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Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1911-06-16
Pretty Fine Scratches.

Most people consider polished sur
face as something absolutely smooth
that is, something with no scratches
on 1t whatever To polish thing,
however, the very reverse is done to It,
1t is filed with very fine scratches.
All eyeglass lenses. glass for mirrors,
furniture, ETC., are rubbed with fine
emery paper and later with an ex-
tremely fine powder which gives the
finishing touches in the shape of very
fine scratches Now the question arises
as to just how fine the scratches must
be-that is. how far apart they must
be, for big scratches good distance
apart give anything but polished sur
face. The answer Is that the scratches
or ridges between must be less than
one-quarter the wave length of the
light that falls on the surface for the
light to be reflected and thus give the
effect of polished surface. This is
less than one two-hundred- thousandth
of an inch for light waves No break
ing. up of the waves is caused. and
they consequently are reflected in their
original form New York Tribune
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1911-06-16
The Offense Defined.

General Craft an attorney OF Terre
Haute, Ind, was once called into a
jewelry store in the town to settle a
dispute
See here, general explained the
proprietor IF | take watch from
Mr. Smith here and make repairs that
cost me 10 cents and then keep it
hanging up for Il week and charge him
So when he comes to get 1t. what per.
centage do make? We have been
figuring for half an hour and only get
up to 900 per cent, and that is but a
dollar. so we decided to leave it to
you"
WELL" said the general gravely,
you must know that it is fact. and
It has been demonstrated by calculat-
ing machines, that at certain points In
progressive numbers the law govern.
ing them changes, In your case the
law would change long before it reach
ed the Sc and would run out of per
centage and into what Is known and
designated as larceny"
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1911-06-16

Women spectators have habit Of
giving to brokers orders with string
attached to them. A woman who
owned some bank stock asked a broker
to sell 1t at $50 II he thought she
could not get any more for 1t. The
market In this stock had been inactive
for months. and 250 was the highest
price ever recorded for 1t. The next
day the broker had chance to sell
the stock at $50. 1t so happened that
IN the same day lively demand for
this bank stock developed. and before
the day was over 1t was selling at
BOO The broker wrote to his woman
customer that he had sold her stock
for $3.50 share and would she send
her certificate TO him for delivery to
the purchaser? She refused to deliver
the stock
You ought to have known better
than to sell it for $50" she remon-
strated. II am going TO sell 1t today
myself for 300.'
1t was not until the broker appealed
to the courts that he succeeded w get
ting the stock from the woman
Strand Magazine.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1911-06-16
Charles kean'. Affections.

Charles kenn. the actor could not
pronounce rhe cousonants IN" and
IN" In the first SCENE with Jarvis In
'"rhe Gamester" he Oegan by inquir.
Ing. 'Well. Jarvis. what says the world
OF me: I'll tell thee what 1t says. II
calls me false friend. a faithless hus
band. cruel father-in one short
word. 1t calls me Gaester." In Shy
lock he was wont to say:
"You take BY life
When do you take the beans whereby ]
live"
But his most unfortunate slip oc-
CURED In the last line OF Money"
where Evelyn says that in order TO en-
JOY the good things of life we require
plenty OF money In this situation
kean always brought the curtain
down with n roar by sarcastically re-
marking that the one thing necessary
to complete their happiness is ''plenty
of putty"
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1911-06-16
NORTHERN DEMOCRATS
OPINION OF BAILEY

