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Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1914-01-27

A few days ago the Review received
several columns of plate matter free
of charge with carriage paid. 1t was
a lengthy argument in favor of the
farmers holding their cotton for fifteen
cents. 1t implored them to wait wait
till the price went up. We didn't run
the article at all. We want the farm.
er to get fifteen cents for every pound
of their cotton, but it doesn't look
right now as though this doctrine of
holding cotton has worked advantage
ously this year. Farmers of Johnson
County have lost tens of thousands of
dollars already because they have held
their cotton.-Cleburne Review.
Talking about fifteen cents for cot
ton, The Eagle would like to know
how those farmers came out who paid
a dollar bale for the privilege of SELL
ing through the Southern States Cot
ton Corporation on a guaranty that
they would get fifteen cents. This is
not intended to stir up anything; we
really want to know il they got the
fifteen cents.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1914-01-27

The Attorney Generals Department
at Austin has handed down new
ruling in regard to the payment of poIl
taxes which lets down the bars for
the payment of the poll taxes of ne
groes and others who do not usually
pay, by designing men or special in
terests who may want to use them for
election purposes. Heretofore poll
taxes had to be paid in person, but
under the ruling referred to, they can
be paid in person or by agent in cities
of ten thousand inhabitants or less.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1914-01-27
POINTED PARAGRAPHS

soup.
Man has always a tendency to go
up in the air.
Stretch the truth and it will fly back
and sting you.
The one sure thing that comes to
him who waits is old age.
Be sure the fire is out before jump
ing from the frying pan.
Few young men rise in the world
until they settle down.
A woman's husband sometimes
causes her almost as much worry as
her dressmaker.
A woman knows her new hat isn't
becoming to her because her dearest
enemy tells her it is.
When you see woman wearing a
clinging gown it's sign that she is
willing to admit she has a good figure.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1914-01-27
CROPS FOR sILAoE.
BY C. H. EVANS,
Superintendent Agricultural Extensi-n
Department, A. & M. College.

superintendent ASTlcuituIdl DXtenSl0n
Department, A. & M. College.
AS planting time comes nearer 10
hand, get great many inquiries
about which are the best crops for
silage in various parts of the State.
No definite answer may be given
that will fit all conditions of the State.
In general, it may be said, however
that sorghum will give the largest
yield in most every part of the State.
The quality of sorghum. though, is not
as good as some other crops because
it does not usually contain as mach
grain. For Eastern Texas a mixture
of either corn or sorghum with cow
peas has given very good results. In
the middle western part the same may
be said of either sorghum or Kaffir
mixed with cowpeas, while in the ex
treme west it may be too dry for the
cowpeas, and milo or feterita alone
would give the best results.
The silage is desired simply for
roughage or as maintenance ration
for stock cattle. 1t will often pay to
sacrifice quality for quantity. II,
however, 1t is needed for work stock
or for fattening cattle it rarely pays
to produce quantity in place OF quality.
Besides the kind of crop used the yield
may often be increased at the expense
of quality by planting SO thick as to
increase the amount of forage pro.
duced, but decrease the quantity of
grain prOduced
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1914-01-27

