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Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1909-06-26
SKULL CRUSHED BY LEVER.

Special to the Eagle.
Orange. Texas. june 26.-Ed Weaver
of the firm of Weaver a Son, ship
builders OF this city. was struck on the
head with a lever while the steamer
Captain Sam was being hauled out,
which rendered him unconscious. al
10 O'Clock yesterday morning. An ex-
animation by physicians disclosed the
fact that Mr.. Viewers skull was bad
" fractured. and that there are but
few chances for him to survive the
accident. In addition TO the serious
wound on the head. his shoulder was
badly bruised from the fall.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1909-06-26
GOULD CASE ENDED SUDDENLY

Special to the Eagle.
New York. June 26.-After trial
of nearly three weeks duration kath-
crime Clemmons Gould obtained le-
gal separation from her husband. How
ard Gould. third son of the late jay
Gould. by a decision OF Justice bowl
ing in the supreme court yesterday.
With the exception of alimony. her
victory was complete. but In this the
officer decided that $4,000 year was
sufficient. although IN her suit Mrs.
Gould asked for $4,000 She has
been receiving $4,000 year from Mr.,
/ Gould
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1909-06-26
THE TELEPHONE GIRL

The telephone girl sits still in her
chair.
And listens TO voices from everywhere,
She knows all the gossip. she knows
all the news.
She knows who Is happy. and who has
the blues;
She knows all our sorrows. she knows
all our Joys;
She knows every girl who Is chasing
the boys.
She knows OF our troubles, she knows
OF our strife,
She knows every man who Is mean to
his wife.
She knows every time we are out with
the boys.
she hears the excuses each fellow en-.
ploys.
She knows every woman who has a
dark past,
She knows every man who is inclined
] TO be fast
In fact there's secret meath each
sauoy curl.
OF that quiet. demure looking, tele-
phone girl
II the telephone girl would tell all
she knows.
II would turn half our friends into
sfoes.
She would SOW a small wind that
would become gale,
Engulf us In trouble and land us In
jail.
She would let 20 a story (which Is
gaining In force)
Would cause half our wives to sue
for divorce.
She could get all the churches mixed
up in a fight.
And turn all our days into sorrowine
nights.
/. In fact she could keep the whole town
In stew.
II she'd tell the tenth part OF tbs
things she knew.
Now doesn't Il make your head whirl
When you think what you owe the tel
ephone girl
A Bryan Telephone Girl
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CHRISTIAN CHURCH.

At a board meeting last Wednesday
night II was decided to hold the reg
ular board meetings on the first Sun
day afternoon OF each month at 1880
o'clock.
There will be all OF the regular servi'
ces tomorrow The subject for the
morning sermon will be; God and
at night the Things OF First lmpor'
lance"
There will be missionary rally the
first Sunday nigh, In July. The chill
dren will furnish part Of the program
and there viii be a number OF talks
by members of the church.
James n. Thomas. Pastor.
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COUNTY UNION CALL.

A meeting OF the county union Is
hereby called to meet with the Leon
ard Local. at Leonard School house,
on Tuesday July 9Th, 1903. and all
local unions are hereby requested TO
meet at their local meeting place on
Friday evening July End and select
delegates TO the county union and
attend to any other business that Is
necessary to be attended to.
The locals are earnestly requested
to be prepared and send good dele
CATION for important business is to
be transacted
W. l.. EDGE Pres. C. Union,
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SOCIETY
Continued from page ~

Continued from page %
10 catch the summer breeze and max
ing the rooms pleasant. After the
game the tables and chairs were re-
moved and the young people enjoyed
dancing until a late hour when Mrs
DeNlaret assisted by the hostess ser
we'd an Ice course with cake. As the
guests departed they thanked theiI
gracious and lovely hostess for a mos'
pleasant evening and for the pleasure
of meeting the charming pretty homo
rees.
Arizona republican., 1909-03-28
EXTRA SPECIAL FINE TOILET SOAP FOR 5c

This is wonderful offer. Soaps that sell
 ways for be a bar, including Arbor Violet a Chateau Lilac-5000 bars during our mill outlet sale, bar
The Tupelo journal., 1909-07-16
Miscellaneous Account of the Senate

