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Bryan morning eagle. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1898-1909, 1899-01-27
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CHURCH DIRECTORY.
Baptisi-R. D. Wilson, pastor; Ser.
wees every Sunday II a. m. and 7:lS
p. M. Sunday school 9:ij a. m. pray.
er.meeting Thursday night.
Methodist-J. Is. Cochran, pastor:
Services II a. m. and Up. m. Sunday,
Sunday school 9:46 "A. IN Epworth
League Sunday p. m. prayer.meet.
ing Tuesday night.
st. Andrews Epi,copal-Rev. Herbert
+. Bowers, l.. l.. D., rector. Sunday
services; Morning prayer lam, eve.
ming prayer COP. m. Holy communion
fret sunday in the month. II a. m.
The rector extends cordial invitation
to all to attend these services.
Presbysterian-J. D. West, pastor
Services morning and evening LIST, 3rd
and ith sunday In each month: SUNDAY
school 9.ij a. m; prayer.meeting
Wednesday night
Christian, ]. /. Andrews, pastor
Services n O.. NJ. and 7:l5 p. M. sun.
day; sunday school $40 O.. H., Chris.
tian Endeayor 3 p. m. sunday; prayer
meeting Wednesday night.
Free Communion Baphst-A. NJ.
Stewart pastor Services every Sun
day night iu each month, sunday
school l0a. m.
ST. Joseph's Catholic Church-Faihci
PcInar pastor Mass az S and lOa. m
Sunday.
ionGE MEETINGS.
Iyanhoe Commandery No s. knight
TempIars-sle 2nd Tuesday in each
month. A. VI. Rhodes, r.. CHI. G.
Rhodes, Secretary.
W. T.. Austin Chapter 40. 81. R.A
M.-Meets third Monday in eacl
month. y. y. Cole II. p. Joe y. Reed
Sec'y.
Brazos lodge No. 10, A.F.& A. VI
Meet fourth Monday in each month
W. II. Nall, W. Moo. Carr, sec'y.
/ Brazos Lodge No. %, X. Of P.-Mec
first and third Tuesday in each monti
f J. Jenkins, G. c.; D. c. DeMarot
K.ofR.&S.
Vulcan Lodge 40. 81, A.O.U W
Meet second and fourth Thursday 10
each month A. W. HOLMAN, VI. W.
W j. Walker, recordg
Bryan Lodge so. 1892, X. OIL Nee
first aud third Thursdays in eact
month. A. Emden, dictator, A. J
Palmer, reporter
Buzos Camp, 30. lOi. ". Of W
Mert second aud fourth Friday night
BOO each month. W. r. Johnston. G. G..
Joe 3. Reed. clerk.
Bryan Tent No. 10, X. o. T. Nj
Meeting nights first aud third Mouda.
each month. J.I. MaWhnney, C.; Jo
Is. Reed, K. X.
Bryan Lodge No. $50, Home Forum
Meeting nights second aud fouul
Wednesday each month. W. T. Jane.
pres't, Joe g. Reed, fnancier
Bryan Lodge 40. 400, National Aid
Meeting nights first and third Wednel
day in each month. W. w. Ghnn
pres't; r. W. Downward, see.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1899-05-27

