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Bryan morning eagle. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1898-1909, 1898-08-26
SpanislI-Anerica.

SPANISH America.
Every true American heart
should throb with sympathy at this
time for Mexico at the mention Of
the days September 18th and 10th,
which are the same To Mexicans a.
July ith is TO Americans. These
are Mexico'- two greatest holidays.
/ President Diaz was born on sep.
lember 10Th at II o'clock at night
and one hour later september
/ lGth) was the birthday Of hide.
pendent Mexico. Il il no wonder
therefore that the Mexicans love
these two holidays, which represent
so much to them. On the night Of
September 10Th at exactly ! O'Clock
from every city, town, hill and dale
over the great Republic. one mighty
shout issues from % million free.
mems tlroat.. "Nlm Mexicol"
Viva 81 Prc.idcuie"
IN Mexico the day i. celebrated
with great -plendor. Nearly a.
quarter of % million of people take
part in the FESTIVITIES aud the scene
rivals anything cve- presented on
the American Continent
On the day preceding the Presi.
dents birthday il Is customary loI
hold the uu-ivaiied Battle Of,
Flower.." Long before the sun
begins to peep over the hills there
can be seen thousands Of lndians
vending their way 10 the city,
bringing with them large supple,
OF rarest aud choicest flowers.
Houses are decorated in the great.
est profu.ion, and the public build
ings and statues show practical
evidence OF the great fertility and
richness Of the soil It's one Of
the days when every one has free
license. The rich and The moor
mingle and pelt one another with |
flowers IN the most democratic
manner
This il followed by two days
given upio most cxtrayngaut cele.
bration-. conducted with pomp aud |
eolat never witnessed boz our Dem.
ocratic Republic They also have
their Liberty Bell' which has a
history equalingour. and not least
among the ceremonies d. the ring.
ing Of this bell.
On this occasion an excellent op.
is offered Americans TO
visit this land Of wonder, the
Egypt Of America" by theI q G. /
n. X. r. Tickets will be sold on
September 10th and 18th to Mexico
City and return at remarkably low !
rates, final return limit 30 days
with stop1yers at pleasure in Mex
leo. Choice Of routes via Laredo
or Eagle Pass, or Tor AN additional |
charge n $500 ticket, will be sold /
going via one route and returning
the other
For full particulars call on near.
est Ticket Agent, ]. Il G.. y. Il r., |
or address
D. J. Price, G.. 7. q T. A.,
Palestine, Texas. |
Bryan morning eagle. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1898-1909, 1898-08-26
CITY DIRECTORY.

err OrTiCEns.
Mayor. G. A. Adams.
Marshall, T. p Boyett.
Deputy Marshal. II. II. smith.
Secretary and Treasurer. II. g
Rhodes.
City Sexton, n. II. Jones.
Constable. G. l.. Baker.
Aldermen: K. q. Tabor. W. s. 4
Howell, W. W. Harris, c. II. Wye,
Jno. NJ Lawrence.
Bryan morning eagle. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1898-1909, 1898-08-26

A hedge doctor" kind Of a quack
In Ireland. was being examined at an
inquest on his treatment OF a patient
who had died
II gave him ipecicuanha he said.
you might just as well have given
him the aurora boroalls. said the
coroner
"lndade. yer honor and that's Just
what should have given him next
n be hadn't died
Bryan morning eagle. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1898-1909, 1898-08-26
DEMOCRATIC TICKET.
For United States Senator
G. A. CULBERSON

