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Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1911-09-13

less, disconnected, disconsolate and
vicious. Jealousy arose among them
and famine and starvation drove them
to strife and war.
That without a prosperous agricul.
ture there can be no permanent pros.
perity was amply shown by the down
fall of these great empires. Contin-
uous cropping of any land without re-
turning to it the plant food consumed
by the crops. grown will impoverish
that land, and as the land is impov-
erished county becomes less pros
porous. If power, progress and plenty
are to continue in this country there
must be developed and practiced a
system of agriculture that will pre-
serve the fertility of our land. This
| is the problem confronting the Ameri-
can citizen today. 1t must be remem-
bered that as the fertility of cur soils
is being wasted our population is in
creasing and the demand on the land
lis becoming greater What a dark and
gloomy picthre A fast increasing pop
ulaton and fast depicting of land
fertility. If something is not done to
change the system of agriculture that
is robbing the land of its fertility, pow
erty, famine and pestilence will visit
us as they do in Russia, China and
other less prosperous countries.
AS a state or as nation We are re-
fusing to lift hand to stay the fast
approaching period of ruin and dis
tress that is bound to come to this
fair land of ours as it has 10 other
great powers unless we apply the
science of agriculture to our work.
Rotation of crops will aid for awhile
to defer the impending peril. The APP
plication of barnyard manures will
only postpone the inevitable But these
things are not sufficient to maintain
permanent fertility, permanent pros
perity and permanent agricultural
wealth. We must go further We must
return to the soil year by year, pound
by pound. the mineral substances that
are taken up by the growing crops.
Here is where the science agriculture
comes into play and here is the saliva
ton of our permanent prosperity, This
can be done-this must be done if we
are to retain our reputation as the
greatest agricultural nation of the
earth. Houston Post.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1911-09-13
Permanent Land Fertility Means Per.
manent Prosperity.

Maintaining permanent soil fertility
is the most stupendous problem of the
age. The prosperity of this country
depends upon the power of the soil
! to produce and the continuation of
this power depends upon proper agri-
cultural methods. The practice of the
past must be abandoned if our agri-
culture is to be maintained The
| Creator never intended that land
should wear out and become power
less to produce. 1t is against common
sense. But common sense is lacking
in the treatment of soil in our present
day system of agriculture.
Historians of the past have told us
of the decline and fall of the Baby
lonian, Egyptian, Grecian and Roman
empires. They have attributed their
fall to the pride and immortality among
the people. More recent scientific in.
vestigations have concluded that their
ldll was uue W Tie tAuduSllOH anu
waste of the agricultural resources of
these ancient republics. Those lands
once pointed to as the land of milk
and honey, with mighty agricultural
wealth and resources, fare now an al
most barren waste capable of support
ing only wandering band of ma
RAIDERS, and its villages are largely
the abiding places of beggars and pau
pers. The fertility of it's lands has
passed away and with its passage
passed all material resources, wealth
and fame leaving only memory OF
their greatness. The land being robbed
of its fertility ceased to furnish food
sufficient to supply its tillers, and
those depending upon it forced the
tillers of the soil to seek shelter in
the cities and villages. Being ignorant
of the causes leading to the depletion
of the soils fertility they became rest
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1911-09-13
PREPARE FOR HARD WINTER.

Washington, Sept. 13.-lt is high
time to take off the sleeveless and
knee-length ones and get the heavy
ones out of the moth balls. According
to unofficial weather prophets all over
the country, summer is due to end to-
morrow and winter-an early and
hard winter-will soon be upon us,
This forecast is based on the chirp-
ings of the katydid, which, as all old
timers know, has the weather bureau
left at the post as prophet of cold
weather The katydids began their
chipping early this summer, and this
can mean nothing-say the weather
wise-but that cold weather will come
earlier than usual.
Straw hats will officially be rele-
gated to the ash can on Friday, ac-
cording to ancient usage.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1911-09-13

