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Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1909-11-05

lrritated Citizen-Aren't you asham.
I'd OF yourself. going about with that
street organ and leading such a lazy
lifel Street organist-Lazy lifel Why.
sir. life with me is one long daily
grind. Echo.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1909-11-05

The convict lease question has pro
ven disgrace to every state that has
tried Il. The people OF Texas are
aroused and win wipe out not only the
disgrace but the men who brought II
on the state.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1909-11-05
WEST POINT DROPS
FOOTBALL THIS SEASON


Srcciai TO the Eagle.
West Point n. Y. Nov. Sit was
officially announced yesterday that
West Point will play no more football
games this season on account OF the
death yesterday OF Cadet Eugene A.
Byrne. whose neck was broken In last
Saturdays game with the Harvard
eleven. Col. Hugh T. Scott. superin-
tendent OF the academy. however. said
he considered football too valuable a
sport to be dropped permanently from
the Academy life. The military funer-
al win be held today. the body mean
chapel on the post grounds.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1909-11-05

President Taft praised jeff Davis in
Mississippi and advocated the perpet
uation OF Southern traditions In Ala.
bama. He has sense enough to real.
ize that the Southern people can never
be yankeeized but that they will al
ways honor their heroes and maintain
their heritage of the glorious past, and
he honors them for IL.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1909-11-05

II Is perhaps Just as well that Gov
ernor Campbell excuses the lawless
acts OF his rangers: IL will result In
an earlier abolition OF the nuisance.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1909-11-05
a. LIVED Wall

He-Yes. he lives on the fat OF the
land. She-What is he? He-An anti
fat medicine manufacturer. = Comic
Cuts.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1909-11-05

II the prices OF wearing apparel
keep going up patches and darns win
stand chance to get into good socie-
~.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1909-11-05

LIES a reckoning we cannot make
twice over. You cannot mend a wrong
subtraction by doing your addition
right.-George Eliot.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1909-11-05

Some more OF those good old Dooly
Vans at Sanders Bros. Phone 1Ol.
2S5
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1909-11-05
BRYAN. TEXAS. NOV. 8. 1903.

There are sometimes more fatalities
In single football game than in an
entire Central American war.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1909-11-05

Subscribers will confer a favor on
the management by telephoning the
ONCE promptly when carriers fail to
deliver the paper. or when charge Of
residence occurs.
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1909-12-18

a collar Of pearls.
"And now If you will lend me an
apron" she said, "we will pop the
corn"
But Jessie and Jennie were gazing
at her speechless.
ooh. you must be fairy princessw
gasped little Jessie at last
The beautiful lady laughed joyously.
"Peter calls me the princess" she
said. "IIe has lived with me ever
since l was little girl. But really |
am just an everyday young woman
and am going to spend Christmas with
some friends in the next town."
She dismissed the subject with q
wave Of her hand.
"And now to our popcorn" she said.
Jenny brought n green gingham
apron. and the princess tied the apron
on, making big butterfly bow of the
strings In the back, and then she
danced over to the dumpy little stove
and pceped into the bubbling pot.
"Did you ever smell anything so
good?" she asked. II am as hungry
as a bear"
The little girls laughed joyously.
"It's bean SOUP" Jenny said, ''and we
are going to have 1t for supper, with
some little dumpllngs in it. / was
afraid it wasn't nice enough for you"
"Nice enough" the delighted lady
exclaimed. 81 think bean soup and
little dumplings sare-um-um!' And
she flung out her hands expressively.
II thought" Jessie remarked faint
ly, "that fairy princesses only ate
honey and dew"
(Which shows that 1 am not true
princess" said the beautiful lady, "for
honey and dew would never satisfy
me-"
Jenny got out three little blue bowls
and set them on table that was
spread with coarse but spotlcss
cloth. There were a crusty loaf and
clover sweet butter, and last and best
Of all there were the bean soup and
the bobbing little dumpllngs served to-
gethcr in an old mulberry tureen.
Il Vas iSr6cct.S wnT5srful to see
the princess in her shining gown at
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1909-12-18

