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Bryan morning eagle. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1898-1909, 1899-04-21
Sensational suicide.

Galveston. April 90 A young Hebrew
woman. abo.t 20 years Of age, was found
in her room at the Girardin hotel We'd
nesday forenoon in a dying condition
with q vial labeled carbolic acid on the
table. She was taken 10 the hospital
where she died soon after wards She Is
q stranger aud her name Is unknown.
She came here In company with tv'o
young men from Houston. The men
are not here now. The woman's name
Il supposed % be Samuels.
Bryan morning eagle. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1898-1909, 1899-04-21
THE STATE WON.
Judge Green Decide. Against the San
Antoaio Gas Company.


San Antonio. April 90 The quo war
rant proceedings in the Thiriy.sevenia
district court by the attorney general
in behalf Of the state Of Texas again
the San Antonio Gas company came 10 o
close when Judge r. b Green, the Dis
trict judge. rendered a decision In favor
Of the state
The suit was brought 10 forfeit the
charter Of the gas company and for the
appointment Of a receiver Of the concern
on the grounds Of an alleged charter VIC
lation and entering into combine 10
monopolize the production Of gas and
electric lighting
Judge Green's decision was that the
charter Of the San Antonio Gas compa-
ny b. forfeited and that receiver b.
appointed Notice Of appeal was given.
Bryan morning eagle. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1898-1909, 1899-04-21
s,rlnr.n, c.ttls L.rI.latIon.

South McAlester. OF, April 90. The
Choctaw council has just passed an act
prohibiting the introduction into the
Choctaw nation Of any cattle from any
state or surrounding nation at any time
excepting during the months Of Noyem.
Der and December. and then only TO l.,
kept in pens und not turned loose on tne
public range. The fine imposed for
violation IA A. per head
Bryan morning eagle. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1898-1909, 1899-04-21
sneaker n..a,. N.w rlae..

New York. April 90 4. is announced
here that Speaker Thomas b Reed has
accepted the offer 20 become member
Of the law firm Of Simpson, Thacher a
Barnum in this city II is understood
that Mr.. Reed viii resign his seat in
congress and remove 20 New York. The
statement has been made tina, Mr Reed
is guaranteed a yearly income Of $50,
900 Before settling down here. Mr.
Reed viii make a protrActed visit 10
Europe.
Bryan morning eagle. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1898-1909, 1899-04-21

Omaha, April 90. The upper Missor-
ri is on tear and people along the bot
toms are hustling 70 escape from the
foods. The lowlands at Fort Pierre are
completely covered with water and p, p
pie are padding about in boats Tho
river has backed MP and washed ont half
mile Of the Northwestern railroad
tracls
Bryan morning eagle. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1898-1909, 1899-04-21
NOTICE.

The field day programme at College
today commences at Q a. IN. instead Of
10. a. heretofore advertised, II bAying
been found necessary 10 make this
change. There Is no charge for Admis-
sion at gates =
Bryan morning eagle. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1898-1909, 1899-04-21
REFUSED TO AMEND.
Antitrust 1911 stand. a. II wss Passed
by The Arkansas LegI.laiure.

Little Rock. April % The legisle-
ture has adjourned without having
passed any amendatory legislation TO the
antitrust bill. audit Is generally under.
stood now that the new law viii have 10
be passed upon by the courts. The law
4 the most drastic and farreaching ever
enacted by any state Mr.. Rector It's
author. il a .awyer Of much ability and
his friends believe that his measure will
stand the test Of the highest court All
81 tha foreign insurance companies
formerly doing business here have
withdrawn. but the advocates Of
the antitrust law believe that now
that the legislature has adjourned,
they will soon BE- back here doing
business
Bryan morning eagle. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1898-1909, 1899-04-21

City Of Mexico. April 90 Santiago
Morphy. who is alleged TO have robbed
the National hank Of Mexico Of siO.O0O.
has arrived here undor strong police
guard from the United States.
Bryan morning eagle. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1898-1909, 1899-04-21
Shot Herself and children.

