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Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1910-07-14
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Heretofore. the great difficulty in
the way Of good sidewalks in Bryan,
has been the great cost, on account Of
the work having to be done by hand
and by inexperienced men.
The Commercial Club is endeavor-
ing to relieve this situation by secur-
ing for Bryan an up-to-date concrete
factory To this end Mr. Fox, of the
Palestine Concrete Works, visited Bry.
an yesterday and conferred with the
Improvement committee, and will
meet with the board of directors at
their regular weekly meeting next
Tuesday.
1t is recognized fact that the side
walks of Bryan are in a deplorable
condition The people seem to be
thoroughly awake to the need of i'm
provement. Mr., Fox is only asking
the club to assist in securing a con-
venent location, and to secure initial
contracts for two miles of work. His
prices will save the people 25 per cent
on present cost and Bryan will secure
a valuable industry.
There is no denying that good side
walks greatly increase a streets pop
ularity Every property owner should
arrange for a good sidewalk at once
II he has not already got one
The club will be pleased to hear
from all parties wanting to arrange
for immediate work.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1910-07-14
GOV. CAMPBELL ENTERS
HIS TRAINING CAMP
Chief Executive Is at Palestine Shan.
ing Up for His Stunt With Ses-
sion of Legislature.

Palestine, Texas, July 14.-Govern-
or T. NJ. Campbell arrived home yes
terday from Austin to spend few
days resting up before beginning the
strenuous session of the legislature
Governor Campbell would have ar
rived sooner but stayed over in Aus
tin to attend the funeral of the son
Of Treasurer Sam Sparks.
The governor would give out moth
ing on the political outlook but is
spending the day with his friends here.
He will return home probably Friday
or Saturday.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1910-07-14
S.P. RAILWAY BRIDGE At
LANGTRY WAS BURNED
Discovery Was Made Just in Time to
Prevent Sunset Limited From
Pkngins Into It.

Ell Paso, Texas July 14.-The South
ern Pacific railroad bridge, 525 feet
long, near Langtry, was destroyed by
fire late Tuesday night and discovery
was made just in time to prevent the
wreck of the westbound Sunset linn
tied.
1t is believed the fire was of incen-
diary origin and an investigation is
in progress. The road has had strike
of maintenance of way employees for
several weeks and it is along this
line the officials are working.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1910-07-14
LEVEE COMM|s-
s|0NERs MEET
Rapid Work Being Done in Caldwell
County.

Caldwell, Texas, July 1.-THE levee
commissioners, consisting of w. S,
Mial, R. S. Newson and Alex Ewing,
met here yesterday to audit and al
low the accounts of the levee contrac-
tors, Roach and Stansel, for the work
done during the month of June.
The amount thus allowed and paid
was $1,000 even. There is now COM
pleted 15 1-3 miles of the levee, which
is ready and waiting to meet the over
flows when they come.
The work is highly satisfactory to
the commissioners as we'll as the peo-
pie living within the protected area.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1910-07-14
PROGRAM OF HoRTIcULTuRlsTs.

PROGRAM OF HoRTIcULTuRIsTs.
College Station Texas, July IL
The following is the program for the
annual meeting of the Texas State
Horticultural Society. with the Texas
Farmers Congress, Tuesday, July 26,
at p. m:
Welcome address-Prof. H. Ness,
College Station.
Response-E. w. Kirkpatrick, Nc
Kinney,
Presidents Annual Address-A. D.
Jackson, Denison.
Spraying the Orchards ]. verha-
len, Scottsville.
The San Jose Scale and Peachtree
Borer-Wilmon Newell, State Entomo-
logist. College Station, Texas.
Citrus Fruits at the Beeville Sta
tion-A. T. Potts. Beeville.
Fighting the White Fly-Fred w.
Mally. State Department of Agricul-
ture, Austin, Texas.
The Protection of Orchards from
Frost-M. Falkner. Waco.
The Home Canner-O R. Hamilton
Franklin.
New Experiments at the South Tex
as Garden-Prof. E. c. Green. Browns
vile. Texas.
The Peach Industry in East Texas
Sam H. Dixon. Austin.
Beautifying the Home,-Murray
Ramsey. Austin.
New Fruits. S. Kerr, Sherman.
Intensive Farming-Homer\ Peck.
Sulphur Springs.
The officers of the association are
A. d. Jackson, Denison. president;
Murray Ramsey, Austin, first vice
president; p. |. Gill, League City, Sec
ond vice president: E. j. Kyle, College
Station, professor of horticulture Of
'the A. and NJ. College, secretary and
treasurer.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1910-07-14
THE NEWS IN BRIEF
Events of the World Boiled Down for
the Busy Man to Read at
Glance.