For United States Senator
c. A. CULBERSON
For Governor
JOSEPH d. SAVERS
Of Bastrop.
For Lieutenant Governor
j. y. BROWNING
Of Amarillo.
For Attorney General
7. :. SMITH
Of Hillsboro.
For Comptroller.
r. W. FINLEY
of Tyler.
Fof Land Commissioner
GEO. W. FINGER
OF ~. Worth.
For Treasurer
JOHN W. ROBBINS
OF Vernon.
For Railroad Comioner
ALLISON MAYFlELD
Of Sherman.
For State Superintendent
J. :. KENDALL
Of LadOnia.
For Associate Justice
THOS. J. BROWN
Of Sherman.
For Court Criminal Appeal.
NJ. NJ. BROOKS
Of Greenville.
For Congress seventh Drlstrl,t
ROBERT l.. HENRY
of Waco.
For representative 18th district
SAM K. HENDERSON.
of Bryan.
For district attorney Goth distriC
JIG. SCOTT,
Of franklin.
Bryan morning eagle. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1898-1909, 1898-08-26
renr cen,snlIen. ., nel.r cn,.

Boise City, Idaho Aug % Pour
state conventions opened foro Wednes-
iay, the Democrats, Silver Republicans
and two wings Of the Populisis Tenn.
porory organizations were made and
zach branch appointed a harmony com.
mittee OF five The mddio.of.the.road
convention adopted a resolution In favor
Of fusion Of silver forces
Bryan morning eagle. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1898-1909, 1898-08-26

Admiral Sampson states as an
ascertained official fact that tout OF
10000 men on the American fleet
there have been only twenty casu-
alties throughout the war" Con.
sidering what the feet has done,
the world must wonder at this.
Bryan morning eagle. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1898-1909, 1898-08-26
Notice. Posted IN fannln County.

Honey Grove, Tex, Aug. g5.-White.
'ap' by anonymous notices are warning
farmers IN the Dial noighborhood, six
miles south Of here, against charging
money or standing rent or renting land
10 negroes, some Of the notices beng
coupled with threats " damage TO prop.
erty u the warnings are not Needed.
Bryan morning eagle. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1898-1909, 1898-08-26

The San Francisco Evening Post
says that the United States will
soon be connected by cable with
their newly acquired Pacific pos.
sessions, and the cable will connect
the United States from that city
with Hawaii, the Ladrones. the
Philippines, and Hong Kong. The
paper says that most Of the survey,
have been made. The contract for
the LAYING Of ihe cable has already
been let, the Post says, and, accord.
ing to the terms Of the contract, the
work must be completed within
six months.
Bryan morning eagle. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1898-1909, 1898-08-26

Saratoga, Aug. GA rumor has
reached here to the effect that @. p.
Huntington has been shot at his camp
known as Pine Knot, ON Raquette lake,
In the Adirondack. The report cannot
be verified.
Bryan morning eagle. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1898-1909, 1898-08-26
shsrman N.rrs.. wnrn.d.

sherman, Tex, Aug. 90 Several col.
orod people received unstampcd letters
from the po.toilico on which they paid
postage 20 lind IN them notices warning
al Struggling negroes 10 leave the city
At once aud all who owned property to
sell out ana leave within 20 days.
Bryan morning eagle. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1898-1909, 1898-08-26
naeLw.lI cllI,.n. ,rIrr,d rn

Rockwall, Tex, Aug j.-The people
Of this town have taken hold Of white.
cap outrages and have handed them.
selves together to run down the perpc.
traitors. They are determined 20 protect
negroes AZ that place and ave the good
name OF the city
Bryan morning eagle. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1898-1909, 1898-08-26

We'll. dear. how dld the election
co." asked Mrs. Cumso. when her
husband returned home after waiting
for the returns on the night Of the
general election Of 1900
ITS awfully close replied Cum
so. 1T will take the Official returns
from Hawaii to decide IL. and there is
no cable communication with that por-
ton OF the United States"
Bryan morning eagle. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1898-1909, 1898-08-26

Belya A. Lockwood has bobbed
up long enough to say that the
spaniards are not such bad people
after all, and that Uncle Sam
ought to turn his war vessels into
commercial ships. Belva drank Of
the cup Of notoriety IN the years
gone by, but She has about played
OFT even asa newspaper item.
Bryan morning eagle. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1898-1909, 1898-08-26