chicken,'' said the princess wistruly,
"and I should like to meet your moth
er. know she is lovely. And
haven't any mother, you know"
"Ohw said the little girls, round
eyed with sympathy. And then the
princess told them that all her life she
had lived in big, lonely house and
she had always yearned for a cozy
home and for sister.
After supper they popped the corn,
and just ~ thoy 6Dished In came Pc
ter.
II can't find any one to help. MISS"
he announced, 'and it's showing. I'll
have to unhitch the horses and GO
back to town and get something to
take you over in"
NO" the princess demurred as she
stood In the middle of the room with
a heaped up dish Of snowy kgnels in
her hand. "No, Peter, Pm gbing to
stay here all night"
Peter stared, and the little girls
cried "Oh, will your"
And the princess said: II really will
And, Peter, you can bring up the
steamer trunk and my bag"
won't your friends expect you.
miss" Peter inquired, as II awaiting
orders.
81 will send a note by you," was the
calm response. And as the man went
out she followed him and shut the
door behind her. "Oh, Peter, Peterw
she whispered confidentially II am
going to give them such Christmasw
"rhe little girls, mlss?"
ayes. They are so sweet and bravel
And have the presents In my trunk
that l was going to carry to the other
children. But they will have so much
that they won't miss them, and shall
spend my Christmas In q plain little
house, but It will be joyful house,
Peter"
"Yes, miss" Peter agreed under
standingly.
81 wish we had big tree" said the
princess regretfully.
'fWell, leave that TO me, MISS" Peter
told her eagerly. "You just get them
iitNit tliu-S W Slttp carly, uhu IL bc
here with n tree"
"Ou. Peter, Peter-Santa Claus~ ex-
claimed the princess gleefully. at will
be the incest Christmas that / have
had since was wee bit of girl"
SO Peter went away. and the prin-
cess, with her eyes shining like stars,
danced back into the room and said.
"Oh. let's play marinersw
Jessie and Jenny had never heard of
such q game. but the princess told
them that she was a ship op the high
seas and that they were to'tell from
her cargo what country she hailed
from.
81 carry tea" she began. "Where do
hail fromT'
China" guessed Jenny.
"No."
Japan cried Jessie, with her littl,
face glowing.
"No."
Then the little girls pondcred. az,
might be India" ventured Jennys bui
the princess shook her head. Their
Jessie cried, Its Ceylonr' And thai
was right.
And after that Jessie brought cal
20 OF oranges fro.l Florida and Jcnr-
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1909-12-18

brought a cargo Of rugs from Persia,
and there were cargoes of spices and
Of coal and of coffee and Of fish and
of grain and of lumber, and the prin-
cess finished triumphantly by carrying
cargo of oysters from the Chesa-
peake bay.
"One MORE" begged Jessie.
II carry a cargo of castles" said the
sparkling princess. "Where do I hail
from?"
The little girls guessed and guessed,
and at last the princess said:
"That wasn't fair one. really, for
my castles are castles In SPAIN"
Then, with Jessie in her arms, she
told them Of her own castle building,
and when she had finished she said,
"And so your mother shall have all of
my sewing, and that will keep her
busy until spring" i
"Ob. you are going to be married
and live happy ever afterv' sighed Jes-
sic rapturously. Its just what a
fairy princess should do"
"And what you should do" said the
princess. looking Mt the clock, lis to
go to bed, bed, bed, 80 that you can
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1909-12-18

dumpy black stove In the corner, with
bubbllng iron pot that gave forth a
most appetizlng odor.
"Oh. oh, how nice and warm 1t isr'
said the princess as she held out her
hands to the fire.
In all their lives the little girls had
never beheld such n wonderful per-
son, for the princess wore long red
cloak and a black velvet hat. with q
waving plume, and her muff was big
and round and soft, and she had n
scarf of the same soft fur about her
neck. Her hair was pale gold, and she
had the bluest eyes and the reddest
lips, and her smile was so sweet and
tender that Jenny ran right up to her
and cried. "Oh, | am so glad that you
Gamer
Jessie from her little chair echoed
her sisters words. But she did not
run. for there was tiny crutch beside
Jessie's chair In the square window.
"And ! am glad to be- here" said the
princess. whose quick eyes were TAX
ing In the details Of the shabby room.
"It's so nice and warm and cozy."
Tsn't it?' said Jenny happily. "And
we are getting ready for tomorrow"
On small round table beside Jes-
sizes chair was tiny cedar bush, and
Jessie's fingers had been busy with
bits of gold and blue and scarlet pa
per.
I'VE are going to pop some popcorn"
Jenny explained, "and string 1t and
hang 1t on the tree"
"Oh. may help" the princess asked.
81 haven't popped any corn since was
little girl"
Jessie clCsped her thin little hands.
81 think It would be the loveliest thing
In the world" she said, "if you would
stay"
Peter Is going to find some one to
help with the carriage, and will stay
until he comes back"
And when Peter had gone the prln-
cess slipped Off the long red cloak,
and underneath it she wore n shining
silken gown, and around her neck was
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1909-12-18

