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Bryan morning eagle. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1898-1909, 1906-11-29

The Eagle has previously pub
lished all of the general program
except for the two last days. which
Us as follows:
Tuesday, December o.
$50 a. m.-Call TO order by president.
Invocaiion-Rsv. I. r. Belts, Methodist
Episcopal church.
Reading Of minutes.
Report, Anniversary commiuee-MFs.
Fannie ]. Halbert.,
Talk-Mn. George Willrieh.
Report, Printing Commiiiee-Mn. *.
q. Bidwell.
Report, Committee on Children Auxil-
iaries-Mr. Moore Murdoch.
Board Of regents and press departments
Report Board Of Rsgents Texas Confed-
crate Msseum-Mrs. L. J. Story.
Report, United Daughters Of the Con-
federaey Press Deparmenis--Mn. Sea-
brook w. sydnor. Mrs. w. A. Hassell,
Miss Decea Lamar West, Mrs. Kate Alma
organ, Mss. r. l., Jordan, Mrs. S. "a.
Watson, Mrs. sidon Harris, Mrs. ]. b.
Beatty.
Report Of special committees
Report Albert Sidney Johnston Monu-
ment Commiuee-hirs. ]. ID. RoberdeauS.
Report, Colonel William p. Rogers
Monument Commiiiee-Mrs. Nellie
Wood.
Report Of Confederate Souvenir Com
mi,,ee-Mrs. ]. B. Beatty.
Report. chickamagua Monument Com
mi,iee-Ms. ID. S. Killough.
Chapter reports.
Resolutions.
Adjournment.
Up. m.-Call to order by the president.
Reports Of special committees continued.
Report, Chapter Report Blanks Commit
iee-Mn. r. L. Jordan.
Report. General Tom Green Monument
Commi,iee-Mn Z. r. Fillmore.
Report, Texas Member Shiloh Monu-
men, Commitiee-Mn vsiery Edward
Austin.
Talk-Mrs. 5. +. Steele.
Report. Committee to Raise Funds for
Confederate Veterans Wives and Widows
Home-Mrs. 4. X. Howard.
Report. Treasurer Of Home COMMITTEES
Mrs. w. p. Baugh.
Report, Building Committee for Home
Mrs.. Val {. Giles.
Talk--Mrs. Mary Hint Affieck.
Report, Legislative Commii,ee-Ms.
Katie Cabell Currie.
Chapter reports.
Adjournment.
Literary evening-Audiiorium First
Baptist church ARRANGED by the State
historians
sp. m.-MB. NJ. X. Bolton. second
vice president, presiding.
The Story Of a Cake ...................
, Mrsr Mary Hunt Afiieck, Brennan
Song-The Knights Of the Stars and Bars
Mrs. ". +. shannon. Bolton. Texas
Story-The Scout and the Maiden. ......
o. ..... Mrs. josephine Bowles MeCal
Dramatic Sketch-Sam Davis. the Hero o.
the South ......-........ t.........
Miss Maggie DoSs Morrow, Fort WORT
Vocal Solo-Rohin Adair Miss Emily
Peaie...- .-.. .......'..'..-. $500
Essay-Niy Lady Of the Old Regime. ...'
Mis-. Margare, Watson. Galveston. Tex
Song-The Knights Of the stars and Bars
Miss jamie Baskin, San Antonio, Texas
Song-My Lover in Gray. ......-.......
Miss Emf waliermire, Honey Grove. Tex
Short S,oy-A Tale Of Long Ago.
ouartette-Old Folks at Home.
Bryan morning eagle. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1898-1909, 1906-11-29
WANTED.

-Four good bands to cut eord~ood' Good
pay. Ring IS. J. NJ. Mu'sslman. So'
Bryan morning eagle. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1898-1909, 1906-11-29

There Is a great secret In knowing
what to keep out Of Che mind AZ well
AZ what 20 put in.-Emsrson.
Bryan morning eagle. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1898-1909, 1906-11-29
Second Hand s,oyss-s,oys Repairing

l am prepared to repair stoves OF all
kinds. and furnish parts when desired.
Also have for sale second hand heaters and
cook stoves. w. W. Griffin. $40
Bryan morning eagle. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1898-1909, 1906-11-29
Friday. Decsmbsr :.

