Bryan morning eagle. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1898-1909, 1908-11-22
veneration for the Venerable.


reverence for antiquity and antique
things and of being filled with an
inaane craving for rev things and
modern improvements. SANDER, base
and groundless SANDER! 1t is true,
New York has its elevated roads and
subways, its tunnels and its sky
scrapers, but, on the other hand it
has also its Brooklyn Rapid Transit,
its ancient and venerable postoffice
and its prehistoric horsecars. Is
there any other city in the world, re-
CARELESS of population and Importance,
that can boast of horsecars at this
late day? Scarcely.
Why, even Boston, the venerable
old Boston, where every stone awak-
ems historical "reminiscences, where
the streets still follow the tortuous
twists of the ancient cowpaths, even
Boston has abolished its last horse
car line, regardless of their historical
associations and antiquarian interest.
The last twenty or more horsecars and
! the horses required for the service
were sold and found ready pur-
chaser in the New York City Rail-
way Company, which will use the
cars and horses on the several horse
car lines of which New York seems
to be so proud.
Children Taught In Saloons.
Now, that prohibition is stirring up
so much dust all over the country
and acrimonious discussions are car
ried on in the papers concerning the
merits and dement's of 'teetotalism,"
the rather surprising discovery has
F, been made that in Hudson county,
New Jersey, there are several schools
conducted in the back rooms of sa-
/ looms. These schools are only over
/ flow branches and were located where
they are by the school board of the
school attended by little children
or big ones either. 1t is almost in
credible that such a thing could be.
Even il the members of the school
board, who may be saloon-keepers, or
freq, enters of saloons, did not see
the improriety of locating school in
room behind a bar room, the parents
should have had the decency enough
to object to such an arrangement.
Surely not all of them could be saloon
keepers.
Statement of Psychotherapeutist.l
Apropos the present controversy in
relation to the merits of prohibition,
DR.. Hugo Muensterbery of Harvard,
one of the leading acknowledgement
lists in the country, has made state
ment the other day, which should
make even the most rabid and fanati
cal advocate of prohibition stop in
his mad career and think, that is,
| If he is capable of ii. He pointed
out that to prohibit the sale and use
OF liquor means he partial suppression
of one vice and opening the door to
far greater and more dangerous
vice. Statistics, he said, showed that
wherever prohibition prevails the ha-
bitual use, or rather abuse of drugs,
particularly morphine and cocaine, is
increasing at terrific rate
The Troiihles If S,Iop,e
Poor Salome has had an awfully
tough time of il ever since she first
made her appearance upon the stage.
At first everything went well, until
Salome reached New York. Then her
troubles began. Anthony Comstock
objected to the veil business and few
other features and some of the minis
ters condemned the play, because it
treated biblical subject with, what |
they considered, insufficient rever-
ence. Only by compromise, which |
made it necessary to do violence to |
the remarkable work, was it made |
possible to bring out the Wilde
Strauss opera. Now the Baptist and
Methodist ministers of good old Phila-
delphia have taken up arms against
Salome, and the Holy Synod, meaning
the head of the Greek Orthodox church
in Russia, which seems to play the
part of a guardian of public morals
in that country, has prohibited the
performance of the opera. The way
of the transgressor is hard indeed,
The Guggenheim Pearls.
when is a necklace not a neck
lace?" That is the problem which the
general appraisers will have to solve
in the case of the pearl necklace
which Tiffany and company not long
ago imported for Maurice Guggenheim.
The pearls were not strung, but care
fully matched in size. Tie object of
the importers was quite plain There
is a duty of 60 per cent ad valorem
on necklaces, while the duty on I'M
strung pearls is merely 10 per cent
The government had evidence that the
pearls were originally assembled in
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