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Pony and Cart Contest Closed.

The pony and cart contest which
has been in progress at the New
Princess Theatre closed last night at
II o'clock, and the judges have been
at work today counting up the votes
and determining who the luck one is
to be. The result will be announced
in The Eagle tomorrow afternoon.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1912-11-29

Don't let anybody fake you in
sewing machine deal. If they claim
their machine is as good, just ask
them to let you phone $40 and have
a Singer brought to your home, and
We will show you right in the pres
ence of any competitor the great adj
vantages the Singer has over all other
makes. Walker G. Satterwhite.
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Attention, Masons!

There will be a called meeting of
Brazos Union Lodge No 1919. A. F.
and A. NJ, tonight at s o'clock for
degree work. The members are urged
to attend.
A. l.. Mondrick, w. NJ.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1912-11-29
TeIlinu a Lie

is a sin even though it be business
lie. l am again selling the worlds
most popular sewing machine, "The
Singer" and when l say it is the best
know l am telling the truth. Phone
$40, the Singer store.
Walker & Satterwhite, Agts.
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Notice. Public!

| have a number of unclaimed bun
dies Of fruit trees, assorted varieties,
in perfect condition which l will sell
tomorrow Saturday on vacant lot in
front OF postoffice at a great discount.
This is your last chance. | am going
away tomorrow night. w. T. Baggett,
salesman Austin Nursery.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1912-11-29

Brickley, the star of the Harvard
Princeton game, is a product of the
Everett (Mass.) high school. He has
younger brother who is now train
ing at the same school for Harvard.
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Marriage Licenses.

Will Gillespi and Hettie Worford.
Anderson Jones and Georgia Hack
EFT.
Henry Johnson and Anna Merritt.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1912-11-29

Walter Howard McGay has been
elected captain of the Amherst foot
ball eleven for next year. He played
on the varsity for two years at full
back and has been president of his
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1912-11-29

For Rent-Furnished room for light
housekeeping; electric lights and
bath. Corner Dallas and Franklin
streets.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1912-11-29
Lost, Strayed or Stolen.

A white pony; no brand; both back
hoofs white, both front hoofs black
shod all around; fourteen hands high ;
about six years DID, good saddle
horse. $500 reward. Inquire of
Charlie Vesmirovsky at Magnolia sa-
loon.
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Quarterback has given more trouble
to the Yale coaches this season than
any other position on the team.
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Mrs. Ratte,s Residence compIeted.

Jesse Cannon has just completed
an elegant two-story residence in the
western part of town for Mrs. Louis
Bate. The home is of modern archi-
lecture and is a beautiful one, both
exterior and interior
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class. McGay's home is at Oak Park,
Ill. He is twenty years old and a
member of the Delta Epsilon frater-
nifty.
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Texas University 4s; Arkansas o.
Yesterday afternoon in Austin the
State University downed Arkansas by
a score of As to 0.
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THE WEATHER.

Tonight and Saturday: Generally
fair and warmer.
John DAILY, Jr.
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It costs more than $4,000 to keep a
big college team properly armored for
the game Of football.
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THE COTTON MARKETS.
Bryan warehouses have received
cotton of this seasons growth to date
oo fo1fnu,o.

Spot cotton sold in Bryan today for
~ 1-Sc, middling basis. Market closed
A points under Wednesdays final
quotations.
Cottonseed, s17.00 per ton.
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Real Estate Transfer

Webb p. Ward to ]. NJ. Hanna. the
Rohde addition; consideration, 1880.
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FOOTBALL.

The big season ends tomorrow with
the Army-Navy cltsh.
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Washington's True coat-of-Arms.

the unhappy lot of the royalists, or
Kings Cavaliers; and rather than
bow to one whom they looked upon as
a usurper many of the Washingtons
fled to foreign lands. John and Law
renee, brothers, came to Virginia, the
former being the grandfather OF
George Washington, the first presi-
dent of the United States.
Among the distinguished Washing
tons who escaped persecution by flight
from England was one whose identity
genealogists long sought vainly to
verify-the brother of General George
WashingtOn's great grandfather This
Washington's name was James, and
he fed to Rotterdam, Holland, where
in 1850 he welded Clara Wander Lam
en-, daughter of the mayor of the port.
From this union was derived the pres
ent Dutch and German Washingtons
a sturdy folk who adapted themselves
to these governments under which
they have held and are at present
holding official positions of high sta
ton. One Of these German Washing
tons offered his services In military
capacity to the United States consul
at Frankfort-on-Main in 1852. He ex-
pressed himself as anxious to enlist
in the Union army, and presented the
consul with verified genealogical
chart prepared from the records of
the Dutch government. This gentle
man was Baron de Washington. The
statement has been certified by Will
lam W. Murphy, consul at that point,
and attested by the Honorable Fred
erick Kapp, of New York City, who
was visiting in Germany and wrote
letter in which the circumstances
were fully described.
The original correspondence and
data in my possession relating to the
Dutch and German Washingtons prove
the baron to have been direct lineal
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WAShiNstOMS Be Zeal Name

