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Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1912-07-01

Fort Worth-The county commits.
sioner's court has fixed the assessed
value of railway property in Tarrant
county at $13.727 per mile. The lowest
rate per mile is that given to the Fort
Worth & Denver of $1,000 and the
highest, $4,000 per mile, is given the
Texas & Pacific.
Fort Notwithstanding to the June
edition of the Crop Reporter, the nor.
NAL temperature In Texas during May
was 1873. as compared with GIG for
the United States as a whole. The
precipitation for the same month was
1856 inches in Texas and 3.07 in the
United States whole.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1912-07-01

Paris-All the bond issues voted on
in this city recently carried by a ma.
jority of six to one. The total, amount
ing to $4,000, will be used in con-
structing sewer system, fire protection
and for paving purposes.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-07-11
PLUNGE IN RIVER
FATAL To BOY, Z
Freeman Quinn Drowned While
Bathing in Chattahoochee.
PIaymates Find Body.

With ore hand raised above the muddy
waters, as though signal Of distress,
twelve year old Freeman Quinn was
found in the Chattahoochee river yes
terday afternoon. The boys home is in
Chattahoochee. He lost his life near the
Southern railway trestle.
The drowned boy was discovered by two
Of his little playmates, whom he had left
only a few minutes before The three
boys were on the river bank picking
blackberries and Freeman Quinn wander
ed away from the other two to go in
bathing
When he was missed, a few minutes
later. his two companions thought he had
gone home. A short distance away, how
ever, they found Freeman's clothes on the
river bank CHANGING into the river, the
little fellows were Mortified to see small
white hand. Just above the surface. The
hand was being waved to and fro by the
buffeting waters, as If reckoning for aid
The two boys rushed for assistance and
the body was recovered.
Coroner Donehoo later held an inquest
the jury finding the death to have been
accidental.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-07-11
AT THE THEATERS
WEATHER FAILS TO KEEP
CROWDS FROM FORSYTH

Despite weather conditions, the For
syth is being crowded as usual at all
performances.
Edmond Hayes and company in their
Commute sketch of comedy is one Of
the biggest laugh winners that has been
seen at the Forsyth. Hayes is a nat
ural comedian, and one of the best
character actors that tho stage has
ever known. He is splendidly support
ed and The Piano Movers" create a
drawing ward value that is being evi
denced
Isabelle Diamond and Frank Carter.
Bright Bits add % ths interest in
the bill There IS probably No more
popular comedienne n all vaudeville
than dainty Miss D'Armcnd, and her
partner is a dancer Of extreme clever
ness.
The pretty Meinctte Twins have
scored a hit and there is macn an
plause in appreciation Of their supe
rior dancing and entertaining singing.
Jack Lamey, Joe Coonlbs and How
ard Winburn are winning their spurs in
neat trio act of piano playing and
singing.
Next weeks program will be headed
by Master Gabriel and company in a
comedy playlet called Little Kick. -
This is the newest success of the crea-
tor of Buster Brown" and little Ne
mo-" Tempest and Sunshine in one OF
vaudeville's greatest novelty acts and
the French and Italian Opera Com
pany are among the features.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-07-11
CLARK To CONF En-
WITH GOV. WILSON
Oscar Underwood Also to Call
on Candidate Legislation
To Be Topic Discussed.

sFAGIRT. n. j., July ia confer
.,ce which is going to have an i'm
,ortant bearing upon the Democratic
national campaign. was arranged here
.o5av when Woodrow Wilson, Demo-
cratic nominee for the presidency, re-
,Aived telegram from Speaker Champ
clark his strongest rival in the Bal
.,r,ore convention. stating that the
sneaker would come to seagirt satur-
day.
Sneaker Carlk asked Governor Will
.or N set a time for the conference,
and the governor selected Saturday aft
ernoon. Mr.. Clark will return to Wash
,ngtor Saturday night. Close associ-
otes Of Governor Wilson here declare
+bat Mr. Clark will pledge his hearty
snnnort to the Democratic standard
nearer and make Suggestions as to the
campaign.
Democratic Floor Leader Oscar I'm
5ervood will come to Seagirt next
Wednesday for a conference with Mr..
Wilson. The closeness of the visits
lads TO the belief here that pending
national legislation will be the chief
tonics of discussion.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-07-11
SCALES ON FISHING POLE
TO R0UT THE SKEPTlCAL

