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Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1914-01-14

was put off until the next meeting so
the engineers could measure the space
and report the amount that will have
to be filed in. This will be reported
at the next meeting
The engineers reported that the
tests on the gravel being used in the
paving of Main street have been fin.
ished and that the gravel comes up
to all specifications.
An ordinance was passed granting
the Bryan & Central Texas Interurban
a franchise to build their track in Ger.
tain parts of the city and be allowed
to cross certain streets.
The teachers OF the colored school
asked that their lights be connected
and that they be allowed to pay only
for the amount of electricity used and
not be charged the minimum rate as
is the custom in other cases. This
was moved and carried.
These with several minor matters
concluded the business for the even
ing and the council adjourned until
Friday night, which time was set for
another adjourned meeting.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1914-01-14
DRAG THE ROADS.

After ALL good roads depend much
on the road overseers and citizens
who are subject to road duty. II each
overseer would secure a drag, just a
split log If steel drag cannot be
had, and apportion the work OF drag
ging among the several hands to be
done at the proper time, the roads of
the county can be kept in fairly good
condition. There is no question about
this, as is shown by the Benchley-
Wheelock road, the best in the county.
This road is dragged after each rain
by Messrs. Dunn and Josey and is al.
ways in good fix. It is an object les
son and proves that what is done on
this road can be done on every road
in the county. Let the roads be grad
ed and drained by the county's road
outfit and then kept thoroughly
dragged. In the meantime plans can
be formulated and the work begun
on system of permanent highways
for the county. The Eagle is deeply
interested in the subject of good roads
for many reasons, but chiefly because
of what they mean to the farmer.
They are the chief factor in his whole
system of economics, and provide the
greatest pleasure, the greatest COM
fort and the greatest satisfaction of
all things else for those who live in
remote districts.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1914-01-14
WILSON'S MEXICAN POLICY.

Mr.. Wilson's policy in Mexico is
exactly the opposite to timid or soft.
1t takes a great deal of holiness to
state to the world that the United
States will take the responsibility OF
avoiding war, and at the same time
skillfully steering the Mexican revo.
luton toward an outcome which may
have some real advantage to the Next
can people. 1t takes much more cour.
age for Wilson to pass a genuinely
lower tariff, and then. proceed to a
currency bill, and then pass right on
to graphing with the essentials of
the trust problem, than it would to
send some soldiers down to Mexico,
to get a few of them killed, and a
few Mexicans. If we are to use mas
culine as a word of praise, is it not
more masculine to grapple with the
profound economic, industrial and
ethical questions of today than to imi-
tate the violence of the past?
A country becomes great by carry
ing out greatly the ideals of its own
Weekly
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1914-01-14
THE EDISON TALKING PICTURES.

The coming engagement of the Edi-
son Talking Pictures at the Colonial
Theatre Friday and Saturday, January
II and IS, matinee and night, will be
the first appearance of the new marvel
here. Two complete performances
will be given each day, matinee and
an evening entertainment, beginning
as above noted.
Thirty companies are now touring
the country, so great is the demand
to witness them. Thousands and
thousands are being delighted daily
and new subjects are being constantly
made at the Edison studio, Orange,
New Jersey. Thousands of dollars are
being spent there for the army of
actors, special scenery and mechanical
devices. Don't miss them.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1914-01-14
CITY COUNCIL
MET LAST NIGHT
With a Full Attendance CounciImen
Transacted Business and Ad-
journed to Friday.

