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The herald., 1898-04-14

the interest on the surplus now almot
covers the annual pension payments
During 1897, pension payments amount
ed to $1,495; interest on surplus fund.
$1.22906.
This experiment Of Mr.. Dolge's has q
vital bearing ON the labor problem to-
day. There ought to be q national sys-
tenn Of insurance against disability and
old age, automatic in its operation. and
Mr.. Dodge has demonstrated that the
thing is feasible without imposing any
appreciable burden upon employers.
Already. manufacturers pay FIVE to ten
per cent. for wear and tear of plant,
etc. Applying to all alike, competitors
would remain in the same situation to-
ward each other as before; and on the
workingman's side, the benefits Of
such pensions would not be lost by
mere change of employment. Mr..
Dolge's method is free from the pater-
nalistic features Of the German system:
it simply makes pensions part of the
wages system. 1t in no way lessons
personal independence or discourages
thrift; on the contrary. the knowledge
that old age is provided for increases
a mans sense Of freedom, and enables
him to direct his thrift and saving to
more immediate and beneficent pur-
poses. like home building or education
of his children. This system simply re-
moves the dreadful bugbear OF possible
helplessness in emergency, and OF old
age pauperism. What this would mean
to our millions Of wage-earners. who
are unable to insure themselves except
by severe stinting all through the years
when their need Of money Is greatest.
can we'll be imagined.
Copyright. 1898.
The herald., 1898-04-14

Ever since the experiments of the
Dutch physician, Cornelius Drebbel,
early in the eighteent century, repeat
ed attempts have been made by indi-
viduals and by various governments to
produce d successful submarine craft.
OF all the nations the United States
has been least active In this Interest,"
ing department of maritime science, al
though the comparatively recent policy
of strengthening the navy has led TO
increased activity among inventors.
the aim being to produce, war cra1t
capable of bringing about the destruc-
tion of the modern armored battleship.
Within the last six months, the at
tention of the public and naval officials
has centered on two new submarine
boats, the Holland and Lake, named
after the inventors. which have been
launched at the Atlantic sea.board. final
The herald., 1898-04-14
RADDATZ HAS A
SUBMARINE BOAT
THAT IS A SUCCESS.
Will Descend or Rise on an Even Keel and Has
Travelled Entirely Under Water for
Five Consecutive Hours.
GUILT OF ARMORPLATE AND CIGAR SHAPED.

taper at points sixteen feet from each
end. The extreme height is seven and
one-half feet to the top of the pilot
house, which rises from the otherwise
regularly shaped shell at point about
one-third the distance to the bow. The
material used in construction Is five
sixteenths inch armor plate. steel riv-
cited upon a heavy angle-iron frame
work strongly braced internally. Its
entire weight. with it's complicated ma
chinery, is thirty tons. Of which eight
tons form the weight of the shell alone.
At the bow is a heavy steel spur or
ram, projecting five feet from the boat
proper and braced within with heavy
steel bars and truss work. At the
stern are the rudder and two-bladed
propeller, in no way differing from SIM
liar appliances in the equipment Of the
o binary surface craft.
The herald., 1898-04-14
Alfred Dodge.

ever the annual records show that an
employee has produced more than has
been paid him in wages, the extra
amount is credited to him on a spe-
cial account; but II, by neglect or care
lessness, he has caused a loss, such
loss is charged against him on this
same account. 1t 10 never deducted
from his wages. however. The balance
in any employees favor is payable to
him, with interest, only after he reach
es 60 years of age. If he dies before
that time, it goes to his heirs. In real
ity, this is very much like pension
scheme, only that 1t depends entirely
upon faithful service. Since 1899 noth-
ing has been credited on the endow-
meot account, owing to hard times.
This endowment plan Is perhaps less
satisfactory than the other features. as
it is dependent entirely on the state Of
business, and approaches so nearly to
the out-and-out proflt-sharing idea
that it cannot easily be made an auto
matte part of the wages system. There
are few industries in which it Is prac-
ticable to figure out the exact product
Of each man.
The pension system 10 the most In
teresting of all. and probably most sig-
nificant. Every employee Of Alfred
Dodge & Son, over 81 years of age. and
not over so when employed, is, in case
of partial or total disability. whether
due to accident. sickness or old age.
entitled to a pension equal to the fol-
lowing proportion of the wages earned
during the last year of active service:
Per
Cent.
The herald., 1898-04-14
Copyright, 1898.

turned red as man after man struck
with plump" and got up and made
for the rear. We were all still laugh
ing. and saw broad grins on the OFF,
GERS faces, when we got the bugle call.
The herald., 1898-04-14

Paper was first manufactured In the
east, and was introduced into Europe
by the Moors in the eighth century.
The herald., 1898-04-14

and took a roll down the slope and a
drop to the ground and the sight set
5000 men to laughing. The troopers in
line waved their hats and yelled, and
faces which had been as pale as death
The herald., 1898-04-14

We were over the wall and halfway
across the meadow before the chuckles
were suppressed and men began to
clench their teeth and think Of the
serious work in hand.
Bryan morning eagle. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1898-1909, 1898-09-15
Cottonwood Cuttings.

