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Bryan morning eagle. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1898-1909, 1899-09-29
M.rlean omel.I. E.sor,.

Chicago. Sept es The special escort
COMMITTEES for Mr.. Mariscal and other
prominent Mexican officials has not yet
left Chicago. A change in the plans Of
the committee is due 10 telegram re-
ceiyed Tuesday from Mr.. MAriscal In
this message IL was announced that the
officials would leave the City OF Mexico
Saturday night going direct 10 Eagle
Pass, Tex II was requested that the
committee meet the other party at
Eagle Pass and accompany II TO Chi
cago
Bryan morning eagle. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1898-1909, 1899-09-29
wni Test tn. Law.

Kansas City. .Sept9s State warrents
were issued for the arrest Of II OF the
principal merchants Of Kansas City. who
arc charged with the violation Of the
law for the regulato1 Of department,
stores. in that they refused to furnish
statements showing that the lines Of
goods sold and the volume Of business
transacted to the state commission for
the collection Of department store
licenses. Nearly all of the accused
merchants were arrested and released.
The merchants will test the consttu.
tionality Of the law.
Bryan morning eagle. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1898-1909, 1899-09-29
Ru,s, rts. n,il,sp Mail Wagons.

Terre Hdute. Ind sept % The
Terrc Haui, Curag' and Buggy com
panv. which made quo mail wagons for
carving mail ~ cities has received an
order Tor five specimen wagons for the
rural free delivery Iervice The pur-
pose is 10 have them ready by the time
OF the meeting Of congress 10 be nsed
as an exhibit for congressman, who will
be asked to make much larger appro-
priation for this service.
Bryan morning eagle. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1898-1909, 1899-09-29
Nor. SUPPLE. for Porto Rico.

Philadelphia. Sept 2s AT a meeting
Of the permanent relief committee, It
was decided TO send another cargo Of
supplies to the food and famine suffer
ers in Porto Rico The chairman Of
the committee was instructed 10 com.
municate with the authorities at Wash.
ingtou and request the use Of vessel
10 carry tho contributions The value
Of the cargo il 100000 That carried
by the transport Panther some time ago
was valued at S2i 900
Bryan morning eagle. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1898-1909, 1899-09-29
DEWEY LANDS.
lie sets Foot on American Soil Amer
Twsnty-Thres Months.

lie sets Foot on American soil AMER
Twsnty-Thres Months.
New York. sept 2s Admiral Dewey
set foot on American soil for the first
time in % months when he stepped from
the commandant barge Undine on 20
the dock at the Brooklyn navyyard at
4 o'clock yesterday afternoon. His visit
to the navyyard was to return the Off
eial call made by Rear Admiral John
W. Philip. The admiral was dressed
in full uniform with epaulets aud cooked
hat lie was accompanied by his aides
Captain Lamberton Of the Olympia and
Flag Lieutenant Brumby The party
was met 10y Rear Admiral Philip
Bryan morning eagle. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1898-1909, 1899-09-29
run ro.,enle.. n.hhsa.

g. Louis. Sept es The pos,oiiices al
Bingham. Ills and Sidney. Neb, have
been robbed From the Bingham Office
all the stamps and all the money was
taken, burglars breaking into the Office
and taking the safe quarter of mile
away, where they blew II open Az
Sidney si2j inmoncr order funds were
stolen and ti5 ofpostal funds Chief
Posiofiice inspector Dice was advised Of
the two robheries by telegraph
Bryan morning eagle. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1898-1909, 1899-09-29

ST. Louis. Sept. 2s Postmaster
Baumhos has completed arrangements
for the use Of a special cancellation
stamp. with the words Worlds Fair.
Louisiana Purchase. Centennial 1908, ="
TO be used on incoming and outgoing
mail
Bryan morning eagle. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1898-1909, 1899-09-29

Salem. Ills ~ In the Marion cir.
cult court William G. Jarvis was placed
ON trial for murder Jarvis shot unl
killed Frank Delonshau ~ luka 90 oct
@. ls0s the trouble growing ont " q
feud which had existed between the two
for several years Jaryi. pleads self.
defense
Bryan morning eagle. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1898-1909, 1899-09-29
ONLY way CUT IS WAR
All Hope Of Settling The rispute in
Transyaal l. Gone.
PEACE no LONGER.
Orange Free State WIN Help The
TransVaal Fight the British.
Two Courses Left for
Great Britain.

