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Bryan morning eagle. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1898-1909, 1908-12-13
Civil Service to Be Topic.

Pittsburg, Pa. Dec, i2.-Final ar
rangements have been made for the
twenty.eighth annual meeting OF the
National civil Service Reform League,
which will be held in this city mex,
week The programme provides for
four sessions, aside from a banquet
which will close the convention the
evening of tho second day
The opening session Thursday viii
be devoted to addresses of welcome
and reports, including the report
from women's auNiliaries At the
second session addresses win be deliv'
cred by Joseph II, Choate, president
of the league and other speakers of
national prominence The third SEES.
sion viii be- a business meeting at
which officers win be elected and
the closing session will De given over
to the reading Of papers, one of them
hy Attorney General Charles j. Roma
parte. who. with President Roosevelt is
one of the charter memb,rs OF the
league,
An OF The sessions of the league will
be open to the public and arrange.
ments are being made TO accommo.
date large attendance
Bryan morning eagle. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1898-1909, 1908-12-13

POSTED Fountains Lake near
Fountain ON l. 4 &, y. Parties are
prohibited from ucspasSng ON OF
about the property Jos. lanicik. =
Bryan morning eagle. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1898-1909, 1908-12-13
Many a Woman

Has experienced the loss or wear out
OF some OF the working parts OF. the
common or ordinary makes Of ma,
chimes, which could not be replaced,
II you buy u Singervou ~ the best
machine made and ftornFa company
hat is In every Town Md city In the
United States.
T. A. sATTERwniTE. Salesman,
Phone io5. u
Bryan morning eagle. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1898-1909, 1908-12-13
D. w. Salts

REAL ESTATE AGENT
Oglce IN Taliajurru RnilJing N
pnsite CtGu lloUsyF pho'c .,
dave In office the NM SGT at AhoUVr
"ooEs or H,Agns WNUtr 'hNa Dt'r.
one aud one.hplf lots md sixroom
house. located two blocks from Mam
street; corner lot, brick cistern aud
stable. Sl,05000,
Two lots and new five room cot
tage with bath, located in southeast
part OF town, Price 100000 with
terms to suit purchaser,
Bryan morning eagle. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1898-1909, 1908-12-13

Fresh bread, cesleS etc. at the Ten
as Bakery, Mrs Otto Boehme, Pro
prietor dti
Bryan morning eagle. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1898-1909, 1908-12-13

V u. Hudson W. N.Wilson
Bryan, Texas. r'renklin, Tex
HUosoN. a WI SON
Attornoysssfaw
Bryan and FyEklIn. Texas
Nil practice In 6nty, state and foo
erel courtsA Special attention TO
business IN BraSos and Rob
lusou counties,
FOR SALE.
liTe acres OF land IN the Mosce
Hughes survey, near Edge frlct
and terms reasonable
Half acre OF land with improve
ments, one block east OF my home.
so acres adjoining n NJ. Col
lege land ON west side, near Provt
dence church, Known ae the Georg,
Platter place,
1870 acres, including Double Sulphur
springs, on Nayasota river
w. Q, HUDSON,
Your merchant handles fresh HON,
ground meal ash for It Il
Bryan morning eagle. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1898-1909, 1908-12-13

WANTED TEN POUNDS or
OLD CLEAN RAGS AT EAGLE OF
FtCE MUST RE CLEAN OR WE
CANNOT USE THEM
Bryan morning eagle. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1898-1909, 1908-12-13
THE SILLlMAN HOUSE.

The silllman House trormorly hamu
ton llouse) will open Dor guests Mon
day. November .; ratcs~s2. per day
special rates to regular boarders, Ser
vice first class, ~ r. Terrell, Prop
Actin
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1908-05-14
oeBY'S CHANCE.
.et am the Party Bringing
IS With Him.