Roosevelt denies being either an in
surgent or a regular
Two white men and six negroes
were badly hurt by the falling of
scaffold at Memphis.
Harry s Nugent. of Houston, fell
from the third story of San Angelo
hotel and was killed.
District Judge Robinson. of Calves
ton, says he will see that the liquor
law is enforced in that city.
n. A. Sheffield, car-repairer, was
killed at Yoakum by a car that had
been blocked up falling on him.
A great many Greek, Italian and
West Indian laborers are going to
Panama to get work on the canal.
The body of an unknown man who
is supposed to have been robbed and
murdered was found in culvert near
Amarillo.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1910-07-14

Roosevelt denies being either an in
surgent or a regular
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1910-11-12
TO REGISTER APPLE TREES
Farmer Has Plan of Growing Orchard
Of Pedigreed stock-Produce
Prize Winners.

Spokane, Wash.-Growing thorough
bred apple trees, to be registered the
same as live stock with pedigrees, is
an innovation in eastern Washington.
H. NJ. Lichty, an orchardist in the
Yakima-Sunnyside district, west Of
Spokane, has perfected plan to
place the science of growing CONNER
cial fruit of the highest quality and
color and uniform size upon a prac-
teal basis.
Explaining his plan, Mr.. Lichty said
that in every thoroughly cultivated
apple orchard there are trees which
stand out for yielding most of the
prize winners at national and state
shows. Scions are taken from these
and transferred to other. trees by
budding and grating, thus raising the
quality. The trees are recorded upon
an orchard plat, then registered and q
pedigree is issued to the grower.
II do not claim that all trees so
grown will produce premium winning
fruit" he added, "as that cannot be
said Of pedigreed live stock; but the
| experience OF the foremost growers
in the northwest and other parts OF
the United States and Canada will
show that a greater percentage of
high grade trees is raised by following
a common sense system than by or
charding in the old haphazard way.
My own experiments prove these are
superior strains of the several Yarie-
ties of standard apple trees.
Prof. w. s. Thornber, head of the
horticultural department at the state
OF Washington college, Pullman, and
growers In the apple belts In eastern
Washington and elsewhere, approve
the Lichty plan, the former saying
that the products of healthy trees may
be improved by budding and grating
from superior stock He added there
is just as much difference In apple
trees of the same variety as there is
In horses of the same breed. The
plan Of registering trees and keeping
a record Of yielding performances Is
also Endorsed.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1910-11-12
CURE FOR AFRICAN scoUReE
Famous Continental Physician plsco..
ers Remedy for Sickness After
Many Experiments.

Parfs.-"6o6," the arsenical prenara.
ton of DR. Enrich, the distinguishes
Frankfort physician, which has of late
been engrossing the attention of the
medical world, is at present being az.
perimented with as remedy for va
rious tropical diseases. The nrena.
ration was named 1905" as being the
final successful result after experi.
menting with 6o6 preparations r..
vented by DR.. Ehr1ich for the aIIevia.
ton and cure Of an organic disease.
The Brussels Etoi1e Beige now states
that the experiments made with 1905"
point to Its efficacy as remedy for
malaria, sleeping sickness and recun.
rent fever.
DR.. Broden, the Journal adds Is
studying the effects of the preparation
in the Congo. and though his experi-
ments are not yet concluded. he is
stated to have already expressed the
belief that henceforth 1t win be nos
sible VIGOROUSLY to combat the
scourge of sleeping sickness with its
aid. -
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1910-11-12