London. Sept %. The decision oi
the yolksraad Of the Orange Free State
b. Join with the Transyaal in the event
of ho.tilities will naturally stiiien the
Roers independent attitude The
raad resolution made the brotherhood
arms between the Transysal and Orange
Free State. which hitherto there wa
only strong probability. an absolute
certainty and the British have 70 face
the situation
This leaves the British government
but two courses 20 pursue. One is 90
make peace with President Kruger ui-
on terms which is suitable 30 him ar
the people of the Transyaal, and tl'
other 10 fight it out
As Great Britain has never recedo
from a firm stand. war Is the only hop
now Of finally settling the trouble,
Intense excitement continues TO PR
vail at Pretoria where apparently It o.
believed there j. no escape from wer
The commission appointed 20 consia
the matter reports what is necessary q
carry on the government in the event o.
war aud fixing their salaries
The field oornets Of Pretoria, ar
again serving out rifles, commanderiu-
is actively proceeding and all pferars
tious ore being made 10 take the field
An Enlishman named Robertson ha
been arrested 40 johannesburg charge
with high treason He Is alleged q
have enlisted recruits for the lmperin
light horse.
Bryan morning eagle. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1898-1909, 1899-09-29

London, Sept y The Echo saws the
Greek government has been Informed
Of severe shock of nm earthquake around
Smyrna killing thousands of persons.
injuring sOOand nddemolishing enOO houses
and two villages
Bryan morning eagle. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1898-1909, 1899-09-29
Hank President Foupd Dead.

Atchison, Kas.. Sept % - w. Cum
mings. president Of the State Bank Of
Ehingham. was found dead in bed He
was 6j years old and very feeble, and
his death was due 20 heart disease.
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ed 70 the council that 400 lives were
lost through the floods at Darjeeling.
the capitol Of the district Of that name.
in addition 10 those drowned on the
plaiuH
Bryan morning eagle. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1898-1909, 1899-09-29

Heath Point. Que. Sept 9s-The
overdue steamer Scotsman is ashore on
the straits OF Belle Isle The steamer
Montfort carrying $50 Of her passen-
gers, has passed in
Bryan morning eagle. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1898-1909, 1899-09-29

Calcutta. Sept 2s Lieutenant Gov
srnor Sir John WOodburn has announc-
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-06-16
HIGH EXPLOSIVES.
Maya zines for Their Manufacture - h
Built Along the Hudson.

Maya zines for Their Manufacture - n
Built Along the Hudson.
New York Evening Post: Factories
and magazines for the manufacture
and storage Of high explosives are
soon to be built by the navy depart
ment. The plans call for an expendi-
ture of more than $1,OOO,OO0, which
has been appropriated by congress.
During the war the need Of a maya
zine at convenient distributing point
was felt severely; that at Fort La
fayette was overtaxed, and at best only
capable of supplying 1000 rounds a
day, most OF which was for the guns
of the secondary batteries. The larg-
est Of the new magazines will be builc
on the Palisades near Edgewater ara
almost opposite Grants tomb. 1t WIZ
have a frontage of several hundred
feet on the river and will be built to
the edge of the cliff. The site selected
Is away from factories with tall Chin
neys, which are considered dangerous.
Plans and specifications will soon be
Several large buildings are to be erect
ed. They will be used for storing am
munition and as laboratory for test
Ing materials for guns and torpedoes-
There will also be a building used
solely for experimental work. and q
large plant for the manufacture Of all
kinds of powder. Most Of the build
ings will be made Of corrugated iron.
Several piers extending into the water
about 100 feet will be built. The river
Is to be dredged to depth sufficient
to permit the largest battle ships to
be moored to the piers, where ammunt-
tion can be taken direct from the
storehouses and placed in the maya
zines of the vessel. This will do away
with the delay of handling the
charged shells and the explosives
many times and the dangers surround
ing reshipment. When the plant Is
completed it will have, it Is planned,
capacity sufficient to supply high ex-
plosives to the entire navy, and great
enough to assemble nearly all the
fixed ammunition and charged shells
needed 1t will cost, it is expected.
about 100000, and work may be begun
within a few months Another plant
may be erected near the naval proving
grounds a., indian Head. Neither will
be dangerous to the property Of the
ueighborhood.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-06-16
An Able ExplOiter.

