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Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1916-03-27
BRYAN VISITORS.

Those who have been guests at Bry
ans free wagon yard since March "a
w. NJ. Rice. w. +. Rice. |. h. Craw
ford. hubert Coward. Zulch; W. l.
Rice. T. d. Bean. W. E. Crenshaw
Cross; J. W. Murphy. ]. ]. Murphy
Edge; G. Z. May and family. ]. d
Casey. North Zulch. W l.. Wager. j. l.
Wheels, lola; J. A. Lawless. Wheel
ock. W. +. Lawless. Walter Ware. J
J. Lewis. volney Cox. c. l.. Cox
Wheelock: G. o. Hood, Edge.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1916-03-27
REV. JEFF o. RAY breaches.

Rev. jeff ID. Ray Of Fort Worth OF
the Baptist Theological Seminary
preached at the A. and NJ. College
yesterday morning at the II O'Clock
hour and at night he preached at the
First Baptist Church In Bryan. Mr..
Ray is one OF the best known Baptist
ministers in Texas. and was heard by
large crowd at the College and at
the church In Bryan.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1916-03-27
U. S. Weather Bureau
DAILY WEATHER FORECAST
Office. Dunn & Daily Bldg.
Phone 70.

Temperatures at Bryan for the
twen,y.four hours ending at a. m. thl.
morning; Highest. IS degree; lowest
~ degrees.
Tonight and Tuesday fair.
This Weeks Weather Forecast
A storm will advance inland from
the Pacific Monday or Tuesday, pass
eastward to the Middle States and tn,
upper Mississippi Valley about tn,
middle OF the week. Our chances FOL
rain for this week will materially,
about Wednesday or Thursday.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1916-03-27
NEGRO ARRESTED.

City Marshal John Conlee arrested
Pearl Wilson. a young negro. Saturday
night. charged with taking horse
from the rear OF Allen Smiths store
about ten days ago. Wilson rode the
horse away and was gone about three
hours. when he returned II and dis.
appeared and was not seen again until
Saturday night. when he came to
town and was taken into custody by
the marshal.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1916-03-27
CARD OF THANKS.

We wish TO extend our heartfelt
thanks to those who we're so kind to
us during the illness and death Of our
husband and father. May God bless
them.
MRS MOLLIE FULLER and
CHILDREN.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1916-03-27

Mrs. Jake Holland has returned
from Wharton. where she was called
by the Illness OF her daughter. Mrs
G. c. Bryan: Friends OF both fam.
lilies will be glad to learn that the
daughter was considerably improved
when Mrs. Holland left Wharton.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1916-03-27
FOR SALE.

Sixteen acres OF land inside city lin
its FOR $1,000. Small cash payment
Good location; high and smooth land
City water. ]. W. BATS.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1916-03-27
ATTENTION, MAsoNs.

Regular meeting tonight at O'Clock
A full attendance Is desired.
J. s. PRIDDY. W. NJ.
@ NJ. BELL. Secretary.
The Press. (Stafford Springs, Conn.) 1883-1935, 1916-01-19
A Princes Chilly Dip,

Prince Henry of Prussia is an ar-
dent sailor, says Pearson's Weekly, but
he is known among the bluejackets as
great martinez. The following story
is typical of his methods, and shows
that although he expects those under
his command to put up with all kinds
of hardships, he is by no means above
''roughing it, himself.
One day, when he was ON board a
warship in the North sea, he suddenly
gave the order, "All hands, to bathe!"
1t was q bitterly cold day and the
water was like ice. The order was
so evidently distasteful that one of
the officers ventured to make mild
protest to the prince. Without an
swering him Il single word, Prince
Henry, although fully clothed, sprang
over the vessels side, swan out good
distance in the icy water and returned
to the deck dripping from head to foot.
After that the sailors took their bath
without demur.
The Press. (Stafford Springs, Conn.) 1883-1935, 1916-01-19
A Pretty Hot Story,

Chabert, the fire king, who was q
popular favorite in London over eighty
years ago, claimed to be able to swal-
low arsenic and other poisons with i'm
punity. Visitors to his entertainment
were requested to come provided with
phosphorus, arsenic and oxalic acid,
which he proceeded to consume before
their eyes, taking an antidote after
ward which was supposed to neutralize
their effects. Then, to show that he
was as impervious to heat as to poison,
he would take raw leg of lamb into
an oven heated to 220 degrees and re-
main inside until the joint was cooked,
when it was carved and handed around
to the audience. The performance
concluded by Chabert rubbing red
hot shovel OH his head and face and
allowing any one who wished to drop
molten sealing wax on his tongue and
Mail.
The Press. (Stafford Springs, Conn.) 1883-1935, 1916-01-19
How American citiaa Grow.

Nobody knows how fast an Ameri.
can city, state or town may grow.
recall some twenty-five years ago
meeting a friend in Denver. He was
an investor from the east. think
Denver had about 10000 people then.
He had come to buy real estate. He
said to me: This place is overgrown.
Real estate is too high. None for mel"
And he went away. Had he invested
wisely ut that time he could have mul-
tiplied his money ten to twenty fold.
1 was in Los Angeles about the same
time. 1t had had a serious reaction
after a sudden boom. It was little
place, not one-tenth its present size.
1t seemed like doomed city. An in
vestment of $500 than in outlying acre
age property, I am told, would be
worth 100000 today. So nobody can
tell what may be the future of any Of
the new, wideawake cities of Alaska
Leslie's.
The Press. (Stafford Springs, Conn.) 1883-1935, 1916-01-19
SHOOTING Hummino Birds.

