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fifty million figure; it has stacked up
gold in its treasury, has created a
great merchant marine, has captured
growing share of European commerce,
has already outmarshaled commerclal
America on the Pacific, has crowded
its cities with roaring factories, ana
has given costly and triumphant equip
ment to its aggressive fleets and regl-
ments. And it has accomplished all
this out of the profit of haryests
cleaned from a farm area scarcely
large enough to afford storage room
for the agricultural machinery IN use
in the United States"
Could there be a more striking proof
of the oft-quoted words of David Starr
Jordan, that
stability of national character goes
with firmness of foot-hold on the
SOIL"
Comparison of Areas.
Now compare Japan and it's devel-
opment with the possibilities of devel-
opment in the Middle West.
The area of all the islands compris-
ing the Empire of Japan is 147,6 500
square miles; of this only 10000
! square miles is available for agricult-
ure, for every available acre in thai
country is cultivated.
The total combined area of Wiscon.
sin, Illinois and Indiana is 146,36C
square miles, and it is safe to say thai
considerably more than half of this
area-probably more than two thirds
is capable of as close a cultivation
and of sustaining as dense a popula
ton per square mile as the cultivated
area of Japan.
The water with which to irrigate i
now runs to waste. The water which
Chicago turns into her drainage canal
instead of producing %agricultura
wealth by irrigating the lands of iii
nois, produces law suits with st. Louii
because it runs to waste past tina
city to the Gulf of Mexico.
The time will come when irrigated
agriculture In the Middle West will
absorb every drop of water falling
within that territory.
And when the irrigation canals am
the irrigated farms of the Middl
West will dry up the Ohio and tn
Mississippi rivers. just as irrigation
In the West has dried up Tulare LAX
in California, and II rapidly drying q,
the Great Salt Lake In Utaha e.
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first-class fighting nation, ii is not neg
lecting its fields of rice, genge, millet
and muji, its groves of mulberry II
bamboo, its priceless plots of tea ana
mitsumata shrubs. and its multi-mil-
lion gardens of berries, vegetables,
fruits and flowers. The thousands OF
patriots that have marched to the
front have not thinned the ranks OF
the mightier hosts filling the soil.
Thirty million farmers are gathering
ample harvests in the diminutiye helds
of Japan.
Husbandry Dignified.
For twenty-five centuries the Sun
rise soyereigns have dignited nus
bandry as the most important and
NEST honorable industrial calling III
the empire, and now more than sixty
per cent of the Mikado's subjects till
with Incompatible skill the limited
soil of his islands.
The same diligent genius that ena-
bles q landscape gardener in Japan to
compass within a few square yards OF
land a forest, q b~ridge-spanned stream,
Il waterfall and lake, a chain of ter
raced hills, gardens and c~hrysanthe-
NUNS. hyacinths, pe0nies Il pinks, q
beetling crag crowned with a dwarfed
COlileF, anu luIOuEu an tHc udlhts
park meandering paths. with here a
shrine and there a dainty summer
house, has made it possible for the far
mers of the empire to build up on less
than nineteen thousand square miles
of arable land the most remarkable
agricultural nation the world has
known. If all the tillable acres of
Japan were merged into one field. a
man in an automobile. travelling at the
rate of fifty miles an hour, could skirt
the entire perimeter of arabic Japan
in eleven hours. Upon this narrow
freehold Japan has reared a nation of
imperial power, which is determined
to enjoy commercial prominence over
all the world of wealth and opportu-
nifty from Siberia to Siam and already,
by the force of arms. is driving from
the shores of Asia the greatest mon
arshy Of Europe.
Roots In the Soil.
The secret of the success Of the lit
tie Daybreak Kingdom has been
mystery to many students OF nations
Patriotism does not explain the riddle
Of its strength. neither can commerce
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The Olive In 4merica.