The nerve of some people is wonder
full. They aspire to senatorial robes as
If just anybody could wear them. They
don't fit everybody. Most of them are
mems size. When Horace Chiffon Of
fered for the senate, Dick Smith. dis
cussing his right to wear them, said
He is worthy the Orifiamme of a
Bayard adorned with the lilies of
France" to which the editor of the
Pilot replied that Joe Bailey was
worthy the Ephod of Aaron, and the
urim and thummim of that royal robe
would hang lightly from his princely
shoulders. Let's be careful and not
hang these habiliments on some
pygmy who has mistaken an enlarged
gall for brains.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1911-09-13

The theft from the Louvre in Paris
of the painting Mona Lisa, for which
England offered $5,OOO,OOO, is almost
as difficult to explain as it is to ex-
plain the distractingly puzzling pic
ture itself. Those dimpled checks, that
weird, half-soliciting smile, that high,
well-developed forehead and those
knowing, almost flirting eyes, have
caused more discussion and talk than
any other painting, Raphael's Madonna
not excepted.-Bonham News.
That Texas editor talks like he was
as familiar with the Mona Lisa as we
are with that other masterpiece, fire.
quently seen on the billboards and
known as "The Blue Jay Corn Cure"
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1911-09-13
SMALL FARMS VS.. TENANT.
HANDLED PLANTATIONS

made trip down in Green county,
Alabama, recently where the land Is
rich and level; great fields of fine.
rich land. and the little tenant hut
dotted here and there. Only spot
now and then in corn, and wide acres
of cotton, and along the railroad right
of-way the alfalfa was over knee-high.
Through the country now and then
you came to farm with as fine al
falfa as grows in Colorado. To think
the Creator gave our people a land
that would abound in all the cloyers,
grasses, wheat, oats and corn, then
see the big cotton plantation that has
no inviting look about it; poverty.
eternal drudgery, year in and year
out; disappointment at every harvest,
to say nothing of bleeding the soil
until II reissues to yield at all. And
! to think we have seen this very condi-
ton all our lives. It's an old. old
story, Still there are people who ac-
tually don't want to live any other
way Certainly strange to me. And
right in the heart of this fine land II
can be bought mot all of IT'D for s15 to
$40 an acre
Contrast this with a section passed
through the other day on a fast Louis
vile & Nashville train between Nash
willie and Decatur, Ala. Through this
valley as far as the eye could see were
beautiful farm homes-lots of them.
The pastures had blooded red cattle
and pure-bred hogs. sheep. and fine
mules and, horses. jacks and jennets,
all fat and sleek at the coming of
srringtime. Along the roads you saw
people that had happy, contented
look on their faces driving first-class
roadsters that could move.
asked citizen who got on the
train az a little station what the land
sold for. He replied, 500 to 5000 an
acre; net because it's better land than
Green county, Alabama, but because
it's country OF small farms and the
owners live on them. And all along
you could see substantial church and
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1911-09-13
THIS DAY IN HISTORY
lS04-The cotton crop OF Georgia was
ruined by caterpillars.


lS04-The cotton crop OF Georgia was
ruined by caterpillars.
1S5O-The Advance and Rescue, Amer
lean vessels in search of Sir
John Franklin, were completely
fastened in the ice
1S54-Fifteen hundred deaths oc-
Cured of cholera in London.
lS55-The expedition in search of DIR.
Kane, who was in search of Sir
John Franklin, arrived at Lieve-
ly, Isle OF Disco, Greenland.
where they found DR.. Kane and
his companions, who had trav-
eled eighty-three days to Dan
ish settlement, leaving their
ship in the ice.
1S64-General Grant from Virginia and
General Sherman from Atlanta
wrote open letters urging the
North to fill the quota of volun-
teers called for.
1S94-The voyage from Southampton
ito New York was completed by
the American liner New York
in six days, seven hours and
seven minutes.
904-Operations around Mukden
stopped by seas of mud and the
exhausted condition OF both the
Russian and Japanese armies.
President Roosevelt put case of
Russian auxiliary cruiser Lena
in hands OF state and navy de
partments.
90i-lnterparliamen Union at st.
Louis adopted resolutions call
ing on powers to intervene at
once in Russian.Japanese war,
and in favor of President Roose-
welt summoning The Hague con-
ference.
! 90S-At the Eucharistic Congress, in
session at London, a procession
Of the papal delegates and prel-
ates was held without ceremo-
NAL features.
1909-Commander Peary denied that
Cook reached the North pole.
l910-Lucius futile retired as presi-
dent of the Boston & Maine
railroad.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1911-09-13