Duluth. April 90 p penniless, behind
with her rent and hopeless Of the future
George Gworschack. widow. aged 20.
shot herself and two children 10 death
Bryan morning eagle. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1898-1909, 1899-04-21

Nethersole bracelets, large sizes, 81
and tl.bO at Caldwelps. Great reduc.
ton ON friendship silver hearts. l28
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1899-01-08

by four horses, surrounded by bridesmaids
and groomsmen. Following them were the
members of the Hungarian Singing Circle,
who rendered three lively nuptial melodies
in their native tongues, accompanied by
the Gypsy musicians, all arrayed in holiday
attire.
The Hungarian Music.
The special feature of the evening fol-
lowed the solemnization of the marriage
ceremony. and consisted Of a series of
Hungarian dances, presented In America
for the first time. The chief joys of the
true Hungarian are his native music and
dancing, and although almost every partic-
ipant last night is a naturaliZed citizen of
t1e United States no change of home could
ever cause him to lose his love for the
wild. weird music that sets his blood cours-
ing faster through his VEINS, that stirS him
to action from head to foot and sends a
thrill through him like unto a new life
breathed into his soul. But only the Gyp-
to play. They made it up: the strange notes
ecstacy. and then pour forth a symphony
of passion. hope and love are the children
Of their unrestrained imagination. A brass
band would make of them little more than
a meaningless potpourri.
Forty young people drawn from the
highest Hungarian circles in the city par
ticipated in these dances. They studied
nearly two months to perfect themselves in
the steps. The first number was the old.
time Magyar Kor,' or Hungarian Cir.
Gle" consisting of six figures. The dance
was a strange one from an American stand.
point, but replete with interesting steps and
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1899-01-08

h1od OF Kansas City-probably Shawnee
Mission. some eight or ten miles south of
Westport. TIL object OF this trip was to
interview the Santa Fe traders, Western
hunters and trappers. through an inter-
prefer. to learn something of Western and
southern Indian tribes. About 1913 he
visited the Pueblos of New Mexico. He
conceived the idea of correlating the Ian
guage of the Pueblos. and possibly that Of
other tribes. with that of the C~herokees.
He found each village or pueblo has a
different language from that of its nearest
neighbor. Nothing aunte ~Se-quo-yah set
tied down among the Pueblos n COM
menced a systematic study of their various
languages. He lived for several months at
the Pueblo de Santo Domingo, some fifty
miles southwest of Santa Fee.
The governor, or head chief, of tina
pueblo, an Indian now So years old, told
me. a few months ago. that he yet re-
membered that visit of Se-quo-yah to his
native village. If I remember correctly
the date. Se-quo-yah was returning from
ore of his Western journeys in a two
wheeled oX-cart in 1857 or 1858 when he
was taken sick and died near the great
bend of the Arkansas few miles from
where Great Bend. ,Kas., now stands.
thus departed from this earth one of
the strongest characters and brightest
geni1 the world ever saw. or any people,
whether savage or civilized. ever pro
duced. He deserves a monument as high
as that of Bunker Hill. His life should
be familiar to every chill in the civilized
world. - May future historians do him
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1899-01-08
A ROMANCE OF THE WAR.
1t Was Only the Sequel That Spoiled
q Pretty story for a Young
Lieutenant.

From the Washington Star.
IT don't want any more of your war ro-
mances in mine, with the hero and the
pretty girl and all that sort of rot" said
a fine-looking young lieutenant of volun-
teers in a party of friends at an uptown
hotel.
Asked to explain, he did so. as follows:
Il was one of those lucky fellows down
at Camp Thomas who drew a prize in a
box of good things sent to us from a town
in Ohio about three hundred miles from
my home and on the way to it. Ny prize
package consisted of a very nicely worded
note to the effect that the writer was %
years old and wanted a soldier beau, and
that the recipient of the pie which carried
the note pinned or top of it. the whole
thing tied up in many wrappers. would
he ate it. and answer her little missive if
he didn't have a wife or sweetheart at
home. 1t was such a pleasant, innocent
of a verdant maiden note, that l an
swered it. seeing that l hadn't any wife
and was having a scrap with my best girl,
solace elsewhere. Well. re got out of
Thomas and down to Tampa, and / got
over to Cuba on a special call, and all the
time 1 kept up n kind of hop-step-and-
jump correspondence with my prize pack
age;
and after batting around awhile in and
out of the hospital. 1 got a chance to go
home, and on the way i concluded to stop
and see the unknown. She hadn't told me
much about her family, but said she was
living at a hotel in the town, which L found
l didn't know anybody, and I didn't know
the girl. and l had sense enough to go a
little slow, but when / read he'd the hotel
and asked the clerk If Miss - lived
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1899-01-08
|BEECHER RIFLES CHURCH
FAMOUS DIVINE HELPED ESTABLISH
IT IN KANSAS.
Incident Recalled by the Selection of
q Pastor to Fill Beecher's Pulpit
at Plymouth Church,
Brooklyn.

