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,rsnce.. to wed clrcu. Rider.

BUDAPEST June 23.-The announce
ment that Princess Anna Maria Petroff
and widely known circus rider named
Fontana are to be married June 80
is causing a great deal Of talk. Fon-
tana made great success at Budapest
two years ago. when the Princess frst
saw him. but she did not make his
acquaintance till last year in Paris
He is an Italian, and having travelled
in most civilized countries 10 q clever
Iinguist-
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BOOKS RECEIVED.

THE PRETTY WAYS o. PROvI-
DENCE+By Mark Guy Pearse- Jen-
nings & Graham. Cincinnati Eaton
Mains. New York 81.
THE SOUL OF THE PEOPLE-By
William NJ WINS. The Century Com
pany, New York.
AMERICAN POEMS. with notes and
biographies Edited by Augustus
White Long. American Book Company.
New York. Chicago
HERNANI-By Victor Hugo. With
Introduction. notes and vocabular by
James ID. Bruner, associate professor OF
Romance languages in the University OF
pany, New York
INTERNATIONAL, COMMERCIAL
AND FINANCIAL GAMBLING-By
Charles William Smith. =. 5. King &
Son. Orchard House. Westminster. Lon
don.
RUBAIYAT OF HOPE-By A. A. B.
Cavaness- Jennings & Graham. Cincin-
natl Eaton & Mains. New York.
THE MOTHER OF CLUB Caroline
NJ. Seymour Severance)-By Ella Giles
Ruddy, editor. Baumgardt Publishing
Company. Los Angeles.
THE TRACER Or LOST PERSONS
BY r. w. Chambers. ID. Appleton &
Co.. New York. $3.50.
EPwORTH LEAGUE METHODS
!.
Graham, Cincinnati Eaton & Mains.
New York. 81.
PRIMER OF CHRISTIAN DOCTRINE
by Milton S. Terry (for the use OF
Sunday-schools, Epworth Leagues.
Christian Endeavor societies. etcl.
Jennings & Graham. Cincinnati. Eaton
& Mains. New FORK. 80 cents.
IN CURE OF HER SOUI-By Fred
erfck Jesup Stimson. ID. Appleton &
Co.. New York. $3.50
THE GREENROOM BOOK. OR
WHO'S WHO ON THE STAGE Tan
annual Biographical record OF the dra-
matte. musical and variety world
Chiefly English and Continental Edited
by hampton Hunt Frederick warne
& Co., New York $3.50 net Mail s162
THE PACKERS. THE PRIVATE CAR
LINES AND THE PEOPLE@By j. Og-
den Armour. Henry Altemus Company,
Philadelphia si.5o
Wide MARGINS.
Print not my Book of Days. pray.
On meager page. in type compact.
Lest the Great Readers calm eye stray
Skippingiy through from fact TO fact:
But let there be liberal space.
At least 'twfxt lines where i'll Is writ.
That 1 with tempering hand may trace
A word 10 dun the edge OF it.
And save for me a margin wide
Where I may scribble at my ease
Elucidative note and guide
OF most adroit apologies
From Poems" by Meredith Nichol-
son. Copyright, 1906. Used by special
permission of the publishers. The
Bobbs-Merrill Company.
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Chine.e oath ~ court.

LONDON. June 23.--Ah Hing. q Chi
nese who charged Wong Gum with
theft at the Thames Police Court yes
terday, took the oath by blowing out
a candle and expressing wish that
his soul be blown away as the light
had been IL he did not speak the truth.
The San Francisco call., 1906-06-24
WHO'S WHO ON The STAGE"
AIN ENGLISH PUBLICATION

A new English publication of note Is
THE Greenroom Book" or Who's Who
on the Stage II is an annual and de-
signed to give to the stage that con-
venience which has long been rendered
the other professions by such books as
the Navy List, the Army List, the
Medical Register, Who's Who, etc. and
the Greenroom book fills the hitherto
unfrlf1led demand for a work that win
pie as accurate. comprehensive and i'm
partial as others of the class of who's
who books. IT gives chiefly biographi-
cal sketches of the footIight favorftes
of the English and Continental stage
but there Is added to 1t selected list
of American favorites. As for the
The San Francisco call., 1906-06-24
A BUBBLE SONG.