produced. More than two.thirds of the
| States s2,250, 900, 900 OF assessed and
SO, 600, 100000 OF real value is found
there.
In their upper and middle reaches
these rivers offer sites for hydroelec'
trio power generating stations, capa'
BILE of providing vast quantity of cur.
rent for industrial uses. Damming and
diversion of them at normal flow, in
reservoirs at various points in their
courses, would afford a supply OF
water available to irrigate very large
tracts of arid and semtarid land now
unproductive. These works, combined
with levee systems in the lower
reaches, where the rivers travers a
low, rich plain, could be made to con.
troll the waters during flood periods
and conduct the surplus harmlessly to
the gulf
New revenues and new taxable
values thus created would within a
few years repay the State for the in.
vestment
An undertaking of this kind is too
big for the lawyer-politician who
dominate the Texas State government,
They have neither the taste, talent nor
training for such tasks. They prefer
30 ur,, for of6oap IN tba ola Nation q I
or sectional issues, or on the new
moral" issues, or, these failing, on
the perennial issue of flower taxes"
They make their strongest appeal not
to the States constructive imagina-
ton, but to its primitive passions and
our common human stinginess in re.
spect to taxes. They have made the
State with the largest permanent pub
lie school fund one of the poorest in
the Union in its public school equip
ment. They have sold most Of the
States vast fortune in timber lands
for 1.-THE of its real value to lumber
companies which, having taken off the
timber, now hold the denuded areas
for sale to settlers at five to twenty
times the price they paid the State
for it. They have bawled and below.
ed, year in and year out, from the
Panhandle to the Gulf and from the
Red River to the Rio Grande, about
the vice or virtue of Joe Bailey and
other quondam heroes of partisan poll
tics. If they had vision for it, they
have feared to go to the people with
any big scheme of development and
conservation of the States immense
resources.
So the rivers have run past the
power sites untroubled, the arid and
semi-arid plains have remained uncul.
tivated for want of water wasted with
in easy engineering reach, and the
lower valleys have been periodically
swept by destructive and death-deal-
ing floods. That of the current month
is only the latest of a series: certain
ly not the last, unless Texas people
decide to retire the breed of lawyer.
politicians for a while from control
of their State government, and com
NIT its business into the hands of men
big enough to do what needs to be
done.
They will never get it done either
by paying for it piecemeal in little
uncoordinated. local levee districts or
by begging the National government
to take it up. The task is one in
which the State must assume leader
ship, control and financial responsible.
ity. Uncle Sam has his own like task
immensely larger and more costly,
confronting him in the valleys of the
Missouri, Ohio and Mississippi
Frank Putnam.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1914-01-27

The dirt road to the "A. & M. College,
after you turn into what is known as
College lane, is so rough for either
buggy or automobile, that it would
loosen the horns of billy goat There
don't seem to be anybody, however,
losing any sleep over the proposition
to convert this road into a first-class
highway.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1914-01-27

The tangometer attached to the
tangoer or tangress records the dis
lance tangoed. If your tangometer
registers 16 miles in one evening you
qualify as tangofan. - Syracuse
Standard.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1914-01-27

If Carter Glass and Bob Henry would
put period to their nauseating con.
troversy over the currency bill, we
feel sure the public would give them
a vote OF thanks.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1914-01-27

The Houston Post would welcome
cold weather enough for the ladies' to
wear their Christmas furs, and to ma
ture the sausage crop.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1914-01-27

The oak trees in our back yard are
leafing. We opine they'll have to do
the job over some time after the ides
or march.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1914-01-27
$1,000 REWARD.

For one brown mare mule, five years
old, branded BY on shoulder; has one
eye out. Last seen at Hoppe bridge.
T. r. BATE.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1914-01-27
THE CLOTHIERS

The Texas cotton crop laid it over
Georgia's in just about the same pro-
portion as her Democratic majority
outranks that of the old Gopher State.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1914-01-27
H. ct. C..
"oIl Burning Route"

National Corn Exposition, Dial.
las. greatest agricultural exposi-
tion the world has ever known,
$4,000 in prizes. To occupy the
buildings and grounds OF State
fair of Texas. $5.95 round trip.
On sale Feb. 0, II. 10, IA, 16, Is,
20, Fl and 20; limit Feb rs.
Mardi Gras, New Orleans.
S15.13 round trip. On sale Feb.
II to 23, inclusive; limit March
8, with privilege of extension to
March 20 by deposition ticket
not later than March 6 and pay
ment of 81 fee.
S. II. HARRIS,
Ticket Agent.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1914-01-27

Seattle has found a way of dealing
with the problem of marital nonsup.
port. The indolent husband is SEN
fenced to work on newly acquired city
territory at the rate of $3.50 a day,
and the money goes to his wife.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1914-01-27
POLITICS AND POLITICIANS
Colorado women are going to fight
for Nationwide prohibition.