The annual output of olive oil in
California is about 1904 gallons; Of
pickles 230.0 900 gallons. The imports
to the country of oil amount to about
1850 900 gallons per year and Of
pickles to 2,116 gallons. The olive was
introduced into California 1876 years
ago, which is a bad showing for use
of native olive oil, especially when
1t is acknowledged to be the superior
of all foreign oils.
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Building a Strong Citizenship.

OF course, many will hold up theiT
hands and say this is impossible.
England finds it impossible. as the
result of her system of great landed
estates, to provide her people will
homes on the land. and in conse-
quence her ruin as Il nation is only a
question of a comparatively brief
time.
Japan, on the contrary. put forth
her hand and solved the very problem
which, to England, seems impossible,
and behold the results in her strength
and power as a nation.
1t is only Il question with us. as a
people. whether we will follow the
lead of Japan, and profit by her les.
sons, or follow the lead of England
and share i'll her eventual ruin.
The influences which are destroying
England are at work steadily and in.
sidiously in this nation, and though
it will take longer for them to work
our ruin, it is sure to come il we dc
not find away to root the great
majority of our people to the land in
homes of their own, as Japan has
done, and as we can do, unless we
are as blind and as impotent in DEAL
ing with our national problems as
seems TO be the fate of England.
In the carrying out of this great
patriotic purpose of building a strong
citizenship by building rural homes
on the land, we are. at the same
time, doing that which will create
the greatest possible commercial
prosperity, and develop to the high
est attainable point. not only the re.
sources of the Middle West, but of
our entire country.
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Guilty in the way of it is a mere Gus
tom or habit, easily modified.
The terms of school of all city
schools should be changed. There
should be n short winter term, dur
ing which the time should be given tC
instruction from the books and II
handicraft within doors.
There should be a summer term OF
equal length during which the schools
would he transferred to the suburbs
and work in summer school gardens
The children should be taken back
and forth to these summer school gar
dens at public expense, as they art
now taken to and from the consoli.
dated rural schools on the trolley
lines in some of the New England
states.
The vacation, which would not need
be so long. should be divided between a
spring vacation and a fall vacation,
intervening between the winter city
erm and the country summer term OF
each school.
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Our Own Country.

Our Own Country
When we compare Japan, with its
dense population, its wealth, its rev
enues. its trade and commerce, its
national strength, with any section of
our own country equal TO it in area
and natural resources, we are amazed
at the great possibilities of future de-
yelopment in our OWL country.
The entire population of Japan is
about forty-ive million, of which
thirty million is a farming population,
and this vast population of thirty mil
lon farmers and their families is sus
tanned on nineteen thousand square
miles of irrigated land. There is no
agriculture in Japan but irrigated
agriculture. They have learned that
water is the greatest fertilizer known
TO nature, and save and utilize it with
the same care that they use every
other available process for the fertili-
cation of their fields.
Nineteen thousand square miles is
an area about one hundred and thirty
five miles square. and in a square in a
corner of the State of Illinois. the CON-
parative size of which to the rest of
the State is shown on the accompany
ing map, is sustained a nation which,
to the amaZement of all other peoples
on the earth, has sprung TO the front
as one of the great world powers.
Source of Power.
And the Home Acre farms or gar
dens-the rural homes of Japan-are
the source of that national power.
Commenting on this, the author of
the article in the August 1904 Book
lovers Magazine. quoted from above,
says in that article
'From what its advanced ~agricult-
IRE has made its plains TO yield, Japan
has fed and clothed and educated its
multiplying masses, fast nearing the
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PENSIONS.

