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Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1910-12-07
LAW CENTER OF TEXAS.
Il Slowly Travels Westward and Il
Now is Miles West of Palestine.


Now is Miles West of Palestine.
The approach of the Thirty-second
legislature and the possibility Of an
other deluge of laws has prompted the
Texas Commercial Secretaries Asso-
citation to locate, as far as mathemat-
ical analysis will permit, the storm
! center Of legislative disturbance. The
association has prepared a map show
ing the law center" of Texas and
finds 1t to be about fifteen miles west
of Palestine. During the Thirtieth leg
islature, the law center rested neaf
Rusk, but it travelled on its westward
journey along the right-of-way of the
Texas state railroad and the Thirty
first legislature leaves the center near
the county line of Anderson and Free
stone counties.
Draw circle of 100 miles around
the law center and We have located
colony of perhaps the most prolific
law-givers on earth. Out of 1879 bills
introduced in the Thirty-iirst legisla-
ture, 1011 bear. the signatures of one
or more representatives within the cir
Gle. Its governors have welded the
scepter during 80 years OF, our state
hood. The constitutional convention
was dominated by representatives
from within this section. The circle
contains ~ per cent of our area and
has furnished So per cent of our laws.
The constitutional convention which
adopted our present constitution met
at Austin, November "a, 1875, and
there were rs delegates present, and
AZ of them were from the territory
enclosed within the circle. The con-
yention was composed of men of
heroic mold and our constitution is a
model in statecraft.
Since the adoption of our constitu-
ton in 1875 we have had ten gov
and seven of them came from
the district enclosed in the circle, and
these seven administrations have
given us a total of 5000 laws. The
present administration to date has
added 663 laws to our statutes. Smith
county leads all counties in the tate
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1910-12-07
CHARGED WITH WRITING
BLACK HAND LETTER.
Dummy Package Used as Decoy Was
Taken Up by Greeks.
[special to The Bryan Eagle

Especial to The Bryan Eagle.1
Shreveport, La, Dec. 7.--G. A. Ras-
teau, of Houston. and Nicci Pappas. a
Greek, were arrested here today, ac-
cused of writing black hand letter
to Tony, Sam and Frank Defatti, Ital
ian brothers and rich merchants.
The Italians were warned to leave
$1,000 at the store of Andrew Dantes,
a fruti merchant, and in case of failure
the writer threatened to kill them and
their families, and burn their homes.
A dummy package was delivered to
Rasteau.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1910-12-07
D. W. sATTs

Three lots, east front, and six-room
residence, with two halls, bathroom
and three galleries, electric lights, six
hydrants and brick cistern, servants
house and barn; all improvements in
first-class repair; garden and several
large shade trees. Price. 100000.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1910-12-07
"cRANDMA" McALLILY DEAD.

Grandma" McAllily, aged SO years,
died last night at the home of her SON.
in-law, James Wilson, Jr., at Edge, and
was buried this afternoon at the Edge
Presbyterian church. She was a pre-
cious old mother in Israel and spent
a long and useful life, scattering sun
shine and happiness among those who
knew and loved her. She has gone
home now to be with God through all
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1910-12-07
BRYAN DISTRICT
ORGANIZED
Churches Over the County Organized
Into Circuit and Allen Academy
Student Made Pastor..

Several Brazos county churches
were organized into what Is to be
known as the Bryan circuit at the
Texas Methodist conference, which
met in Galveston a few days ago. The
churches are those at Steep Hollow,
Thompson Creek, Wellborn and Mill
lean. and Rev. o. O. CASTOR, who is a
student of Allen Academy in this city.
was appointed pastor of the circuit
Two of the churches were recently
organized.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1910-12-07
PREACH AT COURTHOUSE.

The Eagle is requested to announce
that Rev. E. Bates, of Stamford, will
preach in the county courtroom at the
courthouse on next Sunday morning
at II O'Clock. Rev. Bates is of the
Recognized Church of Jesus Christ,
Latter Day Saints
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1910-12-07
BOY HELD ON BOND.
Charged with Breaking Mans Neck
in Fist Fight.