a 'Su tt'i'"
Littl, Iaged foar, pfese..ss
cd his mo,ner with large sized
shock the other day. 1t was a case
of sowing mild little breeze and
reap:ng ii full grown whirlwind.
Robert is Mrs. BIS first and has
always had large front seat in her
affections. Even when Mrs. B. at
tended parties she remembered
Robert and would slip bit of can
DIV into her handkerchief to carry
home to him.
Not that Robert did not have as
much candy of his own as was good
for him-and more, too--bTt he
:;,y,; IN awcd delight in ANYTHING
W h came from ii party. SO his
no; or always rrodiccd so"e .o;-
vc.:r Of her mo'ir:t SOC Ill di><jHa
ties with which to. satisfy Re-.
4 few weeks ago Ro! rrt himself
went TO a party, his very ';rst. A
maid brought him hoo and left
him, together with !arEe paper
bag. in thc eager arms of his well
comiE- Ho.her. Th" fit rapture
of description had scarce; 5egun
when Yrs. 3. bc-ime con:@:Has Of
the bulk" bag.
"Why. robert, what's this ?"
"It's for you. / brought it to you
from the party"
With some miSgiving Mrs. B.
opened the bag. 1t contained a
large orange, nuts, candy, grapes,
cakes-in fact, a very respectable
assortment of refreshments suited
to the juvenile taste.
Robert had Supposed it was quite
the usual thing TO take little con-
soling items to the unlimited mem
bcrs of ones family, and ne had
taken a generous delight in securing
truly noble collection for his
mother.
That lady faced the double prob
lem of explaining the situation to
Roberts hostess and of presenting
to Robert a clear reason why what
was sauce for the goose, so to speak,
was totally different thing for the
gander. The explanation, which
simmered down, Of course, to a
question of size or quantity was far
from being clear to Robert, who IS
low in his mind and thinks he does
not care for society at all.-New
York Sun.
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JEELYFlSH.
One Of tho Peculiar Forms of the Ami
NAL Life of tho Sea.

Upon the sand at the waters
edge there lies a particle of jelly
like substance, inconspicuous and
almost invisible. But in early spring
one moves in such a world of won
ders, the merest atoms of tissue
are seen to be informed with such
varied and vivid life, that l lift the
particle carefully upon a shell and
drop it into jar of water to sec
strange embodiment, beautiful
transformation. The central mass
expands into double chambercd
bell of pure and transparent ves-
ture, and these gossamer globes be-
gin to contract with regular rhyth-
mic motion, lifting the creature up
ward and softly urging it forward
by their quickly repeated pulsa-
tions, while from below four grad.
ually lengthening tentacles trail
backward with graceful undulations.
This beautiful medusa, the Sarsia
mirabilis, is the earliest of our jelly
fishes to appear in spring. By its
pleasing and graceful form, by its
eager and tireless movements, it
seems to visit our shores at this sea-
son almost like an Ariel of the deep,
voiceless, it is true, but throbbinS
with its message that the oceans
submerged shores and its dark abys-
NAL chasms are all alike awakening
to the spirit that transforms the
upper world. One is at loss to
comprehend these creatures, so dill
ferent in form from any that we are
wont to associate with animal life,
for, although without head, they
are vet capable of sensing the light
and auditory vibrations. Without
hands, arms or antennae, they are
vet responsive to tactile impressions
and, although of such fragile and
gossamer texture, are yet the vchl-
Gle of vivid ard intensive life. The
movements of the body and the
contained imp:;!srs that prompt
them seem one and indiviable. The
desires of its being seem themselves
to urge it forward. Like a thought
it seems momentarily embodied or
an emotion precipitated into the
visible as it impulsively mounts up
ward in eager quest or in apparent
disappointment relaxes its efforts
and subsidies with all its drifting
appendages a-stream, only after a
moment to palpitate again with re-
freshed intention and slowly pulse
on it's softly insistent way.-H. J.
Shannon in Harpers Magazine.
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"For Short"

The names bestowed upon some
of the small southern negroes re-
mind one of those of the old
Roundhead days-Hope Above Will
liams, Have Faith to Be Saved John
Mitchell, and so on. Not long ago
a visitor in Richmond was having
his shoes polished by little coal
black specimen about eighteen
inches in height, but possessed of
cleaning white teeth and rolling
eyes.
"What is your namc?" the visit
or idly asked. "Gen, sah," was the
reply, accompanied by a grin OF
startling proportions.
"'Gen?' | suppose that is an
abbreviation of general?" the visit
or, who had some idea of the fond
ness of negroes for. titles, inquired.
"No, sab; don't know as tits" was
the reply, "abbreviation" evidently
being too much for him. 'Nlah sho'
'nough name am Genesis xxx 33
So Shall Ny Righteousness Answer
For Me In Time to Come Wash
ington Carter, an dcv des calls me
Gen for short" .,"-Bohcmian.
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Playing School.

GLOW many seed compartments
are there in an apple?" he queried..
No one knew
"And yet" said the school in
spector, "all of you eat many ap-
pies in the course Of a year and see,
the fruit every day probably. You
must learn to notice the little
things in nature"
The talk of the inspector impress
cd the children, and they earnestly
discussed the matter at recess time
The teacher the next day over
heard this conversation. A little.
girl, getting some of her compan-
ions around her, gravely said:
"Now, children, just s'pose that
I'm Mr.. Inspector. You've got to1
know more about common things
If you don't, you'll all grow up to
be fools. Now tell me-" she SAID, j
looking sternly at playmate, show
many feathers has a hen:'
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Mioht Have Been Worse.