chief sources of revenue, over the lie.
high Valley during the past year
amounted to 1.65O,251 cans, compared
with 1,512,645 in the previous year, an
increase of 49,, sos cans, or more than
8 per cent. AS the cans hold 10 gal.
Ions each, the increase of 1911 over
1910 was l,379,060 gallons. Practically
al! of this goes to the metropolitan dis
trict, most of it to New York City it.
self.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1911-09-13

school buildings. But not so in the
negro tenant section, and never will
be until all these old big farms are cut
up and sold out in 40 to 100 acre
farms. When this is done Green coun-
ty will blossom like rose and not
before.-Mark Ramsey, in Starkville
(Miss.) Progressive Farmer.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1911-09-13

1t appears that bill" Fishers name
was William Ross Fisher A man gets
his full name in the newspapers twice
when he gets married and when he
dies-Topeka Capital.
The criminal courts of Virginia re-
Gently dug up a fellows full name.
But then he's not expected to live
long.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1911-09-13

The Kosse Cyclone thinks "a cotton
picker that doesn't shoot craps or stop
work every Friday to spend his week S
earnings is what the Texas farmers
are needing right now" The Eagle
must take issue with the Cyclone. 1t
is only more of the crap-shoo5in' kind
that is needed.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1911-09-13
Weather Conditions.

The maximum temperature for the
cotton region yesterday was 1O2, re-
ported from Dallas, Greenville and
Waxahachie. The minimum was 65,
reported from Clarendon. Not drop
of rain was reported in all the cotton
region.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1911-09-13

OF course it's shock to fellow to
dream he is millionaire and then
wake up to the reality that he hasn't
got cent. But that is not in it with
the escaped convict from the Texas
penitentiary who talked in his sleep
the other night up in Oklahoma, gave
his secret away and awoke with gives
upon his wrists. For hard luck story
that beats them ALL
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1911-09-13

President James NJ. Lynch of the
international Typograp hical Union. at
the recent convention of the organiza-
ton, caleld attention to the fact that
the printers arbitrate disputes with
their employers without calling in an
outsider, the third party having long
since been eliminated. The superior.
ity of the new plan over the old is ap-
parent. When there is third party
in an arbitration proceeding whose
voice is the balance of power, the
other two parties generally devote
their time and energies in an endeavor
to convince him that there is only one
side to the question. When there is
no third party the representatives of
the disagreeing parties make their
showing and their arguments to each
other.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1911-09-13

The Palestine Herald wants to be
known as a booster" and not as a
'mourner." Certainly a laudable am
bition. The "mourners' bench" in
Bryan is as empty as last years
birds nest
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1911-09-13

How would the Chinese plan of max
ing director ride on the cowcatcher
of each locomotive, to prevent acct
dents, work for few months on some
of our American ines?-Chicago
Record Herald.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1911-09-13

The average man who eagerly runs
his automobile all over the country
would promptly balk at the request of
his wife to crank up the ice cream
freezer-Atlanta Constitution.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1911-09-13

With a senatorial toga dangling
from the official clothes line, there is
not likely to be very much political
peace" in Texas.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1911-09-13
RAILROAD NOTES

Fifteen years Is the average life OF
railroad crossing.
A German engineer has invented an
electrically operated apparatus by
which he claims to measure time to
the tenth-millionth part of second,
and which he is trying to induce the
railroads to use
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1911-09-13

The erstwhile "washlady" gives the
high sign as she drives by, headed for
the cotton patch-Temple Telegram.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1911-09-13

A eoin-in-the.slot machine invent1l
by an ingenious Englishman enables
a person riding on railroad train to
learn at what speed he is travelling.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1911-09-13
Family Politics.