COLUMBUS. IND. July 11.-Leon ].
Cox, clerk of the Bartholomew circuit
court, is an ardent fisherman. and he
has at last rugged up an outfit that will
help him greatly in the future In the
past he has often gone fishing, cast his
fly and hooked a big one only to have
it get away He told friends about the
weight of the fish that got away. but
they have been skeptical
Now Cox has bought a spring bal
ance weighing up to fifteen pounds. 1t
is small affair. but has been tested
and found to be accurate. He will at
tach this to his line near the pole and
when he hooks a fish the jerk will cause
the balance to register the weight Of
the fish Hereafter Cox will be able to
tell the weight Of those that get away
as we'll as--the weight of those cap
tured.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-07-11
MAN FALLS INTO SCALDING
WATER: is PARTLY COOKED

LAFAYETTE, IND, July 11.-George
wilson. an employee of the Dryfus
packing plant fell into tank of boil
ing water and was terribly scalded. He
was releasing geo gallons of boiling
water from a vat by standing on a
board turning a valve. His feet slipped
on the board and he was plunged into
the water. which came UP to his waist
and splashed over his head and arms.
Part Of his body was literally cooked.
He is not expected to live
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-07-11

There is more Catarrh in this section of
the country than all other diseases put to-
Supposed to be incurabie For a great
many years doctors pronounced 1t a local
disease and prescribed local remedies, and
by constantly failing TO cure with local
has proven catarrh to be a constitutional
disease and therefore requires constitu-
tional treatment. Halls Catarrh Cure,
Toledo, Ohio, IL the only constitutional
cure on the market 1t Is taken internally
In doses from 10 drops to a teaspoonful. It
acts directly on the blood and mucous sur
faces of the system They offer one hun
dred dollars for any case 1t fails to cure
Send for circulars and testimonials.
Address:
F.. j. CHENEY & co. Toledo Ohio
Sold by druggists, 75c
Take Halls Family Pills for constipation
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-07-11

If you one Of the army Of men and who
from $25 $40 $50 per week. the story of Fortified Hills
will be interesting.
In fact the story interesting nearly everybody, but
have been talking principally to the recipients of the
velopes containing from $25 to $40, even $50.
Since first announced that Dr. E. W. Grove, the
of beautiful Fortified Hills had decided put gnificent
property the market through firm
been aroused.
Men who have wanted something of the ordinary but
whose income did not permit of anything offered in the
have investigated Fortified Hills.
They have beauties; have breated pure air
there; have how the children play the private
parks upon which the homes face without fear of being crushed
by passing roeys automobiles and they have become
Unused Fortified Hills.
The and who receive the twenty-five forty
dollar envelopes enjoy and parks and flowers and
excveness well those who do have depend pay
envelopes They like to feel that shop
store saloon will never be built alongside of their homes
But until Dr. Grove spent fortune developing and beaut
flying Fortified Hills there has not been any class residence
section within the reach of the with the
$40 or $50 pay envelope.
This property has every restriction that high class property
should have class of buildings and of residences
And within the reach of those with moderate
years this property has worked upon by ex
perts into shape Hundreds of thousands of dollars
have been expended and effort spared make the ideal
residence section The and shrubbery which
when work commenced the property add to the
natural beauties of Fortified Hills
Cement sidewalks down. paved and every
thing ready for the home builder For Fortified Hills place
for homes--not simply houses.
There beautiful homes there already Work is
about begin eight Workmen finishing the last
of the development which has been going for years.
Fortified Hills is ready for the home builders
You will understand how easy to own home in
this beautiful residence section until you let tell you about
the terms They have been made to fit the $25 $40 $50
pay envelope
handsome booklet illustrated with views at Fortified
Hills, will be mailed for the asking
d. II
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1912-05-18
TO ELECT SENATORS BY THE PEOPLE.