NJ that Of 1875. but I, has been bad
cnought.
\ CITY or UPPER BRAZIL.
Fortoioza 10 fair type Of the cities
81 upper Brazil. u lies right on the
coast, without n pier or a landing plfce
10 aid you In getting from the ahlp
to the shore. There " practically no
hnfbor 10 speak ~. The ship casts an
Choir far out and YOU approach the
shofe In boats. When you get within
reverni hundred feet ~ % you are mot
BY haif.nnkcd men who hold out their
arms 60 you and carry you IN them On
to the land. The shore slopes 20 that
the boats cannot come further M aud
you have 10 depend upon mcn. ! have
made the trip several times and have
always thanked my starr that ! was
not druppoi Into the water, as was The
case with another PASSENGER. IRA
ALLAN dandy dressed IN white duck.
Ills white duck suit Rut q duckinR and
when h. reached the SHORE he made mo
think ~ drowned cnt-n white cat.
Forteieza lies on a hill Juat above
this beach We climbed NJ the hill
over cobhie stone road, went by. a
beautiful park IN which were palm
trees and tropical plants and then
went tu low nky blue building known
na tho French hotel. From this point
i made my tours over the city.
STREETS or MASHED RA1NBows.
Fortclcza h remarkably clean. Its
streets are well paved with clean COBB
bios and It, houses look aa though they
had Just received a frrsh coat u kali
romine. The streets cross one another
at right angles They all have narrow
sidewalks walled with these clean
bfirht-colorcd houses. ~ you look
down one side OF the street you have
the OBJECT Of a solid wall nplnahed Win
mashed rainbowA Every house IL VI y
different color and al colofs nrc used.
The most ~ the houses are of one
story. only the better classes can ~.
ford two. Each house has one or two
windows and a door facing the street.
Roth windows and door are covered
with green shutters which raise up IN.
stead Of swinging back The shutters
Of the doors are divided In halves ut
the height of your waist. The upper
hair Of each door IL usually raised Just
enough for a woman or girl 10 peep out.
In many ~ the windows there are two
girls. hut Vt every window and every
door there II one.
This l. the condition on the sunny
side ~ the street. on the shady side
the windows are open. the shutters
raised M and n. women hang out and
stare. They arr not. as a rule. pretty
women, and many have their hair
hanging down their backs. The most
are untidy and not few wear mother
hubbards." Some have babies IN their
arms ranging In ages from John
Rogers Youngest. who you know was
at the breast. 10 an odd aA four years.
Al OF these babies arr naked. Their
mothers squat them before them on
the window HlllH and display them aa
though boy nudity was the most natur.
al thing IN the world. Indeed there II
no immodesty In II. Clothes are only
climate one would be- far better on
without them. Few ~ the children here
up To- the axe of four wear anything.
and I certainly cnvicd them. II Il 40
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1899-05-27

copyrighted. 1899. by Frank O. Car
pcntcr)
Forteleza. brazil. May 2. is99.--For-
telczai How many Americans have
ever heard Of ~ SIN. II IL the center
Of the universe TO 10000 people. II Is
the chief city Of tic world to more than
n MILTON. II Ia the capital OF Ccnra.
and ceara Il one " the most cntorpris-
ing Of the brazilian states You would
not think much Of the person who had
never heard ~ ohio. This IL the con-
dillon Of nlncty.nlnc people out Of
-vcry hundred hero. They would think
you equally Ignorant that you had not
heard OF ccara.
ceara IL az big as Ohio. but II has
only onc.four,h IA many people. It Is
situated 200 miles south u the equator.
,jupt below the Amazonitn forests and
Hat the beginning Of the highlands Of
inraxil. II Is a land II plains and noun
talns. Some Of It's peaks are from 1900
20 GOO feet high. ana some Of It's plains
larc at times as bare aA the desert OF
Sahara.
WHERE FAMINE REIoNs.
have stopped In ccara TO siye YOU
some idea Of the dry part OF Brazil. In
tho Amazon Just north Of her, Il raine
more than In army place else In the
world. Here II In often 20 DR., that
everything burns up and the land has
q famin. The soil Of this region II u
porcsm sand, which needs water 10
make u produce crops. aud lts prosper
ity depends entirely upon the rains.
The climate H. OF courre. tropical.
There arr two saasoDa. one In tho win
ter. from June until January. ana the
other the summer. from January until
June. In the winter everything II dry
anil brown. About D~renibcr the rains
begin. and with her magic brush nature
dab~ the landscape with iuxuriant
vegetation.
The hot sun. however. demands that
she haze plenty of water To mix her
'coiofn. N there are not heavy rains
there In drought. and such dfoughtf
have occurred at ten.ycar Intervals for
n long time. In 1871 and 1875 Csarn was
succeeded BY one .of the great fanincp
AFFLICTED with terrible drought.
In history. Right hare under the rhnd-
ow Of the equator. where everything
rrows without cultivation. people suf-
fcred because they could not got things
10 grow. The famine was so bad that
during u one-half the whole population
died. one hundred and nifty thousand
people died ON their march from the In.
terror % the sea coast. Small pox and
other diseases took away $1,000 more,
while 40, 700 died ~ fever and berl-beri.
There II now another famine here.
and the people have been going north
and south by Thousands. The ship
which shall take from here to Amazon
II already loaded with them. Thousands
have gone 10 Rio de Jnnelfo. and for
months the ships departing each way
have been filcd.
The government has Interested itself
IN the matter. and II n aiding tNe peo-
pie 10 places where they can get work.
The famine has not been nearly 10 bad
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1899-05-27