1t was said of Jim Hill, Of the Great
Northern railroad that he built that
line ON tobacco, overalls and slop. "
That is, that those things were all the
workers got who constructed the road.
1t seems that some capitalists are
building a road on Snake River, Wash,
in the same way. They hire men al
Seattle and other distant points, give
them free passage to the work, pay
them $1.75 day, work them one month
and discharge them. After deducting
their board, hospital fees, etc., this
leaves the men just enough to get out
of the country by paying the fare. Thus
all the work costs the dear capitalists
is the grub for the men!-Appeal to
Reason.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-06-16
A MODERN PASTORAL.
spoiled by a Prosaic Workman with NJ
Eve for Romance.

spoiled by a Prosaic Workman with M
Eye for Romance.
They were waiting for the 5:45 p. m.
New York train-five Italian boot
blacks in a group on the platform OF
Mamaroneck station, says the New York
Commercial Advertiser. Why there
and in such numbers with only him
self-taking the season by the fore
lock for summer board-the passing
stranger could only wonder idly as
he watched them seated in dirty but
attentive semicircle, each on his black
ing kit, before the eldest of them,
well grown, handsome lad of about Is.
He was seated fiat upon the station
platform, braced against the warm red
brick Of the station wall, picturesque
figure. picturesquely occupied. He had
cut a branch from tree and had fash
Toned it, dexterously enough, into that
first Of all musical Instruments,
shepherds pipe. And he was playing
on it, as the shepherd in "Tannhau-
ser" plays when he sings about the
lovely May. 1t was May 1, too, as it
happened, and beautiful May 1, as
this last one was. Spring in the air;
on the trees about the station the first
filmy shadowing of green; filtering
through it the golden haze of the de-
clining sun, and there, against the
warm red background Of the station
wall the comely lad, dreamily at ease,
with the tattered flap Of his soft hat
flung back and his black-fringed eye
lids pensively downcast, as he played
his shepherds pipe-but did the real
shepherds pipes sound like that, the
passing stranger wondered, on old Hy-
'mettus' heights? Say, boy" said a
prosaic Irish workman, coming along,
putting with haste, and covered with
the lime and plaster Of his days job.
"a little of that music goes long way
Shut up"
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-06-16
SUNSET AND SUNRISE.
Like the Beauty of u Woman and 4
Young Girl

Like the Beauty of Woman and 4
Young Girl.
Sometimes one sees sunrise. Gen.
orally 1t is ON sleeping-car or else
where when one cannot claim credit
for the seeing, says the New Yorl
Commercial Advertiser. Poets are lazy
creatures, else they would write more
about sunrises and sunsets. Sunrise,
really suit them better; at least such
Of them as are "of the air. airy" A
few of them are sunset men, but most
of them, in spite of the babble about
passion, are rather shimmery crea-
lures, and the shimmery colors are the
sunrise colors-delicate pinks and yell
lows, such as the sunset never equals,
though its colors are richer and more
satisfying in a way The evening col
ors are like the beauty of a woman,
1t seems as If the long experience Of
the day had given them the depth and
richness that the experience of life gives
10 the woman. The morning colora
are like the young girl, beautiful In
her promise more than in her pres
ent self. The sunset is what we nsed
at the end Of the firing day. Ws
steep our souls in its glorious colorina
and in its strength, and lose the dust
and WEAKNESS of the day. The sunrise
comes to us as we awaken. Its purity
appeals to us not to let our souls ba
dragged down by the sordid day to
come. The sunrise is the conservation
preceding the action
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could not read or write and her father

could not read or write, and he~ father
was quite as ignorant. Yet upon her
beauty and natural accomplishments
Reavls built up a romance that
brought him more than half q million
dollars, but failed to carry through the
most audacious conspiracy that has
been conceived during the present
generation at least. The two concoct'
ed the scheme with perseverance and
fortitude worthy of better purpose.
In all the annals Of crime there can
not be found a more complete and
comprehensive conspiracy, and 1t cost
the government of the United States
nearly $25O,000 and several years OF
labor by the department Of justice to
expose the fraud and send Reavis to
prison for two years.
1t looked for many years as II the
bold scoundrel would win. Several
committees of congress reported ia
vorably on the claim, and If it had not
been for the persistence with which
some of the settlers fought it the title
might have been confirmed by leg
islative act. Reavis, who spent good
deal of time in Washington in those
days, and lived with ostentatious ele-
gance at the Arlington Hotel, had the
nerve to consent to an investigation
by tie United States Court of Claims,
which was never finished. In the
midst of the proceedings the claimant
was tried and convicted Of forgery, and
the great structure he had spent so
much time and skill in building col
lapsed like house Of cards. His dis
tinguished attorneys withdrew from
the case, his financial hackers repudi-
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-06-16
Rent.