Friday, Decenb>f Z.
$50 a. m.-Call to order by tina president
Invocation Rev. ]. J. Taium, FREE
Baptist church.
Reading MINUTES.
Unfinished business.
Submission OF charter for ratification
Mrs. ID. A. Mum.
Report board Of directors-Mn. y. B
ThrooP.
Report revised constitution committee
Mn. Cornelia Branch Stone.
Chapter reports.
Resolutions.
Adjournment.
Up. NJ. Call to order by the president
New business.
Selection OF nest place Of meeting.
Elections.
Installation.
Final resolutions.
Reading Of minutes.
Doxology.
Benediction-ReV. J. Wendell Davis.
Adjournment.
Bryan morning eagle. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1898-1909, 1906-11-29
PASSENGER TRAIN SCHEDULES.

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No. 100 North bound. .......lO'i0 a. m,
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COTTON RECEIPTS.

Following are the cotton receipts OF the
local warehouses up TO FIVE O'Clock yesier-
day afternoon.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1906-10-28
Sayings Of Sam Jones

God can't elect any man unless he
is candidate.
The biggest fool is the woman who
will act as barkeeper for her hus
band.
I'll wear garments made of wire
before I'll wear garments made at sc
cents dozen.
Every barroom is a recruiting Office
for hell.
Sow whiskey and you'll REAP
drunkards.
Christ won't stay in a house with
the cellar full of whiskey.
Sow little parties and reap bic
ones. Sow these and reap bathrooms
Sow these and reap germans, and
from these reap spider legged dudes
and from these you'll reap a hall
thimbleful of calves foot jelly.
There is such thing as the race
running out in dudes, and God knows
/ am glad of 1t.
The most demoralizing and damn
ing thing and the most insidious Is
the city club.
/ have seen men converted from
the barroom and from everything
else. but never. have I seen a man
converted from a club.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1906-10-28
Every Good Citizen
WIN Go Out to Vote.

1t Is now less than ten days till
the state and county election and
while there has been practically no
campaign since the democratic pri.
maries the Importance of getting out
TO vote cannot be too thoroughly i'm.
pressed.
In Florida, Of course, the democrat.
&c candidates are certain OF election,
the real political contest occurring in
the primary which dominates the can.
didates. but there is 30 surety that
this will always be so. In fact. in
many OF the counties this year, the
republicans have tickets and in near.
ly all Of the counties the socialists
have nominated candidates for the
legislature. There is, therefore, Cd
position to the democratic candidates
all over the state and this, II nothing
else, should spur every democrat to
go to the polls.
But above any partisan reason for
SotinSs Fnere lH a lar more important
reason why every good citizen, re-
gardless of party, should go to the
polls on Tuesday, Nov. 6, next. It Is
the duty of good citizenship to do
so. Men Of all parties should vote In
every election. 1t is their privilege
as the heritage Of free government
and it is their duty as citizens of a
republic which can exist only through
the exercise Of that popular franchise
on which 1t is based.
The Journal hopes that Escambia
county, in which there are over $500
qualified voters, will set the good ex.
ample this year of rolling up a record
breaking state election vote.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1906-10-28


never saw a first-cIass billiard
player who was worth the powder
and lead to kill him.
What Is a town woman but coun-
try woman with Sunday clothes on?
I'd rather be dead than be in
fashion:
The more bent, mashed and warped
the ladys hat is the more fashionable
1t Is.
Shall ask your little dudes and
dudines to preach the gospel?
A little party is only big one with
short skirts on.
Religion don't help a fellow to quit
his meanness, but it helps him to
stay quit.
Doubts are but the children Of sin.
Repentance is nine-tenths mouth
Give your hearts to God and ne
VIII comb the kinks out Of your head.
An honest man who's seeking after
God Is as sure of heaven as the man
who is on full tilt after glory.
I've got as much respect for these
follows with striped clothes as
have for you who hop around at every
tap of the DEVILS drum.
II ever my daughters cut of any
OF their skirts. l don't want them 10
cut from the top.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1906-10-28
The Insurance companies
Still At 1t.