features Of Life and Nature in tho State of ceara,
The San Francisco call., 1899-01-29
PLAYING A DOUBLE
GAME IN DIPLOMACY
Salisbury Figuring on Combinations
in the Far East Con-
troVersy

LONDON. Jan. 2S.-Little has been
heard recently Of international rivaiFies
in China, but this does not indicate the
situation has substantially improved.
There is good reason TO believe that Lord
Salisbury regards acute trouble in the
spring as certain. unless diplomacy should
meantime find some means of averting it.
He, therefore, is playing a double game
just now, his main object being TO arrive
at a friendly understanding with Russia
and he seems fairly sanguine.
He is also endeavoripg to insure pow
erful coalition against Russia in case she
develops her aggressive policy TO an un-
bearable extent between now and May.
Here he has not received anything but
generalities in response TO his cautions
inquiries as to the extent to which
America would go for the protection Of
American interests in the Far East.
Italy ii is understood, has intimated she
viii not act without her partners in the
triple alliance. Austria does not regard
her interests as sufficiently great TO war
rant her doing anything against Russia,
and the German Emperor this week as
good as declared he would await events.
France is regarded as so surely Russian
that the French Government has not been
aDDrOa ached.
The San Francisco call., 1899-01-29
America Not Looked Fnr.

Nobody wanted to discover America
They wanted to reach India by sea- TO
reach Cathay or China and Cipango: a
fabulous island Of fabulous wealth, whose
image seems TO have been formed, partly
from Platos legend Of the island Atlantis.
partly, perhaps, from rumors of Japan
brought over land, from mouth to mouth.
by Oriental traders, who had never been
further than China, and. since the ad-
venture of Marco Polo, never so far. Mr.
Fiske's admirable book, THE Discovery
of America and the old maps which he
Teproduces in il. show that Columbus and
Amerigo Eespucci both died without a
suspicion that they had discovered Amer
lea. They and others after them for years
practically omitted the extent Of the Pa
cifc from their conception of the globe,
even as they contracted the extent Of
Asia eastward. Where they did. as mat
ter Of fact. find America they expected 10
find China. and in the South Sea the
great island, Cipango. They were always
searching for Cipango, the court Of the
Great Khan or the Land OF Ophir.-From
the Fortnightly Review.
The San Francisco call., 1899-01-29

nearly a year sooner than would have
been possible If he had not come to the
rescue.
A correspondent had an Interview
with the Rev. DR.. Werner Of the Amer
lean Presbyterian Congo Mission, who
has just arrived in England on his way
TO America after four years residence
at Luebo, in the Kasai district He
said: THE present mutiny is prac-
tically the last desperate attempt TO
throw off the white mans control. 1t is
also the most serious outbreak on ac-
count of the inaccessibility of the re-
gion. When it is remembered that
Baron Dhanis Cthe Belgian COM
mander) is 800 miles from his base of
supplies with only a handful of whites,
it is no small wonder that so many
Europeans have already been sacri-
feed. and it will oceas SION no surprise il
further disasters await the Belgians.
Nothing but building a railway is likely
10 effectually suppress the rebellion.
According TO my latest information
Baron Dhanis is practically surrounded
by mutinous natives, and it is reported
that panic reigns throughout the Congo
territory. However, this may be un-
true"
Mr.. Werner admitted that there had
been some isolated cases of bad conduct
on the part of the subordinate white Of
ficers But, he explained, the admins
tration as a whole is well intentioned
and improving.
The San Francisco call., 1899-01-29
THE DRUIDs.

