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Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1910-02-21
RAILROAD TIME CARD.
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A. L. Ewing was in today from the
bottom.
Gus stevener was in today from
Kurten.
FOR sALE-My home place. c. A.
HarrIs.t 70
Mrs. n. Lobello is visiting relatives
In Waco.
J. p. Royder was up today from
welIborn.
J. p. Gilpin. OF Kurten. was in the
city today.
chas. Vance. Of MirIcan. was in the
city today.
FOR SALE: My home In Bryan.
T. s. wlckes. ss
W. n. Glaze was in the city today
from Reliance.
@. N. Holland was in today from
the Brazos bottom.
Corn cobs for sale cheap. Hensarl-
Ing Bros. Phone 25i. e.
We sell garden seed in bulk. &c up.
cavitt's Drug Store. Sc
Rev. ID. h. Wait returned this AZ.
ternoon from Franklin.
T. A. Hensariing Of Steep Hollow.
was In the city today.
Gus Hedtke was down today from
his home near wheelock.
Car OF Bermuda hay just received.
Hensarling RIOS. Phone 25i. IS
]. r. Butler went to Franklin yes
terday to attend dIstric; court.
Car OF fine Aifplfa just received.
Hensarling Bros. Phone PSI. 60
Joe Hearne went to Marlin today
20 try the hot baths for rheumatism.
Mrs. W. n. Glaze. OF Reliance. re-
turned today from a visit to Dallas.
o. Z. GammIll left Saturday night
for visit to his home at' Gueydan.
la.
FOUND: Ladies' Set Ring-owner
can get same by applying at this Of
fee. 81
Eddie Buzzard. OF Beaumont. arrived
yesterday to visit his friend. Clarence
Wick.
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very best investment that any citizen
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man Of sense who had time to get
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There Is plenty OF work for the
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how. Shall we have themf move
we do. Who'll second the motion!
A. W. B.
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NOTICE TO THE PUBLIC.

Please read again my advertise
ment in this paper. ! am opposed to-
the usual old slow ethical way or
bringing merits before the people
Also opposed to most all indoor. Of
fee and sedentary life. For that rea-
son. I will. II notified. call on all in
town and country free. and have q
horse and buggy for the purpose. I
am here as a permanent citizen X
climate win admit.
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Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-12-25
CHRISTMAS BOXES.

| Never look the price tag In the face
! with rare exceptions santa Claus stock
goes into the hands OF joyful receivers.
The Christmas box presented to the
country by one Or. Cook contains an
abundance Of greens for the green
! Explorers Of ancient times have traced
70 the Joe Miller era the gag Of the
season" IT'S more blessed to give than
to receive"
The gracious good will Of the weather
man In presenting the corn belt with a
modest white Christmas" wipes the
slate Of past errors and grievances. Merry
Christmas, you old rascal!
Philosopher Dooley Is the father OF twins
and Hennessy Is a grandfather. The dual
event justifies a Christmas conversation.
but the noise In the nursery smothers the
vocal efforts Of the elders.
When the tumult and the shouting OF
the youngsters wanes and vanishes into
sleep, then the weary papa puts the night
cap where II Will do the most good and
scoots for the land Of shores
In the days Of old when knights were
bold and fun Of booze and song, there
was none merry enough to remark TO his
lady love, You look like Christmas
tree II takes modern courage to say
things
No amount OF pictorial art or tones Of
personal description could convince the
Chicago university that Santa Claus Is
person with mighty whiskers and flow
ing locks. Tho c. U. Santa Is beardless
and sports a wig
The Missouri section of Kansas City
sends Christmas message 70 its partner
across the border announcing that after
the first Of the year church raffles
will be Included in the list OF gambling
offenses. The unexpected moral uplift will
check the circulation OF sporting blood
among the Kansans and restrict visits
across the line. to those in search of
spirituous consolation.
The tenth annual Christmas box of the
Manitoba Free Press OF Winnipeg Is
little roll OF hewsprint paper sent to the
breathren south of the line as a reminder
of Western Canada stock OF wood pulp
from which the bigger rolls are drawn
with such regularity and cost as TO make
the publishers cash box scream. The usual
dainty booklet accompanies the roll carry
ing wonderful message Of progress and
settlement fortified with statistics.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-12-25