And blow the bubbles. one by one;
Then we'll sing our bubhle-song-
Such a merry, foolish one
We babble of bubbles like this, you
know.
Bibbety- bobble the bubbles go;
Bubbling light,
Bubbling bright.
Bubbling bubbles blow.
Bubbles sparkling gay and fair;
Bubbles tossing In the air,
See them dance and float along,
As we sing our bubbie-song
Carolyn Wells In June ST. Nicholas.
The San Francisco call., 1906-06-24
~Negrov or ~Colored.r

Professor Booker T. Washington, be-
ing politely Intercepted by Congress-
man Sims of Tennessee as TO whether
negroes ought TO be called negroes"
or members of the colored race has
replied that it has long been his own
The San Francisco call., 1906-06-24
BRIEF NOTE and COMMENT
FROM The LITERARY WORLD

Fair is the soul. rare is the soul
Who has kept after youth is past.
All the art of the child, all the heart
of the child,
Holding his faith at last!
-Gelett Burgess. From Brfiliants,
in Boston Evening Transcript.
The San Francisco call., 1906-06-24

at the Sign of the Lamp lis the first
new book store to be established since
the Ire
The San Francisco call., 1906-06-24

General Frederick D. Grant, the son
of the commander of the Union armies,
proposes that the one hundredth anni-
vers&ry of the birth of Robert E. Lee.
which comes next January. be observed
throughout the country, and his sug-
gestion has brought out favorable re-
Bryan morning eagle. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1898-1909, 1906-05-12

on a scale which We In our little coun.
try can scarcely imagine. says the
London Sphere. Many OF these
RATS float Of their own accord.
while others are hauled by curious
vessels known as "alligators." They
are specially used on the Canadian
lakes and rivers and have been de.
scrlbed as a cross between a boat and
grasshopper. for they can navigate
dry and dusty road or make their
way through a swamp or over a wind.
fall. The Lumber Jack Is said to be
losing some Of his old picturesqueness.
but he retains enough individuality
to mark him on from other classes Of
workers He Is simple and natural
generous and fearless. manly and in
dependent The picture shown in this
column illustrate the method OF lum
bering In western Washington. When
the logs are cut they are either skid
ded down TO the rivers or are foated
thlther and bound together with enor.
nous chains. In many cases they are
built into a sort OF floating cage which
is released from beneath them when
the pile "a completed. II Is no uncom.
mon sight 10 see a raft containing logi
worth 81 900 600.
Bryan morning eagle. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1898-1909, 1906-05-12
COST OF THE WHITE HOUSE.
How the Expenses Of the Government
establishments Are Taken
Care or.