The weather continues dry.
Among those on the sick list this
week are as follows: Mrs. Lucy
Thomas, Mrs. Tommie Gallatin
and Mrs. Burney.
There we're services at the Bap-
list church Saturday and Sunday
by Rev. D. y. Arnold Of Leon
county and the church elected Rev.
J. NJ. Bullock pastor for the ensu-
ing year. Visitors that attended
services Sunday were as follows:
Misses Lizzie Kirk and Maud
Nichols, and brother OF Bryan; Mrs.
Young of Weee.ock; Messrs. Rich
ard Nash and Tom Lawless OF
Edge.
We are sorry TO learn OF the
death Of Mr.. and Mrs. J. +. Gala
tins little daughter, Maggie who
departed this life last Tuesday
morning, Sept. 9Th, at 3 o'clock a
m. and was laid to restin the Bick
am cemetery at ) p. m. the SAINT
day. The entire community sym
pathize with the bereaved famil!
lin the loss of their little one.
viii conclude for the present a
news Is scarce, hoping to do bette
in the future. Cotton Picker.
Bryan morning eagle. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1898-1909, 1898-09-15

Miss Lizzie Slaughter and Mis-. Mat.
tie Newcomb called at the Eagle office
yesterday. Miss Slaughter says there
is no news in Reliance neighborhood.
Farmers are picking cotton and ginning
night aud day, and sickness has large.
ly Rbated.
K. A. Braniley will sell his residence
in Bryan TO the highest bidder for cash.
Sealed bids must be addressed to me at
SomersyIle, Texas until October LIST.
She goes, Some one will loose this OPP
p0rtunity. 2lB
W. X. Marriott u Bethel, a Young
musician and composer who Is at pres
ent Ia the Bryan po.toiice, has Just
published 4 new song entitled, IRE.
member the Maine which may be-
seen OF HasweI's.
All the members Of the l.. S. Rosl
chapter Of the Daughters Of the Conied
eracy are requested 10 meet at the resi-
dence OF Mr.. j. +. Parks Thursday a
4 p. m, to transact important bust
ness. pa
J. N. Barron Of lola, was here yes
terday,
Il /. r. Nash OF Waco, is here yi.itin
relatives.
Bryan morning eagle. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1898-1909, 1898-09-15

willre-open my school sept. 10, 1895.
Patronage Of people solicited. Mrs.
E,,ni. Darwin. $50
Tom syptack's gin at Steep Hol-
low has ginned lS9 bales Of cotton
up TO date.
Cole n Jones gin at Bethel
ginned 2i7 bale. Of cotton up to
last Tuesday.
Mrs. John Rains died at Mr.. Bud
Rain residence at Bethel Mon day
night and was buried at Bethel,
" ednesday morning at 10 o'clock.
WI. swain, Masonic lecturer Of
( Houston will be here next week TO as
sist in the work Of the local chapter.
/ Lw. Griffith Jr. Of Dallas, Is the
guest Of Mayor Adams and will attend
the A. and NJ. College again this year.
, All night service at the telephone ex'
change will begin tonight with Joe
Borden at the switch board.
Born to Mr.. and Mrs. Raymond
I Bla,herwick an ll.pound boy.
Prof and Mra. soule have returned
10 College from the north.
$. II. Henderson returned from Mar
| lin yesterday.
Bryan morning eagle. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1898-1909, 1898-09-15
WANT MORE ROOM.
President Foster Compelled to
Give Notice that No NJ
students Can BE
Taken.