In a foursome competition al
Machrihamish one Scotchman OF
the party, man of optimistic tenn.
permanent, always remarked, "lt
might have been waur," whenever
he>put the ball into peculiarly diff
fcult bunker.
His irritated partner determined
to rouse Macnab from his imper'
turbable serenity and said to him
when next they played, 'Macnab,
dreamed last night you were II
hades."
'It might have been waur," came
the reply, pat.
How waur::" said the English
man.
at might have been true" re
piled Macnab. 81 might have beer
there"
The Scotchman ended at least
cone up."-London Globe.
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The Rush Of the Amazon.

The tide has great influence on
the Amazon, extending many hun
dreds Of miles from its mouth. At
the northern part of the mouth oc-
ours curious phenomenon. called
by the natives "pororoca." During
the full and the dark of the moon
the tide reaches its highest point
for e. few minutes only. AS soon
as this tide begins to come i'll Al
rumbling roar can be heard lar
away, distance of five or six miles.
1t is the pororoca approaching. This
roar increases with the coming of
the wave, which is from thirteen to
thirty feet in height and covers the
entire width of the channel. An
other wave follows Immediately,
then third and sometimes
fourth. After these waves have
passed, the impetuosity and force OF
which nothing can resist, the tide
resumes its regular course
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1908-05-14
Vogue Of Old Novels.

1t is not uncommon to haar elder
ly people lament that 10 one now
reads the books which were popular
in their young days, ard they will
probably add that no living writer
can for a moment compare with the
generation of authors that has pass
ed away, by which they generally
mean Dickens, Thackeray, George
Eliot, Bulwer, Trollope, Bronte,
Hawthorne, etc. We have, however,
every now and then a report from
Librarians of large libraries which
goes far to disprove the correctness
of the complaints of these cold
souls" since they show that many
of the authors named are still in
great demand by the public and hold
their own very we'll alongside of the
books which are in favor for the
moment, and it was not little sur
prising to find that in table based
on those reports David Copper,
field" headed the list with per
centage of 90 and that "Ivanhoe'
followed closely with SS.-Charles.
ton News and Courier.
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IIiustrious Bachelors.

Among the illustrious of the land
who passed through life in single
blessedness may be mentioned Sir
Isaac Newton, Thomas Hobbies, au-
thor of the 'Leviathan;" Adam
Smith, the father of political econo.
my; Chamfort, the greatest OF
French takers; Gassendi, Calico,
Descartes, Locke, Spinoga, Kant,
Bishop Butler, the author Of the
Analogy" Bayle, Leibnitz, Hume,
Gibbon, Macaulay, Buckle, Pitt,
Charles James Fox, Leonardo da
Vinci, Raphael, Michael Angelo,
Sir Joshua Reynolds, the artist Tur-
ner, Handel, Beethoven, Rossini,
Mendelssohn and Meyerbeer.
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Where Four States Meet.

1t is odd to reflect that it is pos
sible for one to be in four states al
the same time. Yet there is one
such spot in the United States
Glancing at map of the United
States, one finds an intersection be-
tween two straight lines, where
Colorado, Utah, New Mexico and
Arizona meet. The place is not
aoften visited, as it is not easily
reached. The stone erected by gov
ernment surveyors is on dhe top Of
a spur in the Carriso mountains
The nearest railway town is Man
cos, Colo, nearly a hundred miles
from the "four corners" The re-
gion about was once densely popu'
lated by cliff dwellers, but there are
now no human beings within miles
Some years ago the Indians destroy
ed the boundary shaft. 1t was not
replaced until 1904, probably be-
cause long time elapsed before the
authorities knew the old one had
been wrecked.
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What David Said.

A country clergyman kept a
young servant lad. One Sunday
morning before service he gave him
his orders about the dinner and
said:
"Go to neighbor David and ask
him for me to let you have some
tripe on credit, and then prepare
me nice plateful."
The lad did as he was told, and
the clergyman went to conduct the
service. As he stood in the pulpit
he called out in the middle Of his
sermon:
"And on this subject, brethren,
what does David say?"
At that moment his little valet
stepped into the church, and, in the
belief that his master was address
ing him, he replied:
"Please, sir, he says, No money,
no tripev London Answers.
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Tho Size of Alaska.