In an editorial headed BAILEY and
Randall" the Johnstown (Pa) Demo-
crat. speaking of the appointment of
the subcommittee to investigate Lori
mer, says:
Senator Bailey, with his character
istic duplicity, made an insidious at
tempt to save the bell wether' states
man by Introducing a resolution pro
viding for the appointment OF sub
committee of eight naming Dilling-
ham, Gamble Clapp and Sutherland,
republicans, and Fletcher, Johnston,
Kern and Lea, democrats. Had this
resolution been adopted it would have
secured Lorimer a majority of one on
the committee"
After describing how Bailey's
scheme was defeated, the Democrat
goes on to discuss Bailey, as follows
THAT Mr.. Bailey is rapidly losing
his prestige and is as much discredited
among his colleagues as the corrupt
and shameless Lorimer himself, is evil
dent on every hand. Scarcely q resolu
ton that he introduces, a proposition
that he offers or a suggestion that he
makes that is not treated with indif-
ference. He is made to feel that the
power and prestige of the tool of pred
atory privilege has passed and that the
day of the people is at hand. 1t is uni
versally conceded in official and polti-
cal circles at Washington that Repre-
sentative RandelI will beat Bailey in
walk in the next senatorial contest.
And it is a consummation devoutly to
be desired by all believers in clean pol
itics. pure government and civic right
eousness. Randell is a strong, clean,
upright man, thoroughly equipped NOR
ally, Intellectually and physically for
senatorial duties. He is the very anti
thesis of Bailey. Randell is a demo-
cratic democrat of the noblest type.
Bailey is an aristocratic plutocrat of
the most offensive species He has all
the pride of degenerate aristocrat
and the manners of a pugilist.
His heart beats not with the common
beat, he has changed hir life
streams hue;
He deems his flesh to be finer flesh,
he boasts that his blood is blue
Patrician, aristocrat. tory-whateger
his age or name,
To the peoples rights and liberties
traitor ever the same.
"Randell believes in the rule of the
people and would use every legitimate
means to give the people absolute con-
troll of their government To him the |
primary purpose of government is to
secure men their natural rights; con-
sequently he is unalterably opposed to
privilege in any form His election to |
the senate would be heartily welcomed |
by every progressive democrat in the |
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1911-06-16
GOOD ROADS MASSMEETMG AT
FRANKLIN

A good roads convention was held
at the courthouse Saturday, composed
of representative citizens and dele
gates from Bremond, Nesbitt, Wheel
ock and Franklin voting precincts. The
convention, about 200 in number, de-
cided to have petition circulated in
these four precincts, asking commits
sloners' court to order an election for
the purpose of creating said precincts
into a road district and issuing road
bonds in sum of 100000, the proceeds
of which to be used to build a macad-
am road from the Falls county line at
Bremond to the Brazos county line at
Wheelock. The road, if built, will
form link in the great translate
macadam thoroughfare now proposed
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1911-06-16
to be built from the Red river to the

to be built from the Red river to the
gulf.
From the enthusiasm manifested at
the convention Saturday, there seems
TO be no doubt that the proposition to
issue the bonds will carry, which in
dicates that the Robertson county link
in the road is assured. 1t was the
sense of the convention that Robert
son county should not wait until it
was assured of the cooperation of 9TH
err counties before building its part
of the road, but should go ahead and
build its part at once and then invite
cooperation from adjoining counties,
believing that when its part of the
road is completed the other counties
will then fall in line and join onto it.
Petitions for the election will be cir
culated in each precinct in the next
few days-Franklin Central Texan
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1911-06-16

Those who advocate woman suffrage
in the hope that it will purify politics
find a refutation Of this delusion in
Colorado, which has as rotten@ state
government as any state in the union.
But this fact does not prove that equal
suffrage is not Just. The advocates
OF votes for women should discuss it
as an economic proposition. There are
five million wage earners who are COM
PEELED to compete in the industrial
field under laws which they have no
part in making. Is this just?
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1911-06-16

The wives of north country golfers
observe very touching and pathetic
custom when an accident occurs in
the pit Directly 1t is known TO the
wife of a collier that an accident has
happened in the pit where her hus-
band works and that his fate is IN
certain she throws open the house
door. and. however inclement the
weather may be. she keeps the door
open and a candle burning in the win
dow night and day till the man is
brought home, dead or alive. In some
cases the door has remained open and
the candle alight during several
weeks.-London Graphic
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1911-06-16

"My husband has a remarkable col
lection OF old curioslties," said Mrs
BilkinS. with an air of pride.
indeed said Miss Sharpenough.
WAS he collecting when he married
you?
why, yes" replied Mrs. Bilkins in
nOcently.
That's what ! thought" remarked
the other spitefully
And then Mrs. Bilkins saw what her
dear friend meant They meet as
strangers now
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1911-06-16