Late yesterday afternoon Col. l..
Foster, president Of the Agriculiu-
raj and Mechanical College, gave
out the following for publication:
Please Announce that the A.
and NJ. College Is unable to acom-
modate any additional students.
On yesterday, the evening proceed
ing the op ning,the number exceed
ed the capacity of the barracks,
and numbers Of students are ar
irving by each train. l make this
announcement to save the expense
and disappointment of the large
number whom know contemplate
coming. l.. l.. FOSTER,
President"
The same announcement had to
be made at the opening Of last ses-
sion, and surely nothing could
speak in stronger terms Of the cry
ing need of the institution for
more barracks than such an an.
nouncement from the president on
the opening day of the term.
Aside from this need of rooms
for the cadets the College is we'll
equipped for the instruction and
training of a very large number
who have heretofore been unable
to gain admission, and the Eagle
hopes and believes that the next
legislature will make ample pro.
vision to cover this lack of room.
Texas is proud Of the A. and NJ.
College and the grand work it is
doing in the way Of practical, use
full education; and proud Of the
ambition Of her young men to avail
themselves OF the opportunities at
forded by the great institution.
Bryan morning eagle. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1898-1909, 1898-09-15

The grass in Mr.. J. $. Ford's yard
burned yesterday, causing a fire alarm
and the usual excitement. Prompt
measures prevented the house from
taking fire.
The loss by fire on Will Thomas resi-
dence and furniture. mentioned In the
Eagle yesterday morning, was estimai.
ed at $50, with $500 insurance in the
Firemans Fund.
W. T. James isa progressive livery.
man and studies the convenience Of his
patrons. Calls for meeting trains an.
swered promptly night and day and
given personal attention 2i6
Bryan morning eagle. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1898-1909, 1898-09-15
Horse outrageOusIy Neglected.


A gray horse belonging to some
unknown party was hitched near
the front Of the opera house for the
past two or three days, without re
ceivlng any attention whatever.
Colored men thereabout noticed the
animals predicament and humane
ly gave il water yesterday evening,
then "chipped in" and bought it
some corn. Half an hour after the
reception Of the kindness the poor
creature lay down and gave up the
ghost.-Nayasota Examiner.
Faithful animals are too often
shamefully neglected in this man
ner, though rarely ever to such an
outrageous extent, and when they
are so left they should be taken in
charge by officers and the owner
made to pay the expense Of keep
ing them until called for, unless
there are extenuating circumstan-
ces. 1t will be a great day for
mans best friend, the horse, when
the society for the prevention OF
cruelty to animals extends its pro-
tecting influence throughout the
land.
Bryan morning eagle. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1898-1909, 1898-09-15
Republican Call.

By authority vested in me as
precinct chairman of the Republic
can party of Precinct No. 4, l do
hereby call a mass meeting to be
held at the court house Sept. %,
1898, at Z o'clock p. NJ, the pur-
pose being to endorse the precinct
officers, and attend to such other
business as may properly come be-
fore the convention.
J. A. Nichols, Chairman.
Prec't No. 4,
A. B. Thornton, Sec'y.
Bryan morning eagle. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1898-1909, 1898-09-15
Exchange Hotel Arrivals.

VIC Dalton, W = Howard, Austin ;
T. D Preston, st Louis I'd II Hardin, W
V McMaster, Waco; 6 X White, Chas
White. 2 willoughby, Brady Day-
id.on. Houston; c + Beard, Dallas A G
Bhor1, City; A II Murchison, New
YORK: Homer Lamkin, Caldwelli l. 7
Fuller, Calyeat.
Bryan morning eagle. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1898-1909, 1898-09-15
DEMOCRATIC TICKET.
For United States Senator

For United States Senator
C. A. CULBERsoN
For Governor
JOSEPH D. SAVERS
Of Bastrop.
For Lieutenant Governor
J.N. BROWNING
Of Amarillo.
For Attorney General
T. 5. SMITH
Of Hillsboro.
For Comptroller
R. W. FINLEY
Of Tyler.
For Land Commissioner
GEO. W. FINGER
Of TT. Worth.
For Treasurer
JOHN W. ROBBINS
Of Vernon.
For Railroad Comioner
ALLISON MAYFIELD
Of Sherman.
For State Superintendent
Us. KENDALL
Of Ladonia.
For Associate Justice
THOs. J. BROWN
Of Sherman.
For Cour, Criminal Appeals
NJ. VI. BROOKS
Of Greenyille.
For Congress SEVENTH Dristrict
ROBERT l.. HENRY
of Waco.
For represcniivee 55th district
SAM L. HENDERSON.
of Bryan.
For district attorney goth distri
&c. SCOTT,
Of Franklin.
Bryan morning eagle. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1898-1909, 1898-09-15
SCHOLARSHIP CONTEST.

The contest FOR the two scholar
ships in Allen Academy is growing
in interest and since our last re.
port several others have entered
the contest aud the list and vote,
As reported by the committee now
stands as follows.
Bryan morning eagle. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1898-1909, 1898-09-15
THURSDAY. SEPTEMBER Is. 1898.