Especial to The Bryan Eagle.1
Dallas, Texas, Dec. AT an exam.
lining trial here this morning before
Justice T. A. Work, H. A. Foster, age
Is, charged with the murder Of DR..
o. B. Nicholson, who died at Grand
Prairie Monday, following a fist fight,
was granted bond in the sum of $1,000,
which was made and the defendant
released. Nicholson's neck was broken.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1910-12-07
Cheap Water Valuable Advertising
Asset.

1t mas been said that we never miss
the water until the well runs dry, but
the commercial clubs of the state
should look well after water supply
before their well runs dry. Plenty of
cheap water is strong advertising
card and manufacturing plants can not
run without water the entire year.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1910-12-07
BURGLARS ROB LIVERY STABLE.
Hold Up Manager, Rifle Safe and
Escape.

ISpeclHI 10 TIC Brydh Eagle.
Tulsa, Okla, Dec. 1.-Two highway
men entered Jones livery stable late
last night, held up the manager and
robbed the safe of its contents. After
the robbery they climbed a telephone
pole, cut the wires entering the stable
and made good their escape. A posse
is searching for the robbers.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1910-12-07
DEATH PENALTY ASSESSED
Alexandra caIderon to Hang for MUIR
der Of Or. Morales at
San Antonio.

Especial 20 The Bryan Eagle.I
San Antonio, Texas, Dec. 1.-THE
jury in the district court today con-
victed Alexandra Calderon of the muir
der OF Dr.. Morales and assessed the
death penalty. The jury was out TWEEN
ty hours.
Morales was stabbed last July. The
men had been friends.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1910-12-07
For Sale
The following property:

40 acres between |. &. G. N. and
n. & T. c. tracks, one mi e
from city limits, as good produc.
ton upland as there is in the county,
every foot tilable and new county
road in prospect bordering on north
side. AS just bought another place,
1.-THE KnowIs FARM | do not need
this. North line intersects the road
going west to River. A good crop
raised on it this year.
GUY BITTLE
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1910-12-07
BALLlNGER WHITEWAsHED.
Majority Report Of Investigating Com.
mittee Presented Today.

Especial to The Bryan Eagle.]
Washington, Dec. THE majority
report presented to congress today &C.
quits Secretary of the Interior Bal
linger on every charge in the Pinchot
case.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1910-03-09
From the "oId Home Hous

If~l HE way we got into the hotel
business in the first place come
around like this: Me and Cap'n
Jonadab went down to Well
mouth Port one day long in March
to look at some property he'd had left
him. Jonadab's Aunt Sophrony had
moved kind of sudden from that vii
lage to Beulah Land-they're a good
ways apart. too-and Cap'n Jonadab
had come in for the old farm, he be-
ing the only near relative.
Great big old fashioned house with
fourteen big bedrooms in it, big barn,
sheds and one thing or mother and
perched right on top of hill with five
or six acres of ground round it, and
how the March wind did whoop in
off the sea and howl and screech lone
someness through the pine trees!
"Jonadab," says l, .'what'l you take
for your heirloomY
"Well." he says. "BarZilla, the way
feel now l think I'd take return
ticket to Orham and be afraid of be-
ing took up for swindling at that"
Neither of us says nothing more for
spell. and. first thing you know. we
heard carriage rafting somewhere
up the road | was shipwrecked once
and spent two days in boat looking
for sail. When | heard that rafting
felt just the way done when
sighted the ship that picked us up.
"Judas! says Jonadab There's
somebody comingF'
| He was a tall chap with a smooth
face, kind of sharp and knowing.
"Cap'n Wixon2" he says to me, stick.
ing out gloved ripper.
Not guilty" says |. There's the
skipper. My names Wingate."
'tGlad to have the pleasure, Mr.. Win
gate" he says. "Cap'n Wixon. yours
truly. My names Brown-Peter T.
Brown. read about your falling he'll
to this estate, Cap'n Wixon, in a New
Bedford paper. l happened to be in
New Bedford then. representing the
John B. Wilkins Unparalleled All Star
Uncle Toms Cabin and Ten Nights
In Barroom' company. 1t isn't my
| regular line. the show business, but II
produced the necessary ham and
every day and the excelsior sleep in
viter every night. So But never mind
that. Soon as read the paper came
right down to look at the property
Having rubbered. back / go to Orhan
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1910-03-09

