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Bryan morning eagle. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1898-1909, 1906-02-14

stanley N Watson. Industrial
agent Of the n. q z. G., pasasd
I through the city yesterday IN route
10 Houston. Mr.. Watson sayA sixty
real estate men along the Inns IL
the "a. n r. q. have responded 20
the plan Of forming au association
which he outlined here, aud organ
lzation will be perfected Ia Houston
Monday.
DIR. l.. ID. LeGear. veterinary sur
geOn, 81 Austin, will be- In Bryan on
saturday Of this week, Feb. IL, for
the one day only. DR.. l.eGeAr il "a
graduate veterinary surgeon and j.
prepared 20 treat all diseases Of
stock. Bring Ia your sick stock and
have them treated wis d6i
A Heusarlihg Informed The Eagle
yesterday that be bad received the
gratifying news from Taylor that
his son, Mr.. q ~. Hensarling, wa.
not seriously hurt by the horse fall
lug upon him, aud that he will be
all right IN few days.
The a. and NJ. College Glea Club.
which recently gave u most pleasing
convert az College. will appear in
Bryan Wednesday, Feb. % There
after they expect 20 al series ~
engagements Ia eight North Texas
towns.
Marriage licenses have been issued
% n. T.. Ewing and Nettis Garter.
Rosolino Greco aud Dea Cametello.
Ice Shepherd ana kmma Scurry,
Walter symmes aud Mrs Beatrice
kersh.
For fine fresh bread and cakes Of
all kinds cell at the Texas Bakery.
Careful attention "a special orders
Phone ~. Mrs. Otto boehme. n
Mr.. aud Mrs o. p. Buchanan ar
rived Monday ~ ht from Houston
EN- route TO their home at Midland
Every dollars worth Of remaining !
stock OF piece goods will be r-tailed
~ actual cost. Bart Norwood 60
Place your orders now for dainty
lingerie waists aud new circular |
skirts. Mrs. Mary Lawrence. Il
w. +. Gibbs has returned from a
visit 10 Houston and jacksonville. |
and reports n pleasant trip
Royal Embroidery Floss for eve
ct work, just arrived; price 2ISc
'kein, at Wilso" a Edges. %
For Sale--A good. gentle allround /
work horSe cheap for cash. See.
Gregg or phone aee 90
Bryan morning eagle. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1898-1909, 1906-02-14

W. Y. Anthony. conductor on the
! a q n who was injured by be-
ing knocked from his train at the
overhead crossing on the santa Fe,
below Navasota. some days ago, is
able to be out again.
Phone 365 for carriage and trans
fer business. Have new carriage aud
will meet all trains, day and night.
n. ID. Evans. ~
Supt l. A. Dsffan Of the n. a +.
g., headquarters at Ennis. was In
the city yesterday, the guest OF J.
:. Mooring
Mrs. l. x. Polk left Sunday night
for an extended visit to her dAugh-
ter Mr.. jackson. ia New Mexico.
Bryan morning eagle. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1898-1909, 1906-02-14
PUBLIC CHAPEL EXERCISES.

The public is cordially invited To
attend the chapel exercises Of the
Texas Woman's College today. In
addition to the regular exercises
Hon. :. r. Henderson will make an
address. Geo. Il. Butler,
President.
Bryan morning eagle. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1898-1909, 1906-02-14
BACK sER,IcE.

Headquarters ut Exchange Saloon.
After closing hours you can get In
formation at Exchange Hetel or
'e"trai depot. Very prompt atten
ton given 10 all calls Very respect
fully. Ed. Tally. O.
Bryan morning eagle. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1898-1909, 1906-02-14

The new designs and patterns in the
above brand Of hosiery for men,womcn and
children are now ready for your inspection.
We have the gauze Isle, onion skin, lace
boot. full lace and hand embroidered effects
at 2Sc' 3Se, SOC and 75c per pair, full finished
seams and fashioned. Every pair guaranteed
Bryan morning eagle. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1898-1909, 1906-02-14
e Real Linen Torchon Lsces