During the past week Volta Grove con-
ferred the third degree and received two
applica tions. yasco da Cana Grove had
one initiation, and is gaining in member
ship. Alpini Grove conferred the second
degree. PetaIuma Grove initiated one can
didate, received one by card and received
two applications. Acacia Grove elected
one candidate and received three applica-
tions. Oakland Grove reinstated one
member and lost one by death.
Mazzini Circle OF. Los Angeles initiated
six candidates IN December.
D. ". Taylor. past arch, and secretary
OF Nicasio Grove, is dangerously Ill at
the German Hospital in this city.
Hesperfan Grove had large and enthu-
siastie meeting last week, and a number
of interesting addresses were delivered.
Calico Grove conferred the second de-
gree in the amplifed form last week, in
the presence of an audience that crowded
the hall to its utmost The work was well
done and highly complimented-
Hesperian Grove celebrated its thir-
tieth anniversary on the 21st by a grand
ball in Union-square Hall. There was a
very large attendance and all had pleas
Mt time.
The San Francisco call., 1899-01-29
RUSHING FOR
OUR SECURITIES
Change Among British
Investors.
AFTER AMERICAN HOLDINGS,
BUYING TAKES THE PLACE OF
THE SELLING ORDERS.
An Interesting Story oe How Cecil
Rhodes Aided Kitchener's Vic
torious Campaign in the
Soudan.

Copyrighted. 1899. by the Associated Press.
LONDON, Jan. 2S.-The attitude of
British investors toward American
business underwent a notable change
during the past week. The mind of the
British public is always slow to grasp
changes, and people here are only just
beginning to realize what financiers
and politicians have for months con-
sidered the most important fact of the
year-the tremendous commercial ad
vancement of the United States. Ever
since the Venezuelan affair the only
idea of British holders of American Sc
curities has been to sell whenever they
could do SO with any profit or without
too great a loss. In the beginning of
the present upward rush of American
stocks both speGulators and conserva-
tive holders of transatlantic securities
were eager to take advantage of the
opportunity to unload, the former SELL
ing for profit in view of the crash in
the market which was deemed newt
able; the latter to get rid of what they
regarded as unsafe property which they
had been long holding.
Both British and American financiers
who have talked with a representative
of the Associated Press on the subject
agree that the pendulum has now be-
gun TO swing in the other direction.
Investors, seeing that the anticipated
disasters do not materialize and that
the United States is apparently in for
a period of great prosperity, are COM
ing to the conclusion that they were
ver-hasty in unloading their American
holdings. They are retracing their
steps and are giving orders to their
brokers TO rebuy the stocks they dis
carded with a feeling of joy at getting
rid of deadwood, though the news
papers are still croaking disnally over
the panic which Wall street is destined
to witness in the near future, accord
ing to all their prophecies.
Business men who have been inter
viewed agree that, so far as all the
lines OF legitimate industry are con-
cerned, the United States has every
reason to be optimistic. Alfred Charles
de Rothschild of n. NJ. Rothschild &
Sons spoke enthusiastically of the
American outlook. He said: There
seems to be a period of unparalleled
prosperity before America. So far as
American investments are concerned
( the public must. as in any other field
discriminate between what is good and
what is bad. But your crops, manu-
factures and commerce all seem TO COM
bine to place the country on an un-
The San Francisco call., 1899-01-29
Automatic Couplers for British Rail.
WaYS