adelphia May 2, 1892, the third year
of his presidency, and the package
was sealed with the Washington fam
lily arms as is indicated In a letter
which reads:
''The arms enclosed in your letter
are the same that are held by the
family here; though / have also seen,
and have used, as you may perceive
by the seal to this packet. flying
griffin for the crest"
The Washington crest, "a raven is
suing from ducal coronet, gold" was
manship of the early English Wash
ingtons. In fact the crow, falcon and
hawk have been for more than four
hundred years the emblem of sport.
The pastime of hawking was engaged
in only by the wealthy and the Wash
ingtons were noted for their love of
hunting and sporting. Benson j.
Losing lent some color to the fore
going conclusion when he wrote of
the English Washingtons:
For more than two hundred years
the De Wessyngtons, or Washingtons,
were conspiring after their kind (rob-
Der knights) fighting, hawking, ca
rousing and gaming"
This grant of the raven was in 1900,
at about the same time that hawking
was at it's height as a sport, for at
about the same period we find that
in Spain the son of Columbus attempt
ed to prove that his father was of
aristocratic and also Of heraldic fam
lily in that "he was of a people who
kept their own hawks" This alone,
in those days, stamped the man as a
falconer, as only people of high social
standing were permitted by license to
engage in that enjoyment; hence a
raven, a falcon, crow or hawk on
the shield or crest indicated prOm1-
nence This sporty and hunting dis
position of the WashingtOns was dis
tinctly manifested in the Washingtons
of Virginia, of which our first presi-
dent also gave liberal expression.
There are five distinct Washington
shields, but in the heraldic records
they are pronounced of the same
origin, as follows:
A silver (argent) shield upon which
are two red (gules) bars; in the top
(chief) three red muIIets (spurs of
knights boots).
A red (gules) shield with single
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white (silver) bar charged with three
muIlets.
A red shield with white bar upon
which are three cinguefoilles, also red.
A red shield with two bars white,
in chief three martlets.
A shield of four bars, white and red.
three mullets.
A shield in green, lion rampant in
white, within a border gobonated
white and blue.
These constituted the heraldic arms
of all Washington people as recorded
in the English College of Heralds.
Washington was fond of genealogi-
cal Investigations, and in the College
of Heralds can be seen a score or
more of pages he wrote at various
times in his eager search after family
arms and crests. He was proud of his
heraldic ancestors, and this family
estimate is we'll expressed in the fire.
quency with which he blazoned the
Washington shields upon his choice
tokens and yaluables.
Many such instances may be noted
in his heraldic watch charms, his sew
eral personal seals; the doors of his
carriages; the porcelain of his dinner
set; the silver ware of his liquor serv-
ice; the fireplace and the mirrors; the
picture frames and his library walls;
his bookplate and his saddle. and
practically everything upon which a
family signature or shield might be
engraved, painted or printed.
The illness of Sir Isaac Heard, the
head of the English department Of
heraldry, closed the correspondence
relating to Washington's eager at
tempt to prepare a Washington gen
ealogy and origin and evolution of the
family coat-of-arms. This interesting
correspondence has never yet been
scripturally reproduced, and it is to be
regretted that a continuance of the
investigation was disturbed by illness,
since many disputed biographical
problems would doubtless have been
solved.
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washineton's Crested Carriage.

