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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1908-03-08

help them 70 be better women. 8 7
don't believe that frivolous amuse-
meBts are good FOR women. but I be-
heve that mental cultupe I'd all In
form alton is good for women, there
fore while I am in this country 7 want
70 learn ali the good things and I
hope to learn much from Ibis Mothers
Club.
Il want &c say again. 1 have great
admiration for the wosaen OF this
country. although I do not understand
their IDEAS OF sociability aid caste and
I marvel at some OF theii amL sements
which we women of Colombia do not
indulge In. believe life is more seri-
Gus there than here. think We are
more sentimental and yet we do not
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1908-03-08
Desires of Colombian Women.

Desires of Colombian Women.
When told that very warm friend
ships are sometimes formed even by
people who seem TO be always in q
rush. the little woman seemed pleased
and said:
well. all that makes life worth
living 70 the Colombian woman Is
her home. husband. children. then
friends-friends. too. who are sincere
but really is it true that the women
in this country want to vote and hold
Officer"
When told there are really a great
many women in this country that are
DESTROYS OF voting. madam again
shrugged her shoulders and said:
That wouie not do in Colombia.
because Il would not suit the men.
and Tiers we try TO please cur hus-
bands-thsn besides. our women are
so busy, busy, busy all the time they
do not have time to vote and tax
part In politics any more than they
have time - go 70 mothers cIc bs,
because their home life is 80 full OF
interest for them. The Colombian
WOMAN II AGN0hgA ~ AsNA e4l1AetAAAG anu
she has confidence in him that he can
vote for her interests, and the Colon
bian husband ia 50 fond OF his wife
and 50 proud OF her accomplishments
that he does not want her 10 neglect
her home. her society. and her music
and art TO go away from home to
clubs and 10 vote.
Do the Colombian women amuse
themselves at bridge and other card
games2"
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have 50 much opportunity for senti-
ment because we do not have the
freedom. yet we are happy. oh. so hap
py. We Ike American women but we
do not want TO change our lives and
our pursuits. II Is ali very well for
each country 20 have its ideals and its
typSs Of men and women. universal
System OF education may some day
bring va closer together. for after all
We are but CREATURES OF education, Gus
toms. and environpents. but with the
same human nature in each OF US. I
know nothing Of Women's clubs. but I
am curious TO learn
DO We have divorces in Colombia?
en-, no. no. some times. but not often
We have no WOman's suffrage. we ha,se
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1908-03-08

magnetic current. There Is my futurs
wife. he said 10 himself There %
the man that will be my husband
thought the girl. glancing for a minute
straight at this one man out of all the
audience. They never had seen each
other before. but in six weeks they
were married-and Il has been happy
marriage.
But do you think a girl can have
this power that has danced with nne1i
and been kissed by them. or has had
their arms around her? ANYBODY
whose own magnetism Aas not BEEN
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1908-03-08
Ardent Believer In Love.

But while he objects 10 kissing and
holding hands" DR.. Bass IS an ar
dent believer in love, which ne says
sis above sense. knowledge, and logic,
and solves the most subtle problems
and mysteries and mounts on the
wings of angels
s'Tf seems to be founded in mysterious
ana undennable affinity. he declares.
s'Tfs manifestations are as ineXplica-
HE as the phenomena Of wireless ts-
Biography. II is as subtle as ether, as
attractive as iodestone, as explosive
as lightning, as sweet and gentle as
srg-fng and sunshine and flowers, or
as furious as the storm, and as terri
bic as the ocean.
at IS genius, good or bad, without
the guidance OF science or philoso-
phy. It Is winged with fancy and
IMAGINATION, tuned with the music OF
a thousand stringed harps, and In
famed with ali the fires 81 poetry
and oratory. II never dreams Of
logic"
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1908-03-08

Women alternate or there would be no
results. The magnetism should be as
vitality strong as this where two people
marry. and IL men and women live
lives that are perfectly moral and
simple they viii feel this current in
stantly-each soul viii know when 1t
has found its mate.
There was a young man in the
audience hall OF one OF our women's
colleges at the commencement exer-
oises not long ago. The long line of
girls came hling in. and IS one OF the
girls got opposite the man he felt this
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1908-03-08
Amazed at 'Merry Widow" Waltz.