Rent, rent rent.
The tenant sleeps,
But rent sleeps not.
He wakens with the dawn
And hastes away to labor,
But all the day
Rent spurs him on to toll.
The noontide hour
If spent in fastening home
To eat. that strength may still be hal
to toll;
Each footstep is pursued by rent.
Or if, perchance, the buckets contents
He hastily devours beside his job,
Its contents is the less for rent.
Around the evening lamp
Domestic joy is marred by rent.
The common food,
The coarser shoes,
The less expensive dress,
The homely furniture,
Are ever present evidences of rent.
The holidays, the holy Sabbath days
Are neither holidays nor holy days.
There are no holy days to rent
Rent robs of joy,
1t poisons peace,
1t pliers plenty, J
1t pinches poverty.
1t lays it's robber hand
On all production,
And vampire-like
It sucks the blood Of industry.
DAVID B. PAGE.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-06-16
ADMIT WITHIN FIRE LINES.
An Extraordinary Motto for IA Reporters
Funeral Emblem,

An Extraordinary Motto for u Reporters
Funeral Emblem.
In his introduction to his story OF
THE Last of the Mulberry Street Bar
ons," in the May Century, Mr.. Jacob
A. Riis, author Of How the Other Half
Lives" tells a rather grewsome but
very amusing anecdote Of a fellow-re-
porter attached to police headquarters
in Mulberry street, New York. There
had been a feud of long standing be-
tween the reporters of Mulberry street
and in consequence news was plenti-
full. There were mutual scores to be
paid off, and we paid them off in the
coin of the realm. The coin Of Null
berry street was murder, fire and sud
den death 1--WE lad passed the stage Of
boxing gloves and did not speak as We
passel by, and it went long way. l
do not mean, of course, that we muir
dered or burned up one another, but
these things were the staples OF our
daily work as police reporters, and
when we were "out" the precinct re-
turns received an extra sitting, with
the result that many grain of news
paper wheat that would otherwise
have escaped was rescued from the
dust bin. We had our specialties in
this contest Of wits. One was distin-
guished as sleuth. He fed on detec-
tive mysteries as a cat on chicken
bone. He thought them out by day,
and dreamed them out by night, to the
great evaporation of the official detec-
tives. with wnom their solution was
commercial, not in the least an intel
lectual affair. They solved them on
the plane of the proverbial lack of
honor among thieves, by the formula,
"You scratch my back, and I'll scratch
yours" Another came out strong on
fires. He knew the history of every
house in town that ran any risk of
being burned; knew every fireman and
soNld tell within a thousand dollars,
more or less, what was the value OF
the goods stored in any building in
the dry goods district, and for how
much they were insured. If he could
mt, he did anyhow, and his guesses
often came near the fact, as shown in
the final adjustment. He shifted
firebug from afar, and knew without
asking how much salvage there was in
bale of cotton after being twenty
four hours in the fire. He Is dead,
poor fellow In life he was fond Of
joke, and in death the joke chung to
him in a way wholly unforeseen. The
firemen in the next block with whom
he made his headquarters when off
duty, so that he might always be
within hearing Of the gong, wished
to give some tangible evidence of their
regard for the old reporter, but, being
in hurry, left it to the florist, who
knew him we'll, to choose the design.
He hit upon a floral fire badge as the
proper thing, and thus it was that
when the company of mourners was as
sembled, and the funeral service in
progress, there arrived and was set
upon the coffin, in the view Of all, that
triumph of the florists art, shield Of
white roses, and this legend written
across 1t in red immortelles: admit
within fire lines only" 1t was shock
ing. but irresistible. 1t brought down
even the house Of mourning.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-06-16

Washington few more years, and Ill
innate trustism will be reached. All
Industries will be controlled by trusts,
and central committee Of all the
trusts will be charged with the duty Of
seeing that no merchant who handles
any non-trust article shall 90 allowed
to buy any trust-made goods OF any
class. When such an ediot can con-
troll The market, where will we be?
And what good will our right to vote
do us then?
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-06-16
One OF the blessed Institutions"