Last, but not least, is that elastlo
account headed as miscellaneous
items"
The senate's pin money pays for all
the kilograms senators send and the
replies. 1t supplies ice without stint;
one months bill, that for December,
having been $24S.5S. 1t provides Ap-
polinaris, White Rock and other spe.
cial waters, Poland Spring being ia
vored because Senator Hale of Maine
introduced it years ago. This water
has come to possess a traditional
standing as the proper thing-of its
kind-to slack the senatorial thirst.
The miscellany fund buys type
writer's and bicycles, horses, wagons,
and, maybe, an auto or two, although
none are found listed in the classified
accounts. No senator was ever seen
upon a bicycle. There are bicycle
messengers, however, and the senate,
being a big-hearted institution, gives
the necessary machine.
From January 1 to 81, 1908, Ida
Bamiley received $122.10 for washing
and ironing 4O7 dozen towels for the
senate. In the same month A. l..
Ford got $3.50 for washing and iron.
ing 266 dozen towels. During the
same 81 days Edith A. Washington
profited to the sum of $66.60 for wash.
ing and ironing 222 dozen towels.
Problem: How would you like to
be the washerwoman?
The Tupelo journal., 1909-07-16
SNAPSHOTS AT FARM WORK.

There is no better way to stop a
wash in a field than the following
method:
The cultivation of camphor trees as
a substitute for oranges is being con-
sidered in parts of Florida.
Is there any wild grass that you can
cut down and bring in for the cattle
to stamp down in the yard for manure?
There may be a low swale where you
can get some of this. It will all help
to keep up the farm.
Get some old rails and sharpen
them then drive them into the ditch.
level with the ground, SO that when
the rains come. the rails will gather
the stalks and grass, and in a years
time the ground will be nearly level.
Such dams should be four to seven
rods apart.
After your potatoes are out Of
bloom NOV the tops OF, but not too
close, and see if you don't have the
finest and most beautiful crop you
ever had. This is an Irish kirk from
a potato grower Of Washington counk
ty. The idea is that the tops have
done their duty after blooming. Try
q few
The Tupelo journal., 1909-07-16
New Successful White House Hostess

admiration by the grace with which
she fitted into the position of a White
House hostess.
mistress of the White House was a
brilliant success in spite of the ner-
vous trouble which necessitated her
withdrawal. Never in the history of
generations has there been so much
social activity at the White House, and
never has society been more diplo-
matically and pleasantly brought to-
gether. Persons who had not been In
the White House for many months,
and some for several years, were
again welcomed and hobnobbed with
each other to an extent hard to be-
lieve.
Mrs. Taft had hoped to accompany
the president to Seattle the latter
part of the summer. She is an ex,
perienced and an enthusiastic traveller,
and in the past has accompanied Mr..
Taft on practically every trip of i'm
portance he has ever made.
The presidents wife will continue
" SUBMIT " IHO lSSIilclioHS pIdceu
upon her. by her attending physicians
and will rest absolutely throughout
the summer in preparation for the &C.
tivities of next season. When the of.
fetal year begins at the White house
Mrs. Taft will be found in her cid
place as hostess, and will undoubtedly
feel the great benefit which the sum-
mer rest at Beverly is expected to
provide.
The Tupelo journal., 1909-07-16

But why should | tell? I'm old and
only ask a little peace and quiet and a
pipe. Let him make his fortune.
Hum. wonder where Edgar can be
with that wagon?"
AS he finished Edgar leaped from
the veranda and lodged around the
corner unseen. Almost instantly he
re-appeared, grave of face. bod rot
them hawks" he sighed, dropping into
a chair and ignoring Irad's trunk.
s'Guess they'll git every hen I've got"
I'm not to go to-day?" asked Trad,
his eyes lighting joyously.
mot by a long chalk. Even If the
boss wasn't lame you'd stay here an
other day." warmly informed Edgar.
Trad gave a pantomime of struggling
with some deep emotion, and then
broke forth: Confidence OF no conf
dence, I'll tell you. Edgar. Your hens
need some of those Anti-Timidity
germs what Jim Witham fed to his
hens. He got them SO they'd lick a
bulldog. One of them used to chase
a COW out of the yard at nesting time.
If a man could buy up a quart of it
ne could supply courage to all the
The Tupelo journal., 1909-07-16