Earl Gray, the Duke of Connaught's
predecessor at Ottawa, is off on an
ocean voyage to Australia and New
Zealand for the benefit of his health.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1914-01-27

At the Crystal Tonight-Miss
Florence Lawrence in
A Girl and Her Money
Two Parts; "a Military Judas"
three parts, strong military
drama with an all-star cast; also
fine Nestor Comedy tonight
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1914-01-27

Married men, according to General
Miles, are better fighters than bach
elors. Experience scores again.
1t is said that the next Nebraska
Legislature will be asked to enact a
law barring from future competition
any contractor who "skimps" on pub
lie work contracts.
In the speech from the throne at
the recent opening of the Swedish
Riksday, it was declared that the well
being of the country demanded that
extension of suffrage to women should
be at once undertaken.
Able Lamaire of Paris has been
elected one of the new vice presidents
of the French Chamber of Deputies,
and this has causd his suspension
from his religious duties by the Bishop
of Lille.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1914-01-27
ANNOUNCEMENTS

The Eagle is authorized to announce
the following candidates, subject to
the action of the July Democratic pri
maries:
FOR CONGRESS-:
HON. RUFUS HARDY, Corsicana
FOR REPRESENTATIVE
HON. ]. L. FOUNTAIN.
Evening star., 1914-11-08