Or, Bass unfolded a newspaper page
in which the positions OF Lena Aba
baneH and George DamereI IN the
Merry Widow waltz were fetchingly
Illustrated.
And do people really so to see 3
thing like that?" he exclaimed.
The preachers in Chicago have got
plenty to preach about as long az a
dance OF this kind. to which no de-
cent girl ought 70 be allowed TO go. is
carried on. They need not talk against
women's clubs-there IS plenty for
Women's clubs TO do to arouse senti-
ment against such q dance as this.
Why. don't you suppose that after a
young man goes and watches a thing
like this that he is ready TO do any
thing?
1T is as hurtfuI to the young men
as 1t is to the girls. One Of the things
which are making Chicago the divorce
center II is the way the young
men marry. The young men who go
To large cities stop marrying for love
and according TO their natural in
stincts It does not take but three
generations ara perhaps less before he
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70 women's clubs, we hove no d.
vorces; but we have large families and
me women are 50 busy with the fam
lies they have no time for clubs.
fridge games, and divorces.
How do they amuse themseIvssg
They are much interested in education,
music, and art, and they are very
fond OF travelling in f0reign countries,
and when they meet. they do not play
bridge and say nothing the entire az
tern DON. or go from one house TO an
other saying How do you do?' Good
by, am gOne:' they stay and be So
cable and discuss the music, the thea
Ter. the travels. the education. They
enjoy talking very much and they
have much 10 talk about"
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1908-03-08

congress WNlCn meets N
washington next month.
What is this Mothers Club? ! do
not understand Il, IN Colombia we
have no such things as womans clubs,
and I do not know what Is expected Of
me" said the little foreigner naively,
and with a perDleXed look as she gave
forth the Information Of the unex-
pected appointment.
'Win you attend the Mothers Con-
gress?''
"Oh, yes, yes. 7 am interested in al
things educational and II I can get
ideas from the American Woman's
Club that viii benefit the Colombian
women, shall be happy, and al
though we have no woman's club in
Colombia. still II it is a good thing for
American women. II may be good also
for the Colombian women. but tell me
what shall I do when I 50 TO 3
goman's olubT'' she asked.
When IL was suggested that she
would probably be called On TO ''maks
q speech" she stood aghast, and her
eyes opened wide.
'Oh. how cen make speech! The
Colombian women do not make
speeches-that Is for men 70 do. L
would have you know the Colombian
women are splendid wives and moth
ers and home makers. but they DO
not make speeches-neveF, never!"
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kissing Is a Monstrous Evil.

But this is not the worst Of the
dangers against which DR. Bass warns
she Chicago girls. If the Chicago girl
wants a new and strange etiquette for
the treatment of her young men
friends let her look into the psychology
cal reasons why she must not let her
best beau hold her hands, and as for
kissing mercy!
There are many parts of the South
In which the man who would kiss a
girl befOre he was married TO her"
says DR.. Bass. would find that he
would be invited out 70 pistols and
coffee for two by her father or some
other man protector
But It is almost If not quite as dan
Eerous for a girl TO let a man hold
ner hard" says this minister. What
every girl does not know Is that there
IL an artery IN the inside Of her hand
that leads 10 her heart Then there
is a nerve in the back of her hand
that leads 20 her brain Now, let a
young man take hold Of her hand and
squeezes it long enough and he has
both her heart and mind under his
control Often the yeung man who
squeezes n girls hand does not know
himself why he does it. but there are
others that do. and there is enough
danger. so that the sirl should guard
her hand as she would her life"
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1908-03-08

impaired can tell instantly if a girl
has had these experiences. She loses
that power that men feel When peo-
pie lead lives OF absolute restraint
they never make any mistake about
this thing in eaeh other There is
something that makes them find out.
But ID minute people begin 10 cRleu-
late aBsut love there isn't any there"
x Y
"Obey" in Marriage Service.
One thing which might not Be ap-
proved Of By Chicago girls and in
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1908-03-08

but I like better simple. quis: cor
diality. hospitality. and ease; thin. be-
sides, like TO know people and make
friends, but st Is Impossible In Amer
lea"
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VIII Speak II Asked.