And IN come the new Italian man.
smiling and bowling. Well. we laughed
at Browns talk and asked the Italian
all kinds of fool questions. and nobody
noticed that the count want saying
nothing Pretty soon lie gets up and
says be guesses he'll 20 to bis room.
cause he feels sort of sick.
Now, that's too badr says Brown.
Spaghetti. you needn't wait any
longer"
So the other Italian went out too.
And then Peter T. Brown turned
loose and talked the way he done
when me and Jonadab first met him.
He just spread himself.
1t was just about quarter past 1
and we was laughing our heads off at
one of Browns jokes when out under
the back window there was a jingle
and a thump and a kind Of grooming
and wiggling noise.
What on earth is that?' says DiIla-
way.
II shouldn't be surprised says
Peter. cool as mack'rel on ice, IF
that was his royal highness the count.
He took up the lamp and we all
hurried outdoors and round the cor
ner. And there, sure enough, was
the count, SPRAYING on the ground
with his leather satchel alongside of
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1910-03-09

can't stand 1tp
to see you. Your handsome and tai
ented daughter says you are over here,
Thatll be about all. Here am.
Now, then. listen to this"
He went under his matches, rousted
out sheet of paper. unfolded it and
read something like this. ] know ii
by heart:
The great sea leaps and splashes before
you as it leaped and splashed In the old
boyhood days. The sea wind sings to
you as it sang Of old. The old dreams
come back to you, the dreams you dream
ed as you slumbered upon the cornhusk
mattress In the clean. sweet little cham
Der of the old home. Forgotten are the
cares of business, the scramble for mon
ey. the ruthless hunt for fame Here are
perfect rest and perfect peace.
Now. what place would you say
was describing?" says the Teller.
Heaven says Jonadab, looking up,
reverent-like.
You never see a body more disgust
ed than Brown.
Get outY' he snaps. "Do look
like the advance agent Of glory2 Lis
ten to this one
He unfurls another sheet of paper
and goes Off on a tack about like this,
The old homel You who sit In your
luxurious apartments, attended by your
iiveried servants. eating the costly dishes
that bring you dyspepsia and kindred
evils. what would you give to 60 back
once more to the simple. clearly living
OF the old house in the countryside old
home, where the nights were cool and re-
freshing. the sleep deep and sound. where
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1910-03-09
DELICATE CARE IN FRUIT HAIR
VESTING,
wearing GIoves-Other Interesting
Points.

There is no crop in the world that Is
handled so tenderly as oranges. accord
ing to the latest government report on
the industry in California
First, the fruit is carefully taken
from the trees by experts wearing
gloves. Then great pains are taken in
the sorting, the choicest oranges Of
all being set aside to be placed in Sun
kist" wrappers.
Before being wrapped, however, the
fruit is wilted." all the moisture being
absorbed from the skin. Then comes
the pollshIng process, after when me
pads to prevent bruising. A few min
utes later they are packed. '.Sunkist'
oranges are always picked and shipped
the same day. Q0
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1910-03-09

"Why don't you take that thing of his
tootG
him, and his foot fast in a big steel
trap that was hitched by a chain to the
lower round of the ladder.
Hi, Chianti," says Brown, ''come
here minute! Here's your old college
chum, the count, been and put his foot
in it,"
When the new barber showed up
the count never made another move,
just wilted like a morning glory after
sunrise. But you never see worse
upset man than Ebenezer Dillaway.
But what does this mean?' says
he. kind of wild-like. why don't you
take that thing off his foot?"
oh" says Peter. hes been elongat-
ing my pedal extremity for the last
month or so. don't see why ! should
kick if he pulls his own for awhile
! You see." he says. its this way:
Ever since his grace condescended
to lend the glory of his countenance
to this humble roof. be says its
stuck in my mind that Id seen the said
countenance somewhere before. The
other night it flashed across me where
I'd seen it. About a couple Of years
ago ! was selling DR.. Bulger's Electric
Liver Cure, the same being a sort of
electric light for shady livers. SO to
speak. | made my headquarters ar
Scranton, and while there my hair was
shortened and my chin smoothed in a
neat but gaudy barber shop presided
over by my friend Spaghetti here and
my equally valued friend the count
So says Peter. smiling and cool as
ever. when 1t all came back to me.
as the song says. | journeyed to Scran-
ton accompanied by photograph of
his lordship. | was lucky enough to
| find Macaroni In the same old shop.
He knew the counts classic profile at
once. 1t seems his majesty had hit
up the lottery short time previous for
few hundred and had given up bar
bering | suppose he'd read in the
papers that the imitation count line
was stylish and profitable. and so he
tried it on. 1t may be-" says Brown
offhand. that he thought he might
marry some rich girl. There's some
fool fathers, judging by the papers,
that are willing to sell their daughters
for the proper kind Of tag on pack
age like him."
Old man Dillaway kind Of made a
face as if he'd ate something that tast-
ed bad, but he didn't speak.
'And So" says Peter, Spaghetti and
came to the Old Home together, he
to shave for twelve per and to set
traps. left the ladder by his
grace's window, thinking he might find
it handy after he'd seen his friend Of
other days, particularly as the back
door was locked"
The next day there was a nobleman
missing at the Old Home House. and
all we had to remember him by was
trunkful of bricks. And Peter T.
Brown and the queen" was roosting
in the Lovers Nest, and the new Ital-
ian was busy in the barber shop. He
could shave too. He shaved me with
out pull, and my face amt no plush
eofy, neither.
And before the season was over the
engagement was announced. Old Dill
away took it pretty wen. considering
Ire liked Peter, and his having no
money to speak or didn't count, be-
cause Ebenezer had enough for all
hands. The old man said he'd been
hoping for son-in-law sharp enough
to run the Consolidated stores after he
was gone. and It looked. he said. az If
he'd found him.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1910-03-09