The glory panoplied battleship
Texas is to be transferred TO the
Asiatic squadron aud made the
flagship Of Dewey.
Bryan morning eagle. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1898-1909, 1898-09-15

Kugadt, the Brennan murderer,
has been resentenced to hang, and
Thursday, oct. 10, fixed as the
date.
Bryan morning eagle. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1898-1909, 1898-09-15
Private school.

instruction given In English, Mathe'
mates and music on piano. Session
begins Sept -, 1905. Your patronage
solicited. For terms, etc, apply 10
Mrs. Edna Minkert. Wa 2iV
Bryan morning eagle. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1898-1909, 1898-09-15
COTTON Market.

Prices on cotton were quoted
here yesterday as follows
Good middling Sc.
Strict middline lsc.
Middling lic.
Strict low middling 4..c
The evening times., 1898-10-24
Trouble Between the Races.

1t happens that the tele legraphic re-
ports of a single day include fight
between whites and negroes in Mis-
sissippi. in which one of the former
and nine of the latter were killed; a
fight between whites and negroes in
North Carolina, in which a number
were shot on both sides and with
prospect of further casualties; and a
fight between the whites and negroes
(of the Eighth Infantry at Chatta-
nooea.
The exciting cause in each case was
local and immediate, but back of it,
apparently, was the old trouble between
the races. Who is TO blame in the first
two fights is not clear, and the colored
people complain, often with good rea-
SON that the reports sent by white men
are prejudiced and unfair to them.
However that may be, it is obvious
that it is not difficult for a mischievous
white or black man to stir up trouble
that will quickly divide the community
on the color line.
! In some sections it is known that
! there are occasional whites and negroes
who are regarded as vicious and dam
/ gerous TO the peace. There are both
white and cOlored men who have spent
more than one term in prison and who
are essentially lawless. Often such men
precipitate a race war which results in
a loss of life and in reign of terror.
| 1t is this class that the people of Illinois
objected TO when the coal mine owners
I began the importation of laborers from
! the South. The most if not all Of the
/ hundreds brought 10 the State had been
I in the prison mines of Alabama, and
some of them We're represented to be
desperate criminals.
/ One has only to read the dispatches
referred to in order to find Governor
Tanners warrant for refusing to use
the militia 10 defend the operators in
( their efforts to land the imported crimi-
nails at Virden. He knew, what most
/ viii believe, that there would never
I again be any peace or safety for the
/ people of that community. OF the hard
problem with which the people Of the
! South have to deal we have been told
/ a good deal. Most of the speeches of
! the Georgia orator, Henry Grady, were
/ devoted to appeals TO the Northern peo-
. pie for sympathy in the many attempts
/ to solve the problem. If the people of
/ Illinois want to import the same social
! difficulty, it is their right but il will be
/ foolish.
The evening times., 1898-10-24
The Practical Joke.

The practical joker has found a new
way in which to exercise his faculties.
Not long ago a family in a New York
apartment house had all kinds of
trouble because some smart fellow had
given the name of their three-year-old
son to the directory man. They were
presently notified that the small boy had
been summoned as juryman, and it took
some time to convince the commissioner
of jurors that three-year-old child
was really not suited to his purposes
And this had to be argued out not once,
but several times, all because some one
had thought it funny to play that trick
on the parents.
Somehow or other practical jokes seem
to be going out of fashion nowadays
Time was when half the fun of life con-
sisted in making some one else swear.
The grimaces and struggles of a man
in process of being hanged were once
considered food for mirth The world
outgrew that sort of thing some time
ago, at least the civilized world did
Then came the humorous ideal which
sought satisfaction in batting some
helpless creature or other. especially
creature of a different nationality or
station in life from ones own. 1t was
that idea of humor which led a Prince
Of Wales, in the early days of this
century, to push lady-in- waiting into
horse-pond for the fun of seeing her
climb out dripping and unable to resent
the insult. Nowadays, the civilized
idea of practical joke is merely bit
of horseplay which causes another
person some slight inconvenience or
twinge of mortified vanity. Even in the
colleges hazing is now out of date and
hazing was the apotheosis of the prac-
| teal joke in the present century.
What is the present idea of humor?
1t is rather hard to tell Perhaps the
sort of fun most keenly relished today
is that species of joke which causes a
mean, ill-natured or otherwise disagree
able person to receive appropriate and
not too severe punishment, or which re-
suits in the exposure of a humbug The
latter joke is relished with peculiar
gusto in this country. possibly because
all Americans have known what it is to
be fooled. The time may come when
the practical joke will die out altogeth-
er-when all mankind has become civil
ized. But not till then.
The evening times., 1898-10-24
COMPRESSED AIR.