nament between the high school
teams of the state. Fresno went into
the tournament with a fair team and
| was catcher. We could not win, but
ne gave them hard battle and fin
ished Just behind Oakland and Stock
ton. They charged that there were
ringers on the teams, and I think the
Investigation was what brought me
to the attention OF the scouts. Any
how Danny Long of the San Francisco
team saw me catch and recommended
ne to Chicago That was the ambi-
ion of my life, to catch for Chicago,
because when / was at Sullivan every
one made an idol of Arson. I did not
aspire to be leader like Arson then,
but hoped to make the team. Bill
LANCE was playing with Chicago, and
after Long had recommended me for
trial Lange met me and boosted me to
The Chicago club. They offered me a
trial and jumped at 1t. had my
own troubles making good as catch
or, mainly because I was awkward
and kept getting hurt. Indeed / never
got started until selee insisted on put
ting me on first base. refused to
play at first. | had tried 1t once at
Baltimore and forgot to catch the ball
when it was thrown to me- / did not
think / ever could play the bag. Selee
had to argue for week and pay me
more money to get me to try, and then
discovered first base was my best
position.
The rest of 1t has been Just hard
work and determination to win, and
the help of the b st and srnartest
crowd of players any team ever
owned.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1910-11-12
SNAKES KILL MANY

erage of about three per head of the
population; but this seems less curious
when it is remembered that all but
Is, 100000 of midas 800, 100000 people
are described as illiterate. These lat
ter figures explain, too, how letter wri-
ting may be lucrative employment.
Very interesting, in the light of re-
cent sedition trails, are some of the
crime statistics Thus 12,411 offenses
against the state and public tranquil
lily were reported, and 4,797 convic-
tons; while dacoities, political and
others, numbered 1884, with $50 con-
victions.
AS might perhaps be expected in a
land so densely populated as India,
physical and mental inarmity is by no
means rare, and altogether the total
population afflicted is 5S4,498.
Lepers, male and female, numbered
107, $40, blind over $4,000 and deaf
mutes about 10000. The insane pop
ulation was about 65,000
One of the greatest campaigns en-
gagged In India is that against plague,
but, despite vaccination and all the re-
sources of modern knowledge, the NOR
tally remains terribly heavy.
Thus In 1909 plague claimed ia, s74
victims, a high figure, but one that
pales into insignidcance before the
total of 1,315,892 in 1907. The death
roll for the last II years was $685., 212.
Some remarkable figures occur under
the heading Principal Specified 0ccu-
pations. !"
Thus we find that 1,023. 932 persons
were engaged In "barbering and
shanpooing the others. while clothes
were washed by 100000 men and about
sol, 900 women.
Nor are the Indian masses left un.
amused. Actors, singers, dancers,
bandmasters, players. ETC., numbered
268, 000-about one for every thousand
Four of these are men for every
woman.
Priests and others engaged in re1ig-
lon numbered 1,150,525, and sweet
meat makers and sellers 284, 421.
But perhaps the most amazing en-
try under this head of Occupations
Is ''Mendicants (nonrellgious).' The
begging profession had 2,433, 115 expo
nents, and the total supported by beg
ging (nonreligiousl was over 1900. 900.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1910-11-12
STORIES
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Wagner is tired OF playing shortstop
and wants to go to first.
President Johnson of the American
league has released Umpire Coli
flower.
Connie Mack and his men won their
series from every team in the Ameri
can league.
The Athletics won the American
league pennant this year by a larger
margin than any team has ever won it
before.
Connie Mack, manager Of the new
American league champions, is to be
married to Miss Halloran of PhiIadeI.
phfa on November z.
All the married men on the White
Sox team stopped of at Kalamazoo on
their way home from Battle Creek the
other day and bought bouquets-of
celery.
The Detroit Tigers intend to tour
Cuba this winter, playing ball under in
dependent management, In defiance of
the national commissions ruling
against transforming.
President ". L. O'Neill of the west
ern league. who is arranging the train
ing trip for the Red sox to California
next spring, has already closed up
most of the dates for the big expedi-
ton.
Catcher Leslie Nunamaker, sold OBJ
tionally to Bloomington by the Chicago
Nationals and recently drafted by
Cleveland, has been notified that Cieye-
land sold him to the Boston Ameri.
cans.
There have been five triple plays
made In the National league this sea
son and three in the American league.
The Cubs figured in two and the White
Sox in two, SO the honors are even up
in Chicago.
The Philadelphia writer's seem to
have taken offense because the Ath-
Ietics have not been mentioned as an
especially brainy bunch and the Cubs
have been advertised far and wide as
the thinking chaps
One of the features Of baseball is
the fact that some one pitcher usually
has it en- some particular team, as
Pfester has it on New York; as
Mathewson had it on Philadelphia and
as Babe Adams had It on Detroit
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1910-11-12
START OF MANAGER CHANCE
Leader of Champion Cubs Received
Early Training on Pacific Coast
Awkward at First.
(RY FRANK CHANCES