Over one Million Dollars
allowed our clients during the last
six years.
Over one u a n d
c1aimsallowed through US dur
ing the last six months. Dis.
ability, Age and In
pensions obtained
in the shortest possible time.
claims a specially.
Usually granted within 90
days ifplaced with us immedi-
ately on soldiers death. Fees
fixed by law and payable out of
allowed pension. A successful
experience of as years and benefit
of daily calls at Pension Bureau
are at your service. Highest ref
erences furnished. Local Magis-
trates pecuniarily
benefited by sending Us
claims.
Churchill standard. (Fallon, Nev) 1903-1908, 1905-11-25

Ion from Japan mas not yet been
learned, and when President Roose-
Welt falls 10 see it,and demands only
more battle SHIPS, as the lesson of the
great sea fight Which has just been
fought. he unfortunately dlYerts the
minds of the people of this country
from facts of supreme and oTershad-
owing Importance, which should De
burned into the public mind as by a
stroke OF lightning from every victory
won by the japanese.
THAT lesson is the profoundly i'm
portant fact that the japanese man,
the unit of her national strength, Is
the product of a mode of life and al
environment which combines the
physical strength which comes only
from the rural life-from living next
TO nature-with the mental activity
and keenness which come from CON
slant contact with his fellowmen-the
community life.
A Nation of Gardeners.
The japanese are not Il nation of
farmers. as we understand the word.
They are a nation of gardeners.
There is neither isolation nor conges-
ton in their life. They dwell, the
great majority of them. not in great
-E
cities. but in closely settled rural com
munities. The ranch and the tene-
ment are alike foreign TO the life of
the Japanese.
The greatprinciple that m%ustcontrol
our own national development hence
forth is that the land shall be subdi-
yided into the smallest tracts from
which one mans labor will sustain a
family in comfort. and that every
child. boy or girl, in the public schools
should be SO trained in those schools
that it will know how TO till such a
tract of land for a livelihood.
In other words. LET us reproduce in
this country the conditions so well
described in an article from the Book
lovers Magazine for August. 1904.
from which we quote the following
While Japan is cannonadingits way
TO rank with Christian powers az a
Churchill standard. (Fallon, Nev) 1903-1908, 1905-11-25

For, in fact, they are undeveloped.
We have, as yet, hardly more than
tiekled the earth over this immense
area.
Churchill standard. (Fallon, Nev) 1903-1908, 1905-11-25

nor military equipment, nor manu-
featuring skill. Western nations will
fail fully TO grasp tue secret of the
dynamic intensity of Japan today, and
will dangerously underestimate the
formidable possibilities of the Greater
Japan-the Dai Nippon-of tomorrow,
until they begin to study seriously the
agricultural triumphs of that empire.
For Japan, more scientifically than
any other nation. past or present, has
perfected the art of sending the roots
of its civilization enduringly into the
soil.
Progressive experts of high author
ity throughout the Occident now adj
NIT that in all the annals of agri-
culture there is nothing that ever APP
preached the scientific skill of Sunrise
husbandry. Patient diligence, with
knowledge of the chemistry of soil and
the physiology of plants, have yielded
results that have astounded the most
advanced agriculturists in Western
nations"
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The Safe Foundation.

The creation of the conditions above
described under which the people of a
nation are rooted to the soil III homes
of their own on the land, is not only
good craftsmanship and the highest
patriotism. but it is the only safe foun-
dation for an enduring national
structure.
To ignore and neglect this founda-
ton while we build b~attleships, equip
armies and annex islands and dig
Isthmian canals. is as fatal a mistake
as it would be to build Il t~wenty-story
skyscraper in Chicago without any
foundation but the mud of Lake
Michigan.
We need not muster out our armies,
nor dismantle our battleships nor
evacuate the Philippines, nor stop
work on the Isthmian Canal, but the
fact remains, as clear as the sun from
an unelouded sky at MONDAY, that the
attention of our people as a nation Is
riyeted on our naval and military af-
fairs and schemes Of foreign exploita-
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Roots In the Soil.