makes old stoves look like new
and lasts four times as long as any
other shine. It is so much better
than other stove polishes that
there is absolutely no comparison.
1t is in class all by itself.
Now these are facts that we
want to prove to you.
Ask your dealer for a can of
Black Silk Stove Polish and give
it a good trial. Try it on your
cook stove, your parlor stove or
your gas range.
Ifyou don't find it the best polish
you ever used your dealer is author
lied to refund your money.
Made in liquid or paste, one
quality. Used on sample stoves
and sold by hardware dealers.
BLACK SILK STOVE POLISH WORKS
L. K. WYNN, Maker, Sterling, Illinois
Ask your dealer for Black silk Air Drying Iron
Enamel. for use on CRATES, tenders, registers,
stove-pipes, etc. Prevents rusting.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1910-02-12
CONSERVATION.

The preliminary report of the national water
ways commission was transmitted to Congress last
week, in which the commission recommends plan
for the conservation of water power In the light
of future needs rather than extended improve
ment of the channels of navgable streams with the
intention to force reduction of freight transporta-
ton rates by rail. The findings of the commission
cover wide field and deal especially with the
problems connected with the development of cleo
trio power from the rivers of the land
While many difficulties will have to be met be-
fore federal control of streams of water will be
granted, if it is finally decided that constitutional
authority exists for such control an ADEQUATE de-
velopment of the water power now running to waste
may be looked for. If constitutional disabilities
intervene the work will have to be taken up by the
several states, by private enterprise, or it will
have to remain undone unless the constitution be
amended.
Conservation so far has done little with the de-
velopment of the water power of the nation. the
greatest development along this line having been
accomplished by private enterprise The objection
urged against continuance of privaJe DEVELOPMENT
of the power resources of the country is that the
promoters grow Unfortunately rich at the expense
of the many. The problem opens up new trend
to paternalism in the governments which had #
been extended from the beginning, would have
placed the COAL the OIL all the metalliferous mines
the forests and the land under the control of the
federal government, to be conserved for the ben
eft of the people rather than the benefit of those
who developed the resources
Just now it is urged that the undeveloped coal
fields of Alaska belong to the people and should be
: I'D by the government for their benefit. If that
Il SO, the gold taken from the hills is likewise the
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1910-02-12
WHAT rs MEANT BY LENT.