The Congress of the United States, after more
than Is years of elaboration, has finally adopted
resolution amending the Federal constitution pro-
viding for the election of United States senators
by direct vote of the people. This amendment
must be ratified by two-thirds of the states
1t has been long fought battle. The most
bitter period Of the contest during the past 20
years, from the time the Populist party first vgor-
ously demanded change in the method of electing
United States senators.
Since the people have awakened to the fact that
Big Business has been nursed and fed by privileges
granted from Congress that it controlled through
its manipulation Of the machinery Of state legsla-
lures, there has been an incessant demand for the
election of senators by the people.
Today in several states the people have beat
Congress to the proposition by binding the members
of the state legislature to pledge themselves to vote
for the candidate for the United States Senate who
had received ma jorty Of the votes Of the people
Of the state
Under the proposed constitutional amendment
the election Of United States Senators will be
taken completed v away from state legislatures. By
doing this two birds have been killed with one
stone Not only will United States Senators gen.
orally be elected by the people, but better class
of men will be elected to the state legislatures.
Many men who have stood with the people on
issues that of much concern to them have been
defeated at the polls simply because of their party
utilization and the fact that they would vote for
candidate for the United States Senate who was
not member of the ma ority political organization
of the state.
When the order goes into effect it will strip
from the state legislature every semblance Of nation
al political relationship, and particularly Of the
party kind. Then legislatures will be called upon
to attend strictly to state matters.
We progressing so fast politically nowadays
that the extreme radicals Of but few years ago
are becoming the ultra conservatives of today.
Every progressive measure of recent years is not
only placing power in the hands of the people,
but it is clinching that power with fastness that
will make secure our form of government.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1912-05-18
BIG BUSINESS DON'T
LIKE POPULAR RULE

" ARPER'S (Pierpont Morgan's)
III Weekly recently published the
following squib:
whats the matter, Jorrocks? You
look as blue as indigo" said whitley,
sympathetically.
II am blue" sighed Jorrocks. IT
spent 100000 getting. a divorce from
my wife, and after got it, blest If
she didn't submit the question to the
people, and by a majority of 1897
am still married to her."
What Mr.. Morgan's editor was real
ly thinking about was something like
this:
whats the matter, Gotrox? You
look blue"
II am blue" sighed Gotrox. II
spent $4,000 getting f1fty-year fran
chise from the Legislature and an
other 100000 to have a law spelling
my monopoly declared unconstitution-
al, and after I got both matters
through, blest if some cranks didn't
submit the questions to the people and
by majority vote I lost out on BOTH
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1912-05-18
TAX SYSTEM THAT MAKES
FALSIFTERS OUT OF MEN

THE question is docs personal
Il property tax make liars out Of
men?"
If the taxpayer is one who 1avors
system of compelling every one to
pay according to the value of his
property, no matter in what shape
that property may be, then he should
have the courage of his convictions,
should truthfully declare the exact
amount he has in bank and the exact
value of everything else he may own.
He has no right to evade the conse-
quences of a system which he has
helped to fasten on the people. He
should take the dose of his own med1-
cine as gracefully as he can. If that
experience shows him better then he
has been shown before, the horrible
injustice Of the personal property tax,
then let him join the ranks of those
who would abolish it, and are trying
to do so. After that whether he sue
ceeds or not he need feel under no
obligation to do differently at tax
paying time than when asked to sub
NIT to some illegal robbery.
The man who has opposed this rob-
about what to do. He should do exact
ly as he would II confronted by q
highway robber in lonely place who
| would hold a pistol to his head and
shove an open bible up to him COM
handing him to lay his hand thereon
and truly swear how much in cash
and valuables he might have about
him. The moral obligation in either
case to tell the exact truth is just the
| same. There is no moral difference
whatever. between the right of the
! State and the right of the highway
robber to exact the oath, and no NOR
al difference, between robbery by the
State and robbery by an outlaw.
What a man produces by his own
labor or obtains from the producer
in a fair manner is his own. The
State has no moral right, even If II
has the physical power, to deprive
him against his will OF any part Of It
He does. no wrong in evading such
robbery. provided he has not previ-
ously used his power. as q voter to up
hold and encourage It. The State
ought to get It's revenge honestly. II
can do this by taking Tor public pur-
|. Doses the valuss which al the people
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1912-05-18
STORY ABOUT AN OLD MAN.