People might become alarmed over
the disclosure by DR.. N. Allen Starr of
New York that insanity has increased
in the United States during the last
ten years 1893 per cent we're it not
that they had been previously in
that within 100 years everybody would
be crazy. That simply reduces the
state of our mind to a relative PROPOSE
ton and shows that as an alert and
progressive people we are making bet
ter Roadway toward the universal goal
than might have been supposed. To
be sure. IL would be best If all could
reach there at the same time. for any
body can discern the disadvantages of
an uneven race.
But the census returns and DR..
STAIRS comments appeal to the serious
consideration of people. He is un-
questionably right in his contention:
The crying need of the present day is
a realization that we live too fast; that
we work too fast; that we strive too in
tensely; that we feel too keenly. Mod
Grafton, not excess, leads to health.
The fact that nervous disorders are
at the base of a large percentage of
the insanity tends to confirm this
theory. Nor is it surprising to learn
that excessive indulgence in drink
plays considerable part. 1t is one
90 tho eto,,c oFtan In tbo prourage %
nervous breakdown. The old idea
of drowning ones troubles may have
just as much to do with these statis-
tics as does the convivial habit. But
aside from drink, the tendency toward
excuses is marked enough in our
American life to call for serious
thought We plead the excuse that
we live in a strenuous age and must
move swiftly or be swept away in the
current But moderation and siren
uosity are not antitheses. One of the
most strenuous Americans is also one
of the most moderate. Moderation is
habit of mind into which, If people
get, they may move very swiftly with
out harm. What is needed is careful
living and careful working-system
and method.
But it is a condition and not a
theory that contronts the nation. So
it is we'll that plan has been set on
foot similar to that combating tu-
berculosis, to teach people how to cor
rect the abuses that are filing insane
asylums and untimely graves. 1t is
one of the things that makes us see all
the people of the present day are not
immoderate.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-12-25
Fortunes of the Future

The Rockefellers and the Carnegies
evidently are not insensible to the be-
lief that personal fortunes of $780,
OOO,O and $6OO,OOO,OOO are not
creditable in the peoples eyes and will
be difficult for any man to acquire in
the future. Neither can they be in
different to the growing demand for a
more lively distribution of wealth now.
They seem to have anticipated some
such disposition and therefore prefer
to give away their own millions rather
than have 1t done for them or their
heirs after they are gone. 9
In the minds Of many this has much
to do with the strenuous campaign
Of giving which our multi-millionaires
are carrying on with such consistency.
OF course, it is impossible to tell just
how far the moral principle of Justify
ing the possession Of fortunes like
theirs actuates them, but It is not in
conceivable that it has its effect. Nor
can 1t reasonably be doubted that these
mems views on such matters are very
different now from what they were
when they were striving so fiercely to
acquire their fabulous riches. Some
sort of uncomfortable weight seems to
press down on the mind of the man
with such a personal fortune as he
nears the end of his active career and
begins to strike the balance In his
life's activities. Public opinion may
have scored a greater victory than it
realizes.
And yet, of course, in all ages there
have been powerful rich and powerless
poor people, and probably always will
be. 1t is even a question If the dis
parity is so much greater today than
it has been at other periods in history.
What is more probable is that the rich
man Of the present is more mindful OF
his poor brother than was the rich
man of the past. Still, it is reasona-
BILE to believe that such colossal for
tunes as some men now possess will
not be so common in the future,
whether the restriction comes about
through self-abnegation or involun-
tary submission.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-12-25
me snirit Of Christmas.