The pretty showing and excellent values
in val and real torchon laces will merit your
attention. We are selling unavoidable
values in beauty patterns for Sc 10c and iSc
per yard.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1906-10-19
Mr.. B0WSer
And Politics
Talks About the Salvation Of the
American Nation With a
Few Gentlemen.
FOR NEW PARTY TICKET
Has No Political Ambition, but For Iii.
Wfe's Sake Would Like to
Be a Governor.
NEW PARTY TICKET

copyright. 1906. by P. c. Eastment.l
~ URING the dinner hour the 9th
er evening Mrs. Bowser knew
that Mr.. Bowser had some
thing on his mind that he was
trying to hide for the time being. He
was cheerful and anxious by turns. He
was absentminded and thoughtful and
then laxative and vigilant. When a
beggar rang the basement bell be gave
a start and was very curious for a mo-
ment, and when the letter carrier blew
his whistle next door Mrs. Bowser saw
him flush red and pale. She was full
Of curiosity. and yet she repressed it.
and it was not until dinner bad been
finished ten minutes that Mr.. Bowser
guIped two or three times and then
said:
81 might as well tell you, Mrs. Bow
ser, that / am expecting a few gentle
men here this evening"
lis it a poker game?" she queried.
mo, ma'am. it isn't" he answered in
louder tones than there was any
need Of.
".!ust going to call to talk about the
weather."
"They are going to call to talk about
the salvation Of the American nation
if you want to knew. Even though you
are a woman, you've read and heard
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1906-10-19
PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS
North Carolina Chief Justice Would
Alter the Method.

Our manner of electing a president
readily lends itself to the choice of
a minority candidate. 1t is an ano-
maly that LOO votes-as in New
York in 1SS4-should swing seven
ty electoral votes, thirty-five from
n candidate to another and thus
decide an election.
By preserving the electoral vote
system as now, and giving the small
er states still the advantage it might
yet be possible to divide the electoral
vote of each state according to the
popular vote for each candidate, CIV
ing each his pro rata of the electoral
vote on hat basis, the odd electOr be-
ing appOrtiOned to the candidate haV-
ing the largest fractiOn; SO that in
New York MIR. Blaine would have had
seventeen electoral votes and Mr..
Cleveland eighteen.
Other states would have been more
or less evenly divided, but the result
would be that the choice of president
would no longer be restricted to two
Or three states as in our past history
and as is likely always to be the case
as long as the whole electoral vote Of
two or three large pivotal states must
swing to one side or the other and
determine the result.
This change would avoid the pres
ent evil of large sums of money being
spent to carry the sOlid electoral vote
of a large pivotal state, for there
would cease to be pivotal states. At
the same time it would avoid the open
gulf int which a p~ercapita ballot by
the whole union would lead IL.
Washington imposed a limitation by
example, but it will not always be
binding. An amendment making the
term six years and the president in
eligible to reelection has long been
desired by a large portion Of the
public. Indeed, when the constitu-
tional convention OF the union shall
assemble, as it must some day, to re-
model our constitution, it is more than
probable that the powers Of the xec
utiVe will also be restricted.
His powers are now greater than
those Of any sovereign OF Europe ex-
cept Russia, and the real restrictions
upon him at present are not consti-
tutional, but the senate and the judi
ciary.-Hon. Walter Clark in The IN
dependent.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1906-10-19

enough to know that something has got
to be done very soon or this country
will go to the dogs"
"And ysu are going to do some
thing?'
by the seven spotted bulls owned
by the seven cross eyed men, l am! l
have been keeping out of politics for
your sake for the last year, but l can
resist the pressure no longer. I have
been asked. Mrs. Bowser'-
you have been asked to take a
nomination for alderman and save
America" she finished as he hung on
to his words.
Not by a burned sight! 1 am net in
the alderman business. If ] take a
nomination It will be for governor at
least"
"Oh! And these-these men who are
coming here this evening are going to
tender you the nomination? What tick
ct are you going to run on Democratic
or Republican,"
Neither one. 1t will be a new party
ticket. It has been coDclusively shown
that neither Of the old parties can save
the country. \ now one is demanded
by a majority of the honest electors OF
the country, and 4 new one we shall
have. We meet this evening to decide
en- the name"
Mrs. BCWSr was going to say aome
thing sarcastic. She Was going 10 ask II
.'Sereheads," "Cld Buns and Guard
ian Angels wouldn't be good names 20
select from. mud she was going 10 add
that every time Mr.. BoUser had 90.
tered politics he had been worked
but she foraore. She was afraid ftl.'
if she discouraged him in politics b.
would turn 10 flying machines. SIZE
! therefore decided to take the Other
tack and presently said:
We'll, some good may come ont Of
| it. The people seem very nuca G3sS2t-
! isfied and inclined to brio, about q
| change"
You can see that. can yox:" eagerly
inquired Mr.. Bower.
To be sure. A new party with :
new platform may sweep the country.
by George. Mrs. Bovser. but I give
! you credit for knowiu: twice as nue.;
as.I thought you did. You are de-
| right about things. There is a denGnG
| for a new party. and that demand shall
be met. What do you think Of my taE
ing the nomination fer GOVERNOR
you are an honest man and Il SIN
cere man, and that Is the kind wanted
Il am thst. W. if l do say it my
self. and backed by the right o o.
! platform ! don't sec why I shouldn't be
elected. I have no political ambitions
but for your sake l should like to IL
able to write my name Governor SaCl
uel BowSer."
81 should be proud OF 1t. What ar
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1906-10-19
The Woman On Horseback.