''lf you are called on TO talk about
the splendid motherhood OF the Colon
blau women at this Mothers Congress.
will you do soe'' she was asked. She
hesitated a moment, then replied:
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1908-03-08

ROM the other end OF Illinois.
IN the region known as
Egypt, "a new crusader is
trying 10 reform the ways
OF the Chicago girls, 100
miles away. The voice il
the wilderness is that of
the Rev Liston d. Bass. of the Bap-
list Church Of Cairo. No Chicago
preacher has been able 10 think of as
many things for women to do or not
to do. In fact, all of the Chicago
clergymen pat together have not as
many suggestions
When week or two ago this min
lister criticised the Rev DT. Hopkins
sermon because he said there was
nothing in the Bible about round
dancing he declared that there were
plenty Of places I'm the Bible that
showed this 10 be just as bad If not
as unpardona pie as the objectionable
sin
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Law Should Prevent Women
Smoking.

"As to women drinking and smoking
cigarettes in public the way they say
they do-this is fearful The Chicago
preacher who said that Il ought not TO
be allowed by the men who kept these
places WIS right so far as he went.
Tho Scriptures say. Woe unto him
that putteth the bottle 10 his neigh
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1908-03-08

boris lips and keepeth him drunken.
But It ought to be protected by some
thing besides the restaurant keeDer.
Laws or ordinances ought to be en-
acted TO keep women from ever drink
ing in public. In the South no nice gfrI
would dream OF doing such a thing.
As to smoking cigarettes, you viii not
md Southern woman who viii smoke.
unless IL is some old grandmother
who smokes her pipe and perhaps does
worse and takes her snuff"
In his sermon on kissing DR. Bass
characterized promiscuous kissing a.
me kissing devil" Ths low neeked
oevil and the gambling devil are
Two or the special devils which he
warns women 70 avoid
90 not approve OF the decoIlete
WAIST ever under any circumstance %
ne said As for gambling and bridge.
women car stand il less than men. II
goes 10 their heads and they get drunk
on It. The fact OF women drinking
ana playing bridge, as they do. how
ever, may do some gOOd-it NAV r.
suit IN the men finding that they will
nave 10 stop. AS the old saying Isl
women are gold and men are steel
and are made for cOmmoner purposes.
and they must be protected against
themselves.
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'FinanciaI DeYII1 Greatest of Evils.


And II is here that we have tho
greatest evil OF all-the financial devil.
This Is the worst devil OF all II is thu
accumulation OF great wealth that has
driven woman oUt Of work and has
surrounded her with many conditions
that are not her fault. Where the ex-
tremely rich men have helped one they
have damned a dozen. Il is what has
put woman 70 work and taken her
strength from the home.
by good rights woman should not
have TO work at an-Ssr family is
enough for her TO do-and Il Is her
right to be taken care OF and 10 be
saved labor, even IN her home. II "a
the financial devil tn - has brought
her 10 where she has 70 face all these
new conditions.
And then there IS the clerical devil
which means the man who doesn't
preach down the wrongs that ne
should denoumce because there Is
somebody in his congregation who is
going TO be hit. He viii not preach
against the saloon because ona OF the
pillars OF his church IS in the saloon
business. And il is the same with
dancing and bridge, from everything
UP to the trusts.
IF the church is going to be a
power ministers must stop preaching
abou' heaven flowing with milk and
money, and hit where hitting is need
ed. We are commanded TO preach
with holiness and declare the whole
counsels Of God with boldness, and
with power. A preacher who doesn't
tackle any sin that comes up In the
community has not preached the Cos
pei"
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1908-03-08

ADAAiE CORTEs. the wife
OF the Colombian minister,
has been appointed a dele
gate TO represent Colon
bia at the coming Mothers
Commas which meefa IN
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20 Sec 81 Dreams Of Daneing.s

II viii be remembered that Or. Bass
in bis sermon a week or two ago. ia
which he declared that Dr. Hopkins
was wrong about dancing. quoted
many eloquent Scriptural verses to
Bryan morning eagle. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1898-1909, 1908-02-08
TIE| TURN THE TABLES.
Tennessee Night Riders Receive
Warm Reception.
FARMERS FIRED AT FOES.
Latter Got Reinforcements, Do Much
Shooting, lnfliet Wounds. Burn Barns
and Great Deal of Tobacco and Also
Numerically Beat Negro.