of England William of Normandy
was the victor, and King Harold, with
tens of thousands of his English, was
among the slain. The victorious
French marched to London, and on
Christmas day they proclaimed their
dashing leader william /, Conqueror
and King of England"
King William. like all his French
knights, loved the French ideals of
government, church and home, and in
fused into the old English national
and domestic life all the customs of
his native land. Even the English
language, which William never could
learn, was gradually set aside, and
among the loyal French knights who
assisted the Conqueror in enforcing
his reforms was the distant kin of
George Washington. This early an
cestor of our first president was num-
bered among the intimates of the
King, and was one of the leaders of
the French Conquest. In the past,
American historians, possibly because
of the strong influence upon literature
exercised by England, placed the
Washington ancestry as beginning in
that country; but careful investigation
bears out the statement that the
Washingtons were of definite and di-
rect French origin. They were French
both in sentiment and training, and
The original name was De Hertburn.
Naturally the question arises, why
was the name changed, and what in
duced these faithful French subjects
of William of Normandy to assume an
English cognomen? The explanation
is simple enough William the Con-
queror was a careful and far-seeing
man. He realized that his usurpation
of the English throne was very rad
zeal departure in a governmental ex-
pertinent, to say the least; and he was
anxious to mould the people, whom
me had made his vassals by dint of
the strong hand, into as close dupli-
Gates of the French as possible. In
other words, he strove to implant the
French ideals into the English char
acter as deeply as circumstances per-
mlIteu. 4He cOluplICdI0u HSidiulC l0S-
ords found in the pages of the famous
"Doomsday Book" is undoubtedly the
best evidence that the King wished
TO make his radical campaign of perm
anent record, and hence great num-
her of men of education and ability
were occupied in diligently surveying
and noting all the land and water con-
ditions of England. They also in these
visitations made lengthy entries as to
the original English estate owners as
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was transacted through a little wicket,
through which his voice might be
heard, but his face could never be
seen. When a player wanted to buy
cards or chips he passed his money
through the wicket and got his cards
and chips-but never saw the proprie-
tor. When he wanted to cash In" he
passed his chips through the wicket
and got his money-but never saw the
proprietor.
The nimble wits of the police de-
partment wanted to pinch" that man.
but they couldn't "get the goods on
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him." Finally. however, Detective
Charles Steinert gained entrance to
the place, pushed his money through
the wicket and secured a lot Of chips
and cards. He put them in his pocket
and took them to police headquarters.
From them he took innumerable I'M
ger prints" left by the unsuspecting
gambling house keeper. These he
compared with the finger prints IN
the rogue's gallery.
That evening he arrested man on
the streets and charged him with con-
Quoting . gambling house. And the
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preme. A decline in their
fortunes then appears to
have taken place, for in
1920, the year the Pill
grims set sail for Amer
lea, the Washingtons
were practically driven
from the Sulgrave estate
to take up residence at
Brighton with minor ma
nors and holdings. The
loss of the hundreds of
acres of rich meadows
and harvest fields was
in a measure counter
acted by the marriage OF
a Sir William Washing
ton to a sister of George
Villiars, Duke of Buck
ingham. This union
brought about new al
liances and affiliations
which made Washing
tons possible in Amer
lea, and ultimately led
to the rearing of George
Washington to be the
military leader of the
colonies and eventually
our first chief executive.
This marriage brought
the Washington family
into direct domestic so
cial and court nelation-
ship with the prominent
and powerful favorite of
the then reigning mon
arch. anu political cir
cumstance destined the
We In orfnY,C 10 aCr0,rco
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Of herald1c investiga-
ton.
Later the e S t a t e
known as Wessyngton
was spelled and en-
tered officially as Wes-
sington, the proprietors
assuming the same
name. Then it was re-
corded as Washington,
and a natural change of
the owners name In
accordance with that
of his land followed.
The proprietors became
known as William,
John, Lawrence, Rob
ert and Nicholas De
Washington. Finally
the heraldic shields
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ed the statement as cor
rect. The English poet
was misled by his fervid
fancy, for the Heralds'
College at London, the
highest authority on
British heraldry, writes
as follows: "a Washing
ton shield with stars and
stripes (pales) has never
been of record" It
is altogether probable
that Topper, as well
as others, was deceived
by the shape of the
"mullets." These spurs,
as worn by the knights
of old, were round in
form, resembling mod
ern cog-wheels some
what, and their bristling
points possibly suggest
ed the stars" of which
Upper spoke.
Hundreds of writer's
have also announced
that the crest on Gen
eral George Washing
toms coast-of-arms is an
eagle, and that this fam
lily emblem was the foun-
dation of the suggestion
that the eagle be the en-
blem of the American re-
public. While the crest
may appear like an
eagle, the facts are that
the heraldic grant of
arms to this Washing
ton branch present a ra-
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Solely By Finger Prints