Alaska contains $4,000 square
miles of mainland, 1000 square
miles of the Aleutian islands and
$4,000 square miles of other islands,
a total of $4,000 square miles, or
one-ffth of the area of the rest of
the United States. 1t requires the
areas of California, Oregon, Wash
ington, Idaho, Montana and New
York to equal this. The area OF
New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, In
diana, Illinois, Virginia and West
Virginia equals only one-half OF
Alaska. 1t equals the combined
area of Great Britain and Ireland,
France, Germany, Belgium and the
Netherlands. 1t stretches from lat:
itude 81 degrees to II degrees and
from longitude 13o degrees to lss
degrees.
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THE CHINESE CODE.
It Is Older Than Any Other That Is
Now In Use.

1t may not be generally known
that China has an ancient and elab-
crate, not to say voluminouS, code
of written laws. In point of an
tiquity it is by far the Oldest Of all
codes now in force. Only such in
struments as the Decalogue or the
code of Hammurabi seem ancient
beside it. If the code of Justinan
had been continuously operative
since its PRONUNCIATION it would still
be youthful as compared with this
Chinese product. lntrinsicall' i;
= consists of some twenty-four vol
4 <umes, in the literary language Of the
empire, and it not only covers the
general field of substantive civil aud
criminal jurisprudence, but It also
touches upon nearly every phase OF
human interest and duty, for the
Chinese conception of law is broader
than the occidental and includes
MANY subjects which western iuriStS
would regard as belonging to lhC
domain Of ethics or etiquette.
Independently Of its contents the
external character of this code af-
fords guarantee of its permanencc.
It is said to consist of the accumu-
lated DEGREES of the emperors, dat
ing back twenty centuries, collected,
revised and arranged in logical or
der, and is thus an application upon
an elaborate scale of the system Of
adjudicated precedents which forms
the foundation of our Anglo-Saxon
jurisprudence. But in China the
respect for precedent and written
authority is much greater than with
us. "a quotation from Confucius
has settled many quarrel, arbitrat-
ed many dispute"
The only class at all correspond
ing to our lawyers is that known
as "searchers," whose business it Is
to find a precedent according to
winch litigated question may be
"a ecided. With such notions thus
deeply rooted code containing the
precedents of ages and embodying
the sum of Chinese juridical philos-
ophy is not apt to be seriously dis
turbed even by the mighty upheaval
now taking place in the Celestial
empire.-Charles Sumner Lobingier
in American Review of Reviews.
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EnaIish Leaend Of Tailed Men.

When a Hollander wants to show
his contempt for an Englishman
he refers to him as "steert man"
in other words, "the man with a
tail" The old legend says that
Thomas a Beckett cursed the Kent
ishmen who spitefully cut off his
horses tail and that the entire gen.
Grafton of Kent which followed
wore tails like horses. John Bale,
Edward Wis bishop Of Ossory,
mentions the legend, but gives some
variations as to the cause Of the
punishment. He. says on the au-
thority of John Capgrave that "for
castyne yshe tayles at st. Angus
tine Dorsetshyre men had tayles
ever after that" Polydorus, how
ever, applies the legend to the
Kentish men of Stroud "forecutting
off Tomas Becket's horses tayle.'
One account says that only those
living in Kent at the time the curse
was pronounced "were afflicted with
large dropping tayles like ,brutes,
their posterity beying not so al
fected."
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Heart Power.

The weight of the blood expelled
at each contraction of the left ven
tricle of the heart is about four
Dances. The multiplication of this
number gives us two and quarter
foot pounds-that is, force capa-
BILE of raising that number of
pounds one foot high-as the work
performed at each contraction of
the left ventricle. In an adult per-
son in good health there are per-
formed some scventy-fve such con-
fractions per minute. Adding the
work done by the right ventricle,
which is about one-third that of the
left, we find that the force expend-
ed by the human heart in twenty
four hours would suffice to raise 12O
tons weight one foot high.-New
York American.
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A 1easer.

smith-Oh, you've never found
any difficulty in saying catchy sen,
tences without getting muddled
I'll give You teaser.
Jones-I bet / can say it. Try
me.
Smith-Repeat what am | do,
ingS" very quickly dozen times
sndsee if YOU can get through all
right.
Jones (very quickE)-What am
doing? What am | doing? What
am l doing?
Smith Gnterrupting)-Makng q
fool of yourself, my dear fellow
London Taller.
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The Scots Gratitude.