III the rottenness developed by the
insurance investigation were moi
enough to stamp the managers of
some Of the largest insurance comma.
t MES as utterly corrupt and unfit In
handle the trust funds and other prop
erty which the policy holders have
entrusted to them, their action since
the investigation ought to be conclu.
sive evidence Of that fact.
For some time, the International
Policyholders Committee, organized
by and in the interest of the policy
holders In the Mutual Life Insurance
Company and the New York Life In
surance Company, with the object Of
electing honest directors for the
management Of those companies, has
been trying to communicate with the
various policy holdtrs in whose inter
est It was formed. But at every
step the insurance companies have
baked the efforts of the committee
and not even the mandate of the
supreme court Of the state has been
sufficient to compel obedience to the
spirit of the law under which the
companies operate. AS consequence
the committee has just made public
an address from which the following
Is taken:
First Under the New York insnr-
ance laws the Mutual Life Insurance
Company and the New York Life In
surance Company were compelled to
file, on July IS, 1906, a list of policy
holders, together with their last
known postofice address with the
state superintendent Of Insurance.
Second. These lists when filed
contained thousands Of misleading
and incorrect names and addresses
of policyholders not only in this
country but abroad, and was evident
ly made up from old lists in the pos
session of the New York Life and
Mutual Life Insurance Companies,
which would deceive and mislead any
committee In their attempt to secure
the cooperation Of policyholders in
a much needed change OF manage
ment in these two companies. I'm
upon the fling OF this list, |
this committee demanded of the New
York Life and Mutual Life Insurance |
Companies, that new and correct
lists be filed In compliance. with the |
New York laws. This the Mutual re-
fused to do and we were compelled |
to apply to the supreme court Of this |
state for an order compelling them [
to file such new and corrected lists.
The court issued an order that such I
lists be fled within ten days and that
be made each week to the
end that policyholders could be CON-
municated with.
Third This committee, with about
thirty addressers and postofice ex-
perts, have been engaged for two
In an effort otmake ccrfec.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1906-10-28

scene matter through the rails"
Under exactly the same indictment
the Federal authorities IN Chicago
sent Joseph Dunlap, ~of The Dispatch
TO two years term in the state
prison, which, being a poor man, he
served to the uttermost.
Mr.. Bennett, being in Europe and
rich enough to stay there, will doubt
less suffer no personal punishment
Ior an offense of which he is plainly
guilty, and whose legal penalty would
De i've years Imprisonment or a fine
OF $4,000. Cadet Bennett" will
doubtless not accept the challenge OF
the Democratic candidate to come
back and face tile responsibility for
twenty years of public iniouity.
But Mr.. Hearst, by his bold pro
test, has compelled The Herald to
discontinue its obscene and debauch.
ing personals" and Mr.. Bennett has
informed Mr.. Hearst that he will
never forgive him.
And with this as an EXPLANATION nj
the nature and animus behind the
savage attacks of The Herald unon
hearst, the Democratic candidate has
pretty effectually spiked the biggest
gun in the Hughes battery of smooth
bores.
But In exposing The Herald before
the campaign begun, and in wiping
out its Infamous personals" from the
temptations of New York. Mr.. VIII.
liam Randolph Hearst's courage and
force have once more indicated
their splendid Usefulness to the peo-
pie for whom he labors and to the
times In which he lives.
Readers of the Herald viii note
that the first page of that paper NO
longer contains its old-time "red
light" column and directory OF immor.
al houses.
Ihis feature OF New York's great
est newspaper has for years fiour.
ished in such utter abandon of com
mon decency that 1t, has been sub.
Ject OF wonder and comment that the
Herald could for so long q time con-
unue to find a place in the respecta.
Die homes of the country.
II the case Of Town Topics was a
bad one, that of the Herald was in.
nniteiy worse. If Town Topics
biackmailed its victims, as was
charged, 1T attacked only those per.
sons who were able to pay and
whose guilty consciences impelled
them to pay its tribute.
But the Herald has for years fur.
nished the directory and been the
means of communication by which
young girls, weak women, and bows
unused to the ways of the world have
been lured to ruin.
Those who constitute the common
decency of the country will thank
Mr.. Hearst for forcing this news.
paper agent of designation to diseon.
unue its immoral work, and It is To
be hoped that if James Gordon Ben.
nett can be induced to return to the
country from which he derives his in
come, ne will be given the full limit
of the law which he has so lone
defied.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1906-10-28
HISTORY OF THE
CONVICT LEASE SYSTEM
(St. Petersburg independently
esaa REPRESENTATIVES,,