rogues. On the strength of the finger
print they have arrested man they
know was guilty of crime, but whose
face no person concerned had seen.
There was a swell gambling house up
more effectually hidden than the man
in the iron mask" TIE remained in
little room. which he entered from an
oJner house. No one ever saw him:
not even his employees. All business
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ruined towns. One hundred thousand
people died in this debatable strip of
land, and there, where active hostili-
ties ever reigned, the De Hertburns, or
Wessyngtons, were stationed. This rec
ord Of the great family is absolutely
authentic in every detail, having been
proved by minute research and per-
sonal visits to the locality where it's
members were lords of the sofia
task which embraced fifteen years
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OF this honor, and possibly
because he deemed that suf-
f1cient respect had not been
shown to one of such noted
ancestry, he did not emf
crate to the United States.
However, before the inter-
view was closed, he deposit
ed with the American consul
a certified genealogical chart
on which the following ap-
pears:
Baron de Washington is
a direct descendant of the
ancient and honorable Wash
ington family of England, the
earliest emigrant to Holland
being James Washington.
one of the four brothers of
Stuart mpa t b IL e r 8
(Charles y. James came to
Holland in 1850, his two
brothers emigrated to Vir-
ginia, and the third brother
remained in England, where
he was serving as divine"
This remarkable bit of
genealogical history gives the
earliest and most authentic
record Of the Dutch and Ger
man Washingtons, of which
there are many and of whom
the church records abound in
entries of marriages, births
and deaths. Further investi-
cation brings to light the
fact that this earliest Dutch
emigrant, James, was mar
ried in the English church
of Rotterdam, all of which
tends to corroborate that he
was of English training.
Baron de Washington was
born in 1888, and his brother
Max married the Duchess of
Oldenburg and in this way
became connected with one
of the oldest sovereign fam
lilies of Europe. The House
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and French prefix OF dc was drop
per, and the modern spelling of
Washington prevailed.
The Washingtons were very prom
inent in the military as well as the
civic phases of English life. In the
days of Henry VIII, when that mon
arch was in conflict with the pope
of Rome, Lawrence Washington sided
with the king, and the latter confiscat-
ed the monasteries, converts and
churches Of the Roman Catholic
church, giving to this Washington the
Sulgrave estate, where for over a cen
tury the Washington family ruled SUI
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ven issuing from a golden ducal
crown, the crest of the family. Furth-
ermore, Washington himself clearly
shows by correspondence with the
Herald's Office at London that it was
not an eagle, and the letter is dated
ten years after the eagle had become
the emblem of the republic (June 20,
1922. His letter was sent from Phil
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descendant of the James Washington
who landed in Holland in 1850. He
married Bavarian lady and held
certificate of honorable discharge
showing that he had been a lieutenant
in the Bavarian army To obtain a
commission as officer in the Federal
army was his wish, but because of the
inability of our consul to assure him
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New York Police Hope to Convict
Gambler Who Always Kept His
Face Hidden.

The New York police force is will
ing to admit that it can go M. Bertil-
lon one better on his finger print
Identification system. which, by the
way, was invented by the Chinese a
few thousand years before M. Bertil-
lcu became terror to the French
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the cause of the king, rather than the
idol of the Commons-Oliver Crom-
well. The Washingtons performed
heroic services for the king, but
when Cromwell proved victorious
and seized the reins of govern
ment. they found England to be
no longer a safe dwelling place.
Prison sentences, exile and death was
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queer part of it all is that the police
are sure they will convict him, though
no person can be found who ever actu-
ally saw" the man in the gambling
house. His finger prints, however. are
deadly evidence against him.
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Nothing mocks
us so much as the
sense of our own
failure. We begin
the day with great
hopes, high ideal
and lofty pur'
poses, but when
th , day dies out
of the sky we con
Tess to ourselves
how great has
been our failure.
This is especially
true of Christians
who begin the
day with a sin
cere purpose to
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The man who is doing good work is
writing his name on the memory of
the world. Stone monuments are only
seen by very few, no odds how high
they may be built.
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Where all men are not allowed a
hand In making the laws that govern
them, they are slaves. They must bow
to the dictates of other men and have
no redress.
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well as an accurate record
of the biographical and her.
aldic character of the new
or French proprietors. And
in this last seemingly un-
necessary entry appears the
statement that the brave,
ever reliable Knight, Sir
William De Bertburn, for
military service to Will
lam l, be granted with feu-
dial rights and power the ex-
tensive estate known as
Wessyngton, and henceforth
said Sir knight shall be
known as Sir William de
Washington; but he shall
still be a vassal Of the bisb-
op and his heraldic demon.
ination shall continue to be,
Arms: Argent, two bars
gules (red); in chief, three
mullets of the second. Crest:
A raven with wings endorsed
proper, issuing out of a du-
cal coronet or (gold)
AS a further demonstra-
ton of the Importance of the
De Hertburns, or "Wessyng-
TONS" history furnishes the
Information that the estate
in question was under the
command of the Bishop of
Durham, and situated in a
locality exposed to the at
tack of the Scots of northern
England. On this border
there was constant warfare,
and the king naturally select
ed the bravest and most
warlike Of his adherents to
hold lands in the disputed
district. For nine years this
country between Durham
and York was laid waste,
and for ten years it was
practically a desert, no man
having the courage to at
tempt cultivation of the
blasted fields or inhabit the
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Misconstrued.

Shopman-The fresh herrings are
very nice this morning, MN.
Lady-Er-have they roes?
Shopman-Well, MN, all fish is
dearer at this on.-Punch.