1T is interesting to note" says a New
York engineer, that while the cable held
sway for many years in this country. and
later the trolley, France already had in
troduced compressed air traction in sew
eral cities. On the Vincennes line in
Paris, which has proved very successful,
cars are constructed on the Mikarski sys-
tenn. In fact a number OF lines are thus
equipped; notably those at Nantes, No
gent and Marseilles; and in Paris, the
line from the Louvre to ST. Cloud, the one
from the Louvre to Sevres and Yer
sailles, and the line from the Cours de
Vincennes to st. Augustine; and also in
Berne, Switzerland. The facts and figures
of all these lines" he continued, show
that compressed air is safe, reliable and
economical. 1t is remarkable that Ameri-
cans have been so tardy in their recogni-
tion of its great advantages.
Paris has now the most extensive air
power distribution plant in the world. So
great has been the demand for this most
convenient form of power that the origi-
nal plant has become wholly inadequate.
so a new station, having a capacity of
! 19, 900 horse power, was recently built at
the Quay de la Care From this great
center the power is distributed to plants
in various parts of the city to perform
ultimately the work of running machines,
large and small, and of operating eleva-
tors, of creating refrigeration or giving
ventillation-to do, in short. whole cate
CORY of labors too numerous to mention.
The most eminent authorities in Eu-
rope on power transmission" said the
engineer with emphasis, ARE agreed
| that compressed air seems to meet more
fully every condition as perfect and
| subdivided motive power than any other
| known medium. In economy II stands
| at the head.
Compressed air can be supplied so
! cheaply that not only can It be used di-
rectly as a source of motive power. but
where large volumes of power are need
| ed it can be used advantageously to
! drive substations for generating cleo
! tricity to provide light.
This is a matter of fact demonstrated
| by a commercial installation in regular
service. Extended and critical exami-
nations of the subject show compressed
air possesses remarkable economical
features when used with a reheating de-
vice.
'"The air after compressure is robbed
| of all moisture. and then, just before
| using, is passed through hot water al
! 300 degrees. The heat in this way, ac-
cording to the experiments of Reidlei
| and Gutermuth, is used five or six times
| as effectively as heat supplied by good
| steam engine. 1t is this principle that
has made air so economical as a second
-ary power for the operations of street
! cars and other mechanical purposes. On
| the other hand, when refrigeration is
! desired and the air is not heated before
being introduced into the engine for use
the exhaust generates cold, and is uset
| for refrigerating purposes"
|
machines operating fans and light ma
! chimes is used to freeze carafes and tc
| preserve meats in boxes prepared for
that purpose
The evening times., 1898-10-24
His Idea of Time.

Don't wish for the time to fly so fast" says
dad ''Why it amt day
Sence your mother an me wuz sweethearts under
the blossoms of May
Sence we stood out thar by the garden gate as
happy hearts could be!
An fooled her-jest like we fool 'em an-into
keepin'. the house fer me!
Don't wish fer the time to fly so fast,' says
dad "It wuz yesterday
That age, with the wrinkles an frosty locks,
'peared to be fur away
Thur wuz birds in the mornin' singin', an blue
and bright wuz the sky;
But the evenin bells wuz ringin' fore the bird
songs 'peared to die!
''Don't wish fer the time to fly so fast-it's fast
enough, God knows!
Like drap OF dew on the daisy is shines in the
light and goes,
Lifes like dream that passes away with the
evenin' light;
We only say Good mornin',' fore it's time to
say Good night! "
Atlanta Constitution.
The evening times., 1898-10-24

ments in that branch af literature. The
green lyrics to any great extent. Hence
the new development above mentioned.
A lady wrote poem on the battle of
Omdurman. The chances are that she
spelled the hero's name wrong and
made it stumble in the meter: that she
put troops into the battle who were not
within thousand miles of the place.
and referred to the different varieties
of gun in use in the British army by
names very far from right. One may
naturally suppose that the meter limp
ed. leaped, and bounded by turns, that
the rhymes We're out of joint, and that
the metaphors were mixed worse than
hash in a boarding house. Yet the
poem might have been of just such
character as this, and it would have
been printed in some American paper
or other. 1t went seeking resting
place from one end of London to the
other. The author was determined TO
see it in print. So she had it inserted
in the agony columns of the London
Times. and the London Standard stimuli
taneously, and paid for the publication.
This method is to be commended. 1t
brings the authors name before the
public. costs no more than travelling ex-
penses by mail in case the poem is sent
to all the periodicals. and is source of
revenue to the patient newspaper pro-
prietor. 1t should be distinctly under
stood, however, before the general
adoption of this system, that self-re-
specting newspaper will consider the
rights of the reading public. and that
there are some things which it will re-
fuse to publish even in the agony
column.