Family Politics.
Fathers a republican,
Mas a suffragette.
A democrats the only man
Fur Uncle Jim, you bet.
Aunt's a prohibitionist,
Says that drinks crime;
And our new baby, he Is jist
Insurgin' all the time.
Tyler Courier-Times.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1911-09-13
Why He Buys at Home.

! buy at home
Because my interests are here.
Because the community that is good
enough to live in is good enough for
me to buy in.
Because / believe in transacting all
business with my friends.
Because | want to get what ! buy
when pay for it.
Because the man | buy from gives
value received always.
Because want to see the goods.
Here | live and here buy.-Bell-
vile Times.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1911-09-13

Subscribers will confer a favor on
the management by telephoning the
Office promptly when carriers fail to
deliver the paper. or when change OF
residence occurs.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1911-09-13

A good road is a lasting monument
to the genius and progressiveness of
a nation. Imperial Rome fell centuries
ago and her temples have crumbled
into dust Only her good roads sur
viye.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1911-09-13

Prominent Americans travelling in
! England, notably among them Jacob
H. Schiff and James r. Keene. are re-
ported as saying that the employees on
English railroads do not receive ade-
quate wages. In some instances men
with families are expected to live on
seventeen shillings to one pound a
week.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1911-09-13

Transportation is the very life.
blood of commerce and greater produc.
ton requires enlarged avenues OF
transportation and unless we improve
the public road the most important in
strumentality of transportation, our
progress will reach its limitation.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1911-09-13
LABOR NEWS AND NOTES

India has law limiting adults
working hours to twelve day; chill
dren's to six.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1911-09-13

The sheet metal workers have con-
tributed $4,000 to the Mcnamara de-
tense fund.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1911-09-13

The annual session of the West
Texas Dry Farming Congress Will
meet in Abilene on September q and
2S, and the Abilene Chamber of Com
merce and the citizens of that city are
making extensive preparations for the
entertainment of the delegates. No
other subject is of more interest TO
that section of the state than dry
farming; in dry years it is the saliva
ton of the country and in wet years
a larger yield may be obtained by EN-
ploying the dry farming methods.
Practically every county in Central
Texas and the Panhandle is assured
of representation at the congress and
a successful and instructive session is
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1911-09-13

dren's to six.
The sheet metal workers have con-
tributed $4,000 to the Mcnamara de-
tense fund.
BY an order Of Secretary Nagel OF
the department of commerce and Ia
Dor, assignment of salaries OF en-
ployes to loan companies is prohib'
tied.
More than 100000 deposited in Den
yer banks by various unions has been
withdrawn because 1t was believed
that some of the officials of the banks
were interested in mines where union
men are being boycotted.
The San Francisco Labor Council Is
asking candidates to state where they
stand on the questions of municipal
supply. street car service, rates for
water, gas, electricity and telephone
service, bonding limit and the rela-
lions between capital and labor.
The union painters of Chicago have
shouldered the responsibility of the
trade education of the 400 apprentices
employed in the union shops. A few
more years and the Chicago employer
will have no more cause to complain
of a scarcity of competent workmen
nor room to make odious comparisons
between the skill of the native and
the foreign-born workman,
The California State Federation of
Labor is busy sending to all unions in
California copies of the proposed con-
stitutional amendments to be voted
on this fall, calling particular atten-
ton to those dealing with the initia-
tive, referendum recall, woman suf-
frage, employers liability, employees
compensation, and urging all trade
and their friends to support
these amendments at the polls.
The Textile Workers International
Union is at present engaged in an en-
tensive campaign of agitation and ed
ucation in behalf of its label. The
union has had published 100000 cards,
giving the names of firms handling
union made hosiery underwear, sweat
ers, ETC.. which are being sent to cen
trail labor bodies and individual unions
throughout the country. This union
has had hard fight to secure good
wages and working conditions, and I'M
ess there is demand for the label of
he union it will be almost impossible
or the union to maintain these condi-
ions.
President lanes NJ Lynch of the
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1911-09-13
CONTRIBUTED BY COMMERCIAL
SECRETARIES ASSOCIATION