COUNTY oFFicns.
Judge, W. II Hartman
Clerk, .. W. McMichael.
Attorney A. g.. Board.
Iay Collector. !. !. Adams
Tax Assessor. Il. VI. Nal.
sheriff, r G. Num-.
Treasurer X. ". Carr.
District CLERK. J. G.. Williams.
Commissioner r. J. Deems. Peter
Thomas Felix Phillips, p II. airing.
ton
Bryan morning eagle. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1898-1909, 1898-08-26

Congress gettln' ready
Fur to make a stand
Legislatures meetin'
All around the land
Young men maxim speeches.
Boys a-studyn' law;
Girls learn eloeution
Sos to line In the hurrah.
Who could be dlstrus'ful.
Losln' sleep at night.
with all then folks In tralnln'
Fur to rud the country right'
Bryan morning eagle. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1898-1909, 1898-08-26

Guthrie, o. T., Aug. %. As two
l5.yoar.old children, Indian boys, were
playing near Bridgeport one shot and
killed the other and then fed and can.
not b. found.
Bryan morning eagle. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1898-1909, 1898-08-26

The Gulf, Beaumont and
Great Northern railway company,
capital stock, $4,000, has been
chartered.
Bryan morning eagle. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1898-1909, 1898-08-26

Mitchell, Aug - The Republican
state convention nominated the follow
ing ticket:
Governor Kirk Phillips
Lieutenant Governor Mart Kane.
Secretary Of siate--W n. Riddle.
Bryan morning eagle. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1898-1909, 1898-08-26

Sacramento, Aug %. The state Re.
publican convention nominated Henry
Gage FOR governor by acclamation.
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THURSDAY. AUGUST 25. 1895.