The call of DR.. Newell Hills. of Chicago.
to fill the pulpit made amous by Henry
Ward Beecher has recalled many incidents
in the career of the distinguished pastor
of Plymouth church. His church appears
to belong to the American people, as be-
long Old South church and Gettysburg
field: it was made through Mr.. Beecher'S
pastorate a national institution more than
a local one. 1t was the heart Of the aboli-
ton moveme and was called by its
enemies 1.-The d abolition nest" During
the civil war Plymouth pulpit was the
place from which loyal Americans were
given Inspiration and encouragement. Tho
church gave its money and the lives of its
sons to the cause of the Union. Mr.. Beech
er died in 1887, and the first Sunday there
after Lyman Abbott preached from Ply
mouth pulpit. For some i'm he was acting
pastor and became the regularly chosen
head of the church IN 1sS. He resigned on
November q, 1885,
One of the most striking reminders Of the
character of Henry Ward Beecher Is in
the little town of Wabaunsee. Kas. 1t
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1899-01-08
SHE MUSTN'T ASK QUESTIONS
A WOman's Advice to Her Daughter
fn-Law-Where Her Husband
Had Been.

From the New York Sun.
And if 1 were you, I would never ask
him where he has been If he should come
home very, very late. 1 had an experience
In that line with his father many years
ago. and I learned then that If 1 was to
have any respect for him I must never ask
him any questions, and especially when he
was late"
This was the admonition of the mother
wife concluded to make use of it early in
the house and told it to her husband. The
latter caught his father at the club and
told It as his mother had told it:
William came in quite late or early, as
you prefer. 1 had not slept a wink. 1 had
worn out my slippers walking. wandering.
waiting and thinking only as a woman can
and will. OF course, it was a comforting
up my mind that 1 would not upbraid him.
Never do that unless you are very sure. If
you can corner a man. all right: but if he
thinks you only suspect he expands in i'm
morning, for it was after 2 o'clock, dear. I
met him kindly and took off his hat and
wrap. But somehow. while I was giving
him the little attentions which a man likes
my boy, I could not restrain a little curl
osity, n without intending to clapper-
claw or seem hypercritical. I just asked in
a young wife's solicitous way, William.
had rallied at me or snapped me up, as !
nave heard of men doing at such times. /
think l should nave taken my portion and
said nothing. But he said in his quiet way
| which I nave always noticed in him:
MARY. you wouldn't believe me II I
told you
"Of course. dear. you will know and I'M
Of that sort will put magnifying lenses
| upon a woman's curiosity. When he said
| that 1 put my arms around his neck and
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1899-01-08

stage. a miniature Magyar village had
been constructed. with town hall. courts
Of Justice. jail and triumphal arch. There
were officials robed in the most correct
Hungarian uniforms, to fill all the places of
honor from the staid and digniied judge
and fussy village notary to. the sleepy
night Waterman and the stalwart captain
Of co~nstabulary. There were countrymen
without number. arrayed in a bewildering
variation of costumes, to take the part of
peasants and add gayety. life. music and
brilliant movement TO the scene. In Hun
gary each of the fftS-two counties has a
costume slightly differest from any of the
others. and an idea of the effect of last
nights display may be obtained when 1t
is known that all of these counties We're
represented by ten or more peasants.
The wedding procession presented a
charming spectacular scene. which was all
the more interesting by reason of the
strict Observance of the manners and cos
TUNES of the village peasantry throughout
the entire ceremony After the constabu-
larry and officials came the bride and bride
groom seated in a big bridal wagon, drawn
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1899-01-08
CHEROKEE ALPHABET
EDWIN WALTERS TALKS ENTER.
TAININGLY OF TT ORIGIN.
He Tells Who Sc quo-yah Was and
What He Did for the Cherokee
Indians-He COrrects Some
False Impressions.