Harvest of Two Rows of Ben Davis.
the returns from which are included
in the report.
The varieties were chiefly Baldwin
and Ben Davis, but Stark, winesap,
Grimes golden, king, Belmont, Bell
flower, Fameuse, Rome Beauty, Wal
bridge, pippins and a few others were
represented. A few plots of Baldwin
and Ben Davis were sprayed with Bor-
deaux mixture before blooming but
most of the orchard received no treat
ment, except the spring application of
lime-sulphur until after the petals fell.
AS soon as possible after the blossoms
fell the entire orchard was given a
heavy spraying with arsenate of lead
alone, or with arsenate of lead com
bined with Bordeaux mixture. The
Baldwins were several days advanced
before spraying commenced but the
Ben Davis were exactly right.
The spraying outfit consisted of a
1h horsepower gasoline engine, a $50
gallon tank and tower, mounted on
trucks, and was easily drawn by one
strong horse. The bamboo poles were
ten feet long, and one handled by the
man on the tower being further length
ened by a light brass extension about
three feet long. A ~"gooseneck" or
crook was used at the end of each rod
to give a downward angle to the noz-
gle, thus directing the spray straight
into the calyx cups.
The Tupelo journal., 1909-07-16

stuff and go to selling it," pleaded
Edgar, his eyes cleaning a~variciously.
There's two ways" slowly informed
Trad. you can wait till Jim gifts a
new batch and decker with him, or
send out to Colorado"
But I don't know anyone in Col.
orado," regretted Edgar. when Jim
has some come just git some for me
on the quiet"
WELL" obviously explained Trad
that will be a problem. l snum! It's
too bad you amt acquainted out west.
You see, Jim's hens got so rabid he in
oculated EN- with sleeps blood as q
counter irritant and the wolf germs
got to chasing the sheep germs
through their systems till the sheep
germs retreated to the head and the
wolf germs in chasing 'em up caused
pressure on the brain and they all
died. Jim swears he'll never buy any
more, Or"
1.-The boss will git over his lameness
by to-morrer noon," ~passionately as.
sured Edgar.
Copyright, 1909. by w. G.. Chapman.)
The Tupelo journal., 1909-07-16
BEST TIME FOR ALFALFA.
October and November Generally Re.
garded as Right Time for Plant
ing; How to Do 1t.

The best time to SOW alfalfa Is Oc'
tober or November. The next best
time is February Is to March 81. 1t
prefers a rich, sandy loan such as a
fresh second bottom, or branch bot.
tom (not at all wet, or a rich old
garden, of a well ''cow-penned' plat.
AS far as possible the soil should be
clear of grass and weed seeds-for
these are the bane of alfalfa. At least
n season of culture in a clean crop
like cotton or cow peas (plowed), or
other plowed and hoed crop, Is desir-
able. With three or. foul tons of rot
ten stable manure spread broadcast
per acre and plowed in, it will not be
found necessary to %inoculate the soil,
or the seed. Commencing now, an
excellent preceding crop by way OF
preparation is COW peas.
In August OF September prepare the
land by deep and close blowing (put
in the stable manure at this time) and
narrowing. Just before sowing the
seed scatter broadcast about 600 or
500 pounds of 1O-4 and
potash and harrow in. Then
lay off rows 80 inches apart,
strew $50 pounds per acre of 10-4
caid and SO pounds of nitrate of soda.
cover by throwing several light fur.
rows on it, be cultivated. Every
February you plant rutabagas, using
about Is pounds of seed per acre.
That's about all. No thinning will be
necessary. You may sow 20 pounds
of seed broadcast If you wish, that be-
ing the method adopted in the west,
but sowing in 30-inch rows, so that it
may be cultivated, is preferable.
Every February you should apply 500
to 500 pounds (and upward) per acre
of the 10-4, and potash, and it would
be well to apply five to ten bushels of
air-slaked lime per acre about once in
three years.
The Tupelo journal., 1909-07-16
BY Hugh Pendexter

Trad Biglow, talking aloud to him.
self, apparently did not sense the pres
ence of his irate cousin, Edgar, as the
latter stepped onto the veranda. Ed
gar, thoroughly determined to be rid
pf his aged relative, had come to an
nounce the wagon was waiting to take
the trunk and it's owner to the l~atter's
next stopping place.
1.-THE hens of this country are worth
more'n all the gold ever dug here,
the old man was confding to a post.
by statistics this country loses a cool
hundred million dollars every year by
foxes, hawks and other varmints kill
ing hens. And now, to think that Jim
Witham has solved the problem of
stopping all such losses by making
every hen and chick burglar proof
against anything smaller'n a elephant.
Yes, Stree! He has solved the secret,
but little he knows / share it with him.
The Tupelo journal., 1909-07-16