A city gives gas company the mon
opoly of making gas and selling it to
its citizens. The monopoly then pro-
oeeds to indulge its own sweet will in
the matter of charging for gas. 1t is
licensed to levy tribute upon the peo-
ple that make the monopoly owners
wondrous rich and their victims griev-
cusly sore. The monopoly is heart
less. plundering monster in whose pres
ence the people dare do no more than
family protest, If so much. They are
meek victims of the brigandish hold
ups of the monopoly. They have no
recourse at law, no hope of justice If
they go to law with the monster. But
let a wrong, ever so slight, be done to
the monster, then what? A boy tried
it in Minneapolis short time since.
He stole a few nickels from a penny
in-the-slot gas meter, was convicted
and sent to states prison for five
years. We are now conquering Flip
mos that we may endow those we don't
kill with the blessings Of our institu-
TONS" of which the foregoing is one
Stock and Home.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-06-16

The sermon on the mount and ma
tural justice can rule the world, or they
cannot. II they can, our present rul-
ing is the invention Of the devil; II
they cannot, the devil has a right to
rule, If the people let him-but he
ought not to call his rule Christian civ
Eization. --J0hp Boyle O'Reilly.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-06-16

The people do great wrong by CIV
ing so much power to representatives.
1t has an evil influence; 1t tends to poi
son the political atmosphere. We give
the speaker of the national house Of
what amounts to an alb
solute veto of any and all measures. 1t
is in his power to defeat measure
that class interests might be willing to
pay millions Of dollars to have de-
feated. Don't you know it is crime
for us to throw such vast temptation
before any man? We tempt our law
makers. our delegates and our COM
mittees. We do great wrong to them,
to our country, to humanity in general
by so doing. What noble proposition
the initiative and referendum is! 1t
would enable men high up in public
affairs to remain pure, patriotic and
noble. Outsids OF guarding the inter
ests of the masses of the people, there
are reasons insurmountable why the
initiative and referendum shcId b.
adopted Missouri World.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-06-16

Milan has curiosity in clocl
which is made entirely Of bread. The
maker Is a native Of India, and he ha,
devoted three years Of his time to the
construction OF this curiosity. TIL,
clock is of respectab size and goa
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-06-16

sanction and assistance, and even prel-
ates Of the Catholic church bore testi-
mony to the honesty and respectable
ity of the swindler and his bogus wife.
One of the most romantic features of
the affair was the part taken by his
wife-the daughter of an ordinary Ari-
iona ranchero, who appeared in her
husbands schemes as Her Excellen-
tissimo Dona Sofia Loretta Miceala de
Peralta Reavis, nee Maso y Silva de
Peralta de la Cordoba etc. Her real
name was Sophia Maso. and she was
born in 1862 on ranch near the San
Bernardino mountains. Her mother
was a common Mexican woman. who
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-06-16

"It would never dc to place Col. Fun.
ston at the head Of Kentucky regi-
ment." "Why notf" Because he
takes to water too easy."-Ohio Stat
Journal.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-06-16
PROSPERITY NOTES.

Twenty-eight suicides in twenty-six
days, in the city of San Francisco.
Cause, as innocently given by the ever
reliable daily press, and without COM
ment, Poverty; inability to obtain en-
ployment!"-San Francisco Star.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-06-16

Plato was such an astonishing rea-
soner he could prove just man to be
a cunning thief Among modern rea-
soners it does not require near so much
excellence to prove a cunning thief to
be a just man.-Southern Mercury, Oal-
las, Texas.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-06-16
POINTS FROM THE PRESS.

The initiative and referendum would
come in mighty handy to head of this
imperialstic runaway-The Peoples
Press.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-06-16

Reform in our economic system Is
purely a business question. BY busi-
ness methods, four-fifths of the wealth
of this country has been transferred
without an equivalent, to the few VINO
apply them for their personal gain.-
Equity.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-06-16

More than a third Of million dol
lars worth Of property was sold at
Dayton, Ohio, for taxes recently. Has
property so deprecated in that state
that it is no longer worth the taxes,
or has General Prosperity struck the
state? Some pessimistic cusses assert
that the people are too poor to pay
taxes, but they fail to see that people
are so rich they no longer care for Or
binary real estate!-Appeal to Reason.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-06-16
A TIMELY QUESTION.
Is THIS RUSSIA OR is THIS
AMERICA?

4 California Citizen Is Mach Mixed on
the Point-Trust Methods of To-day
and Those of the Near Future A
Timely Hint.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-06-16

Mr.. Atkinson is now fanatic ana
a mental degenerate" but he was wise
and very level headed when he was
writing on the currency in support OF
the election of William Mckinley to the
presidency. Springfield Republican.