A correspondent asks lis the presi-
dent able to save anything out OF the
mere $4,000 year sa AIRY he re-
ceiyes?" Many people believe that the
$4,000 year which the president gets
as salary Ia the sum total OF his official
income. II Is a mistake. says the San
Francisco Argonaut.
This Is haw he Is paid: $4,000 II
given him in addition To his salary OF
$4,000 to pay the salaries OF his sub
ordinates and clerks HIS private sec
rotary Is paid $3.50. his assistant pri-
vate secretary $3.50. his stenographer
1850. five messengers Ceachl $500. a
steward 81 500. two doorxeepers (eachl
ZOO. four other clerks NJ good sal
aries. ranging from $3.50 10 $500:
one telegraph operator. two ushers. 81
200 and si.4OO; a night usher. 81 200: a
Waterman. $500. and a man who takes
care of the fires, who receives 1864 a
year.
In addition TO this there Il given 20
him s. 900 for incidental expenses. such
as station ~. carpets and the care OF
the presidential stables And under
another heading there = given him
nearly $4,000 more. OF this si25n0 IL
for repairs and refurnishing the White
House. $4,000 is for fue. 5000 Is for
the greenhouse. $4,000 Is for gas.
matches and the stab'e. The Waite
House all told costs the country in con
nection with the president considera-
bly, over Sl25.OOO year
The president Il also well to d. in
his own right. having inherited a com
petence from his IA her Add to this
the royalties he has receive from his
books. his income from magazine work.
and II will be seen that the expense
incident 20 the marriage o. Mss Alice
will by no mems pinch the purse OF
the house OF Roosevelt.
Bryan morning eagle. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1898-1909, 1906-05-12
NOT A LAME SENATOR.
And Being Fighter the Hotel
Caller Didn't Care 20 Inter
view Him.

lie had been hanging around tbs
desk OF a hotel In Washington Tor ten
minutes te.trs the clerk asked what
was want q. and mentally sized him
up as an Ofiice-seeker from the Wild
and woody west.
Senator Blank stops here. don't her
Yes, sir. he does.
WAS that him that come along A
few minutes ago and took toothpick)
IRON the hllder?"
Il don't think so"
"He walked with stiff lnee and
didn't look al all like a nght r"
Then II wasn't Sena'o. Blank. lie
has no stin knee and you have only 20
look ~ him q ses hat he sa lighter.
DO you want % intery ew him."
No. guess not-not II he isn't
lame man"
What difference does that make
"A heap. my friend. wanted TO ask
him what corporation owned him, but
II he's got two sound legs and Is
fighter guess I'll let II go and wri.e
him a post card"
Bryan morning eagle. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1898-1909, 1906-05-12
QUAINT OLD JURY BOX.
II Was in Use In Lynn, Massaehu.
sets, from i732 70
1908.

A little lacquered. wooden box. now
In the possession OF the Lynn HIS
torical society. and labeled simply
"Old Jury Box" could. had II a
tongue. tell a long and mos: interest.
Ing story OF the growth OF the town
and city OF Lynn during the past 200
years.
The box itself il like most other
boxes made in the early pat Of the
eighteenth century. doyetalled at the
corners and glued together II Is not
large box. yet the names OF many
OF Lynn's best citizens have been
drawn from Il for service on a jury
sitting in judgment on their fellow
men.
On the bottom Of the box are the
figures "1732." and II Is thought that
this Is the date the box was made.
BY whom Il was constructed nobody
seems 20 know. and nothing can be
found In the old town records regard.
ing It's use However II Is known
that IL was used nearly 200 years
and that II is probably the Oldest box
In Lynn to-day.
From the time II was constructed
until 1908 Il was In constant use.
but as the years rolled by and the
town grew into a city. and a small
city into one Of great proportions. the
box proved too small 10 hold the
names NJ the furors
In 1908 City Clerk Joseph w. Att
will ordered a new jury box TO be
made. This Is OF oak and much larger
than the old box Soon after the com.
pletion OF the new box the old box
was presented to the Lynn Historical
society. and at present rests In large
wall cabinet
The box has a bail OF hand.wrought
iron and an old.fashioned lock and
hinges OF the same material. A little
slot In the top admits Of dropping the
names into the box. The inside is left
in the natural wood. but the outside Is
lacquered. and Is about the color OF
old mahogany.
Bryan morning eagle. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1898-1909, 1906-05-12
MONEY PILES UP RAPIDLY.
Bequest Of Benjamin franklin the
Nucleus OF an Immense
Fund.