Mr.. w. A. Reynolds of Richmond
has established modern, up-to-date
Jersey farm where he milks fifty cows
with a vacuum mixer operated by a
gasoline engine, which milks six cows
at a time and the milk is carried to
the sealed cans by rubber tubes. Mr.
Reynolds Is finding ready market for
his products and is receiving 40 cents
per pound for all the butter he can
produce Dairying is growing at a tre-
mendous rate in Texas and this
growth is explained only in the fact
that the men engaging in the industry
are making money. However, Texas
still imports a large percentage of her
dairy products, condition that is
more than suggestive of favorable
openings awaiting enterprising new
corners who understand the requisites
for success in the dairy industry.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1911-09-13

By an order of Secretary Nagel OF
the department of commerce and Ia
Dor, assignment of salaries OF en-
ployes to loan companies is prohib-
tied.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1911-09-13

Statistics show that tourist travel
is increasing approximately 10 per
cent to Western centers. On this basis
lit is estimated that in five years, at
the end of which time the transconti-
mental tunnel to James Peak will be
available, 100000 people will be travel
ing in that direction.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1911-09-13

Shipments of milk, one of the roads
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1911-09-13

Michigan railroads are looking for
ward to the greatest crop of sugar
betes ever gathered in any state in
the Union. Approximately 100000 acres
are planted and. farmers will receive
more than $S,O00,OO0 for their beets,
while the roads will derive a hand
some revenue for carrying them. AS
"a beet sugar producing state Michigan
now ranks first.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1911-09-13

Arkansas on Wheels" will arrive
in Cincinnati on the evening of Oc-
tober 20 and spend the night there
This is special train of eleven cars,
four of which will be an exhibition
and the remainder carrying $50 state
and municipal officials and leading cit
liens OF. Arkansas who are going out
to boost their section.
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-03-31
BOSS COX ESCAPES TRIAL
BEFORE JUDGE G0RMAN
Jurist Retires from Criminal Branch Of
Cincinnati Common Pleas
Court Saturday.

CINCINNATI! March 30.-Gcorge B.
Cox. The Republican leader. will not be
tried on the charge of perjury by Judge
Frank NJ. German of the common pleas
court
This became almost certain today Wien
Judge I. y. Jones OF Jackson and Judge
Fcstus Walters of Clrcevillc. III ma jor
ity decision. sustained the mandamus
proceeding against Judge Charles j. Hunt
OF the circuit court here. ordering him
10 rule the affidavit filed by Cox S
attorneys charging 'bias and prejudice"
against Judge German.
Between Cox and q trial in Judge Cor
mans court are these obstacles:
Judge Hunts decision on the bias and
prejudice affidavit against Judge Cor
man.
a ruling on motion by Cox's attor-
news 10 quash the Indictment
Action On plea Of abatement and
GemurTer 10 the Indictment which can
sill he fled"
Only two days remain for these legal
tcchnicaliiieS 10 he brushed out of the
way inasmuch as Judge German retires
from the criminal branch of the COM
mon pleas court on Saturday
The decision places the case as 1t was
eleven days ago when the prejudice
ard bias" affidavit was filed before Judge
Hunt and IL Is the opinion OF the at
torneyS opposed TO Cox that the Republi-
can leader has accomplished what lie
started out 10 do, not 10 he tried by
Judge German.