The secret of the of the lit
tie Daybreak Kingdom has been a
mystery to many students OF nations.
Patriotism does not explain the riaoie
Bryan morning eagle. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1898-1909, 1905-11-04

TODAY ONLY az Hunter q Cnat-
hams. dit
Sheriff II. M. Nall, City Marshal
II. r. Boyett, Judge A. G.. Board,
City Secretary q. NJ. Spell, County
CIerk w. G. Boyett and Commits
sioner p. n. Arlington expect 10
leave tonight for hunt In the Big
Thicket.
Col. II. NJ, Hall, right-of way
agent for the II. a 7. c., was here
from Houston yesterday securing
right-of-way deeds from W. Y. and
5. II. Franklin 10 land In Grimes
county for the Mexia cut of.
We are now manufacturing the
best sausage and other market pro.
ducts. III you have not been trading
with US give us trial order. Phones
30 and 326. s. II. Franklin. go
Edward Patterson, advance age Mt
for the Beggar Prince Opera Co., was
In the city yesterday arranging for
the appearance Of his company in
Fra Diavalo" at the opera house
Nov. IL.
Our hat stock IL still entirely too
large and must be converted Into
cash. We must unload and will sell
TO-DAY ONLY at % per cent discount.
Hunter 4 Chatham. dit
Fresh bread, fancy cakes, lady
fingers, etc, at the Texas Bakery
every day. Special orders also re-
..E... ....u,Ut asfaUtfnu fnHona "a
Mrs. Otto Boehme, Prop. diff
II you fail TO get your hat TODAY
you will positively lose the 20 per
cent discount, for they will only be
sold TODAY at that price. Hunter a
Chatham. dit
100 Army hats, worth sl.25, $50
and $500, will be included in Hunter
a Chatham's 25 per cent discount
sale TODAY ONLY. d-lt
Read the list Of November at
fractions in the Grand opera house
advertisement on the first page.
You only get the 25 per cent dis
count on hats at Hunter a Chat
hams roDAY-iust one day. dit
New crop Louisiana Ribbon Cane
Molasses. Juo. NJ. Lawrence a Co.
Phones 70 aud 81. PSI
J. F.. Bullock and daughter, Miss
Emma, we're visitors from Sleep
Hollow yesterday.
Mr.. and Mrs. ID. 5. Lloyd were
visitors from Reliance yesterday.
Mrs. r. j. Fountain is the guest OF
Mrs. w. l.. Astin near Mumford.
]. w. Mathis aud wife OF Reliance
were in the city yesterday.
Semones Adams OF Waco was In
the city yesterday
NJ. s. Breach of Tabor was Ia the
city yesterday.
Bryan morning eagle. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1898-1909, 1905-11-04
FOOTBALL.
A. & NJ. Team Repeating Former VIC
torious Campaign.

The A. & NJ. College football
team is a victorious one so far
this season, having won out by
some very large scores, in several
games. II looks like the season
will be with them. a repetition Of
the victorious campaign of 1908.
Manager Potts took the team yes
terday 10 Waco TO play the t. G.
U. today. The biggest game Of the
season, however, will be the one
with Kentucky next Saturday on
the college campus. The uni
versity OF Kentucky team will
tour the state, playing the univer-
sity at Austin and the A. & NJ.
The game will be rival attraction
with the circus, which happens TO
be here the same day. Town
people can see the circus at night,
in fac, will see them then, at any
rate, therefore il is to be hoped
that some Bryan people will be
able to go to the game in the after.
noon.
Bryan morning eagle. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1898-1909, 1905-11-04