My brother and I began the study of
the Cherokee language more than a quar-
ter of a century ago." said Edwin Wal
tiers. a resident of this city and an engi-
neer interested in mines of the Southwest,
land 1 a exceptions to a recently pub
lished account in the New York Sun OF the
origin of the language and of the history
of the life and works of Se-quo-yah. In
the first place. Sequo-yah was not. as the
article says, "a buck who was regarded
as especially dull and lazy by his tribe;
neither did he invent the Cherokee AL
phabet.' but he invented the characters
that represent the syllables of which that
language is composed. In the next place.
he did not isolate himself and
with birds and squirrels for years. while
inventing the Cherokee alphabet Then
his name was not Guess and he was not a
sayx ,1 ,.,o, o., NAL, .oo,,,n.ed
with many leading Cherokees. and are,
rage. We have both had many pupils
from that tribe and. in short. have had
favorable opportunities for learning some
thing of the history of the very interesting
character-Se-quo-yah.
After Maxim allowances for conflict
ing dates in the tribal traditions and Of
! other minor matters, the facts appear to be
about as follows: About the year 1iS5
there appeared among the so-called Cher
okees of North Carolina a German silver
English, George Ghost. l say 'so-called
Cherokee because that is not the true
name of the tribe. 1t should be written,
Ta-%lah-quah, with first "a given the
soft sound. Geist appears to have
been we'll received by the Indians.
He was. no doubt. a silversmith of consid-
cradle ability. In some of the older and
more wealthy Cherokee families may yet
be found pieces of silverware-most nota-
bly, SPONSOR which are stamped, in Ger
man text, the name of the m~aker-George
Geist.
IF I am not mistaken. the last one
of these spoons l ever saw was in the
house of Thomas Blair. a wealthy. highly
educated Cherokee with whom I dined
some months ago. Geist married a Chero-
kee woman and had a son born who re-
ceived his fathers name in full-George
Geist. Shortly after this the father dis
appeared and mother and son remained
with their tribe.
Young Geist's Education.
George Geist. Jr.. grew to manhood and
received the Indian name of Se-quo-yah.
1t is reported that he never heard a word
of any language except Indian during the
first thirty years of his life. The mission
aries were usually able to make them
selves understood in the Indian tongue.
ton and study. He learned that white men
nave written languages, but to his dying
day he refused to learn any language other
than Indian.
I'm order that he might study the speech
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1899-01-08


replied as honestly as any woman ever did
in her life: Yes l will. William. If You
will MY tell me where you have been
sat down and lighted a cigar as de-
liberately as a man an. and at that hour
too. and then he shook his head and said:
No, Mary. / know you would not believe
it. If l thought you would. / would as lief
as not. but you are SO suspicious, so full
of curiosity
II fell upon my knees. but it was the
only time 1 ever did. and l said to him
oh. how earnestly: William, l will believe
you; only trust me to do so: tell me where
you nave been and I promise you I will
believe every word vol utter.
Then he placed one hand on my head
and he looked into my face and said
Mary, I nave been lecturing to the Young
Mems Christian Association
From that morning until the present
day. dear. I have gone on with Il mental
grubbing hoe. and whenever an interroga-
ton point has showed itself. l have hit it.
1t is the upas plant in the garden of do
meSficityr
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1899-01-08
A MYSTERIOUS CHARITY.
Cashier of a Chicago Bank
for Paying q Check.

From the New York Sun.
There isn't a great deal of romance in
my business" remarked a prominent
Chicago banker. but now and then some
thing turns up out of the ordinary and
makes us wonder at the peculiarities of
those who have dealings with US. I recall
an instance just now which is as yet not
explained, and will never be, I fancy. as
the chief actor lin it was killed some time
ago in a railway accident. I never knew
the man personally, but he was a depositor
IN our bank. whose account was a personal
one to the extent of SO, COO. He carried that
much as a rule. and the few checks that
he made against it never indicated what
his business was. He was about so years
OF age, and every rarely came to the bank.
$4,000 is not a large deposit in Chicago,
and beyond his deposit I had no interest
in him.
1T happened, therefore, that when one
day 1 received a personal letter from our
depositor l was a bit surprised, and was
still more SO when 1 had read it. I do not
effect that within a day or two a woman
would present a check drawn by him for
So.o0o. and that as she was unknown, he
wished me to see that she received the
none without trouble. and that she would
bring with her her means of Identification
IN the person of a little girl. who would
her, as directed in his letter. with the
answers as he ave them. These questions
were simple enough, being only the child's
born, the full name Of her mother and her
father and of a little brother who was
dead. Five thousand dollars was a good
e esal of money Sns :tb 10 let Mss go sn q thai that kin kind tS Of
deposition was in California, so that I
could not see him personally.
The next day the paying teller came to
me with his eyes bullying. saying that
about as hard a looking case of beggar
woman as he had ever seen was at his
window with a check drawn to the order
of Mrs. Blank by Mr.. -. and that as
did not know how she was to get the
money, he had come to ask me about it. I
sent for her to come into my private office,
which she did, bringing a little girl with
poverty than the. mother was. All she
could say was that she had received the
check by. mail from a man whose name
was not familiar to her, with Instructions
would be paid to her, if she would take
her little girl with her. I asked the child
the questions I had been requested to ask
and she answered correctly each one,
ity, and 1 ordered the check to be cashed.
The woman did not seem to be greatly
overcome by her good fortune, and as I
given the money. to her. she didn't seem
to have any further use for me and went
back to the paying %teller's window She
Faasked for the money in go bills and.
out of the bank without a word to any
body.
make inquiries. and her benefactor 1 never
say again, for he met his death on his
way east from California. 1 fancy he
would not have told me the story Of his
life, but / shall always wonder If the name
we carried on our books was the one he
had carried in his youth"
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1899-01-08
Ruin in Interior Cuba.
From Leslie's Weekly.