An adjourned meeting of the City
Council was held last night, with the
following officers present: Mayor
Harris, Aldermen Wick, Haswell, DAILY
and Wilson, Marshal Boyett, City En-
gineers Adams and Carson, City Secre-
tary Crenshaw and City Attorney
Young.
Messrs. ]. o. Chance and G. w.
Smith came before the council to as
certain what action could be taken in
reference to the petition they have
had in for some time relative to paw.
ing West Anderson street, the prop.
erty owners agreeing to pay two.
thirds. AS this will call for a special
election, Mayor Harris appointed AL
dermen Wick and Haswell as COM
mittee to see if the city can be bond
ed further and to report at the next
meeting.
The matter of filling in, the space
between the sidewalks and the curb
on Main street was brought up, but
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1914-01-14

No man ever knows how many
friends he has lost by handing them
advice. f.ts
Many a man is dissatisfied with his
lot because it is located too near that
of his neighbor.
The sins of omission are more plen.
tiful than sins of commissions
cause they require less effort.
Women always say their husbands
coax them to go away for the summer
and sometimes this is the truth.
The ideas of young man are apt
to undergo a radical change after trot.
ting couple of months in double har-
ness.
A soft-hearted man always gets the
worst of it when he has occasion to
transact business with hard.headed
one.
The right invariably triumphs-at
least that is the feeling man has
when he happens to beat the other
fellow to it.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1914-01-14
GOOD ROADS
SHORT COURSE
r. J. Potts Of Highway Engineering
Department Giving Practical
Work on Road Building.

College Station, Tex, Jan. 1.-THE
first annual good roads short course
conducted by the highway engineering
department of the Texas A. & NJ. Col
lege opened Monday, and students OF
that course are now being given prac.
teal instruction on how to build good
roads in Texas. The course will be
made as practical as possible, and
Prof. R. j. Potts, head of that depart
ment, says that the students. most OF
whom have had some practical ex.
perience in road building, will be able
to run the level and make surveys
for grades and for drainage when the
four weeks course closes.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1914-01-14

Our schools mean more 10 Bryan
than any other one thing. This being
true, it is our plain duty to foster
them and build them up in every way
possible. Let us go to work in earn.
est for a larger attendance for our
local schools, and for the electrified.
ton of the interurban to A. & NJ. The
A. & NJ. College means much to Bryan,
but it would mean many times more
with first-class rapid transit between
the two places.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1914-01-14
OUR RESIDENCE STREETS.

In giving consideration to the i'm
provement of the residence streets OF
the city, any expenditure should be
with a view to bringing all streets up
to a fairly good condition. Patch work
for temporary relief should be done
only when absolutely necessary, but
a systematic grading and draining
should be started, and the work should
be pushed to point where every
street in the city is left in a we'll
rounded and drained condition. At
every short wet season the streets are
practically impossible. With an ex-
penditure OF a few thousand dollars
every section OF the city could have
a good street. II should be done by
experts, and planned Systematically,
in order to get the water of the street
the moment it falls. Those who have
been watching the grading work pro-
crossing on Main street can readily
see that with this same work done in
the residence sections, Bryan's streets
would become a pleasure instead OF
nightmare, yet the work done has
been comparatively inexpensive, be
cause it has been done by experienced
men, Systematically planned The
city can possibly secure the necessary
funds and no time should he lost in
getting the work started. that the PEG
pie of the city may have streets.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1914-01-14
FLASHES FROM MILLIcAN.

The Woodmen of the World and
their families enjoyed delicious oys.
ter supper Friday night, January 9.
Mr.. and Mrs Knox Williams. Mrs.
R. E. Dunlap and Misses Onie Will
liams and Nelia Davis saw Ben Hur"
in Houston Saturday evening,
Rodney Shops of Ennis visited rela.
tives and friends here last week.
The repair work on the depot is al.
most completed. All signs OF the re.
cent wreck have been raised.
Knox Williams is home for few
days stay with his wife and boy.
DR.. Gordon of Illinois delivered two
instructive sermons last Sunday
night.-Correspondent.
Millican, Tex, Jan. IL. 1914.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1914-01-14
POINTED PARAGRAPHS

Some people prefer popular songs
to real music.
After you have accomplished a real.
ly good thing get busy again.
knowledge isn't always power but
it knows when to press the button.
A yellow cur looks as lonesome as
defeated candidate after election.
If the front parlor is clean a girl
is apt to think the whole house is
all right.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1914-01-14