The Greenville News. a very good
newspaper published in a, very much
better Palmetto town, tells a remarka-
BILE story of the excitement among the
citizens when two women gallOped
down the main street riding after the
fashion Of man. 1t was near the Don
hour, just when the cooks were Civ
ing the proper turn to the roast, when
the bridge clubs We're chattering over
the score, and when the everlasting
dainty refreshments" were being
served. Somebody in the street sent
a PIERCING yell h~eavenward: the crowds
tiOcked from stores n homes; men
and women gasped. There were ex-
carnations Of profound gratitude and
EXPLANATIONS of disgust The latter
must have prevailed, for we are old
that a policeman, ever ready and anX-
Gus to stand in with the morally
stunted. seized the brides and with
out Investigating or seeking to investi-
gate, rushed the distressed females to
the station house where they were re-
CURED to give cash ball 20 keep out OF
a cell.
That town did not use to be prov1n-
cial, hence the shock which comes to
us over this startling bit Of news.
There Is no law to prOhit a woman
firm usurping the prerogatives OF
The ordinary demands of society
cannot be regulated by law. They do
these things at Newport and Hot
| Springs and Aiken and Palm Beach.
Indeed, in all Of the novels Of high and
fashionable life 1t IS eminently proper
for a woman to ride astride. 1t is best
J for the horse even II it does ruffe and
disturb those whose ancestry dates
back to the starting point. If a young
woman is permitted to sail through the
streets on a bicycle she ought certainly
to sail as she pleases on a four footed
thoroughbred. Is that any worse than
slipping beer in a safe? 1. it worse
than playing card. for stakes? Their
why is there any kick coming? Our
own views may not be in accord with
those OF the older people, yet We SET
no harm in this delightful sport. II
is entertaining and amusfng. II
may not be ~elevating. II we were run.
ming a newspaper down there We
would bring out the big type and die.
tate over time, we would interview
those citizens who believe as We b.
l lieve, and We would make it warn fol
/ the bluecoated scullion that dared in.
! terfere with the rights and privilege.
! OF an American woman. She is a queer
whether she refgns In a drawing
room or kicks up a whirlwind OF dust
as she travels aser4d0-RalagH WUe
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1906-10-19

October IT,
EMBELLISHMENTS passes an act
prohibiting the immigration
OF Quakers: any who arrive
are TO receive twenty laShes
and be imprisoned: death Is
To- be h penalty for return
ing after transportation
1735-John and Charles Wesley sail
from England for America
October Is
11SS-President Washington sets out
in his carriage TO make a tour
OF the Northern States.
October 10
16s0-A Massachusetts feet OF thir-
ty-two vessels arrives before
Quebec. under command Of
Philips. whose incompetency is
later demonstrated.
1710-Port Royal. 5. c.. captured
by an English fleet, aided by
an army from the colonies.
1S59-John Brown Makes a raid into
Virginia TO free the slaves.
1S63-General Grant appointed to
the command Of the Western
armies.
October IL
1S63-First session OF a popular as
sembly in New York.
179S-Notorious alien and sedition
laws passed by congress.
1S03-The Eighth congress assem-
bles in extraordinary session
10 act on the treaty with
France by which Louisiana is
coded to the United States.
1S2S-The Delaware and Chesa-
peake Canal is opened.
1853-Seventy-five adventurers. un-
der Colonel William Walker,
sail from San Francisco to es-
tabliSh a pro-slavery colony
in Lower California.
October 1S-
1540-De Soto fights a terrible bat
tie with Mobile Indians in
Alabama; $500 Indians shot
or burned; Spanish losses. IS
killed and $50 wounded.
1631-MaSSaChusetts Puritans limit
suffrage to members of the
church., putting the govern
ment in the hands of the mi
nority and excluding three
fourths Of the people from
any voice in the affairs of the
colony.
1692-The people of Andover pro-
test to the general court of
Massachusetts against the
witch tribunals: delusion of
witchcraft disappearing.
1775-Portland, Me, burned by the
British.
1800-By the treaty of Ildefonso,
Spain again cedeS the terri
tory of Louisiana to France.
1S12-In a naval battle off the coast
Of Virginia, the American
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1906-10-19
SEVEN DAYS OF AMERICAN HISTORY