About thirteen thousand new
names have been added TO the pen.
sion roll this yeao, and the end is
NOT vet.
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dew faster and she coughed a sllgh'
cough.
She knew, without looking up. that
her brother brought in pile of valen'
tines in his hand, and that when
presently he should have finished dis
tributing them to his eager sons and
daughters, her nephews and nieces
he would come and bring one to her
or else? He would not do this last
1t was this dread that brought the
crimson spots to her cheeks.
If there was one for her he would
presently come, and leaning over he!
shoulder, he would say, as he dropped
upon her lap the larger, handsomer one
than all the others: This looks
mighty suspicious, Sis Minnie"
Each year for seven years her broth
er had tenderly handed his sister her
valentine After he had seen the LOOK
of pain and confusion that followed
his playful teasing in presenting the
first one, he had never more than re-
lieved the moment by a passing jest.
The regular coming of Aunt Jemi-
mas valentine" was a mystery in the
household.
It had been thirteen years since she
had quarreled with Eli Taylor, her
lover, and they had parted in anger.
never to meet again. Since then she
had stayed at home and quietly grown
old.
Fourteen years ago she had been in
the flush of this, her only romance, and
st. Valentines day had brought a
great, thick envelope, in which lay,
fragrant with perfume, a gorgeous val
entine.
The oldest children had been very
small when this respondent CONNECTION
had come into their home. Some Of
them had not been born, but they
had all grown up in the knowledge
of it.
Shortly after she received it there
arose a foolish lovers Quarrel-Eli had
gone away in anger-and that had
been the end.
Disputes over trifles are the hardest
to mend, each party finding it difficult
to forgive the other for being angry
for so slight cause.
And so the years had passed.
For ten long years the beautiful val
entine had lain carefully put away.
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done away with the drawing of lots.
Young people are not satisfied with
leaving the matter to fortune, as were
their ancestors, but fix it themselves.
The universal means used to celebrate
the day is combination Of lace paper,
pictured hearts, cupids and verses.
thousands of which now hang in the
stationers' window. From one to a
dozen of these are selected, at cost
of from one cent to several dollars.
and entrusted, properly addressed, to
the postman's care. Invariably, the
missive is sent anonymously. Often,
too, the sender steals, missive in hand.
up to the door of the one who is to re-
ceive it, after dusk of st. Valentines
day. The bell is pulled, the valentine
dropped, and away runs the young one
in high glee. The most delightful Joy,
however, is experienced when the cir
repressible" steals thus up the steps,
chalks a white square the size of an
envelope upon the porch, rings the
bell, and scampers away. OF course,
in the darkness, the square resembles
a valentine. and the fair one. her heart
beating little faster than ordinarily.
stoops to pick up-nothing.
A spirit of irreverence for the senti-
ment of St. Valentines observances
has sprung up within the memory Of
living man. Instead of the regulation
lace and verses, the latter of which are
Of the "molasses drip" sort, contracted
for by the hundred pounds. there is
now a most grotesQue sort of carica-
ture, with libelous accompaniment Of
lines. Great swollen heads, emaciated
chests, and misshapen feet, printed
upon cheap paper, are dedicated to a
tradesman or man of professional
calling. Some of the caricatures have
their foundations based on peculiari-
ties of custom or eccentricities of habit.
One of these eccentricities is taken
apart from any other trait, dressed in
an outrageous body and glazing
clothes. and becomes the missile of the
small boy with which to attack the
foibles and foolish conventions of So
ciety.
There will long remain, notwith-
standing the practical, hardening tend
ency of the age, something of the senti-
ment peculiar to st. Valentines day.
which led the Roman lads to choose
and honor their lady loves. Though
the New York postmen may cease to
carry zoo, 900 extra letters on that day.
Cupid will continue to be honored. and
the confectioner and the florist may
notice an Increased sale of their wares,
for the spring still comes and the birds
still mate, and human nature is much
as it used to be IN the olden days ct
Rome.
T. L. sANDERSON.
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ssting things happened in quick So
cession. And then?
There was q little, quiet, middle
aged wedding In the church ON Easter
Sunday. It was the old lovers idea
to have 1t then. as he said their hap
piness was a resurrection from the
dead, and belonged to the Easter sea-
son. and there was no one to object.
Miss Jemima showed her new valen-
tine to the family before the wedding
came OF, but in spite Of all their
coaxing and begging, she observed a
rigid reticence in regard to all those
that had come between that and the
old one; and so, seeing the last one
actually in evidence, and rejoicing In
her happiness. they would only smile
and whisper that they supposed he and
she had been "Quar'lin' it out on them
valentines"
Il amt fifteen for you, Jemimy.
honey, no mon I was eighteen years
ago." he said, his arm timidly locking
her chair, the night before the we'd
ding. but eff you keered enough about
me to warm over the little valentine ]
sent you nigh twenty year ago. and to
make out to live on 1t. l rackon l can
Keep you supplied with jest ez good
ez tibet. fresh every day an hour. But
befo' / take you into church want to
call yo' attention to the fac tibet I'm
a criminal lible to the states prison
for openin' yo' mail-an' If you say 50!
why. I'll hat to Co."
We'll, Eli" Miss Jemima answered
quite seriously. ''ef you're lfble &c
states prison for what you have done
don't know but l am worthy to go tc
hotter place-for the deceit I've prac.
ticed.'
Well" said Eli, Il reckon eff the
truth was told, the place where We jest
nacheily both b'long is the insane
asylum-for the ejiots we've acted
When / reflect that l might "a beer
ez happy ez am now eighteen yeal
ago. an think about all the time we've
lost Well How comes it that
Easter comes SO late this year. any
how"
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THE FOUNTAINS OF HER SORROW
WE'RE BROKEN.