Christmas to all means JOY. The
peal Of the shepherd song that broke
upon the Judean hills has never died
away. Caught up from the angel host,
IL reverberates still triumphant, the
one transcendant note that harmonizes
human hearts. All the finer aspira-
tions Of the soul find satisfaction in
the melody Of Bethlehem. 1t is a Joy
Of peace, purity, patience-the spirit
of Christmas.
Peace on earth, good will toward
men" And the angel cry is echoed
by Him it proclaimed more than thirty
years later: Peace leave with you,
my peace I give unto you" II is the
dominant note in the economy of
grace. Peace that brought rest to the
world from its perplexities and
anxieties.
Purity is breathed in every thought
Of Christmas II is first the purity of
babyhood; life at its source-the Per-
feet Man. Outwardly It is sensed in
the aroma of the frankincense and
myrrh, the gifts Of the wise men, and
it comes to fullness in the life to
follow.
Through the ages mankind waited
patiently for the coming of it's king.
Inhnity waited for the fullness of time
to complete its great plan. The three
wise men, led by the star in their
long, lonely vigil, are emblematic of
patience. Even the humble shepherds
leaving their focks on the hills, crept
closer in patient hope, to "see this
thing which is come to pass" The
thought comes most forcibly in Van
Dykes Fourth Wise Man" who. was
to make the journey with the three,
but, pressing on his broken way alone,
never saw his King until he saw him
borne up grim Golgotha.
The world in the intensity of its
practical life today needs more peace,
more purity. more patience. 1t can
find the lesson in the real spirit of
Christmas without losing any Of its
Joy and merriment. Giving and re-
ceiving presents is not all there is to
this festival. That we know from the
Illusion for happy childhood that is
weaved about it, No one need to be
over-solemn to get the solemn and in
spring truth of the real Christmas
spirit. Let it continue to be a season
of joy and praise, but these virtues are
richest in the serious. seasoned aspect
of the inside fact
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-12-25
Where PROPHETS Fail.

Senator Lafayette Young of Iowa, in
his maiden" speech in the senate,
said:
With Mckinley died the old era and an
imosities OF a great war. Under his lead
ership the men in gray found themselves
again in blue His work was done.
The mourners soon welcomed the
new president His entrance was quick
and stalwart. He could scarcely have
known the new duties that were to come
upon him.
Most people now will agree that
even the keen insight of Theodore
Roosevelt scarcely penetrated the
short period of seven years enough to
comprehend what actually lay within
them. He was young man who saw
visions, but his own pledge to carry
out the Mckinley policies, held up in
the light Of his subsequent deeds, af-
ford proof that even his broad vision
did not take it all in. And his fidelity
to that self-imposed trust has never
been questioned.
Again referring to Mckinley, Sena-
tor Young said:
Like Lincoln, he died at the end Of a
great epoch facing duties so discOrdant
and alien to his heart and soul that he
could never have met them.
1t is now generally accepted that
Colonel Roosevelt was specially raised
up to discharge these duties, which,
Senator Young believes, Mckinley
could not have met.
The Iowa senator spoke from the
same spot where, sixty years before,
John C. Calhoun, too feeble TO deliver
1t, had his last speech in the senate
read for him. In it he pleaded for
peace and against war and was so
firmly committed to the doctrine that
as a means Of securing it he advocated
the impossible proposal Of two presi-
dents, one to act as a check upon the
other. "And your young men shall
see visions and your old men shall
dream dreams" Calhoun, too, was a
man of wisdom and foresight, but this
was a dream as fantastic as that of his
pet doctrine Of notification. He, no
more than his contemporaries, could
look into the future and see this ma
ton within little more than half a
century with nearly 1OO,OOO,OOO peo-
pie, at peace with the world and still
under one flag and one government.
Magnify as much as we will the
seers of past or present, We can find
none with wisdom to grasp the full
future of the republic. Calhoun did
not see It in his day; nor Lincoln, nor
Mckinley, nor Roosevelt in his. It's
possibilities are too great. All that
even the giants among us can hope to
achieve is each his own comparatively
small part in working out a destiny
for the nation higher than what in
their widest hopes the founders did
not dare picture.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-12-25

advantages of progress and develop
ment which time offers it would be a
race Of weaklings that did not lift life
TO higher, planes with succeeding gem
erations. And no one dare say that
life is not on a higher plane today
than It was fifty years ago. OF course.
it is because. largely, of the inspiring
influences and the sturdy character
training derived from our ancestry of
the past. There is no other way of
justly acknowledging our debt to our
forefathers than by claiming to have
wrought improvement in the condi-
lions of life.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-12-25
Our Birthday Book.
December as, 1910.