1t is now an open secret that as the
result of the recent visit of T. J. S.
Hopwood, assistant secretary OF the Boad
of Trade. 10 the United States, the board
is seriously contemplating the promotion
of an act of Parliament similar to the law
lately passed in America, to make the use
of automatic couplers compulsory on the
railways of the United Kingdom. The
possibility of such legislation is very
serious matter for our railway companies.
involving as it may, in the estimate OF
one general manager, an expenditure OF
no less than 1900 900 Of money in refit-
ting the existing rolling stock, besides
having a most important bearing upon
the safety both of employees and paSSen-
gers. and Transport has within the last
few. days interviewed half dozen OF the
most responsible of our railway men-four
of them general managers and the other
two directors-with the object of ascer-
tanning their views on the situation. One
of those interviewed-an ex-manager. now
a Girector-expressed himself in faycr.
Notwithstanding the cost TO the COM
panieS, of legislative action by the Board
OF Trade on the lines above indicated,
but the other five pronounced against
such legislation in more or less strong
terms As the result OF its inquiries,
Transport has no doubt that a bill TO
empower the Board of Trade TO enforce
the adoption of automatic couplings on
our lines within stated period would
meet with strenuous opposition from the
railway companies; but. on the other
hand, the railway authorities display
every disposition 10 support the board in
pursuing its Investigations into the sub
1ect. ana, II g proposal is made by the
relative merits OF the coupling systems OF
England and America, it Will, Transport
thinks. meet with hearty support on all
hands.-Ion6on Transport.
The San Francisco call., 1899-01-29

usually sound basis, which cannot fail
10 awaken admiration throughout the
world"
One of the most prominent bankers
remarked: The United States is rather
too enterprising for the peace of mind
of Europe. It is rather hard TO be
lieve that the statistics of American
exports can be true His comment
seems TO represent the views of others.
The Statist is not sure the figures Of
Amerieangbusiness represent increased
prosperity. From the decrease in i'm
ports il argues that the high tariff is
compelling the poorer classes to deny
themselves many comforts and that the
farmers. during the years of depression,
contracted debts which they are deter
mined to pay before they allow them
selves their customary comforts.
The Spectator sermoniZes on the ef-
feet of the speculative boom on the ma
tional character and says: Ten per
cent of the whole population are hav-
ing a good big gamble and, being Amer
leans, who don't care much when they
are ruined. they are enjoying them
selves nightly
This paper believes that the princi-
pal effect of such booms is to increase
national sanguineness, adding: NO
typical American ever fears any result
of his own actions; but there are few
typical Americans without some look Of
care
England has been enjoying a little
boom of her own in South African min
ing enterprises. to which an impetus
has been given by the presence here
of Cecil Rhodes. the South African
magnate. but which attracted small at
tention in the newspapers in compari-
son with the more sensational business
across the Atlantic.
Mr.. Rhodes agent. DR.. Rutherford
Harris. says the Cabinet has promised
an imperial guarantee for the railway
from Buluwayo 10 the Zambesi River.
a distance OF $50 miles, and that when
that section is completed the Govern
ment will guarantee the road TO Lake
Tanganyika-
There is an interesting story OF Mr.
Rhodes services in connection with the
Soudan campaign which incidentally
played an important part in influencing
the Cabinet in his favor. The Govern
ment, il appears, could not buy the en-
gines and plant necessary to operate
General Kitchener's strategic railroad,
which was an unusual gauge. and when
Mr. Rhodes heard Of this he sacrificed
the equipment bought for the British
ChartSed South Africa Company, and
so enabled the campaign 10 be finished
The San Francisco call., 1899-01-29
MRS. HATTIE LOWE
FOUND AT SPOKANE
Four Years Search for the Defendant
in Yolo County Di-
vnrce Case