The Eagle has preached sidewalk
building until its throat is sore. but
its preachment seems to have borne
only Indifferent results. The time
seems to have come for Bryan to fol-
low the example set by cities, and
create what is known as Sidewalk
districts" in which every property
owner is required to put down uni
form width and grade sidewalk. When
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1914-01-14

The Attorney General has held that
commissioners courts cannot employ
a ferret to pry into and dig up per.
sonal property that escaped the tax
assessor. There is no question but
what such detectives are needed to
uncover the thousands of sparklers,
the tens of thousands of notes, the
millions of credits. cash, etc, that
have no part and bear none of the bur-
den in our system of taxation. The
Attorney General rules, however, that
it is the duty of the tax assessor to
find all property and get it on the tax
rolls.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1914-01-14

the walks in one district are finished
another is created, and thus the work
goes on until the entire city is COW
cred with slightly and comfortable
walks.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1914-01-14

OF course we would like to get out
and buy a four-pound steak for a
dime, 95 pounds of graduated sugar
for dollar, and a good suit of clothes
for six forty-two, but we'd hate like
thunder to work for six bits a day.
You can't have one without the other.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1914-01-14

The time has Genie IN this country
when the farmer must make every
edge cut A creamery and cannery
in Bryan would enable our farmers to
put in a number of profitable side
lines.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1914-01-14

The ladies of St. Andrews Guild
will give a tea from 3 to 6 o'clock at
the residence of Mrs. F. |. Garth, on
Friday afternoon. Everybody is in
vited.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1914-01-14
FIRST BAPTIST SERVICE.

Subject for prayer meeting at the
First Baptist Church tonight will be
How May | Be of Use to the King
dom This Year," Everybody invited
TO attend. NJ. Z. WEAVER, Pastor.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1914-07-12
ELECTRIC BUTTON LEGISLATION.

There seems To be no good reason why scien-
tihc progress should not be utilized to facilitate
legislation In almost any other line Of business
the electric voting apparatus devised by Repre-
sentative Walsh, OF Now Jersey, would probably
have been installed long ago,
The situation is simple enough. roll call
under present methods takes about forty min
utes and Is NOT always accurate. The mechanism
now under consideration by the house, providing
for big voting bulletin board with push but
tons AT every seat would register q ballot
rectly and announce the result in ten minutes
The saving in time rated according to represen-
tativcs' salaries would he about 100000 year
The increase IN efficiency would he still more
Important. Business would move more smoothly,
with it's endless aud time-wastlng roll-cals, and
the example set by the machine might tend to
inspire all around promptness and expedition.
So far as practical effectiveness is concerned
It might be about as we'll II congress followed
this innovation with an electrical substitute for
the impression that about % per cent of the
talk, particularly IN the house, is purposeless
or futile When member really had something
to say, and had prepared himself to utter It
effectively, the machine could be switched Off
and the oratory turned on. Under such a system
congressmens speeches would be reported in the
newspapers moro frequently and more fully than
at present, because they would be more worth
while.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1914-07-12
WIVES AND PAY ENVELOPES.

A New Jersey Judge has decided that married
man has right TO his own pay envelope. If
he care to hand It 10 his wife unopened and
accept with grateful humility the small change
she doles out 10 him for spending money, very
well But the wife has legal right to demand
the envelope intact
What husband must give his wife" says
the Judge. SIS much az he can, and as much
as she requres-within reason"
This sounds like a new charter of freedom
for father But inquiry among welded wage
earners fails 10 evoke any enthusiasm over the
decision, What the man with the pay envelope
wants 70 know lie, how are his rights going to be
enforced?
Women are peculiarly practical and matter.
of-fact Moreover, they have little respect for
the ''r'e Of reason" and don't care particularly
whether they're in contempt Of court or not
When woman wants her husbands pay en-.
velore the chances are that she'll keep right
or getting It
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1914-07-12