Once again Florida is face to face
with the fact that the convict lease
system, whatever it may be in theory
is in results monster of iniquity, and
that, like the other relics Of barbar
ism, it must go. At the present time
It may be said to be one blot on as
fair state as lives in the sisterhood
Of the American republic
The convict lease system is an in
stitution peculiar to the South, one
of the evils forced upon sit by four
POLITICALLY classed as Hell and of ten
years OF carpet bag and negro rule
that no statesman or general, howev-
er wise, has ever been able to dag
nose specifically enough to match
Sherman's epigram that War Is hell
The war was over forty years ago,
and forgotten about. save as an in
cident in history. Reconstruction Is
also a memory, but some of the evils
of those times still live in the South.
And the convict lease system is one
Of them, though Florida alone retains
1t now.
It is quite natural that when the
south was confronted with the Ques-
ton of caring for its criminal classes
most of them negroes, system of
slavery. which had but recently been
abolished, should be thought out. A
tremendous per cent of the criminals
were negroes, either slaves or chill
dren Of slaves who had grown up
since the war, and did not realize On
full what slavery meant. Freed to
such a large extent from the re-
straints of slavery, which were whole
some, however evil the system may
have been and doubtless was at It's
worst, the negroes of the New South
rapidly dTifted into crime OF all sorts.
Laziness being one of their chief at
tributes, they rapidly sank into va
grancy, gambling, fighting and more
serious crimes. In their unwonted
freedom they rushed to an extreme
of license. and when the reins of
government were again in the hands
of the southern whites, stern measures
were needed to repress disorders, and
remove from the former slave masters
the dread that hung over them all
1t was quite evident at that time
that the penitentiary was not a salts
factory disposition to make Of those
convicted of crime. The states Of the
South were impoverished, and it
would have been very expensive in
deed. to maintain hundreds or even
thousands Of idle negroes N prison.
There was little or no public work
they could be put at, and to establish
manufacturing in connection with the
prisons would have been to bring the
prison labor into conflict with the
free white labor, struggling for an ex-
istence against the heaviest odds. |
Only one apparently practicable solu-
ton presented itself, to lease them
put, at so much per head to employ |
ers Of negro labor. and derive a reven-
ne from the prisoners, instead or
them at dead expense.
So 1t was that the convict lease
system was established. Il worked
well enough for while, but after
fine its abuses became SO intolerable |
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1906-10-28

that it was GENERALLY abolished. The
| power Of the contractors over their
prisoners was practically the power OF
their III treatment was by no means
as uncommon as under the old re-
CINE A man whose humanity would
not compel him to do 30, was often
impelled by economical reasons 10
treat his slaves well. They were
worth several hundred, sometimes,
several thousand dollars apiece, and
when they died he lost SO much prop
erty convertible into cash. But with
the convict leases it was different
and Is different Their convicts are
theirs only for a limited time. the
state convicts, felons, for few years,
the county convicts for thirty days
usually to one year What they can
get out of them. they must get out in
short while. After that their
workers are free again, and the con-
tractors may never have another op-
portunity, though lstrange to relate,
they frequently do.
The trouble perhaps Is less with
the law covering the question than
with It's enforcement. 1t is very
gratifying indeed to know that tns
governor is determined to eradicate
the evil, and II is TO be hoped that
he will receive the support of all sub
ordinates in the executive depart
ment. or that If he does not. he WI
want to know the reason why. The
laws generally are good enough,
though obscure on some points where
they should be plain and explicit, but
1t Is very doubtful, in face OF the
facts that have come to light, wheth-
err the inspection of convict camps
has been thorough enough. The COM
missioner Of agriculture Is in charge
of this department of the work, and
In counties where the misdemeanor
convicts are leased out the county
commissioners have supervision over
the camps. The recent disclosures
should and doubtless will inspire
them, to additional care in the flu,
ture
The Independent is aware OF the
fact that a convict camp Is neither
a kindergarten nor Sabbath school
iPeople are not there as rewards OF
merit for services rendered the pub
lie. but for their reformation. and the
prevention of crime Just as long as
people offend against the laws, there
must be disagreeable consequences
for them, or else the laws would soon
be made a mockery. and government
a sham and a delusion, But because
a man does offend against the laws
of tho etafe there Is no reason TO
treat him as human being no longer.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1906-10-28
Hearst's Accomplishment
for Common Oecency.