1t was just as / had come in from
massaging the horses and serving
their luncheon and was about to sit
down to my own frugal repast of
string-beans. and picked pork and hot
bread that two well-dressed persons
called at my front door.
The taller of the two men took me
into a corner and whispered long and
earnestly to me about the terrible
predicament in which the other gen.
tleman found himself at that time.
Having been entrusted by the owners
with the custody of a large block of
gold, brick-shaped, he had started east
with it. The Siwash Indian, who was
a member of the joint stock company,
had been SO suspicious of his white
partners that he would not let the
brick go out of his sight, and had
come with them. Reaching a point
hear my place, he had baked and re-
fused to go on to the big cities of the
palefaces with the white man and the
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back to the teepees of his fathers and
other relatives. Then the white man
and this other person (my spokesman,
who admitted being an attorney had
e%ndeavored to buy the brick outright
from him by offering him a good price
for his share in it, but he would not
sell. All his aboriginal stubbornness
arose to the surface and stayed there.
The noble red man was indeed a
work of art. l looked at him careful
ly, showed him where his paint was
unevenly put, and asked him which
jeweler in the ~neighboring village
was to assay the borings from the
brick. At this they all gave a great
start and again showed signs of beat
ing a retreat, instead of me. But I
stuck to them, with a ~tenacity that
worried them greatly, and after we
had h~alf-heartedly bored the hole Ct
let them bore 1t, for l told them I
didn't know which was the gold spot)
The Tupelo journal., 1909-07-16
Merry Moments
With Humorists
Hou Joggins' Lost a Legacy
BY viii S. GidIey.

Young Joggins-John Henry jog
sins-of Brooklyn Heights, has a
wealthy aunt from whom he has been
expecting a big windfall mi of these
days. but his bright hopes have been
Unexpectedly and cruelty nipped in
the bud-and all through an unfor-
tunate mistake at that.
This is the way it happened:
Joggins' aunt's birthday came along
on schedule time n day last week,
and a chum of Joggins happened to
have, a birthday due at about the
same time, so Joggins thought he
would bring down two birds with one
geological specimen, so to speak, by
purchasing the birthday presents
both at the same time and dispatch
ing them on the same date. He &C.
cordingly did so. For the wealthy
aunt he bought a beautiful gold-mount-
ed lorgnette (his aunt was very fond
of the theater and would naturally
find such a gift very useful, and for
his chum he purchased an elegant
mustache cup.
Putting these gifts into fancy plush
boxes of the same size, Joggins care
fully wrapped them up; then pick
ing up the one intended for his aunt,
as he supposed, he wrote her name
and address ON it, addressed the other
to his chum, and sem them off by spe-
cial messenger to their respective des-
tinations, at the same time dispatch
ing a note to each Of the parties for
whom the gifts were intended.
The Tupelo journal., 1909-07-16

r HE United States senate-pay,
/ maintenance, odds and ends
costs about $4,000, 900 a year. To be
exact, the amount was $1,S59 1877,
according to the last report rendered
by Charles G. Bennett, secretary of
the senate. The latter sum figures to
$4,000 each per each of 90 senators.
The money goes for a thousand and
one things that classify between sal
aries and snuff. Compensation and
mileage of senators, notably the mile
age, requires a tidy sum. Pages, mes
sengers, special police, clerks, private
secretaries, minor senate officers, the
senatorial army of retainers use up
another large lump. Repairs, new
furniture, the senate library, the sen-
ate stable, stationery and newspapers,
the expense accounts of senate ennis
saries, the cost of the upkeep and ex-
pense of special committees, report
ing senate debates and committee
meetings, all form just a few of the
other varieties through which the
spare change of the senate flows in a
steady stream.
The Tupelo journal., 1909-07-16
PARAGRAPHS OF WISDOM.

Keeping a COW because she is pretty
may be all right as far as it goes, but
it is not good business.
No one ever heard of the time when
the best fruit would not sell ats fair
price somewhere within a days drive
Of the grower.
Farmers are the only producers
who allow the buyer to fix the price
Of their property But they are rap
idly changing his state Of affairs by
organization.
The sunrise farmer will scarcely
know hard times if they come, say,
ten years hence; but the never-get-
busy-till-afternoon chap will be calam-
ity bowling about every day.
An old mower run vi and down the
sides Of the public road around the
farm will get away with the weeds.
Not your business? Perhaps not,
strictly; but the satisfaction of q
clean highway will be yours.
The primary object of cultivating
crops is to keep the soil in good con-
dition, but If it were not for weeds q
lot Of farmers would neglect this i'm
portant work. Sometimes III bless
ings come in disguise.
The Tupelo journal., 1909-07-16