comfortable. the dining and sleeping
car service being fairly good. With
the new appropriation there should be
no lack of money and conditions will
probably improve.
x ::
The rates of travel on the state rail-
ways are low. for country like this.
First-class fares are about . cents a
mile, second-class one and one-third
cents and third class less than two
thirds of one cent per mile. There are
additional charges of so per cent on
the express trains and of about 100 per
cent on the rapidos and trains de luxe.
There is a reduction of 10 per cent on
return tickets of all classes. The
freight rates are high, and more than
half of the earnings come from freight
The extra charges for baggage are
much greater than in the United States
and on the central system per cent of
the total earnings are made out of lug
gage.
The amount of freight carried is
about 100000 tons per annun, the
number of passengers are more than
100000 and the total recei"ts more
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ern California. Below that the road
enters the forests, traverstng a coun-
try where the farms have had to be
cut out of the woods, and where the
rainfall in places is 100 inches per
year. The central valley section has
been built a long time, and fifteen years
ago, when j first visited Chile, they
were already penetrating into the for
est region. I then came on construc-
tion trains as far as Temuco, the home
of the Araucanian Indians. and 1 am
now days ride further south, having
gone through pioneer settlements all
the way. Within another fifteen years
the road will probably have been ex-
tended to the Strait of Magellan. This,
| should say, is as much further south
of here as from st. Louis to New
Orleans.
The longitudinal railway belongs to
the government and contracts for ma
terial and cars may be made with the
government officials. The government
is furnishing the capital for the extern
sions and the building goes on stead
lily. During 1913 seven hundred miles
of new lines were opened to traffic and
the total number of miles under con-
struction was 500. Some of this has
since been completed. The rail-
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administrator. The chief Offices of the
state roads are at Santiago, and there
is close connection with them and
the government as to all appointments.
Every man who gets more than about
$1,000 year receives his appointment
directly from the president, anG the
others are selected by the general
manager with the advice of his sub
ordinates. This makes every railroad
Office government job, and all ap-
pointments, from the administrator to
the brakeman and track layer are more
or less affected by pull. / have talked
with many people here concerning the
service. So far have yet to meet an
unprejudiced observer who believes
that government ownership is good for
the roads or the people. Indeed, the
railway question is one of the live ones
of public discussion, and the figures
show that the most of the lines are
annually worked at loss of several
millions of dollars.
The difference between the receipts
and the expenditures does not show the
whole deficit arising from government
management. There is an enormous
additional loss in the wear and tear
on the roads and the rolling stock. ow-
ing to carelessness and waste. This is
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roads either surveyed or projected.
For the past two weeks I have been
riding over the state railways. / have
had a pass from the government, and
have gone here and there at my will
without paying fare. The place where
I am now writing is the southern ter
minus of the system. 1t is Puerto
1fontt, a thriving port on the very
frontier of the settled part of the coun-
try and as far south of Pisague. the
northern terminus. where the railway
begins, rs the distance from Boston to
Dallas, or New York to Denver. This
country is like L great sausage. 1t is
long and narrow. II it were laid on
the United States with it's northern end
at Boston it would stretch across New
England and the Appalachian system.
across the whole OF the Mississippi val
ley and far into the Rocky mountains.
ending i'll Utah. Cape Horn and the
Strait OF Magellan, which form the
southern end of the sausage. would be
just about aS far west OF Boston as Is
Salt Lake City. The country is no
where much wider than from Baltimore
to New York, and in many places 1t
could be squeezed in between Balti-
more and Philadelphia.
II will pay our exporters to consider
the future railway system of Chile
This will consist of Il long line of rail-
road running from Peru to the Strait
of Magellan, with feeders going west
to the coast and east to the mountains.
This line is known as the longitudinal
system, and it is now being built 1t
is already almost 1000 miles long, and
IT will eventually connect Peru anG
Punta Arenas, the metropolis of the
straits. The railway already extend.
almost to the Peruvian boundary. 1t
traverses the nitrate fields and con-
meets them with Valparaiso and San
ttago. The, southern section extends
to Puerto Montt. where this letter is
written. The first part of the road is
through desert as barren as the Sa :
hara. This goes southwark almost to
the latitude of Valparaiso, where the
longitudinal system crosses the trans
Andine railway to Buenos Aires. Then
begins the great central valley, an irri-
gated region which corresponds in its
fertility with the best parts of south
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commercial and naval station near
Conception with that port. This road
will cross Chile from Conception to
Antuco, and thence go on into the Ar
gentine, where it will connect with the
roads which have their termini in Ba-
hia Blanca.
This transandine road will be about
200 miles shorter than the road now in
Buenos Aires. via Juncal. 1t will be
easier of construction and will cross
the Andes through tunnel, which will
be less than mile in length. The gov
of $1.000,000. to be paid at the rate OF
$4,000 per kilometer, as it is opened to
traffic. until 100000 have been paid.
the remaining 100000 to be held until
gentine system. Some of this line is al
ready III operation, and 1t is steadily
proceeding. The Argentine section is
being arranged for. Another road to
decided upon will have a length of $50
miles This will go via Donquimai.
Between these southern transcon-
tinental roads and the transandine
road now in use. several roads to Bue-
nos Aires are being considered and sur
veyed. One of these from Valparaiso,
via Maipo, is about 1000 miles long.
to Buenos Aires is 95 miles, and a third
from the port of Llico. still further
south to Buenos Aires, is 1888 miles
long. In addition to these there are
three others planned to go through the
Colorado route, which would connect
them with the port of Constitution.
These roads are each about 1000 miles
long.
One reason for the anxiety that Chile
has for more transcontinental routes
is the fear that the Panama canal will
reduce the shipping via the Strait of
Magellan. Many Of the ships that now
come through the straits will pass
through the canal and down the west
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so great that Chile has recently passed
an act appropriating more than $20,-
100000 to re-equip and reorganize the
go into new cars, and will result III
large orders from the United States.
AS it is now, most of the cars have
come from our country and as origi-
nally shipped they were the best of
their kind. They now show the effects
of the long lack of repairs. Those in
which l have travelled need paint and
varnish. The windows rattle and every
thing seems rickety, shabby and going
to seed. l have been in Pullman cars
where the fine veneering of the ceiling
has SO cracked and blistered that it
hung down like the wall paper of a
damp building, and in some coaches the
rain dripped through. The freight cars
are in a bad way and no one watches
the leaks. Others of the cars are more
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MAIPO RAILWAY STATION, SANTIAGO.