!, II there were nothing else to b,
said to the credit of VIM. r. Hearst
his success In securing the indict
ment, on eight counts, of James
Gordan Bennett, owner of the New
York Herald, for sending '1ewd, las
civious and obscene matter through
the mails" Is an accomplishment
which should win the gratitude of de
cent people throughout the country
OF the case. the Atlanta Georgian
says:
Add another to the long list of ser
vices which William Randolph
Hearst has rendered to the people
and to public decency.
The New York Herald has long
been accounted the most powerful
newspaper In the New World It's
age, its wealth. its independence, its
news service and its vast equipment
have given it first place among New
York. and American journals. and
more than one presidential election
has credited its decision to the ad-
yocacy which The Herald flung, as
1t did at the last moment of Cleve-
lands campaign. to the one side or
the other.
For twenty years The Herald has
scoffed at sensationalism and led the
fight against the bugaboo of so-called
yellow Journalism. Its protestations
have: so far 'bamboozled an always
gullible public. that The Herald has
been touted as the most 6ignified and
eminently respectable of American
newspapers.
And yet, for all these twenty years
1t has been carrying ON its front page
a personal column" that has been
simply vile in its suggestions and In
Its influence upon the morals of the
metropolis. 1t was literally a direc-
tory or vice for the Turing of young
girls and weak wives to destruction.
The Herald's personal column" has
been the comment of the country for
two decades, and. it is said, has add.
ed 100000 to the s1,o00,000 which
James Gordon Bennett makes every
year out of The Herald.
During all these years no officer of
the law, no moral society, no "anti-
yellow newspaper" has dared to lift
its voice against the, iniquity throned
in the columns Of this rich and
powerful journal.
William Randolph Hearst, the
other day, fearlessly jabbed his pen
deep into its bloated sides, and lol
at the touch the iniquity trembles, |
the moral sense of the metropolis
awakes. and the United States grand |
Jury promptly returns eight ipdict- |
ments against James Gordon Bennett
for "sending fewd, lascivous and OBJ,
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1906-10-28

peach farm of Mr.. w r. Reeve at
Cottage Fill, stands first In import
ance. Sixty-five broad acres under g
substantial wire fence covered by 15,.
900 Elberta and other choice varieties
of the peach In fun leaf give rich
promise of partial crop the coming
year and the full harvest when tt6
trees have gained the third or fourth
years growth.
mr.. Reeve with his excellent and in
dustrious sons. Guy and Ralph, give
undivided attention to the cultivation
and care Of this most promising or
chard and If intelligent labor with lib
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1906-10-28
City Has No
Representative Present.

The interview with ldayor Bliss
published elsewhere in The Journal
today, relative to the city hall, Ger
tainly developes a remarkable state
Of affairs.
We refer particularly to the fact
that the city has no representative on
the ground to stand between the city
and the contractor in the matter OF a
city hall and Jail building contract,
which aggregates nearly 100000. No
private citizen would for a minute
1hink of letting a contract OF that
kind and not employ competent rep.
resentatiEe to see that the work was
properly done, and the interests in
VOWED IN this case are certainly as
important as they would be IL pri-
vate individual were paying for the
contract instead Of the city. :.
No work on the city hall or on any
city Improvement should be permit.
ted until a representative Of the city,
whose duty 1t Is to inspect the work
and see that 1t is done according to
contract, is on the ground to protect
the city's interests.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1906-10-28

A new pet has been found for socs-
ETY.. Snakes. lizards and harmless rep
tiles OF all sorts hare had their day.
The latest is the "demoisolle crane.
numbers Of which arc being shot, says
the Washington Star. The cranes are
about two feet high, lavender colored.
with black throats. They have charm
iag bright red eyes and are very tame.
They stalk about the garden, their long
bills ferreting out the worms among
the grass and leaves.