A great popular industrial school.
the Franklin Union. has been estab-
llshed in Boston. and New York man.
Mr. Bouillon. called upon 10 take
charge Of ton the foundation OF
$1,000 bequeathed by Benjamin more
than 100 years ago. Franklin. as is
we'll known. had the amount put out
at interest tor a century for the bcne-
fit OF the working youth OF his native
city, states the New York Mail.
What is the result? The managers
OF the Franklin Union now have on
hand. for actual use. a round million
dollars in cash. and. in addition TO that
$780, 900 In good securities. which Will
accumulate interest for another nun
dred years. when II is expected TO have
produced a new capital OF ss.OOO.OOO or
50, OOO. 900.
To be sure, not all the millions now
on hand Is the increment Of Franklin's
original gift. for Mr.. Carnegie made
a generous addition to that. but the
bulk OF II Is from that source. and all
the 5000. 100 now set aside In securities
is derived from Franklins original
gift. In 200 years (which Is the length
OF time that has now elapsed since
Franklin was born) his gift OF 5000
will have rolled up To about FlO.-
900. 900.
Where will all this have come from?
IL is a puzzling old problem, the an
swer 10 which may seem simple
enough 10 those who put money out
at interest, but which Is something
of a mystery. Money is the measure
OF value. Value. in the last ANALYSIS.
consists OF things TO eat and wear
and use. Had 5000 worth OF these
things, existing when Franklin died
In 1890. actually increased to sl.OOO.OOO
worth of them In 1880 or 1906? Had
all the rest Of the good things that
we're In existence In 1890 fructified In
the same proportion? And II $780,
900 Of Franklin's money in 1906 will
be 81 5000 OF things 10 eat and wear
In 20O6. what will Mr. Rockefeller's
$500. O0o. 900 pile mp to in that year, To
500. zoo. OOO. 900. which is what the whole
wealth OF the United States now
to. But at the same rate OF
increment the present entire wealth OF
the United States will have piled up.
by 2OO6. to $4,000 900. OOO. OOO-an i'm
possible figure
The world itself would not hold that
amount Of wealth. Money earns money.
but IL cannot earn more than there IL
the equivalent OF value for.
Bryan morning eagle. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1898-1909, 1906-05-12
THE FINISH FOR POOR 10
Indians Visiting the National Capital
Get Into Trouble Through
Writing.

MIR. Francis Leupp. commissioner OF
Indian affairs, Is seeking to discourage
the visits OF the red men to Washing
ton, and TO induce them to do their
business with the government by mail.
lie says that their junkets TO the cap
ltal cost the government deal OF
money and that they consume an un-
necessary amount OF the ofiicial time
This Is alI'well from the Official stand
point. but poor 10 is 20 be consld-
cred. too. He has a decided aversion
10 signing papers. and with good rea-
son. Usually. when he signs a paper.
even the most innocent-looking, II
turns mp later as a promisory note or
a deed to his property.
Drink has done less harm 20 the
aborigine than ink-and II might In
truth be said that his white brother
has suffered in like ratio from the
two. And the two. taken In commune
ton. have well-nigh ruined both. Ths
serpent taught Adam and Eve TO
write. after they had made the
marks on a paper that gave him al
their real estate.
II Is no, here insinuated that the
government details In Washington
would induce poor la TO sign bunko
papers. but there are many scribes
hanging about the reservations who
would take advantage OF the Indian
advice TO wrong the ig-
norant savage by writing.
II the government officials really
have any regard for the Indian. they
will permit him TO transact his affairs
by word Of mouth. according Ia
ancient use, And II any business Is 10
be transacted by mail. let Il be that Of
the white Office seekers. who NV
ihrong the streets OF the capital. This
would enable the officers 10 save more
lime than they waste" on the Indian
delegations.
Bryan morning eagle. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1898-1909, 1906-05-12