The last of Bryan's numerous
schools has closed and vacation, so
eagerly anticipated by tired boys and
girls, is here at last. This reminds us
of a school song which was sung by
boys and girls more than fifty years
ago, beginning:
Vacation, haste! I'm growing weary,
The schoolroom now seems dull and
dreary."
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1911-06-16
Truly Remarkable.

quite remarkable thing happened
1T the banquet hast night"
did somebody tell story that was
new?"
mo: the stories were all old. but one
Of the speakers who said he had moth
Ing to say sat down Immediately after
saying it."-Chicago Record Herald
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1911-06-16
Amendino Dickens,

Have a heart that never hardens,
temper that never tires and a touch
that never hurts.-Charles Dickens.
Dear, dear! How long Dickens has
been dead! Writing for our day he
would have said Have a liver that
never hardens, tire that never pune
lures and touch that never fails to
land something.-Life.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1911-06-16

Citizens Of San Antonio are rails
ing by subscription a fund Of $4,000
to oil the streets in order to get rid
of the dust. Experiments have proved
that as dust-layer oil is cheaper in
the long run than water. One good
sprinkling with oil lasts from two to
three months, while the water sprin{
kler has to run all the time.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1911-06-16

When Senator Bailey makes his
promised speech against Canadian re-
ciprocity, we hope he will tell why the
Protective Tariff League is so strong
ly opposed to the measure. 1t is I'M
accountable that manufacturers would
oppose thing that Is so much to their
interest as Bailey says Canadian re-
ciprocity is.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1911-06-16

The democrats of the house have
wisely reaffirmed their determination
to concentrate all their efforts on tariff
reform. This will have the effect of
paramounting the tariff in the ma
tional campaign next year. The demo
Gratis have never yet failed to win in a
fair fight on this issue.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1911-06-16
A Curious Superstition.

The ahcients believed that the mar.
row of the human backbone often
transformed itself into a serpent. Pliny
CNatural History" volume 10. page
66l says that the marrow of mans
backbone will breed to a snake. The
Chinese (Worde's Eastern Travels
burned the backbone to destroy ser.
penis that might hatch therefrom."
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1911-06-16
He Was a StaYer.

She (desperately)-Don't you believe
they will worry over your absence If
you fail to return home until such
late hour? He tcarelessly)-There's
nobody to worry except the landlady.
and make point to keep her wor-
rying by always owing her months
Plain Dealer.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1911-06-16

The first bale of cotton, which was
sold in Houston for $lO15, brought
only SIS in New York. 1t will be sold
again, and if the price shrinks in the
transatlantic voyage at the same ratio
as between Houston and New York it
will bring about 50 cents.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1911-06-16

Senator Pomerene, of Ohio, says;
1T is high time that the American peo-
pie should know whether the stars
and stropcs arctic he the emblem Of
their power Or whether that embleml
shall be the Oil barrel or the tobacco
tag" This don't sound like noise
made by a sissy
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1911-06-16

Judge Gary wants the government
to fix the price of steel This is So
cialism pure and simple 1t GOES to
show that Edward Rellamy was true
prophet when he said thirty years ago
that the big trusts were preparing the
way for socialism.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1911-06-16

The postoffice department is kohsid-
ering suggestion that mail carriers
on rural routes be supplied with bugles
with which to announce their coming
Nothing could be thought of that
would more impress the average boy
with sense of the dignity and inn
portance of the mail carrier.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1911-06-16

1t Is hoped that with the sale of the
International and Great Northern rail-
road at Palestine the trials and tribu-
lations of this important road are end
ed and that it will soon be in a con-
dition to give more satisfactory serv-
ice
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1911-06-16

Farmers everywhere are giving their
earnest support to the good roads
movement, for they realize that good
roads will promote social intercourse
as well as cheaper transportation.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1911-06-16

Reports of showers in North Texas
caused break in the price of cotton
Sometimes the cotton market is so
sensitive that a heavy dew or dust
whirlwind is enough to tilt il one way
or the other.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1911-06-16

A scientific item says mans kinship
with the ape has been proven by a
blood test. But there always have
been, and doubtless will be in this
case, some who viii disown their poor
relations.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1911-06-16
The Cutthroat Cana.