Sir Isaac Newton, the great philosopher
and mathematician, was born December
%, 1912, at Woolsthorp, England, and died
in 1871, with burial in Westminster abbey.
He deduced the theory OF universal CRAWL
tation by watching an apple fall from a
tree.
Patrick 8. Gilmore, the great bandmas-
ter was born on Christmas day 1890 He
was a native OF ireland. and Gilmore and
his band have entertained crowned heads
and populace in nearly all civilized coun-
tries OF the world.
Judge John F. Dillon, until recently head
of the law department OF the Western
Union, was born December Is, 1881, in New
York state. He was Judge on the bench
over in Iowa when Jay Gould took him to
New York to be his legal adviser. Dillon
on Municipal Corporations" is a standard
work on that subject.
Eldridge T. Gerry. head OF the Gerry
Society for the Prevention of Cruelty 10
Children. is 70 years old today. He is a
lawyer by profession and has a private
law library Of 5000 volumes.
Thomas McCague, head Of the we'll
known McCasue family in this city. is cell
ebrating his s5th birthday today. He was
that a missionary worker In Africa
Frank Walters, general manager Of the
Northwestern lines west OF the Missouri,
with headquarters at Omaha, is just IS
years old this Christmas day, He was
born in Cedar Falls Ia. and made his
start in the railway business in 1892. He
came 10 Omaha IN 1905 assistant general
manager and was made general manager
within the year.
DR.. f. A. Van Fleet, practioing physl-
clan In the McCague block. was born De-
cember Is. 1853. at Randolph, Wis. He is
graduate OF the Omaha Medical college
and has been pacticing in Omaha for eight
years.
Irven w. Barr. stamp clerk at the
Omaha postOffioe, is celebrating his s1st
birthday today. He was born at Ash
land and has been IN the postal service
since 1904.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-12-25
When Wars Are Banished.

That passage of the letter by which
Andrew Carnegie has dedicated his
$1O,OOO,OOO foundation to promote in
ternational peace which relates to the
disposition of the fund after its object
shall have been achieved is significant
and suggestive. The deed of trust pro-
vides that the income may, when wars
are no more, be devoted to the uplift
of humankind as may be deemed best.
To quote Mr.. Carnegie's words the
trustees will, when that millennium of
peace arrives:
Consider what is the next most degrad-
ing evil or evils whose banishment-or
what new elevating element or elements
II introduced or fathered, or both COM
bined-would most advance the progress,
elevation and happiness of man, and so on
from century to century without end, my
trustees OF each age shall determine how
they can best aid man in his upward
march TO higher and higher stages of de-
velopment increasingly. for now We know
that man was created not with an instinct
for his own degradation, but imbued with
the desire and power of improvement 10
which, perchance there may be no limit
short Of perfection even here in this life
upon earth.
1t is worth while observing that Mr..
Carnegie does not delude himself with
the idea that the Punishment Of war
will in itself prove to be the panacea
for all human ills. Many evils and
heavy burdens may be ascribed to the
havoc wrought by war and the hard
ships inflicted by preparation for war,
and there is reason to believe that
without war, or the fear of war, the
concentration of effort now diverted in
these directions upon wealth-produc-
ing enterprises or useful service would
be a tremendous factor for prosperity
and progress.
But every age brings it's new prob
lens and new abuses to be reformed
and every forward step shows higher
attitudes TO be reached. The Danish
ment Of war is therefore not the ulti-
mate goal, but rather the closer APP
proach OF mankind TO more perfect life
on earth. When wars are no more
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-12-25
Mothers Of Then and Now.

The popular" writer who bewails
what he assumes TO be the fact that
the "old-fashioned" mother is no more
is liable to defeat his own purpose If
that be intoxicating in children the
highest possible regard for their
parents. II is a danger which even
the cumulative theory of literature
or space rates cannot justify.
The mother of the past, of course,
was different from the mother of the
present. as different on the whole as
the conditions OF life then and now,
but since her daughter is the mother
OF the present there must be some
points of similarity. All the good in
our mothers and grandmothers GER
tainly could not have vanished II
will be paying scant tribute TO those
dear, good women who have laid down
their precepts and examples and
passed on TO say so. And, of course,
this writer does not mean TO do that,
yet he comes very near doing what he
does not intend.
The fallacy OF the whole sentimental
notion that because things and people
are not like they used TO be they are
not as good lies in the patent fact that
they cannot be alike, and IL they were
it would simply be because OF the pres
emit generation being so much inferior
10 the past that it was unable to do no
more than stand still. With all the
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-12-25
CHRISTMAS POETRY.
The way to nethIehem