Copyright, 1870 by Joseph 3. Bowles.l
got my start trying to catch at
Fresno. Cal, when was about eight
years old. had no thought of play
Ing the game professionally, and only
wanted to play it. played other
games, but baseball always was my ia
yorite, and / would desert school,
meals or anything else to get to
catch.
Looking back now viii say this,
that If had known the hardships and
the troubles and worries and strain
involved in playing the game as a pro-
fess1on | think | never would have
tried. The public has little idea of the
pains and troubles of player. / have
no complaint I have been successful
above the average, yet would not ad-
wise young man to enter the profes-
sion unless he is prepared to sacrifice
much of his life and happiness, to
work harder than he must work in al
most any trade, and to bear more
strain, both mental and physical, than
he would be called upon to bear in al
most any other line It is hard life,
and one that wears man out rapidly.
But to return to the start. | came
east to visit at Sullivan, H., one sum
mer, and there played with the first
regular team l ever Joined, and when
went back to California I had ideas
of playing ball IN the great teams.
never had seen them play, but I was
determined to get in. I played with
the Fresno high school team and then
caught for the University of Southern
California for time, and tried to play
the outfeld.
My chance to get into professional
baseball came the year that the San
Francisco Examiner organized tour
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1910-11-12
"Peg-Legeer" Dragged to Hospital fol
operation-Needed Carpenter,
Not Surgeon.

Phoenixville, Pa.-When William
Springer, resident of Royersford, was
found lying alongside the Reading rail-
way near that town he told the men
VINO found him that his foot had been
cut on by passing freight train A
stretcher was hurrfedly brought,
Springer was quickly placed on board
an express train, which had been
tagged for the purpose, and was Ia
Ken to Phoenixville. A telegraph mes
sage to the station summoned the am
Dulance of the Phoenixvi1le hospital
and the hospital authorities, informed
by telephone of the nature of Spring
er,s injury, routed the house surgeons
from bed and made the operating
room ready for an amputation.
Springer, from under the stretcher
cover, protested against being taken
to the hospital and said he wanted to
go home. His protestations were ig-
nored peremptorily, but kindly, with
the admonitions of those about him
that he lie perfectly still and not to
worry.
Upon his arrival here he was at
once loaded into the ambulance and a
record trip made to the hospital Here
he was rolled into the operating-room
and placed on the table.
The sight Of the White-gowned sur
geons and nurses and the array OF
surgical instruments caused the con-
FUSED Springer to scream, but the alb
sence of any evidence of bleeding from
the mangled limb led the doctors
quickly to the discovery shat. while
Springer had indeed lost foot. he
was in greater need of q carpenter
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1910-11-12
Has Splendid Record.

Larry Lajoie has record that
makes that Of other baseball players
pale into insignifcance by comparison.
Eight years ago when Lajoie was play
ing with the Cleveland team in one
of the games that season-it was in
1902-the first two men up Knocked
home runs and Cleveland secured
nineteen hits in that game Lajoie,
the third man up, was asked by Nc
AIeer: what do you think you are
going to do?" 81 am going to slam
the ball right between those two home.
run hits" replied Lajoie and he pro.
ceeded to do SO, knocking out the third
home run, a hard drive to the center.
field bleachers
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1910-11-12
MARKING OFF NEW COUNTRY
Survey Expedition, Drawing Boundary
Line Between Canada and Alas
ka, at Dawson.

Dawson, Y. THE international
boundary survey expedition, including
70 men and 65 horses, which has beer
running line between Canada and
Alaska north of the Yukon river this
season, has arrived here en- route fol
Puget Sound in charge of Thomas
Riggs, representing America, and ]. D
Craig, representing Canada.
An extremely rough country between
the Yukon and the Porcupine rivers
was traversed. A third of the horses
taken in last spring died on unblazed
trails and morasses. Those brought
back look like skeletons.
The men are in good health. The
party plans to return early next season
prepared TO spend the two succeeding
winters in the arctic.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1910-11-12
Reptiles in India Cause More
Deaths Than Any Animal.
Tigers Claim eoa Victims, Leopards
and Wolves Stay SIT; Other AMI
mails 686-Ravaees of Plague
Are Checked.