An old farmer coming home from
the Paisley market lost his pocket
book, containing a considerable sum
Of money, in the station. He look
ed for it, but could not find it, and
had given up all hopes when q news
boy said to him: "Here, mon. Ave
fun yer book"
The guidman was overfowing
With gratitude and expressed him
self thus: 'eThank ye, ma lad. If
ye happen tae be passin' oor farm
house, step in, an An gle ye a guild
drink o soor milk. Dundee Ad-
yertiser.
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Strona Language by Proxy.

Wicar-John, do you-er-ever
use Strong language?
John (guardedly)-Well, sir, II
may be little bit keerless-like in
my speech at times.
Vicar-Ah, I'm sorry, John. But
we will converse about that some
other time. Just now l want you
to 90 to the plumbers and settle
this bill. And you might just talk
to the man in a careless sort OF
way, as if it were your own bill!-
London Punch.
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THE FL LIE.
Tripping lightly AooI
street Yesterday after ee
all aglow with hcaltr.
muscle, nerve, vein and al
harmony with the invigorat
mosphere, a representatives,.
softer sex was seen suddenly to de-
fleet from the perpendicular, and in
another instant this one of heavens
last and best gifts to man came
with crushing force to the hard, un-
yielding pavement. The immedi-
ate cause of the unfortunate lady's
downfall was the greasy envelope Of
that tropical fruit, the orange,
which some thoushtless, if not mali
cious. individual had cast upon the
public pavement. The victim of
this carelessness or worse had sus-
tained a fracture of limb, and it
will be many weary weeks ere she
will again be able to walk erect and
stately as heretofore.
TIE FACETIoUs STYLE.
She will be careful how she treads
on orange peel hereafter. She
didn't know it was loaded. But it
shot her off. 1t is only broken
leg. Not much comfort to her, but
good thing for the surgeon.
There's money in it. People who
throw away orange peel should be
careful to throw it so that it will
land with the slippery side down,
unlc ; they in league with the
bone setting profession. In that
case. of course, it is different.-Lon-
don Tit-Bits.
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Insist upon DeWi IT'S Witch Hazel
Salye. There are substitutes, but
there is olny one original. 1t is heal
ing, soothing and cooling and is es-
pecially good for piles. Sold by
w l. Wallace.
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re win.
thaniel LIE,
regard to his p. eks
Joined Greeks 3 Of
war;" which NOR lot is
misquoted as meets
Greek then colres var"
Money is the roc vil'' is
a travesty of tha.Gi first
Epistle of s. notify,
"The love of m, Dot of
all evil" Anot' pas
sage which is u.,, rectly
quoted is the sentence Prov
erbs, "Pride goeth befo 'truc-
ton and an naughty spir. ore a
fall" The popular We is,
''Pride goes before a fall" ~
That fine phrase from
poem, "The Burial of s
Moore" which runs, "Bu'
him alone with his glory
badly treated by people WHO
"Alone in his glory" while the cor
rect words, as written by Longfel
low, of the phrase so often used,
Gall things come to him who waits"
are, "All things come around to
him who will but wait" "-London
Tit-Bits.
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STYLES IN WRITING.
Various Ways of Telling the T
an Accident.

Various Ways of Telling the T
an Accident.
THE PLAIN STYI
A lady slipped on
peel in School stree
broke her leg.
THE STAGE.
1t was job for
Orange peel did . =
There was a slide,
dull thud.
The atmosphere was full of
gerie, frou frou, hairpins and brlc-
a-brac
|. 1t pA~---yhabe. {
j a few. -
n rushed calamity to {
man who had fallen. ;
neither limb broken.
s rony. =
\. use of somebody
carclc
Saul w. thousands.
Oran IS slain its ten {
thousands.
{
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Kidneys

Cause more trouble than any other organ ct ct
sepsrsts inorEanic salt and water In the pro:
eos. Of circulation. and TO remove them nnS
their attend ant poisons from the oody tnsougn
the bladder. Therefore when tbs Kidneys
become diseased aud weak they Arc naturally
unable TO perform their work propsIly, ana
pains In the back, Inflammation Of the BLADDER
and urinary disorders are the result: ~ y
imperative that Q prompt relief be ahoroSd,
which u impossible unless you remove the
cause.
DeWitt's Kidney and Bladder Pills
PROMPTLY eliminate poisons from the system
and at the same time make the kidneys Wsu
and strong.
For Weak Kidneys, H.eksohc, In;
Illumination OF the bladder snd All
urinary troubles Do Wits kioney
and Bladder Pills are unsurpassed
A Weeks Treatment for Z5e.
Money back II they fall
For Sale by w L Wallace.