ianst street. surrounding the old Ben
edict building The western part will
cover the site Of the Coal and Iron
Exchange. AT Cortlandt and Church
streets with a frontage In Cortland'
street Of 209 feet and OF 1903 feet In
Church street The Broadway en-
trance will be in Nos. 165 and i67
and a main corridor 3s feet wide will
run through 10 Church street. a dis
lance OF 3l5 feet
The cost OF this pile will be more
than $3.250.OOO In line with the
policy OF Robert T.. Bowling. president
Of the City Investing company. to give
10 tenants quick and abundant trans
portation facilities. the building will
have 81 elevators.
II II probable that the building will
have an entrance 20 the McAdoo tun-
nels which will come up to Church
street. under Cortlandt street. and
will turn north under the south side
of that thoroughfare This has not
yet been decided upon.
In style OF architecture the building
will be what Is technically known as
free Italian. The adoption OF this
type OF architecture has given the
architect. Francis n. Kimball. an OPP
portunity TO produce structure
whose massive appearance will be Inn
posing
Bryan morning eagle. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1898-1909, 1906-05-12
STUDY or THeArER FIRES.
Experiments In Vienna Indicate That
"fircproof" Curtains Are No
Protection.

Whoever imagines that the famou'
iron curtains in theaters. which are
lowered and raised with such solem'
nifty at stated times and are made
the subject OF all kinds Of municipal
regulations. are any real protection
against fire. would do well, says the
Grand Magazine. 10 study the ac'
count OF certain experiments recent
ly carried out In Vienna
A theater was constructed In the
must approved modern fashion. the au-
ditorium furnished with the usual gal
leries and pit and the stage with
scenery. Lamps OF every system--elec-
tric. gas and oil-were placed In great
numbers and In the walls certain spy
holes were provided through which the
commission Of engineers and architects
who were conducting the experiments
might see what went on within the
building.
In the first experiment a fre was
lighted on the stage and the ordinary
curtain dropped. the ventilators in the
auditorium being open and those on
the stage closed After the lapse Ct n
minute or two the observers saw the
curtain bulge out toward the audito-
rum. allowing the flames and smoke
TO rush forth at the bottom with such
volume that the entire theater was en-.
yeloped In an instant
Tha nuQ IaR.na us.r.
Immediately and were soon followed by
the disappearance Of the oil lights. As
for the electric lamps. though they did
not 40 ont at once. they became quite
invisible by reason OF the dense smoke.
In a quarter OF an hour a temperature
OF 100 degrees Fahrenheit was regis
tered In the theater.
Next time the same experiment was
repeated under identical conditions ex-
cept that on this occasion the iron
curtain was lowered. Its protective
powers. however. proved quite Illu-
sorry.
The flames burst forth into the au-
ditorium with greater violence. II pos
sible, than before; the thermometer
registered a temperature bordering
upon that OF the electric oven. and an
analysis OF the air disclosed the fact
that It contained more than eight per
cent. OF the deadly carbonic oxide gas
that Is to say. far more than SUN
Client to asphyxiate whoever had not
been burned to death.
A third experiment showed that the
audience can only hope to escape II
The actors consent 10 sacrifice them
selves. which they can hardly be ex-
pected To do. II was found that II
he stage was set on fire and both
kept up the ventilators on the !
'tage being open and those In the au- /
quite closed. the stage be-
anne transformed into a chimney as II |
we're. while the auditorium remained |
intact. as the flames and smoke were
'arried away from IT,
Bryan morning eagle. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1898-1909, 1906-05-12
THE MAJESTY OF THE LAW
Not Essential TO the Drawing Of an
Understandable
Will.

Every man who has ever tried to guess
one of those conundrums known as in
surance policies. or who has ever at
tempted to translate into intelligent
English any legal document. with all It's
,whereases and It's herebys and It's afore-
.saids. will appreciate the sentiments OF
Deacon Elphonzo Youngs. OF Washing
ton, who. when making his will. bark
lened 10 the lawyers opening paragraph.
and then exclaimed:
Rats all there Is about this is that
OF my death want by eyer-faithful and
devoted wife. Amelia. TO have and con-
troll everything possess
n that will would not hold in law.
says the Four-Track News-there be-
in. no possible room for doubt as to the
Intent thereof-the fault is with the law.
not the will
Bryan morning eagle. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1898-1909, 1906-05-12
TROUBLE FOR THE CLERKS.
Government Employees at Times Ark
Subjected 20 Much Useless
Labor.