Wood Parties expecting wood
from me are advised that | cannot
have IL hauled now on account OF
soft ground in my pasture, but / will
I'LL all contracts as soon as possible.
Meanwhile my patrons are at liberty
10 engage wood elsewhere II they de-
sire. - NJ. Derden. dit
DR.. /. +. Belts will preach at the
A. and NJ. College SundaysmorninR
at II o'clock, and there will be nc
services at the Methodist church at
that hour. Sunday school at $40 n.
m. Epworth League at . p. IN.
Preaching by the pastor at Z p. m.
Dan Zimmerman, who with his
family lately moved 10 BRADY, was
kicked by mule few days ago and
painfully bruised. Mr.. Zimmerman
has blacksmith shop at Brady, and
was fixing 20 shoe the mule when
the animal became unruly.
Give us your orders this month for
anything In the market line. We
are prepared 10 fiji them promptly
and guarantee 90 please you. ;. n.
Franklin. Phones 80 and 326. go
Have your stoves repaired before
cold sets in. / can mend any part
broken and give satisfaction. Buy
and sell secondhand stoves. Billy
Griffin, phoue 2l7. novl2
sell Berwick Bay oysters at 81 90
per hundred, and Galveston oysters
nj 70 cents per hundred, In bulk.
Chas. Edinburg. 2s6
The Bryan High School defeated
the A. 4 q. Institute at football yes
terday afternoon. Score II 20 20.
Try our new crop Louisiana Rib
bon Cane MOlssses, Just received
Jno. NJ. Lawrence & Co. 2s7
Bryan's cotton receipts TO date ag-
gregate l9,59s bales.
John Gregg OF Pitt Bridge was In
town yesterday.
Bryan morning eagle. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1898-1909, 1905-11-04
LOCALS

A. A. Dean OF Tabor was in the
city yesterday.
T.. G. Sellers OF MIllican was In the
city yesterday.
i'm. Royder OF wellborn was In
the city yesterday.
DIR. Bev. Harrison OF Bedias was
In the city yesterday.
Mrs. A. W. Royder was a visitor
from Wellborn yesterday.
Mayor and Mrs. X. II. Harrison
have returned from Dallas.
Saturday, Nov. 4th, 25 per cent of
in hats at Hunter a Chatham's. dit
s. II, Franklin has Just shipped his
SEVENTEEN car load OF hogs this year
Hunter Il Chatham will sell hats
TODAY ONLY at % per cent discount.
dit
Mr.. and Mrs. Ira Gooch and chill
drsn arrived from Nayasota yester-
day.
You always get the best meats at
Franklin's markets. Phones 50 and
500. 80
r.. Griffith of Reliance called on
the Eagle while In the city yester'
day.
Louisiana Ribbon Cane Molasses-
new crop-Jno NJ. Lawrence q Co.
PSI
Read Fountain a Co.'s "black-
board" on second page. Changes
daily. u-ti
Mrs. Malcolm Carnes and Miss
Ivy Carnes left yesterday for brief
visit In Dallas.
Mother st. Cloud and Madam
|, Mary John OF villa Maria Academy,
left for Galveston yesterday.
Miss Hilda Japhet, pupil OF Villa
Maria Academy, went TO Houston
yesterday 10 visit her parents.
Remember Edinburg's restaurant
when you want good meal or
lunch. oysters served any style. 2s6
Tom Means, representing the Ora
ham Paper Co. OF st. Louis, was In
~ city yesterday and called on the
kher csss OF Hunter 4 Chat
q popular hat sales will be put
Yr0DAY ONLY at % per cent dis
count. dit
Bryan morning eagle. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1898-1909, 1905-11-04
BIG SALE SATURDAY
BY Ladies Of the Methodist Church
Bargains, Bargains.

The ladies Of the Methodist church
will hold a sale OF secondhand ar
tlcles Saturday, Nov. 4, in the build
ing next TO Cole Hardware Co, for
merly occupied by Jake Cohen. Will
sell furniture, hardware, heating
stoves. swinging and hand lamps.
clothing, millinery, books, and var
ious other useful articles. Every
body, both white and colored peo-
pie. cordially invited 10 call and see
the large collection OF useful articles
that can be bought at very low
prices. go
Bryan morning eagle. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1898-1909, 1905-11-04
ORGAN RECITAL.

Mr.. Lillibridge will give. an organ
recital at the First Baptist church
on Monday night. Nov. o, at Sp. m.
Mrs. Lillibridge will assist.
There will be no admIttanee fee
and the public Is cordially invited TO
attend.
A free-will Offering will be taken,
the proceeds OF which will be given
20 the Texas Woman's college.
Bryan morning eagle. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1898-1909, 1905-11-04
EpwORTH LEAGUE PROGRAM.