'The night before Christmas, when all
Not creature was stirring, not even a
mouse.
The stockings were hung by the chimney
with care
In hopes that st. Nicholas soon would be
there.
THE children were nestled all snug in
their beds,
While visions of sugar plums danced In
their heads
"But our stockings weren't hung
yet, and we weren't In bed" said
Jenny.
at was too early for that" soId the
princess, "but let's go Son with the
rhyme. just for fun. see you know
1t all through, so you mustn't mind my
changing 1t little:
when out on the lawn there arose such
a clatter
Jenny sprang from her chair to see what
was the matter.
Away to the window she flew like O FASH
Tore open the shutters and threw up the
When what to her wondering eyes should
appear
But a miniature sleigh and eight tiny
reindeerl
"Oh. no; forgot! l mean
when what 10 her wondering eyes should
appear
But carriage stuck in the mud right out
here
And little old driver, so lively and
quick
You must have thought Peter was dear
old st. Nick"
The children laughed gleefully, and
Jenny said; eve would have thought
that, only we aren't going to hang up
our stockings this Christmas at ALL
Jessie and l aren't going to get any
presents, for mother hasn't been well,
and she couldn't get any sewing. But
she said we could make our Christmas
merry, and we were to pretend that
we had been to the big stores in the
city and had bought things for the
tree and dolls and everything"
That's lovely way" said the prin-
cess gently. and she laid her hand
with its flashing rings, over Jessies
thin ones.
".And we are going to pretend" Jes-
sic said. that our chicken is turkey.
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1909-12-18

wake up carry IN the morning.
She tucked them In and came back
later in fascinating pink kimono,
with her hair in thick yellow braid,
and she kissed them both. But II was
little lame Jessie that she kissed last
And then she went away like a glo-
rious vision, and the little girls sank
into slumber.
In the next room the princess open
ed the door cautiously, and there was
Peter with snow all over him, and
his arms were full Of holly and mis-
tletoe. and great tree was propped
against the doorpost.
"Quietly, quietly, Peter" warned the
princess. and Peter tptoed In and set
the tree up in the corner, and its top
reached to the ceiling.
The princess opened the steamer
trunk and took out two white Teddy
bears. one with fiaring blue bow
and the other with fiaring pink one,
and then she took out green and a
yellow and a red and a blue fairy
book and beautiful square basket Of
candy, tied with holly ribbon, ard
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1909-12-18

E t was the night before Christmas
and stormy.
III Squash, squashw went the
wheels Of the carriage in the
mud.
"Whew-ew-eww whistled the wind.
And 1t blew Peters hat out into the
middle of the road.
"Whoaw yelled Peter and climbed
down from his high seat
The princess poked her head out of
the window. whats the matter?"
she asked.
"AIy hat blew off," Peter told her,
"and the wheel Is stuck In the mud,
miss"
"Oh, Peter, Peterv the princess
chided. "You must get that wheel out
of the mud at once"
(Which is easier said than DONE"
Peter grumbled. "It's that dark
can't see my hand before me-"
There's a light back there among
the trees" the princess Informed him.
Perhaps you could get some one to
help you"
"I'll go and see, miss, If you amt
afraid to stay alone" said Peter. after
some effort succeeding in quleting the
plunglng horses.
81 am dreadfully afraid" she admit.
ted shiveringly, but l suppose you
will have to CO."
Now in the middle Of the pine grove
was set little cottage. Peter knock
ed at the door.
"Who's thereT' asked childish
voice, and little girl poked her head
out Of the square window.
"Our wheel is stuck In the mud"
Peter answered from the dark, "and /
want to get man to help me-"
There isn't any man here" Jenny
Informed him. "rhere Is only me and
Jessie, and our mother has gone to
nurse a sick neighbor, and she won't
be home until morning"
So Peter went back to the carriage
and reported 10 the princess.
81 shall freeZ? ont here" said the
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1909-12-18

once more Jenny came TO tile window.
Then she flung the door wide open,
and so tall was the princess that she
had to stoop to enter It, 1t was
dingY little room. and there was a
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1909-12-18

In selecting bank always remember that banks capital
and surplus that gives security the dpoo that money
is what stands between you depoor any possible shrink
age in the securities held by the bank Capital surplus $33OOO
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-07-24
Canada a Bidder.