coast of Chile, and the country will not
have as good facilities by the straits as
it has now. The new roads will bring
the country into close connection with
the Argentine, and the future travel
to Europe will be largely by way of
Argentine ports.
Chile was the first country of South
America to build railways. and the first
railways built here were constructed
by United States citizens. The first
road on the South American continent
was made to connect the silver mines
of Copiapo with the port of Caldera.
The builder was William Wheelwright'
whom I have already mentioned in Il
previous letter. He opened his road
for traffic July 1, 1851. The first loco
motive that was used is still in exist
ence in one of the Chilean museums,
and its name plate shows that 1T was
made by Norris Brothers in Philadel-
phia in 1850. Wheelwright began the
railroad from Valparaiso to Santiago.
and he made surveys toward and over
tinental route His first road was built
four years before Henry Meiggs.
another great railroad contractor. also
an American, began work on the Gen.
William Wheelwright's name is high
ly honored in Chile. He had a great
deal to do with the development of the
country. He was born in Newburyport.
Mass and at the age of twenty-six was
made United States consul at Guaya-
quill. He served there for several years
and then moved to VALPARAISO. where
he established a line of passenger ves
sells along the coast. He was the
founder of the Pacific Steam Naviga-
tion Company, and SO may be called the
first to introduce steam on the west
coast. He built the first gas and water
works of South America and strung
the first telegraph line.
Henry Meiggs. the other great Amer
ican railroad constructor. built the
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Reverberati0nS.

A PROPOS of the notice put up in cafes
4 Aall over the country, The war will
be fought on the other side of the
ocean. Please don't try to settle it
here George Ade at a luncheon at
the Chicago Athletic Club said:
I'VE see a good deal of trouble
among our naturalized citizens in the
cafes. But what about those house
holds where the father is German or
Austrian and the mother is of French
or English or Russian birth?
"a doctor got a note the other morn
ing from Russian patient with a
Prussian wife.
Dear DOCTOR it said, please send
by bearer a large quart bottle of lini-
ment, as wife and self last evening
had an argument about the cam
paign.'"
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road work paid for in that year was
valued at $75,000,oo0, sum equal to
more than 81 for every man, woman
and child IL the country.
At the present time Chile has over
1000 miles of railroad in operation, and
OF this about one-half belongs to the
state. The government began to take
over the roads about generation ago,
and by 1910 it had paid something like
$200,0O0,000 for them.
The state railways are managed by
officials appointed by the president
There is a general manager who is as
sisted by nine administrators. The ad-
ministrator holds a similar position to
that of general manager of a private
railroad, and the system is divided into
nine sections, each of which has Its
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than $4,000, 900 in gold. The expendi-
lures are more than $15.000.000, so that
state is now operating about 1000
miles of railway, and it's employees are
more than 1900, or over five to the
mile.
In addition to the government rail-
ways are those owned by private par
ties and companies. These roads have
a trackage almost as long as that of
the government system, and their total
capitalization Is quite as great Their
freight and passenger rates are high
er, but the service is better. Many of
them are run in connection with mines
and other interests and the returns do
not show the actual receipts or the
profits.
Take, for instance, the nitrate rail-
ways, of which there are seven. They
run from the ports out into the des-
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wonderful road which goes up the
Andes back of Lima. Peru. He also
constructed the road from Mollendo to
Arequipa that now goes on to Lake
Titicaca, and he did a great deal OF
railroad building in Chile. He complet-
ed the road from VALPARAISO to Santi
ago, and built some of what is now q
part of the longitudinal system. Today
great deal of American rolling stock
and rails are still used in Chile. and
it is impossible to write about the
roads without reference to their close
connection with the United States.
FRANK G.. CARPENTER.
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Just So.

THE slit skirt is, of course, a thing
of the past.
George Ade, at one of the windows
of the Chicago Athletic Club, saw a slit
skirt go by tho other day and re-
marked:
IAN out-of-dat skirt like that is
funny, or, rather. it is sidesplitting.
Evening star., 1914-11-08

He war In Europe
will force upon
Chile the purchase
of a large amount
of United States
steel rails, steel
bridges and other
railway materials.
The country ha Is
several enormous
projects un d e r
way and there are
d d zen n e "