From Leslie's weekly.
On by train into interior Cuba-a region
of abandoned farms. ruined plantations.
and deserted villages. Mantanzas province
is a desert of ashes: Santa Clara, u wilder
ness of weeds; the province of Santiago. a
jungle. The ruin and the desolation are
the terrible autographs of rifle and torch.
Royal palms guard the plantation region,
useless seutinels ever since the day in
which $50. OC0. 0O0 of sugar zane became
drifting ashes. Nine miles from GUIANA
bana the train came to a washout. stopped.
giving us time to wander about the coun-
try. Not an inhabitant was visible-yeS,
in one of the ruined haciendas l did find
one family. Father. mother and daughter
had been living on potatoes and fruit for
more than a year. Meat and money, they
had not seen since the beginning of the in
surrection. The lonely ones living there
were worse off than Arabs in the desert.
for they had neither horses nor salt. Learn
ing that they actually beheld an American,
they fell to the ground and kissed my
boots. Then they wanted to know If
what they had heard was really true
that President Mckinley was coming to
live in .'Cooba' and was to furnish all
"Coobans' with Goldfish and cornmeal and
coin forever. After that. at every planta-
ton I visited. 1 found pacificos living in
the same tomb-like seclusion. the ghostly
apparitions of a paradise in ruins.
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1899-01-08
Famous Hungarian Dance.


This number was followed by the 'Kallai
Kettos"-the double "Csardas of Kallo''-
the most famous of all Hungarian dances,
which proved to be the most sensational
event of the evening. 1t is rarely seen by
reason of the inability of the ordinary man
to master its intricacies. Such a ire
mendous amount of agility. strength and
skill are required by the man in dancing
with the two women that not one in ten
thousand men ever succeeds in perfectinS
himself. The final dance was the stately
"Paletos.' Hungary'S oldest dance. which
hundreds of years ago. when Hungary,
during the reign of King Matthias, the
Just was the most powerful monarchy
in all Europe. 1t was performed by the
same young people who danced the Mag
var Kor."
This brought the formal programme of
Of the evening TO a close. and the Hun
guests. only. however. under the condi-
ton that they adhere strictly to the laws
of the town. which were musically set
forth in the programme by the village
minstrel. If you wanted to kiss a pretty
peasant girl you could do so, but she would
have you arrested and you would be fined
by the judge; you could propose marriage
to her and go through a mock ceremony
performed by one of the costumed priests
for a fee of 10 cents or n quarter. If you
courted some other girl you temporary
wife would have You jailed and another fee
would have to be handed over for your
freedom. In fact, to quote from the min
strel:
You may court her, kiss her, go to Jail,
Get married and divorced.
A dime II costa for every act,
And every laws enforced.
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1899-01-08
HUNGARIAN DANCES
MOST PICTURESQUE BALL OF NEW
YORK'S WINTER SEASON.
Opening Feature of the Programme
Was Wedding of Burgomaster's
Daughter-Then Followed
Hungarian Dances.
From the New York World.

From the New York World.
A visitor to the Grand Central Palace
last night might easily have imagined him
self in the very heart of a merry Magyar
village whose entire population had cast
aside all cares of business and toll and were
bent upo having a wild frolic over the
wedding Of the burgomaster's daughter
Such. indeed, was the opening feature OF
the programme preceding the Hungarian
Peasant ball. given by the Hungarian Lit
erary Society of New York for its charity
fund.