WEHE bHOhEN.
the life of the live single woman of
forty-if she be alive enough-when in
the face of even negative and affec-
tionate disparagement she is moved
to declare herself.
One thing, indeed. it was to own a
yellow, time-stained valentine, and
pied throng who crowded the Jones'
Vile postoffice on Valentines day.
Il reckon them young ones would
think it was perfectly re-dic'lous eff l
was to git valentine at my time Ct
life," Miss Jemima said, aloud, to her
looking glass one morning. 1t was the
day before st. Valentine of the year
following her day of tears.
But I'll show em!" she added, with
some resolution, as she turned to her
bureau drawer.
And she did show them. On the
next day a great envelope addressed
to Miss Jemima Martha Sprague came
in with the package of lesser favors.
and Miss Jemima suddenly found her
self the absorbing center of new in
terest-an interest that after having
revolved about her awhile flew of in
suspicion toward every superannuated
bachelor or widower within a radius Of
thirty miles of JOnesville. =.
For ten years her self-sent valentine
was a mystery to the other members
of the family.
AS the years passed, il her brother
began to suspect. he made no sign Of
it save in an added tenderness. And.
of course. he could not know.
On the anniversary upon which this
little record of her life had opened,
the situation was somewhat excep-
tional.
The valentine had hitherto always
been mailed in Jonesville-her own
town. This postmark had been noted
and commented upon, and yet it had
seemed impossible to have it other
wise. But this year. in spite Of many
complications and difficulties. she had
resolved that the envelope should tell
4 new story.
The farthest point from which, with
in her possible acquaintance, it would
naturally hail was the railroad town
of-let us call it Hope.
The extreme difhculty in the case lay
in the fact tina, .ke postohice here was
kept by her old lover. Eli Taylor.
Here. for ten years, he had lived his
reticent bachelor days. selling plows
and garden seed and cotton prints and
patent medicines. and keeping postof-
nee in a small corner Of his store.
A Miss Jemina pondered upon the
thought Of sending herself a valentine
theUuGh hae old lovers hands, tho -
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its time-stained face and caught it,
musty odor, she seemed to realize
again the very body of her lost love,
and for the first time in all the years
the fountains of her sorrow were
broken up, and she sobbed her tired
heart out over the old valentine.
Is there a dead-hearted woman in all
Gods beautiful world, wonder, who
would not weep again, if she could,
over some of life's following symbols
symbols of love gone by, of passion
cooled-who would not feel almost as
if in the recovery of her tears she had
found joy again?
For the first time since the separa-
ton, she clasped the valentine to her
bosom and called her lovers name
over and over again, sobbing it, with
out hope. as one in the death agony.
Miss Jemima, in her suddenly real
lied young-love setting, had become,
to her own consciousness, old and of \
date gone by.
But there is apt to come time in
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courtiers were partakers In 1t. and tho
gifts they made to each other were
many times costly. In one Of the En-
glish counties, Hertfordshire, 1t was the
custom for the poor children. as gayly
dressed as their scant means would
permit, to march through the towns.
early in the morning, stopping be-
meath the windows here and there. and
singing Good Morrow, Valentine" A
shower of pennies was the usual re-
suit. In Norwich, gifts were sent to
fair ones anonymously.
The number of poems written about
the custom of the day is beyond count
ing. From Chaucer down, the poets
have sung of the god of love to whom
the popular observance has ever dedi-
Gated the day. John Lydgate, 1440.
wrote:
"Saynt Valentine, of custom yeere by
yeere,
Men have an usaunce in this region,
To loke and serche Cupide's kalendere
And chose theyr chosye by CRETE at
fectioun."
In Hamlet, Ophelia is heard to sing:
Tomorrow is St. Valentines day,
All in the morning betime,
And I, maid at your window.
To be your valentine"
Some have accounted for the origin
Of the days observances by saying that
1t is the time of year when the birds
are mating and, with the feathered
world,
The young mans fancy
Lightly turns to thoughts of love-
In some parts Of England, it was the