sloop wasp defeats the Brit
ish brig Frolic: Immediately
after the victory the Wasp
was captured by the British
ship Poictters.
1ssa-Suhnarine telegraph laid be-
tween Governors Island ana
New York, the first In Amer
lea.
1S54-The Ostend manifesto issued
by United States ministers in
council at Aix-Ia-Chapelle.
recommending the immediate
purchase OF Cuba for $l2o.-
100000, and holding out
threat OF seizure should Spain
refuse 10 sell.
lS5S--olonel Robert T.. Lee cap
lures John Brown and his
men at Harpers Ferry.
1S9S-Amsrican army and navy
takes formal possession Of
Porto Rico at San Juan.
October 19-
16so-Frst genera court in Amer
lea held at Boston.
I6T5-king Philip, with about 500
Indians. attacks Hatfield.
Mass. but Is driven or.
DISTINGUISHING act congress.
meeting I'm New York. after
drafting a memorial TO the
King and Parliament. adopts
a Declaration of Rights
l7SI-Lord CORVALLIS ~surrenders 1t
Yorktown to the allied Amer
lean and French forces. prac-
tiCally ending the war for IN
dependence.
1S64-General Sheridan turns defeat
into victory at Cedar Creek.
(Sheridan's ride
October 20
17S1~General Clinton sails from
New York with 1000 men To
reinforce CORVALLIS at York
town. not having received
word OF the surrender.
17S1-Mohawk Valley. in New York,
invaded by Indians,
17S3-Virginia cedes 10 congress it,
claims to territory north OF
the Ohio.
1S1S-A convention is signed with
Great Britain establishing the
forty-ninth parallel as the
boundary line, and providing
for the Joint occupation OF
Oregon for ten years.
1S20-Spain ratifeS the treaty ced-
ing Florida to the United
States.
1SS0-The Mercy Letter. an al
legged forgery Of the handwrit-
ing and signature OF James A.
Garfield, approving Chinese
Immigration. circulated as 4
campaign document.
1SSS-The Fiftieth congress closes
its first session, the longest in
congressional history (321
days..
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1906-10-19
SOCIETY AT THE
NATIONS CAPITOL

ter, at the very opening Of her dra-
matte career, shocked all Washington
by her recitation Of h once-famous
.'Os'ler Joe" E-Postmaster General
Wannamaker occupied the house dur
ing the Harrison administration, later
selling it to S. S. Rowland, of New
York, whose wife was a Miss Belmont,
a leader Of Washington's smartest So
ciety until her death.
The Misses Theodore n Margaret
Shonts, daughters of the chairman Of
the anama Canal commission, will be
in the debutante ranks, although they
have enjoyed the unusual distinction
Of a presentation at court and all n
delights Of a London season without
any American debut Mrs. Shonts and
daughters are expected in washington
during the coming week TO take pos
session of a handsome home on New
Hampshire n which they have
leased for the season, and where Mr..
n Mrs. Shonts expect to entertain
very extensively. The Misses ShOnts
were educated at Mount Vernon Semi
larry, in this city, SO will find some
acquaintances already in Washington.
The naming of Miss Ethel Roosevelt
n Zab ROsen, daughter Of the
Russian Ambassador, among this years
buds is quite without authority and
has caused some annoyance to the
friends of these youthful maidens, who
are still in the sc~hoolroom, Miss ROose-
welt having celebrated her fifteenth
e in the past summer, while the
Ambassadors daughter has but two
additional years to her credit. The
latter, however, will probably come
Il next year, as she is an extremely
advanced young person, charmingly
educated in the foreign fashion, and
already taking a hattering interest in
American society.
Churchill standard. (Fallon, Nev) 1903-1908, 1906-02-03
Malt Coffee as Food.

A Russian army doctor attached to
the I'd Turkestan Rife Battalion has
been making some interesting expert
ments in the matter of nourishing SOL
diers. DR.. Cyrillus Koljago admins
tered to ten men for ten days malt cof-
fee as their sole beverage, with the re-
suit that their weight increased during
the time to the extent of 832 grammes
a man. A like experiment was made
by giving tea to the same number of
men of similar constitutions and for
the same number Of days, and in their
case the doctor certified a decrease of
weight per man to the extent of $40
grammes. He then put the twenty men
together back on t tea, and those whose
weight had been so ~signally increased
by the malt coffee had within ten days
lost 600 grammes a head. The doctor
now states what is very important to
note, namely, that his experiments have
led him to believe that it is not merely
the nourishing attributes of the malt
coffee which mark this increase, but
that its effect is mainly to increase the
action OF the digestive organs, enabling
them to draw from all other food taken
the utmost quantity of nourishment
each may contain.
Churchill standard. (Fallon, Nev) 1903-1908, 1906-02-03
The Docking Of Horses.