CaIcutta.-over 1000 lives-that's
the toll of the jungle and forest IN
India for single year.
These figures of sudden death are
set out coldly in tabular form, in the
Blue Book just issued which deals with
the statistics of the Indian empire, IN,
der the heading, Number Of Persons
and Cattle Killed in British India by
Wild Animals and Snakes"
The list goes into details. Thus We
learn that in the year under review,
1908. no fewer than 900 people fell vic.
tins to tigers, S02 to leopards, while
wolves claimed 269 as their prey.
"Other animals" killed 6s6.
But the ravages of the man eater
were as nothing compared to those OF
the snake, for the poisoned fangs OF
the latter put an end to 1878 lives.
To cattle, leopards were by far the
most destructive. Their kill was AZ, 427
head of a total of 98,307. Tigers
claimed as their quarry 28.25S, and
wolves about 10000.
0ndhGSy II WOu1u SCCIAt al . 40A 1850
fatal to cattle than to humankind, for
during the year they only killed 10000.
small proportion of the total
But the war was not one-sided.
Seventeen thousand, nine hundred and
twenty-six Of the denizens OF the jun
gle fell before the rifle and gun. and
70.49S snakes roughly, four for every
person killed -were destroyed. Boun-
ties for their destruction amounted to
10000.
The total population is nearly 300,-
900 900 294 1851, 056, according to the
1901 census-and they inhabit So .841,-
315 houses. Two-thirds Of the inhab-
itants are Hindus, 81, 000, 900 Moham-
edans, and but 100000 Christians.
The average Indian does not indulge
IN overmuch letter-Writing. Altogether
the post office dealt with 875, 255.832
letters. post cards and parcels-an aV-
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1910-11-12
simple Expsd4ent.

An American student at a German
university tells Of a professor who
was reading aloud IN a classroom pa
pers on celebrated living German
novelist, which had been written by
the members Of the class. After read
ing one he commented upon its ex-
cellence. 4You show an exact COM
prehension of the matter" he said,
addressing the student who had writ
ten the paper; tell us what method
you used" "Oh, replied the student,
Il just wrote to K. stating what /
wanted to know. and that was what
he sent back
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1910-11-12
Jack Barry of Athletics.

on a team. Just at present Tinker is
hitting at .297, while the man who
will be his rival at the short-stopping
game in the worlds series, Jack Bar
ry, is sticking around the 252 mark.
Fielding? Barry's fielding is above
reproach, it is true. But so is Think
er's. Barry p1eases the grand stand
with many sensational stunts, and SO
does Tinker. But In the field Barry
will not show with as much brilliance
as Tinker, and this is the reason,
Tinker is a part of the Cub machine.
The Cub machine" is the most IA
nous thing in the world, and the play,
er who belongs to it is equally IA
nous. Perhaps Tinker wouldn't look
as much like a star were he with any
other team. The Athletics are well or.
ganized, but they have no such ma.
chine as the Cubs.
Tinker has had greater experience
than Barry, for he has been with the
Cubs alone for nine years, and before
that played with the Denver Western
league club. The late Mr.. Selee
picked him up by chance, and Joe
made good on the jump and has con.
tinued to make good for almost dec.
ade.
Mack developed his present power
full team while the Athletics were
slipping down the ladder In 1908.
Among those who were mediocre play
ers before that time, and who rounded
into stars under Mack's careful gui
dance. were Frank Baker, Eddie Col
Inns and Barry.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1910-11-12
DAME NATURE HINTS
When the Food Ia Not Suited.

When Nature gives her signal that
something is wrong It is generally
with the food The old Dame is al-
ways faithful and one should act at
once.
To put of the change is to risk that
which may be irreparable. An Arizona
man says:
For years could not safely eat any
breakfast. I tried various kinds OF
breakfast food, but they were all soft,
starchy messes which gave me dis.
tressing headaches. I drank strong
coffee, too, which appeared to benefit
me at the time, but added to the head
aches afterwards. Toast and coffee
were no better, for found the toast
very constituting.
"A friend persuaded me to quit the
old coffee and the starchy breakfast
foods, and use Postum and Grape-Nuts
instead. shall never regret taking
his advice. I began using them three
months ago.
1.-THE change they have worked In
me Is wonderful. / now have no more
of the distressing sensations IN my
stomach after eating, and never have
headaches. I have gained II pounds
IN weight and feel better in every way.
"Grape-Nuts make delicious as
well as nutritious dish, and I find
that Postum is easily digested and
never produces dyspepsia symptoms"
There's d Reason"
Get the little book, 'eThe Road to
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