Cuba as well as the Philip. ZINES, and
which in the end will rob Spain OF the
two last gems of her colonial crown.
Wherever there was disaffect pn 1t
was encouraged by republicans n
Spanish Carlists, hoping in. the eiNd to
serve themselves by weakening the
Kingdom.
In the Philippines there is added to
official corruption the shocking crook
edness of the European clergy, be-
longing to all known m6f1astic orders,
who encourage abuses of eovernmentaf
authorities that they may ssin in
munity from an interference in their
nefarious business. Year by year the
taxes have been increased and have as
sumed proportions out Of all reasonable
relation to the yield of rice fields and
sugar plantations. The people Pro-
tested feebly against new impositions.
but as opposition Il the government
increased the rigor of the rule grew,
| and hundreds of men and women were
deported without trial to the penal col
| onies of the Caroline and Marianne
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1898-08-11
DRUNKENNESS AMONG ANIMAL
Those Of the Higher Order Fond OF
Fermented Liquors.

Those of h Higher Order Fond OF
Fcrmented Liquors.
Most of the higher animals-as
monkeys, elephants, bears, horses and
dogs-have a natural fondness for fer
mented liquors, and sufferer from the
abuse of these liquors as men do,
From the book OF Maccabees it lie evil
dent that wal elephants were mad
dened Of old with new wine, as they
have been and are with arrack down to
the present time. Managers Of menag-
cries and employees at the various
geological gardens know that the ele-
plants under their care are prepared
to go on a wild drunk whenever oppor-
tunity offers. Whisky is officially Civ.
en- them when they are i'll o low-the
quantity varying from FIVE to ten gal
Ions, according to the requirements OF
the case. This is put into their drink
ing water. Bears and monkeys drink
beer like German students, and love
whisky equally well. In Africa the
natives make use OF this evil trait to
capture their poor relations. The
monkeys there are extremely fond OF
a beer brewed by the natives. SO the
latter place quantities of the liquor
within easy reach OF the monkeys and
wait until their victims are thorough
ly befuddled. In this state they are
unable to recognize the difference be-
) tween negro and ape. When the negro
takes the hand of one of them to lead
him off a second monkey takes, the
hand Of the first, a third that of the
second, and SO on. "A single Negro
may sometimes be seen carrying OF q
string Of staggering monkeys. Fresh
doses Of beer in decreasing quantities
are administered to the captives, &C
that they may only gradually awaken
to the results Of their spree.
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II Cuba is released from Spanish
rule, her future will depend upon the
capacity of the people for se~lf-govern-
ment. After the withdrawal Of the
Spanish garrison there will be a scram-
Bile for the Offices and a struggle for
the control of the administration of the
island. The rebels In arms who have
been fighting for three years for the
independence of the island will consid-
er themselves the rightful governing
class. The autonomists, who nave been
agitating for many years the question
of home rule, will demand a share in
the responsibilities of power. The
Spanish element, from which the vol
unteer force is recruited, will insist
upon being represented in the new gov
eminent. The jealousies and strife OF
these factions will make the establish
'ment of a stable, trustworthy govern
ment in Cuba a most difficult under
taking. This is characteristic Of most
of the governments in Spanish Ameri-
ca. In one country after another there
have been revolutions, political feuds,
military conspiracies and constant tur-
MOL. 1t is not likely that Cuba, IL left
to herself, will be an exception to the
that country, after the war is over,
would mean certain death to any po-
litical party in the United States. Once
freed the Cubans must shift for them
selves.