Canada is to have a steamship line
which will maintain summer service
between Montreal and Naples. thus in
surfing to Canada her share of Italian
emigration. On this side of the line we
have had rather more of some kinds OF
Italian immigrants than we really
needed. We have room for the peace
able and home-loving Italian of in
dustrious habits, but we haven't room
for the willy blackleg with the bomb
and stilleto. Some of the foulest muir
ders and worst blackmail schemes
known to criminal annals have origi-
mated and had their being in the 1tal-
ian colony of New York.
For the italian who is willing to
work on the farms and at other OPEN
air employment we have plenty of
room. We need him. Every individ-
ual, corporation or municipality with
work to do finds the Italian laborer an
indispensable quantity. He is needed.
The one fault with him is that COM
paratively few of his race become citi-
zens of this country. The tendency is
t. work here in prosperous seasons
and go back to Italy at the first sign
Of hard times, taking his savings with
him.
Canada needs the Italian who will go
out to the farm and wheat field. but
she she doesn't need the itinerant i'm
migrant, who becomes an emigrant the
moment he thinks he will have to ex-
pend a part of his surplus. If he is
honest and industrious and casts his
lot with us. he ought to stay. Ii he
isn't honest and Industrious we don't
want him.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-07-24

the Delcasse head with miserable
eAperience was too much CleInenceau
had a safe majority in the house o,
deputies when he began his speech. but
when he had finished it he could not
muster sufficient strength to pu'
through his program. His resignation
was inevitable.
Who will succeed Clemenceau. Nc
one knowss-~It-has already been offered
to several, but the chair is still vacant
Delcasse is the logical candidate and
doubtless would be seated We're it not
for Germany's opposition. 1t seems
that a little backbone wouldn't hurt
our French neighbor. If some foreign
power suggested that one of our cabl-
net members resign that foreign power
would be more than likely to get all
urgent invitation to attend strictly to
it's own affairs. France should send
some such suggestion across the Dor
der if she is strong enough to make
good. If she isn't the thing to do is
to work overtime until she is.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-07-24
Tommyrot.

Theories are the mighty soap
bubbles with which the grown up
children of science amuse them
selves, while the honest vulgar
stand gazing in stupid admiration
and dignity these learned vagaries
with the name of wisdom"
Washington Irving. one Of the great
est men of letters this World ever saw
wrote that paragraph many years ago
If it ever lacked proof. it lacks it nc
longer We have been surfeited with
theories about Mars, about the origin
of the species and the savagery OF
women We have had theory of more
or less foolish FEASIBILITY for every
act and thought of our lives, but if
possible those we have had latterly
are more foolish than the rest.
AS the Philadelphia Inquirer says
anent "discoveries" which are close
kin to theories"
difference that the confident dis
cOVerleS or one generation are
the discredited fallacies of the next.
The public memory is short, the public
credulity is illimitable. and it is only
necessary to be sufficiently emphatic
and persistent to secure the accept
ance of statements such as in any
other than an age of scientific faith
would stagger belief and invite a con-
temptuous repudition. These are days
in which people are prepared and
disposed to swallow anything and
everything the scientific gentlemen tell
them, and no plan of theology ever
required a more absolute intellectual
abnegatiOn, a more submissive appli-
cation of the principle, "Credo quia
impossible" that is, Il believe it be-
cause it is impossible" than is de-
manded by the theorists who are en-
gagged in deciphering the secret of the
universe. Even when they point blank
contradict each other, as they often
do, their prestige is not impaired.
They retain their following and the
great work of an calculation which
fails to elucidate goes steadily forward.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-07-24
The Thaw Pamphlet.