"What is the greatest get-rich-quick
scheme you know Off" asked the film
sy financier OF his partner.
Taking money away from other
people who want to get rich quick
Wilmington Star.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1911-06-16
A Complex ACCOMPLISHMENT.

II understand you speak French like
a native"
mo" replied the student I've got
the grammar and the accent down
pretty fine, but it's hard to learn the
gestures. Exchange.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1911-06-16

Life is network of worries;
Life is filed with cares;
Life has lots of hurries
1t has prizes for him who dares.
But it also has its pleasures,
If you will make it so.
Be happy and seize its treasures,
As along life's path you go.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1911-06-16

Castro is mischief maker, of
course, but he is also a news maker,
which is a good thing forth news
papers.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1911-06-16

Congressman Rufus HARDY has
stirred up considerable of stink in
the investigation of expenditures in
the navy department Appearances
indicate that graft has been running
riot in The Washington navy yard for
years.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1911-06-16

Orator-I arsk yer. wot is this life
we old so dear? Soon I'll be Twin
with me forefathcrs The Voice AM
givin' 'em points Mt the game Ioo
London Tit-BitS
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1911-06-16

Farm and Ranch advises farmers to
get ready to plant late crops as soon
as it rains. 1t says there is yet plenty
of time for June corn, sorghum, milo,
kafir, cowpeas, peanuts and SOY beans
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1911-06-16

No reliance ought to be placed in
estimates of what the cotton crop is
going to be because such estimates
are but little better than guesses.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1911-06-16
Dodoed the Ruins.

Mr.. cleverton-Y You, saw some Old
ruins in England, | suppose? Miss
Struckett Rich Yes, and one of them
wanted TO marry Princeton Tiger
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1911-06-16

To please. one must make up his
mind to be taught many things which
he already knows by people who do
not know them. --Chamfort.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1911-06-16
A Short Story.

My new novel is story of married
life said Scribbler.
boil ii down" admonished the pub
Usher Married life is short story
nowadays -Ihiladelphia Record
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1911-06-16

Drouth is not an unmixed evil, for it
teaches the farmer to plan in advance
with view of safeguarding against
such misfortunes, which may come
in any season.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1911-06-16
The Dear Girls.

Maybele-See the beautiful engage
ment ring Jack gave me last night
Estelle-Gee! Has that Just got around
TO you ?-T0ledo Blade
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1911-06-16

In visiting the penitentiaries to see
wherein conditions can be improved
Governor Colquitt is doing work that
everybory should give him credit for.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1911-06-16

Subscribers win 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, 1911-06-16
Tuesday,

Tuesday,
"Yes; realize that we are getting
along and should begin to ecopomize
for the needs Of the future"
ut il not the future that am think
ing about. but the present"-New
York Herald.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1911-06-16

THE anti rally at Fort Worth has had
the effect of putting more ginger into
the statewide campaign.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1911-06-16

1t is "a safe bet that when Senator
Bailey is forcibly retired from the SEN
ate on March 4, 1913, Memphis will not
offer him 100000 to settle there.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1911-06-16
CONTRIBUTED BY
COMMERCIAL SECRETARIES

The war departments recent orders
prohibiting new irrigation companies
from taking water from the Rio Grande
carries with it the sugge stion that the
government expects to improve this
waterway and make it navigable for
vessels of war, but nature evidently
intended it should be a commercial
body OF water. This splendid stream
has frequently burst its banks in an
effort to water the thirsty valleys de-
pendent upon it for moisture and pros
porous homes and productive gardens
along the border make about as for
midable a barrier against foreign in
vasions as fleet of gunboats. The
worst enemy that ever attacked Texas
from the Mexico side was the boil
.weeWl and We have far more to fear
from Mexican pests. diseases and
vices than from her army and navy.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1911-06-16
Anniversary Thouqhts.