The way 20 Bethlehem Is flower-strewed
Where children lightly run,
Bearing gay garlands TO the manger, rude
For Him, the Holy One.
The way to Bethlehem Is fragrant-fsir
with lingering odors, sweet
Where loving ones bear myrrh and spike
nard. rare.
To lay at Jesus feet.
The way to Bethlehem, DER vale and crest
Echoes with carols, far.
As hopes glad pilgrims on that pathway
blest.
Follow the Beacon Star.
REBECCA FARsoN MKAY.
Chicago, December 8, 1910.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-12-25
LINCOLN WAS DIFFERENT.
Ambassador Reds Measure of the
Martyr President.


Ambassador Reds Measure of the
Martyr President.
Minneapolis Journal.
Ambassador Reid has been telling the
English what manner OF man Lincoln was.
He declared Lincoln TO be greater than
Bismarck who created an empire" or
Gambetta, who saved a fallen people, Z"
or 'Mazzini, who helped put a new soul
in another" or Ito, who transformed
some hermit islanders into the present
first of Asiatic and peer OF European
powers"
WIN the English believe Mr.. Reid. will
Europe? The Europeans think of course,
in European terms. and Judge by European
standards. So that to reach their judg-
ment Mr.. Reid was forced to make com
PARSONS. But was his superlative quail
fication OF the emancipator in any part
American spread
We should agree at once that Lincoln
was far greater than GRmbetta or Mazzini
greater also than Ito. We believe II is q
fact that he was greater than any man
in Europe since Napoleon, with the ex-
ception only of Bismarck, who is one Of
the half dozen great figures of history.
and we would prefer to, say, not that he
was greater than bismarck, but diff
ferent from him, and that his difference
was petter than BiBmarck'S kind.
The ambassador put his finger on Lin
coins distinction. There Is but one key
save events-to the character Of this
strange, uncouth. elf-educated, gifted and
ambitious son Of the commonest of the
common people His nature from child
hood was one of absolute truthfulness, with
himself as we'll as with others; Of abso-
lutc honesty with himself as well as with
others; and OF an absolute courage that
would face the stake IL need be for his
convictions OF duty"
We realize Lincoln's intellect and his
genius which are peer of the greatest
But do we realize the greatness of the
mans character, his justice his lack Of
egosm. his truth? Therein he differs from
the great men Of Europe. therein he Is
American. What Coleridse depiored as so
infrequeut and praised as so fine, Lincoln
was-"the great good man."
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-12-25
SERMONS BOILED DOWN.

Love never listens to fear
It's a long way to heaven by the back
door
You do not gain strength by posing for
sympathy.
when a sin suits as It usually becomes
Insignificant ...
Happiness and holiness take turns az
being cause and effect
"Thy will I've done" calls FOR cooperation
as well as resignation.
When the preacher IS olevating himself
he is lifting no one else.
when you see a saint flounderinE around
you may be sure he is tripping over Dor
rowed garments Of piety.
Many think that Il Is trust in Providerur
that enables them to remain calm In %.
face OF the disasters OF others. -Chicbgo
Tribune
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-12-25
GivInE dc RaiIroad Avn.

z Springfield CMass), Republican.
Speaking before the federal commission
to report on the subject OF public con-
troll OF railroad capitalization, Francis
Lynde Stetson, legal representative of
the ]. p. Morgan firm, ridiculed the no
ton that overcapitalization had q tendency
to cause unduly high rates. Then he said
that IF we only had one road without
any competition and no government regu-
lation, it is likely that overcapitalized
roads would be inclined to raise the rate"
SO the notion he ridiculed cannot be so
ridiculous after all for most roads left
to themselves have been inclined to in
flate their capital and the situation then
is similar to that described in the quoted
sentence.