Adams, Tenn, Feb. might riders
between thirty-five and fifty strong
well armed and mounted, visited the
farm of Hugh C. Lawrence and Wash
Tucker within three miles of this
place, and destroyed barns on both
farms, together with 10000 pounds of
tobacco. They also whipped a negro
named Mottlow, in a rather unmerci-
full manner.
The riders first visited the farm of
Lawrence. He and his son were i'm the
barn loading tobacco on wagons and
heard the night riders coming from all
directions. They came out of the barn
and started toward the house and
when within fifteen or twenty yards
of the house they met ten or a dozen
riders and at once opened fire on them.
The riders returned the fire, wound.
Ing Lawrence in cheek and in hand
and his son in a leg. None of the
wounds, however, are serious. Law.
renee thinks he wounded one of the
night riders, and the belief is borne
out by the fact that blood was found
The raiders retreated at the Law.
rences' first fire, but rallied with some
ten or fifteen achievements and re.
newed The attack with great ferocity
firing some seventy or eighty shots
through the windows of his house
where ne and his son retreated after
empting their weapons. The Law.
rences returned the fire, but no casual.
ties occurred. Mrs. Lawrence narrow.
ly escaped being struck by flying bull
lets.
The riders then went to the barn
and after shooting a horse placed DIV.
Mantle under two wagonloads of to.
bacco and blew them to pieces. The
barn was burned, together with about
$4,000 pounds of tobacco.
The riders then went to the farm
of Wash Tucker, where they burned
his barn and about 5000 pounds of
tobacco without molestation.
Lawrence and Tucker both belong
to the Hill Billie class, having never
joined the association. They report
the riders came from all directions.
but could not tell whether they were
masked or not. Much excitement pre-.
vailed in the neighborhood
Bryan morning eagle. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1898-1909, 1908-02-08
TEXAS HOUNDS
FOR PANAMA

San Antonio, Texas, Feb. Texas
blood-hounds have just won out in the
test for efficiency concluded by 1t.
Col. r. p. Stevens. Chief Quartermas.
ter for the Department of Texas, u.
S. A. Col. Stevens was ordered by
the War Department o secure blood
hounds for use in tracking criminals
in the Panama Canal Zone. Com.
plant has been made TO Washington
of the many depredations committed
by criminals i'm the Canal Zone, and
the fact that the rough, broken coun-
try, covered with dense tropical fol.
iage, made IL practically impossible
for the police to follow up and cap
ture the criminals. Bands of ma.
RAIDERS are becoming to be a serious
menace to the public property and
blood hounds have been suggested as
a means of protection. Colonel Ste
vens was ordered to call for dogs
and make severe tests. A number of
dogs were tried out, some from Texas
and some from other states-but
failed to hold the trail to the salts.
faction of the officer. Finally a pair
of dogs owned by Sheriff John W.
Tobin of BeXar county were tried out.
They were taken to the mountains
to the north of San Antonio, and
soldier sent out into the charparal
and kinnikinik thickets to do the
little Eva crossing the ice" act. Six
hours later the dogs were loosed and
followed the trail swiftly ana uner-
ringly Notwithstanding the fact
that the soldier had used every ar
tfce OF walking over rocks, wadins
up running water and in other ways
uied to throw them on, When The
mounted men came up, the soldier
was up tree, smoking a pipe and
waiting for the relief party Sheriff
Tobin used these dogs to break up
gangs of horse thieves that used to
infest the hill country. He gives
them up to the government reluctant
ly although he knows where he can
get others. He says the Panama
thieves are going to have a lively
time when odd Sleuth" and Dead.
wood Dick" get on their trail.
Bryan morning eagle. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1898-1909, 1908-02-08
WHAT is A SAUSAGE?"
Government Food Experts Determine
Its Correct Composition.

Chicago, Feb. What is a san.
sage" was determined by the United
States food experts after a conference.
After defining a sausage according to
the government standard, the commits.
sion further holds:
1t (the sausage) contains no large
amount of water than the meats from
which 1t is prepared, and if it bears a
name descriptive of composition or
origin 1t corresponds to such descrin.
tive name. All animal tissues used as
containers, such as castings, stomachs
etc, are clean and sound.
Blood sausage is distinguished bv
the fresh blood from meat cattle or
swine.
Canned, corned or cured and pottel
meats are declared to be communicated
meat from meat cattle, or swine. cook
ed, cured, smoked or picked.
Mince meat is declared to be a "miy.
ture of not less than 10 per cent O.
cooked, comminuted meat, chopped
suet, apple and other fruit, with salt
spices, sugar, vinegar, fresh, concen.
trated or fermented Juice or spirituous
liquors.
Bryan morning eagle. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1898-1909, 1908-02-08