Jim Beatty was quite along in years-nobody
knew how old, and it doesn't matter-but he some
times got jobs about the Santa Fe wharves at San
Diego. He wore poor clothes, wasn't always
washed, and lived alone in little hut in the
suburbs Nobody inquiries much about man like
that, you know and so, whence he came or what the
ife-trals that had wrinkled his face and bent his
body we cannot tell you. All we'll! he was just a
dereict, just piece of society flotsam with which
the Pacific coast is strewn. He lived by himself
with his secrets and the world was willing to let
him.
One day last week Jim passing some
children who were playing with box of matches
upon the sidewalk. Little Renee Clements clothes
took fire. Jim sprang to her, clasped her in his
arms, smothered the flames with his body.
Then, horribly burned himself, he worked his way
through the crowd and went to his hut to bed.
Alone, blstered burning with thirst, without food,
company help of any Sort Jim tossed and groaned
upon his poor couch for two days and nights Then,
in some way, maybe through Him who notes even
the sparrows fall, the parents of the Clement child
got word Of Jim and visited him with help in their
hands. He smiled at them through his blisters. II
wanted to save that little GIRL" said Jim, "and
idea that he had saved the child had been keeping
Jim up all the time he laid there hungry, thirsty,
lonely, in the agony of dreadful burns
But Mr.. Clement bowed his head. 'FOur little
Renee died the morning AFTER he murmured. Then
old Jim Beaty's eyes filled and, with great sigh,
he turned his face to the wall.
And now it seems as if the whole world wanted
to know old Jim Beatty, the recluse, the dock
walloper the hero in the old faded blue overalls.
They nurse him. They give him good things to
eat. They talk about Carnegie medal for him.
They say he is grand They love him. Honestly,
many of them love all humanity better because Of
him, for they have to believe that, often, with
the patched overas, the caoused hands; the labor
stained face and the rough exterior Of the common
toler goes the soul Of the greatest of heroes-the
soul of him who is willing to lay down his life for
another.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1912-05-18

Organized labor has protested frequently against
the abuse of the writ of injunction in labor disputes
it has demanded relief from the state legislatures
and congress, and will not rest contented until the
dstatoral powers of the judiciary are curtailed and
regulated within reason and equity. n
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1912-05-18
MORE CULTURE FOR FRICK.

Henry Clay Prick has just paid a quarter of a
million dollars for the ''Portrait Of a Dutch
Merchant one of the finest Rembrandts in
existence
On the other side of the state the Wideners have
Rembrandt's ''The Mill.'' So the culture at both
ends is complete.
Of course, Frck, before he could enter the higher
regions of art had to acquire large pile Of steel
engravings issued by the authority Of the United
States Government. TO get that glorious pile he
had to sweat and kill main thousands Of workers
in the Pittsburg steel mills upon the railroads
Of the United States
But he can forget the source of his wealth in
contemplating this new art treasure
A Dutch Merchant! A nice, comfortable, digni-
fied well-fed man! He is somewhat different from
Pennsylvania merchant, for things in the world
Of commerce have vastly changed. Maybe, two or
three hundred years from now the portrait of Prick
will be held in high regard, for people will desire
to look upon it as the representation of for
he might be rich, that he might be comfortable and
that he might indulge his fancy for expensive works
OF art, and tho more expensive they the more
desirable he would consider them.
But there is thing the people Of that time
will not understand ard that is why the people of
our generation should have submitted to an ex-
Ploitation inhuman and at time when the real
workers were starving or were being recklessly
killed in industry, should have turned over to a
Prick to any other person profits great enough to
buy such quarter Of million dollar trides
Prick has so much money, torn from the work
ers that he actually does not know what to do with
it. So he has decided he is judge and appreciation
| Of paintings He might have gone in for rare books
which he cond not read, or for tapestries, or for
precious stones, or for something else. Whatever
would have enabled him to waste money in a salts.
factory way would have been equally desirable But
his squandering has taken this form an;: the work
ers must work still harder to enable him to indulge
| in it.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1912-05-18
BOOSTS AND SLAMS
ON CURRENT EVENTS
RUSSIA AND THE UNITED
STATES ON CENSORSHIP