Epworth League program for Sun
day, Nov. 8:
Opening Song-4e.
Subject: The Apostolic Mission
10 Open the Kingdom"
Acts-2, i4-2l-37-l2.
Acts-i0, 3i-42.
Peter-t, l2-iS.
Leader-Miss Mary Wilcox.
Prayer.
Song-i07.
Reading-Miss Hattie Lou Hudson
Lesson Talk--Prof. Rivers Allen.
Reading-Miss Sadie Mawhinney.
Song-i50.
League benediction.
Bryan morning eagle. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1898-1909, 1905-11-04
n. & T. C. RATES.

Waco, account carnival. Sell Oct.
30 to Nov. 3 inclusive, limit Nov. 8.
Rate s3.45.
Dallas, account Dallas fair. Sell
Oct. n 10 and including trains ar
irving Dallas morning Of Nov. ~.
Limit for return Nov. ~. Rate 50 96,
children half rate.
Bryan morning eagle. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1898-1909, 1905-11-04

Mr.. w. p. Franklin, who was here
from Grimes county yesterday, says
the bridge across the Nayasota river
on the Madisonville road, is needing
attention. There Is n hole Ia II a
foot wide and three or four feet long.
He says there Is also "jump-off'
on this side of the Wixon creek
bridge that needs attention.
Bryan morning eagle. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1898-1909, 1905-11-04
smoke up"

Attend second annual meeting
Texas Leaf Tobacco Growers at
Houston, November iith. Many in
teresting and important subjects 70
be considered. Tobacco growing gets
a good money crop in East Texas. /.
& q. n. II r. offers low excursion
rates.
ID. j. PRICE. q. p. 4 Il. A.,
Palestine, 1exas.
Bryan morning eagle. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1898-1909, 1905-11-04

r. +. Wade OF Wellborn was In
the city yesterday.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1905-08-11
FLED FROM THE
GIRL HE LOVED.
Difference In Religion Stood In the
Way Of the Happiness Of Al.
bert Damke.

NEW YORK. August 11.-while
fleeing from a girl in Baltimore, whom
he loves devotedly, Albert F. E.
Damke, who came to America from
Germany four years ago, was arrested
in Brooklyn on a charge of yagrancy
and committed to the almshouse.
Upon investigation, it was found, that
Damke had been in this city only 20
days. The law requires a person to
be here 60 days before he can become
a beneficiary OF the public's bounty.
So Damke will be sen back to Bal.
timore.
1t seems from Damke's story that
the love affair is mutual, but devout
religious differences stand in the way.
He told Chief Clerk Mccarthy, of the
charities department, that he simply
could not stand it. He had some
money, a very little, however, and
he decided to go away an leave the
girl. So, one night, he bought a
ticket for New York. Since his arri.
val here he has wandered around
until he has spent his money.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1905-08-11
SAILORS SUFFER-.
Starved at Sea and Now Rave For
Food In Fever Wards.

CHESTER, Pa, Aug. 1O.-Thirteen
Scottish sailors taken from the fever
stricken British steamship Baruton,
and now in the Chester hospital, tell
a horrible tale of suffering. They say
that stores could not be procured in
the foreign ports. and when they were
at sea all the meat became unfit to eat
but they had to accept it or starve.
The men said. however, that Captain
MacGregor was not to blame for the
condition of the food, which spoiled
after The vessel had left shore.
After the men entered the Chester
hospital they began to rave for food,
and insisted on being given a full
meal. The doctors found that the
worst of their sufferings consisted of
being nearly starved to death.
The patients are all doing well.
They are fed every three hours. their
diet comprising milk, soft boiled eggs,
cereals and broth. They eat raw
enously, always calling for more.