Agitation is promised to urge the pas
sage of laws against docking horses
and owners Of horses are being peti-
toned to join in the crusade. Dealers
never dock horses, except at the re-
quest of a buyer. To offer a horse for
sale with a bob tail is to create the sus-
picion that it is Second hand" n that
has seen service before in the city, in
stead of being fresh from green past
ures. Yet the dealers rarely sign such
petitions. They declare that the opera
ton of docking is not excessively pain
full and is atoned for by the easy life
it leads to-. To have the tail shortened
is the initiation the rough horse pays
to gain the comfort and light duties OF
a private stable.
Fashion is not the only reason to act
uate the buyers in having their horses
docked, but it is the principal n A
few say that the shortening of the tail
makes for cleanliness, as the tail does
not become draggled with mud and dust
Churchill standard. (Fallon, Nev) 1903-1908, 1906-02-03
Death.
&C. Z. Nj

49, - @y
l am a microbe of vast and fearful power.
My name is Death, where e'er I'm found
/ float through the air and sink
into the vitals of the sons of men:
The youth in joyous spring of life;
The man, mature in years and strength;
The newborn babe and she
Who watches tenderly his breath of
life:
The coyish maiden, and the a g
OF lettering steps and silver locks;
All alike grow faint and iistiess,
Weak and wan, and sink at last
To their eternal rest, beneath my glance.
Quietly at first l work, mid jest and
laughter,
But not more surely does the sun sink low
behind
The western hills
Than l make felt my power
Through every limb and fibre Of my vic
TINS frame.
IT'S said that he laughs best who laugheth
last;
And I laugh last, yea many a million time
AS l perceive my victim gaze with hollow,
vacant stare
And note his breath come short. and
gasp and-cease.
Hal Ha! Another triumph OF my provost
And now float away to murder once
To snatch ssass nnaGssa frum her nvsxs
40 or fne a sS.s-, 80 .--s.ss- e an
Ceaseless my work. l know not pity.
Greedy am /, and each one whom / sIay
adds fuel to my greed.
30 do | live and reap my harvest day by
day Of Death.
Churchill standard. (Fallon, Nev) 1903-1908, 1906-02-03
Tea Handled by Machinery.

The effort of the Department of Ag'
riculture for sometime has been to
find means for providing food for the
Army and Navy which could be pre-
pared in such a way as to ave space.
Tablet form naturally suggested itself
to them and it is now believed by the
government officials that the tea tab
let's will fill the requirements not only
of the general government but those
of general merchandise and family use.
An important feature in connection
with compression of tea into tablet
form which should be considered OF
prime importance is that modern ma
chinery takes the place of the ancient
manual operations of the Chinese. OF
course, a great advantage of the ma.
chine in the tea industry is reduction
in the price of labor, but a more i'm
portant item is the elimination, as far
as possible, of human contact. By ties.
timony of travellers in the Orient ii
is stated that the tea factories of that
section are as a rule anything but
clearly, the result of the herding to-
gether of so many people-not very
clean or healthy people-in cramped
and often very hot workshops. The
tea tablets as prepared by the Depart.
ment of Agriculture, are made from the
tea after it has been dried and rolled.
1t is then put through a boiling proc.
ess after which it is placed in small
moulds about the size of a cent, where
by means of great force, it is com,
pressed into small tablets. The op.
GRAFTON of the machinery is so perfect
and so rapid that the leaves can be
Churchill standard. (Fallon, Nev) 1903-1908, 1906-02-03
He Had Had Experience.

AS the fearless white man entered the
kraal of the native king, a salute was
sounded on a drum of serpent skin, and
six warriors with necklaces of human
teeth rafting about their threats, LED
him before a rough ivory dias, on which
sat a majestic and formidable figure
Hail." said the white man. And with
out loss of time, he took out n OF his
brass watches, wound it up, and showed
its works to the dusky monarch. This
marvel" he said, Il will give your
majesty, making you the envy of all
men, and in return for only six tusks
of seventy pounds weight each. The
king took the watch, produced a mo-
nocie from a pouch hidden in his shield,
and. after a moments study OF the
brass trinket, returned it with a languid
smile. Last year," he added, in Lon
don, | exchanged an old wooden war
club for a bushel OF these things, and,
by Jove, don't you know, there wasn't
n of them that ran above a week"