ID RESIDENT TAFT took his family
to Beverly recently and left his
wife and children there while he re-
turned to Washington to stay out the
tariff bill with congress.
Mrs. Louise More of Cincinnati, SIS
ter of Mrs. Taft, accompanied the
family to Beverly and will remain
there some time, so as to relieve Mrs.
Taft, who has been i'll, of as much
care as possible. Mrs. More is the
wife of Prof. Louis More of the Uni
versity of Cincinnati. She acted as
hostess of the White house since Mrs.
Taft suffered a nervous breakdown
several weeks ago. She came to Wash
ington with Judge Heron, her father,
for a short visit, but when Mrs. Taft
became ill she abandoned her own
social programme in Cincinnati and
remained in Washington. This made
it possible for Mrs. Taft to carry out
the remainder of the entertainments
which had already been scheduled,
and Mrs. More took her place as
hostess at several official dinner par
ties which Mrs. Taft had planned
earlier in the season. Mrs. More won
The Tupelo journal., 1909-07-16

WASHINGTON.-If you want to
w read an official fairy tale in fig
ures of the nations commercial prog
ress get a copy of the latest bunch of
~postoffice statistics, just issued by A.
L. Lawshe, the third assistant post
master general.
How he got all the figures on one
page is still a mystery, but he Ger.
tainly succeeded in piling up enough
millions and billions to make any
ones head swim.
Counting postage stamps must be
a lot like counting the grains of sand
at the sea. At any rate, these careful
counters of Uncle Sans p~ostoffice de-
partment have found out that last
year the department issued 1851 AGO.
405 Of the little sticky things. An
overheated fgurer, who doesn't work
for the postofice department, figured
out that if these little squares OF
paper were placed end to end they
would run a couple of thousand feet
over 12O, 100 miles.
A rootnote to the statistics shows
that Uncle Sam didn't begin printing
postage stamps until July /, 1S47. The
first year he succeeded in putting
800,380 on the market. Last year he
issued $500 times that many-a fair
ly decent. increase in the postoffice
business in fifty-two years.
The biggest figure on the page is the
one that designates the number of pieces
The Tupelo journal., 1909-07-16
GROW ROOT CROPS PROPERLY
Best Method Of Wedding and Thinning
Out Onions, Carrots, 1eets,
Parsnips and Satisfy.

Onions, carrots, parnips, beets and
satisfy must be kept free from weeds
and grass from the time the plants
push above the ground until the leaves
are large enough to shade the soil,
says the Baltimore American. The
hand cultivator and weeder Is the best
implement for the work. Straddle the
rows and cut away the young weeds
as soon as the rows can be distinctly
seen; follow with the cultivator In a
few days, stirring the soil about one
inch in depth. This frequent working
will keep the ground mellow and at
the same time kill the young weeds.
The plants should be thinned as soon
as they have made the fourth leaf.
This may be done either by hand or
hoe. Truckers use the steel hoe. The
two-inch steel hoe is mostly used by
the gardeners, and the four-inch hoe
by the truckers. Whatever method is
followed, they should be thinned the
proper distances, so they can make
good sized roots. Onions, from seed,
require careful wedding when plants
are small. in the trucking districts
the wedding and thinning of the root
crops is mostly done by contract for
so much per row. The early crops of
beets should be thinned out to stand
four inches apart in the row; the
plants pulled out are set out in adj
joining rows, first cutting off the tip
of the root and cutting the leaves
within half an inch Of the crown. Beet
plants have great vitality and will
take root and start into growth a few
days after planting. Those transplant
ed plants will make large bulbs, but
not as large as those grown direct
from seed.
Parsnips, carrots and satisfy cannot
be t~ransplanted; these should be
thinned out early so as to give the
roots plenty of time to grow. The
French and oxheat carrots will not
need thinning, as they are pulled as
500 as half grown.
The Tupelo journal., 1909-07-16
3elmonts to Dazzle National Capital

wives with few exceptions absented
themselves. But the Belmonts had
already made plans for their new
home. They had brought their archi.
tect from Paris and incurred much ex.
pense.
Mrs. Belmont was not daunted. Be
fore long she was entertaining Col.
Bromwell, the official major domo of
the White House under the Roosevelt
regime. and his wife at theater par
ties. and her field of social conquest
was gradually extended until now she
is perfectly at home as an entertainer.
Next winter on her return from
abroad she will throw open her new
palace for entertainments that are
likely to make her critics sit up.