The ecclesiastical season known as Lent (from
the Saxon lenten, springtime), dates from at
least the beginning of the fourth century, that is
say it is nearly one thousand three hundred years
since the custom of observing fast of forty days
commemorating the forty days fast of our Re
deemer-was established
ST. Irenaeus-m artyred early in the third cen
fury, mentions that the custom of keeping fast
before Easter Sunday quite old in his day
The manner of observing Lent naturally diff
fered in different countries and the degrees of
strictness depended climate and national habits,
but everywhere in Christendom before Luthers re-
volt, Lent was season consecrated to penance and
modification.
The object of the church in establishing the fast
of Lent to instruct her children in the obliga
ton of doing penance, and in the discipline of vol
untary suffering. 1t to prepare them to fit
tngly celebrate the resurrection of Jesus Christ by
inviting them to partake, so far it was possible
to the creature in the sufferngs through which it
was expedient for Him to pass before He rose from
the tomb and entered into His glory.
AshWednesday, which opens the season of Lent,
is day of public penance and humiliation in the
Catholic church all over the world 1t is called
church besses ashes-emblem of the mortality of
the body-and her priest makes, with these ashes
the sign of the cross-the mark of our redemption
on the forehead of each and every one of u.s. say
ing as he does Remember, man, that dust thou
art, and unto dust thou shalt return" Gen H. 81
Palms, which were blessed on the Palm Sunday of
the year before are burned in a stove or brazier,
and the ashe of these palms is that with which the
priest signs our foreheads Aside from the obliga-
ton of fasting and abstainng there are two other
duties recommended by the church to each one of
us. And these are prayer and the giving of aims,
commonly called Charity to the poor" from which
may plead exemption. These three Chris
tian duties-prayer, fasting ,ams- givng-are men
toned together in our blessed Lords sermon on the
mount. All three are spoken of in a way that shows
them to be equally binding Christians. All three
guarded in the same way from the danger of
hypocricy and outward show. We are not to sound
trumpet when give aims We are not to pray
in the corners of the streets to be seen of men.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1910-02-12
THE VATICAN AND MR.. FAIRBANKS.

By tactful arrangement Mr.. Fairbanks audi
ence with King Emanuel was fiexd for Saturday
and that with the Pope for Monday. But when
everything seemed satisfactorily planned the Vati
announced that it would be impossible for his
holiness to receive the former vice president if he
carried out his intention to speak in the American
Methodist church here because the Methodsts had
been active in PROSECUTING among the Catholics
Cabled from Europe.
Rats Mr. Fairbanks might address all the
Methodists, Baptists, Presbyterians and Mohamme-
dams to be found in the Eternal City,
and the Pope wouldn't concern himself
about it. The former vice president was
persona non grati-an undesirable guest-at
the Vatican, simply and only because he know
ngly violated the etiquette of the Pontfical court
If the king of England in visiting Rome gave pre-
cedence to local sovereign over the supreme head
of the Catholic world, the doors of the Vatican
would be closed against him. Mr. Fairbanks ought
to have called upon the sovereign Pontiff before
visiting the Italian king. 1t is the law laid down
by the Vatican and the former vice president ig-
nored that law. If Mr.. Fairbanks did not know the
law he ought to have consulted some one in author
ity And if knowing the law he ignored it, then be
deliberately invited the rebuke.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1910-02-12
THE POSTAL DEFICIT.

Perennially there appears an agitation STARTING
from Washington, looking to the increase of the
postal revenues by raising the rate on seeond-cs.
mail matter as applied to publishers. Each time
the agitation appears there is great outcrv at tba
enormous deficit entailed by the handling of +bi.
second-class matter. The postoffice department
fails to "pay."
Now, do not question the desirability of bav
ing the postoffice department pay" When the
rate of cent a pound was established. it was in
tended to encourage the publication of newspapers
and periodicals in order to aid the dissemination NJ
knowledge. The press was recognized as a great
educational factor and the distribution of readirg
matter as of greatest Importance in the spread Of
knowledge. That is the reason the rate was made.o
cent pound. If there is deficit, the government
could well afford to make it up was the argument
The idea that the postoffice department should
pay is based on a rather flimsy pretext. anyway
The army costs much more to maintain than +h,
postoffice department 1t doesn't pay" The navy
doesn't pay" The department of commerce. and
labor doesn't pay" Neither does any other de-
partment "pay." Some even have the temeritv to
suggest that conservation and the weather bureau
are largely unnecessary and useless-that canserva-
ton doesn't conserve and that the weather bureau
joke But we fail to remember any agitation
to make these things "pay." The appropriation for
the postal deficit is a mere bagatele compared with
the appropriation for the war department 1t would
be poor piece of business to discourage the publ
cation of newspapers and periodicals by increas-
ing the postage rates on the plea that the depart
ment fails to "pay" Let us get the navy on self
sustaining basis first.