Are the Australian aborisinies a
doomed race" asks Mr.. A. H. Brown,
a member of The Society of Friends.
who has recently returned from tour
of Australia. The general answer"
he says, is a ready Yes So 1t
would seem under present conditions.
AS to the actual number of aborie mails
on the mainland. no reliable figures
can be given. The best authorities
seem to give the figures for the whole
of Australia as 120,o0 The authori-
ties in Queensland estimate their alb
original population at about $4,000.
Roughly. one-third of those are wild,
one-thrd town, and one third mis-
sion natives. The religious missions
show that under the circumstances
that prevail there the people do not
die out. At Barambah several fac
tors tas the influx of old or diseased
people) make the figures for 1911
bad--brths, nineteen. deaths. forty
six; but at Yarabah. where different
conditions prevail. births. seventeen:
deaths. six; at Cape Bedford, births.
five; DEATH one tlast years fgures).
The figures given me by Mr.. Lee
Bryce for the islands under his adj
ministration are quite remarkable.
Average yearly statistics Of births
over deaths, SO Ia per ,000-averaga
yearly increase OF population over
sixteen years old. 71.3 per 1000"
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1914-07-12

saving that the acquisition Of the mill
will mean on the construction OF the
training school and hospital. which
are soon 10 he built in Africa.
The former viii be erected at an
estimated cost of $4,000 and is the
gift OF Mr.. r c. Carson. 70 White
vile. y G.. who builds this beautiful
memorial 10 his father and mother
The hospital Is Ia he known as the
Mckowen memorial and VIII he iocat-
ed AZ Lueho, This much needed insti-
tuition will he erected in memory Of
Mr. f. " McKowen, OF Baton ROUGE.
La, and Is the gift Of his widow and
daughters, Mrs. S, A. Mckowen Miss
Sallie Mckowen. Mrs r. y. Payne
and Mrs. VI. VI. Taylor.
II is extremely interesting to know
that the Inauguration Of this mill IN
this section OF Africa will enable the
church TO erect their building more
economically and more permanently.
since they can use the hardy, nod
which is so plentiful in that country
as a recent investigation has shown
a great difficulty has heretofore
been experienced in the Use OF soft
wood for building purposes, as the
white ants eat out the heart Of the
wood. and structure may become a
mere shell before the destructive work
of these ants has been discovered
A great deal Of brick Is used in
the construction work in Africa, and
brick is made at all the stations, ex-
cept where no suitable clay has yet
been found
Certainly the sending of this mod
ern sawmil to the heart OF Africa
by the Southern Presbyterian church
will mark very advanced step in the
progress of mission work in the dark
continent. and will enable the great
building enterprises of the church to
be carried forward rapidly at a min
imum OF cost.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1914-07-12
THE BENEFITS OF MEDIATION.

Anyway. the A B. c. gentlemen did their best,
and were obliged to them.
To be sure. they started with the wrong
bunch" about settling the Mexican trouble
Their diplomacy, too was OF the European
brand that cares more about the phrasing Of
protocol than tho gist Of the matter, and pre-
fers compliments to plain truth. Uncle Sam
had TO beat them over the head with big stick
loaded with facts before they would recognize
ruerta was not Mexico. that there were eco
monte and human problems below the Rio
G-ande. ard that they we're dealing with 49,
00o 600 men and women instead OF political
abstraction.
Nevertheless they we're honest they worked
hard. they finally came to see the point ana
their mediation was really somewhat more sue
cesssul than any of us expected.
For one ming, they averted imminent war
between The United States and Mexico While
they talked. everybody camed down. That's
the CHIEF advantage of mediation--Ei ma.
tons time 10 come to their senses intervention
NAV yet be necessary. hut Unclo Sam at this
minute Isn't hanbering after that job as long as
there's any honorable way to dodge it, II there's
any spanking to be done in Mexico he'd rather
let villa do Il.
For another thing. they nut US right with
Latin America. That volatile section Of the
world has never loved us over much. The other
Americans" IN general have hated us bhndly,
feared our Monroe doctrine and suspected our
motives In diplomacy and business, Senator
"a, { t0 ritz
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1914-07-12
THE OPEN WHITE HOUSE DOOR.