From the day that the country was
shocked because of the shooting of
Stanford White to the present week,
whatever the opinion of the people may
have been concerning the slayer and
the slayer's actress wife, the
sympathy of the people has
gone out to his mother, Mrs.
1haw The newspaper writer's of every
hue have shown her every courtesy and
consideration. For Mrs Thaw there
has been nothing but solicitude and
pity.
Now she bids fair to ALLEVIATE 1t all. On
the heels of an interview with her
sons wife which was one of the most
disgusting things ever put into type,
Mrs. Thaw has issued pamphlet in
which she takes the unfortunate view
that the Individual who avenges per-
sonal wrong should not be made to
suffer for it, If Thaw was sane when
he shot White he ought to be in Sing
Sing. If he was insane then there is
no assurance that he is not insane now,
or that if sane now and insane then
that he won't have another brain storm
the moment he is liberated and has an
opportunity to wreak vengeance upon
those who have prosecuted him.
The concensus of opinion throughout
the country, as expressed through the
public press and otherwise, is that
Thaw is just where he ought to be and
that to liberate him would be a Woe
full miscarriage of justice. New York
has too many such cases to answer for
now without adding another. Mrs.
Thaw has been i'll advised or has not
been advised at all.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-07-24
Lost Temper-Lost Job.

Clemenceau, premier of France
though he was. and standing aloof
from his fellow man with all the dig
nifty and reserve that his commanding
position warranted, lost his temper a
day or two ago and lo,-he is very
much as other men who lose their tenn
pers-out of job. AS has often been
the case, when a man who holds an i'm
portant position loses his temper and is
separated from his job, a lot of inno-
cent little fellows lose theirs in con-
sequence. Arrogance never pays and
least of all when one is in a position
to be arrogant, if he chooses, for about
the time that he becomes an expert in
arrogance the opportunity to do harm
by his arrogance is taken away from
him.
Clemenceau has been a strong man
for France. He has had the public
with him in almost everything that he
has undertaken and it has given him
great strength Had he been content
with that, he would still be a great
figure in French politics. But the very
strength that his success gave him was
his undoing. He permitted the bent
for launching singing epigrams to fly
| away with his good judgment. Epi-
grams have made Clemenceau famous
| but they have also made him bitterly
hated.
Students of international relations
will remember that few years ago
Germany. during the Algiricas Con.
ference. demanded that Delcasse
be withdrawn from the portfolio
of the Minister of Foreign Affairs
| France boiled from center to circum.
ference with Indignation, but being un
prepared for war with her powerful
neighbor, there was nothing for it, but
to comply. France sacrificed Delcasst
on the altar of National necessity. Blu
the French have not forgotten nor viii
they ever forget-Delcasse.
In the heat of the debate Clemenceal
so far forgot himself as to refer to the
incident, haunting Delcasse with hav'
ing been sacrificed at the behest o.
Emperor William. Had the misfortune
of Delcasse been personal rather
than national one, the stir the taun
caused would have been formidabl,
enough, but to taunt the nation ovel
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-07-24
A Poor Memory for Names.

The teacher was trying to explain the
word TRANSPORTATION" Don't You
remember the TRANSPORTATION on the
Mount?" she said. who was it who
was transfigured and changed in ap-
pearance on that occasion?" she asked
hopefully. After moment of thought
full silence, Barker hesitatingly raised
his hand.
Il can't just remember his name .
he said, "but he was up there hunting
and he went to sleep and slept twenty
years. Success Magazine.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-07-24
King Corn.
(Boston Transcript

While the country is doubtless deep
ly interested in the final outcome of The
work of tariff revision, it is fully as
much interested in the crop prospect
The effect of the former is somewhat
speculative. The crops are a practical
and definite measure of prosperity, and
the report of the crop reporting board
of the government to date is highly en-
couraging 1t is. of course, too early
to say what the harvest shall be, but
in actual condition at the present time
there has been a great enrichment OF
promise over the previous month, as 4
reference to tn statistics will show
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-07-24
Not the Kind Wanted.

Yes, our doctor bills were SO high
that husband thought our daughter
Jane had better marry doctor so as
to have one in the family. He's a real
successful doctor, too. But there's a
yerv funny Joke connected with it
Cant you tell ito"
why, yes. 1t amt any secret. You
SIDE, we didn't know until after they
were married that he was horse
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