WEIR a decade ago officials of the
~ Post Office Department started
campaign for restricted circula-
ton of the public press, and for this
purpose demanded Of Congress an in
crease of the postage rate, adopted a
code Of laws extraneous to the laws
passed by Congress-, and enforced
them with the help of small army
Of inspectors and a secret star-cham-
Der court.
In the course of six years of revolu-
tionary ferment and it's aftermath.
from December Z, 1905, to October
Il, 1911, the Russian authorities con-
f1scated issues of newspapers and
periodicals in 1866 cases. In 283 of
these cases the issue confiscated were
destroyed, and in IL cases certain
pages of articles were removed by
order only to confiscations which were
subsequently approved by the courts.
In the United States of America
during the same period, 1905 to 1911,
inclusive, 5,236 publications. were de-
MED access to or elected from the
mails, resulting in permanent sus-
pension of issues, in many cases with
little less disastrous results to the
owners than would have been the con-
f1scat1on of types, presses, and other
printing and publishing equipments.
In Russia the conf1scation of LOSS
publications applied only to certain
specific issues or parts of issues, not
to the publications themselves, in
every case the authority for the proce-
dure being justified by regularly con-
stituted courts.
In the United States the confiscation
covered the whole establishments, to
the ability and right to publish fur
Their issues, without appeal to the
courts. and based, not upon any we'll
defined or MISUNDERSTOOD laws of
congress. but upon certain multitudin-
Gus, obscure, arbitrary rules and reg
ulat1ons, varying according to the no
tons of the official who happened to
occupy the seat of power, and chang
ing from year to year.
The excuse for such mild exhibition
of Russian despotism was the publ
cation Of articles inimical to the
Government: the sole pretext in the
United States for such drastic and
arbitrary action was the authority
given to the Postmaster General by
Congress for the classification of mail
matter. The pretended justification
was that the Government lost money
on second-class matter, a. condition
that did not exist.
Of course the real reason for this
campaign was to conceal the fact that
excessive payments to railroads fol-
carrying the mails had caused a def.
cit. In order to protect railroad graft
the Cleveland, Mckinley, Roosevelt
and Taft administrations have thrown
freedom of the press to the winds
and have grown holder and less scrup.
ulous in this tyrannical policy as time
has gone by.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1912-05-18
Do YOU TELL THE TRUTH
ON PERSONAL PROPERTY

FORMERLY if a man didn't turn
l. in a full account of all his per-
sonal assets to the tax appraiser he
was merely fibbing.
This year he commits perjury.
The Tax Assessors are now on their
rounds. This is the open season for
truth-telling. Every man must make
oath to his schedule Of personal prop
erty.
"Are you sure you have listed all
your personal property in this sched~
ule?" asks the Assessor.
Eyes, SIR" you reply, right boldly.
"You have given here all the money
you have in the bank?"
Eyes, SIR" There is a quavering
information in your voice.
"Then stand up to be sworn says
the Assessor.
You hesitate before the oath-giver.
You color up. You swallow hard.
You have $1,000 in the bank, pay
ing percent interest, or $50 year.
One thousand dollars, scraped to-
gether through sacrifices. You didn't
go anywhere on your vacation last
year. Your wife has made over her
last years. hat. You have had dry
cleaned your last summers suit be-
cause you considered that you couldn't
afford to put up SIS for a store suit.
You have denied yourself the
| theater for two years; you have cut
out smoking, and you take your lunch
in a place where they serve coffee
| and rolls for cents.
And all this self-denial is to one
purpose-you are planning to build
a home.
Now, if you tell the truth about the
$1,000 in bank it will cost you SIS in
taxes, or one-half of the interest you
| draw from the bank.
Fifteen dollars, is exactly the price
| of the suit which you denied your
self in order to swell the bank &C
count. It would have bought your
| wife two hats. It represents 800 g.
cent cigars.
These thoughts race through your
mind more quickly than the time it
{ takes to tell them. And there is the
cross current echo of the Assessors
words: ''Stand up to be sworn
! And then you-
| Well, what do you do under the
circumstances