II is reassuring to see business men welcome
ct the White House again. The recent attitude
OF politics and business has seemed to be one
Of armed hostility instead Of friendly co-opera-
ton. Perhaps the administration and big business
have each misunderstood the others purpose
somewhat The suspicion with which the prest.
dent and congress have viewed any attempt 10 In.
fuence legislation may not have been altogether
Just. and or the other hand many business men
have failed 10 recognize that the administration
purpose, whether wise or unwise. has been sin
cere and honest Personal contact will 60 FAR
toward removing Tnisunderstandlngs and sub.
s.ttuting for prejudice frank and fruitful dis
cussfon Of principles and facts
j. P. Morgan visited the executive mansion
the other day without stealing the Office furui.
ture, and came away without black eye Henry
Ford had a pleasant talk about business condi-
tons. Illinois bankers arrived and departed
without casualties On either side. Big dry goods
men and lawyers and packers and hardware
dealer are trakking 70 the White House and
meeting the head Of the government face to
fare, and better feeling already begins to per-
oala's through the country,
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1914-07-12
With the State Press
only a Boomerang. Though.

wtile 90 not know the numerical strength
Of the Anti Saloon league. persuaded
that It's mem bership comprises as pure
and highly intellectual a host as may
be found without its pale Our opinion.
therefore. OF the cartoon which adorned the
front page of the Times Dispatch Thursday
morning Of last week is that il was not only
in uhe grossest of taste but insulting to ma
torty Of Virginians; for manifesty, II was the
principle we'll personnel Of the organiza-
ton that thus held up to scorn, and moth
ing is surer than that the sentiment OF this
State is overwhelmingly anti-saloon. The Anti
Saloon league hasn't. far know.
member on the Times staff IL has however,
hundreds Of thousands OF others quite as good
better, and behalf Of these our resentment
is stirred To ignore such unprovoked and
unconScionab portraiture OF the sterling men
and women TO whom the old Commonwealth
is indebted for the measure of relief we already
enjoy from insobrlety and It's attendant dis
orders, betrays passireness whereof this paper
is decidedly and most happily minus
II is we'll, indeed. that little of the popular
thought Of today is nodded, controlled, or so
much Influenced by the city press, save, of
course, in a reflex Observation-Disclosures Times.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1914-07-12
A GENUINE. TEMPERANCE
MOVEMENT

Disclaimtng all purpose to set UP moral
standards for other men. and carefully refrain
ing from discussing prohibition as a OF
suppressing the consumption of intoxiCants the
oficial body representing the physicians of North
Carolina. adopted at its recent annual session
he suhjoined resolutions:
Resolved, That the Medical society of the
state of North Carolina will use its best efforts
to discourage the use of alcohol in any form az
beverage.
Resolved. second, That It is the sense of this
society that any member of the profession who
Whiskey, either to patients or non-patients is
violating Of the principals of our profession.
and is deserving of censure.
Resolved. third. That alcohol a drug
be eun1na ted from the pharmaconoeia without
in any degree Gripping the efficiency of the
doctors armamentrium
This Is a sane and salutary expression Of
scientific judgment and calls for no adverse
criticism whatever The united influence OF the
medical men of any community cannot fail to
command respect and effect good results. and
such dieta the above will carry great weight
when accompanied by the determination Of
practitioners set their faces against prac-
tice which creates and stimulates IN patients
an appetite for strong drink, So to educate
individuals tc the dangers of intenperance Ia,
believe, far the most effective method Of
minimizing a crying evil OF modern civilization.
In opinion the doctors do more by sage
prescott and consistent example, 10 stem the
tide Of drunkenness in the land, than all the
cuactments that could he written into the
statute Virginian-Pilot.
Oh YES the sentiment is growing. Even In
old Virginia have such the editor
of the Virgsnian-P Pilot aud Newport News Press,
who the signs Of the times and lining
M with the great issue that is confronting the
people.-soath Boston Na) News