Hubby, dear. do you know that we
will have been married ten years next
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1911-06-16

Government engineers are making
d preliminary survey of the boundary
lire between the United States and
Mexico. Al present the Rio Grande
is the boundary line, but this stream
changes its bed as often as a tramp
and it has kept Uncle Sam guessing
ever since the treaty of peace with
Mexico, and he is now endeavoring to
more permanently locate the border
line.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1911-06-16

The public finger today is pointed to
the duty of the states and the nation
towards the good roads question Tex
as needs more roads and better roads.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1911-06-16

is it hot enough for your" Think
of being asked that thirty times a day
and you will have some inkling as to
the joy of being newspaper reporter.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1911-06-16

If you have something on your mind
that don't agree with you, cast it aside.
Practising this will soon make per-
feet
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1911-06-16
KEEP ON THE SUNNY SIDE

The man who can keep in a good
humor when it don't rain is the hero
of the hour. He deserves a Carnegie
medal
There is lot of pleasure missed in
this life because it is surrounded by
difficulty. True pleasure is attained
only through the most trying ordeals.
There is one rule of happiness that
has never been known to fail: Make
others happy and you will be happy
yourself"
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1911-08-11
SIGRSl(NALsSz
NJ Pc PLE. 4.
as THEY CONE AND Co

| Mrs. Maria Mcclure, Of Pittsburg
Ewho had been the guest of her sister
MRS T. w. Boydston leaves in the
morning for Moundsville to spend q
Eweek.
Mrs. Frank Conway and daughter
tMits Eva left this afternoon fol
Wheeling where they will be the
lguests Of friends Off several days,
Mrs. Curtis Hamilton who had been
Tin the i city On a several weeks VISIT
with Her mother and sister. Mrs R.
Nv, Potter andfiMrs, Charles Robb, left
lthis morning for her home III Pitts.
burg.
Mrs. Carl Potter Of Fairylew IS the
guest Of Mrs. R. W. Potter, on Wal;
nut avenue.
Mrs. Carney Hartley, Of Denver.
Colo, who has been visiting relatives
in Oakland, Nd Is the guest OF Mrs.
j. M. Hartley on Quincy street.
Mrs. Will sturm, of Wallace, is in
the city for q few days en-. route from
Plhsburg. ,,..,i,
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~, S sSsa fbSI.Siiss, f tafsla a%iIas ~ ~
,ovt ss.t arday for Silon
X Est.. ~ snats 49, ,,,a.,it. - ~
Miss Stella Tibbs, OF Elkins, Is the
guest of friends In the city.
ohI M .anI iot S nostatdsn tor A+Ionio
S CIt" 70 sn ,ers ss ssS ,ssol,s
~ ~. - e a,s 5H : Az Se - ~ ora
NJ not5s IN .oaa es ~ the ~ haa r a ~
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'S n. i = Wocras aI 70 IN c1ork.b,,r,
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The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1911-08-11
EntertaIned Woodmen .clrcIe.

Mrs. Leota Clingan and brother
Charles, sRisher, entertained the
members % the Woodmen Circle at
the homo Of Mrs. Clingan on Grant
street, In honor Of Mrs. John sculley,
Of Columbus, Ohio The evening was
pleasantly spent with music and
games, At a reasonable hour refresh.
ments, were served. Those present
were Mr., and Mrs. Bruce Morgan, Mr.
aud Mrs, viii 8. Turner Mrs. s. II.
Satteraeld, Mrs. s.A. Koon, Mrs. Jno.
Scullyr Mrs Lillian Richmond, Mrs.
Sarah BoIlln. Mrs. Ora Carpenter,
Mrs. Dolly Campbell, Misses Lillian
Ellis LILLIAN Smith, Edna Richmond,
nellie Smith, Ruth Keener, Helen Der.
ry, Opal Carpenter, Messrs. O. 20.
Berry, " o. satterfeld and Charles
swlshef