custom, on st. Valentines eve, to walk
the woods with bird-net, in the hope
of catching an owl. Success in love
was the result of bringing home live
owl from the hunt, for, as the wisest
OF birds, it was supposed to have the
secret of success which it would i'm
part on this night. It was believed
that the first person Of the opposite
sex one met on st. Valentines morning
was to be that ones valentine" and
records remain of young ladies who
conscientious!y locked themselves in
their rooms, with eyes tightly closed
when leaving it, until the right young
man was announced.
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was like queens,
And not a waist in all the town was
neat as Eveleen's.
Oft before her ivied window in the
snOwdrifts or the dew
He had fingered. looking fondly at the
tapers shining through,
But the maiden was as baShful as hel
beauty was divine,
So now he sought to WOO her with
dainty valentine.
Before him on the table lay rose oi
velvet red.
A fillet wrought of silver just to fit her
curly head.
A string of coral. rosy like her glow
ing finger tips.
And frosted sugar plums to melt like
kisses on her lips.
And yet he could not make a choice
till Cupid, straying near.
Behind his gilded CULVER hid a smile
that held a sneer;
60 WRITE" he said, "a pretty note. and
ask her to be thine.
And seal it with kiss to send by old
St. Valentine"
The lover took a scented sheet, in hue
of palest pink,
And on it with a slender quill he wrote
in blacklist ink:
Dear Eveleen.-sweet Eveleen! thy
name is my delight,
1t maketh music in my heart from
morning until night.
IT'S mating time for all the birds, and
happy things are they,
But am left lonely man to sigh my
life away
To sigh my life away, my love, if thou
wilt not be mine.
Oh, come to me, fair Eveleen, and be
my Valentine!"
Across the purple eventide. and over
hill and dale
The moon, a silver crescent, flung hel
glory like veil.
And still he sat a-dreaming of the lips
he longed to kiss,
When inward swung the oaken door
what vision fair was this?
A slight and graceful figure all in ruby
velvet dressed.
With a tear upon her lashes, and lily
on her breast. ,.
He felt her arms about him in their
snowy whiteness Irvine;
a. come to thee. my dearest love, tc be
thy Valentine"
Oh, ye laggard lover pining like the
youth OF olden times
For a shy and lovely maiden, find a
lesson in my rhymes.
Do not WOO her at a distance, signing
at her garden gate,
Lest another boldly enters and you
find yourself too late.
Do no. send her cards Of satin scat
tered DER with flying doves,
And q wreath of roses tended by host
of dimpled Loves,
But frankly written letter. with your
heart in every line;
And she will come. like Eveleen, and
be your Valentine.
-Minna Irving.
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Billets of paper bearing the names OF
the young women were drawn from q
lar by the young men, and afterwards
the young women reciprocated. Each
one was thus valentine" to two others,
the one whom he had drawn and the
one to whom he had fallen by lot.
sBut," observes Samuel Pepys in his
diary, "a man doth pay much more at
teution to the one he had drawn than
10 the one to whom he hath Taller"
or. In other words, the billets drawn by
the men counted for more than those
drawn by the women. The valentine. !"
Tins paired. showed each other marked
ntAootjon. Gifts OF jewelJy, silks,
3loyo0 and sweetmeats were made.
lroe vns the custom confined to young
66onoo. Married men and Vo0ea onA
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For five years Jemima had looked at it
with fearless eyes and a hardened
heart. And then came the memorable
first anniversary when the children uf
the household began to celebrate the
day. and tiny comic pictured pages be-
gan fitting in from their school sweet
hearts.
In the youthful merriment of those
budding romances Miss Jemima seemed
to see . sort Ct reflection Of her own
long-ago Joy. and In the faint glow Of
it she felt impelled to 60 to her own
room and to lock the door and look at
the old valentine.
With . new. strange tremof about
her heart and IN unsteady hand she
took Il ct and when In the ught Of
aNaheno1 e0eGioa she cav oneo mere
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ST. VALENTINES DAY.

DAY Of rites and
festivities was the
18th of February In
a n c mt Rome,
where the Luperca-
liza was celebrated
in honor of a deity
designated by the
various titles. Up
on the blotter OF
the modern police
court the gentle