Hundred and Fifty Dollars, and the
other OF said notes being for the sum
OF One Hundred and Fourteen Dollars,
said notes dated June 4th, 1907, and
executed by said Fannie Taylor, pay.
able 10 the order of s. n. Dunlap a
Company, at Bryan, Texas, and bear.
ing interest from August /, 1907. at
the rate Of ten per cent per annum,
and providing for ten per cent attor.
ney's fees.
Plaintiffs allege that both of said
notes are past due and unpaid, that
said attorneys fees are also due; that
said notes are secured by a material
mans lien on Lot No. Six 90, I'm Block
No. one. %, in McConnico Addition
10 the City OF Bryan, in Brazos Coun.
ty Texas; that same is valid and sub.
slsting lien in their favor, and that
they are entitled to foreclosure Of
same Plaintiffs further allege that
the defendant, T. r. Bate, is clc'ming
some interest in said property, the ma
ture of which is to plaintiffs unknown.
Plaintiffs pray for citation, for iudg
ment, for their debt, principal, interest
and attorneys fees, for foreclosure Of
their said lien, for all costs of suit
and for general and equitable relief.
Herein Fail Not, but have before
said Court, at its aforesaid next regu-
lar term, this writ with your return
thereon, showing how you have exc.
cuted the same.
Witness, II. o. Jones, Clerk of the
district Court of BraZos County
Given Under My Hand and the Seal
of said Court, at office in Bryan, this
the LIST day of February, A. D. 1908.
II. o. JONES,
Clerk of the District Court of Bra.
EOS County. Feb. 2 IT
Bryan morning eagle. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1898-1909, 1908-02-08
CITATION az PUBLICATION
rHE sTATK oF TnxAs.

To the sheriff or any Constable Of
Brazos CONFERENCE.-The
You are hereby commanded TO sum
mon Fannie Taylor by making publ
cation Of this Citation one In each
week for four successive weeks pre-.
vious TO the return day hereof, in
some newspaper published In your
County, II there be a newspaper pub.
llshed therein, but II not. then In any
newspaper published in the goth Judi
cial District: but II there be no news
paper published in said judicial Dis
triot. then in a newspaper published in
the nearest district to said goth Judicial
District to appear at the next regular
term of the District Court Of Brazos
County, to he holden at the Court
House thereof, in Bryan. on the LIST
Monday i'm March, A. ID. 1908. the
same being the End day of March,
A. ID. 1908, then and there to answer
"a petition filed In said Court on the
LIST day of February, A. ID. 1908, I'm a
suit. numbered on the docket of said
Court, Number 5,1S4. wherein S.
IL. Dunlap and w. Il. Johnson, as
Ing interest from August /, 1907, at
surviving partners of the firm of S. II.
Dunlap a. Co, are Plaintiffs, and Fan
ME Taylor and T. II. Bate are De
PENDANTS; and the nature of plaintiffs
demand is as follows:
Suit on two promissory notes exc
cuted by said Fannie Taylor, one of
said notes being for the sum of One
Bryan morning eagle. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1898-1909, 1908-02-08
KING EDWARD HOLDS COURT.

London, Feb. THE vicinity of
Buckingham Palace was thronged
with the curious this afternoon to
witness the arrivals at the first court
of the season. The function, as is
customary with the first court, was
chiefly official and was attended by
the members of the diplomatic corps,
dignitaries of state and other COVER
ment officials.
Bryan morning eagle. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1898-1909, 1908-02-08
DICKENS AND IRVING.

London, Feb. THE graves of
Charles Dickens and Sir Henry Irv-
ing, in Westminster Abbey, were
decorated with many wreaths and
other floral offerings today in COM
memoration of their birthdays. Dick
ms was born on this date in 1912,
and Irving was born February 6, 1898.
Bryan morning eagle. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1898-1909, 1908-02-08
BADLY BEATEN.
J. o. Hodge of Waxahaehie FounL
Dallas Nearly Unconscious,

Dallas, Feb. I'm an almost semi
unconscious condition, ]. d. Hodge o.
Waxahachie was found on Commerce
street by city employee and taken to
the office of e. S. Gordon and medical
attention given him. When able to talk
Mr.. Hodge stated he had been set upon
by three white men and after being
beaten into insensibility robbed Of S35.
Three young men were arrested and
taken before Mr.. Hodge. He identified
one of them as the party who first
struck him and said the others resem.
bled the rest.