Congress makes lots OF urneces-
sary trouble for the government
clerks" said a veteran employe. hut
the worst case know of occurred
few years ago. A certain western sen
ator asked the comptroller OF the cur.
rency 10 tell him how much stock a
certain man had In a national bank.
lie was Informed that such informa.
ton was regarded as confidential aud
couldn't be given out.
Wen see about that said the
senator, who was plainly disappoint.
ed and displeased.
Several days later he secured the
passage Of a resolution calling upon
the secretary OF the treasury 20 fur
nish the senate with the names and
holdings OF the stockholders In all the
national banks in the country He
really wanted 10 know only the inter-
est Of one man in a bank. but he
knew that he couldn't get a resolution
Of that kind through the senate. 50 he
included the stockholders In all the
national banks
1T took the entire force Of the
comptroller's once several weeks to
prepare the information. and when
II reached the senate nobody paid any
attention to Il except the author Of
the resolution. and he merely looked
at the mass Of papers only long enough
TO see about the man he was after.
and then tossed the papers aside II
was an immense lot Of work for moth.
ing"
Bryan morning eagle. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1898-1909, 1906-05-12
WAY TO MANAGE WILLIE.
Don't" Said His Mother, and at
Once He Posed for His
Picture.

With a Joyous smile the photog-
rapher bowed his customers out. re-
lates the New York Sun.
Come again. he urged.
Thank you" humbly murmured the
father OF little Willie. who had Just
been taken.
Fathers presence had been dispensed
with during that operation on the
ground that he was too upsetting. stnl
he had been there the FIRST i've min
utes OF the attempt. and he was de-
cidedly skeptical OF the photographers
really plning to repeat the expert
ment.
But he was grateful for the bland
ness OF the farewell and turned a re-
lieyed countenance toward his wife.
She seemed singularly calm after what
she must have been through
DO you think he got him." he
whispered. indicating Willie.
"Oh. yes" nonchalantly "Awfully
cunning pose. too. lie was holding a
tin steamboat"
How IN the world did you do it,"
oh" with an easy smile. Willie
happened to pick up the steamboat
himself and the photographer said TO
me: You couldn't make him hold
that. could YOU and said: Certain
lyl DO you want him 10 hold it,
and he said he did So turned to
Willie and said: Why. Willie. don't
you know you mustn't have that steam
boat"
"Well7" inquired willle's father.
Why. remarked his wife. "of
course Willie hung on TO the steam
boat like grim death"
Bryan morning eagle. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1898-1909, 1906-05-12
"Hirhest Judicial conrt.r

Two pretty girls visiting Washington
listened with hushed attention to the
words OF wisdom that fell from the lips
OF their guide, he was their Washing
ton cousin. knew all about the capitol
and was graciously explaining It's
sights TO them. And this" said he.
stopping before a door In the capitol
lis the supreme court OF the United
States. That. you know. Ia the high
est judicial court In the land. There
are other courts In different parts OF
the country that are just as high. but
this Is the highest judicial court" Then
they entered and heard an argument
delivered before nine judicial judges.
Bryan morning eagle. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1898-1909, 1906-05-12
ChanReahle.

Thu story was told In the senate
cloakrooms apropos OF the speech OF
Senator Patterson. supposed TO be- a
Democrat. In which he eulogized all OF
President Roosevelt's policies: A To-
cal census enumerator visited the sen
ators home In Denver and was re-
ceived by the negro butler. After the
usual questions. he asked: What IA
the senator's politics." "Fo' goodness
sake. mister. I dunno; de senator
amt done been home since Breakfast
time"