PORTLAND, Or. Jan. pa special to
the Oregonian from Spokane says: After
being followed all over the world for four
years, Mrs. Hattie E. Lowe has been To-
Gated in this city, where she has lived for
some months under the name of Helen
Simpson.
She rs ordered by the Superior Court OF
Yolo County, California, to appear and
show cause on Monday, March Is. why a
former order in the divorce case of o. \.
Lowe VS.. Hattie E. Lowe should not be
modified and the custody of the S-year-old
girl be given absolutely to the father.
In September, 1885, o. a. Lowe began an
action for a divorce from Hattie E Lowe
in the Superior Court of Yolo County,
Cal. A cross-complaint was filed by the
woman. and some months later the de-
cree OF divorce was granted. AT the time
of the granting of the decree an order was
made by the court directing that the little
girl should remain in the custody OF the
father.
Mrs Lowe succeeded IN getting posses
sion Of the child and has since been trav-
cling. Mrs. Lowe admitted the principal
allegations in the citation sent her from
California and she said she would answer
when the time came.
The San Francisco call., 1899-01-29
Old sumptuarv Laws.

The sumptuary laws that were passed
in the middle ages are quite foreign TO
the spirit and temper of the nineteenth
century. They aimed al keeping each
within his proper sphere by fixing limits
10 the expenditure of citizens upon APP
complete schedule OF the clothing that
should be worn in every class OF society
was prescribed in the act of the third
year of Edward " G46D. Apparently an
excess in attire sprang up that had not
been provided for in this act, for another
one followed in the ensuing year. pro-
hibiting the wearing OF shoes with long.
peaked toes The pictures OF the people
OF the Elizabethan age depict what many
would consider an artistic taste II ap-
parel, but which was looked upon at the
time as an excess. and called for a proc
lamation lSS01 against broad ruffs. long
cloakS and swords and long spikes on the
bosses Of shields.-The CornhiIi.
The San Francisco call., 1899-01-29

come at once. Vive Casagnac!"
The general enthusiasm increased as
the piece went on. When Nine. Sans
Gene was spoken of as having become
a marshaPs wife from washer
woman some one asks: Where is the
only country where such a thing is
possible?"
France" is the reply. The audience
went wild. crying "Viye France
AT the close the artists were called
before the curtain as often as though
the performance had been first night
at an Italian opera house. The death
of the King of Rome brought the au-
dience to its feet with shouts of ''Vive
fEmpereuri Vive Prince Victor!"
To-day the enthusiasts are saying
it is the beginning, and, skeptics add.
or else the end. Which will prove to be
in the right?
The San Francisco call., 1899-01-29
BLIZZARD IN THE SOUTH.
AT Atlanta Snow Falls to the Depth
of Four Inches.

ATLANTA. Ca. Jan. 2S.-Snow is re-
ported as general throughout Central and
Southern Georgia and Alabama to-day.
In Atlanta nearly four inches has fallen.
Three inches has fallen at Columbus and
otler points in Southern Georgia and
about two inches at Macon and at Mont
gomery. Ala.
ST JOSEPH, Mo. Jan. ga blizzard
day. Fine snow began TO fall at q O'Clock
and the wind has attained fearful We
locity.
Telegraph and telephone communication
with nelghborinG towns is seriously inter-
Tered with, and the railroads and street
railways are operated with difficulty. At
CLOCK the temperature was 20 degrees
ing.
The San Francisco call., 1899-01-29
THE JUNIORS.

At the last held meeting OF Abraham
Lincoln Council three candidates were
initiated in q most satisfactory manner
by the officers, who Of late have had con-
siderable practice in this line. Recently
these officers were highly complimented
by the State councillor for the manner in
which they did their work During the
meeting there was read from the Ameri-
can, a paper published in Manila. the
zation OF a council of the Juniors had
been effected in that city.
The committee having charge of the
entertainment and ball to be given on
Junior day. February -. IN Odd Fellows
Hail, is working with energy TO make the
affair a great success. The programme
has been adopted, and ii promises TO be
an excellent one