To shoot a humming bird with the
smallest birdshot made is out of the
question, for the tiniest seeds of lead
would destroy the delicate plumage
The only way in which the bird can be
captured for commercial purposes is to
shoot it with drop of water from a
blowgun or a fine Jet from small syr-
inge. Skillfully directed, the water
stuns him. He falls into a silken net
and before he RECEIVERS consciousness is
suspended over a cyanide jar. This,
must be done quickly, for If he comes
to his senses before the cyanide Whit
snuffs out his life he is sure to ruin his
plumage in his struggles to escape.
Humming birds vary in size from spec
linens perhaps half as large as spar
row to those scarcely bigger than bee.
The Press. (Stafford Springs, Conn.) 1883-1935, 1916-01-19
A MEMORY OF RACHEL.
The Great Actress After Night OF
Triumph on the Stage.

Triumph on the Stage.
Lord Glenesk gave me an account Of
his first meeting with Rachel. He had
gone to Paris for the first time as
youth. and for the first time his father
had taken him to the Francois to see
Rachel act. The entire audience had
been stirred to the widest pitch of en-
thusiasm and excitement. The next
morning early he had ridden to the
Bots with his father, and on the way
his father had said, I'VE will turn out
of the avenue moment, down this
street; want to show you the house of
the marvellous woman we saw act last
night
1t was barely sunrise, and as they
pulled their horses up outside a high
wall inclosing a small villa they were
astonished to hear, proceeding from
within, what appeared to be the react
ing of the very scenes they had wit
messed the night before at the theater
but spoken in dead tones, as If by a
somnambulist. Dismounting from their
horses, they entered the garden. There
they found Rachel, clad in loose gar
ments, dull eyed, with disheveled hair
and wan face. utterly void of all the
flaming magnetism that few hours
earlier had filed her frame.
To the questions of Lord Glenesk's
father she answered YEARLY that she
had been rehearsing there under the
trees since it was scarce day, trying in
vain to find means of expressing GER
tain passages in which she had failed
Torrance which had so thrilled those
who witnessed it, marking an epoch in
their lives.-Princess Lazarovich in
Century
The Press. (Stafford Springs, Conn.) 1883-1935, 1916-01-19
MEAT is A STIMULANT.
Hence, Eaten In Excess, 1t Is Bad For
Both Body and Mind.

Hence, Eaten In Excess, 1t Is Bad For
Both Body and Mind.
= The director Of one of the largest
physical culture schools in the United
States said not long ago to friend of
mine: t,'
every time l eat a piece of good
beefsteak I feel as stimulated as if !
had drunk cocktail"
This curious statement embodies a
truth Of which most people are un.
aware.
Meat is not merely a food. 1t also is
stimulant, with definite exhilarating
effects on both mind and body.
Eaten in excess, moreover, it acts
much as does an excessive amount of
the alcoholic beverage mentioned by
the physical culture director.
That is to say, it tends, in the first
place, to cause nervous irritability, max,
ing it more difficult for a man to con
troll his passions and sometimes max.
ing him positively savage.
And, in the second place, when eaten
in excess it makes him mentally inert
and stupid.
The reason for this second effect is
well known to all scientific students of
food values.
Cooked meat, the form in which meat
usually is eaten, is not easy to digest
If too much of it is eaten imperfect
: digestion results, and the blood stream
is poisoned by the decomposing animal
food in the alimentary canal.
Not total abstinence, but temperance
enough meat to spur the mind, not
enough to deaden it-that is the lesson
to be drawn from the demonstrated
stimulant effect of animal food. - H.
Addington Bruce in Kansas City Times
The Press. (Stafford Springs, Conn.) 1883-1935, 1916-01-19

Japanese Il. Gcns are almost like a
part of the house. The people live in
gardens far mere than most Ameri-
cans do. In a.L.ost every garden is
found pond with goldfish i'll it. The
golden carr, is Il kind of goldfish
which was brought from China to ia
pan, and the specie; named ranchu is
greatly admired. 1t has Il tail made
Of three or four fan.ike fins that open
and close. When floating about i'll the
water and locked ut from above it APP
pears like one OF the CID japanese gold
coins called the koDan. 1t is supposed
to look like lien. when one gazes
straight into it's face. The Japan Mag
azine tells us Of these fish and says
that the Japanese are fond Of giving
fancy names to their fayOriteS. such as
dancing butterfly and double cher
ry blossoms" Sometimes the fish take
their names from appearance and
sometimes from habits.
The Press. (Stafford Springs, Conn.) 1883-1935, 1916-01-19
Has Faith in Quick
Remedy for Catarrh
Anders Jacobsen Guarantees That
Hyomei Will Relieve The Worst
Cases of Catarrh in

Anders Jacobsen Guarantees That
Hyomei Will Relieve The Worst
Cases of Catarrh in
Stafford.
When one of the most reputa BILE
concerns in Stafford guarantees that
a medicine will produce benefit or he
will refund the money, it speaks VOL
umes for the merits of that remedy.
1t is in this way that Anders Jacob
sen is selling Hyomei, the treatment
that has helped so many cases of both
acute and chronic oatarrh in Stafford
and vicinity. -.... e.. .
Hyomei is not pill nor is it a
spray or lotion that must be rubbed
in 1t is an oil, the air of which you
just breathe in your nose, throat and
lungs by the aid of an inhaler that
comes with every. outfit. Benefit will
usually be seen from the very first
treatment.
This air destroys all germ life in
the air passages and lungs and en-
riches and purifies the blood with the
additional ozone it supplies. 1t ban.
ishes catarrh of the head and throat
and respiratory organs. Wherever
these mucous mem branes contain ca.
tarrhal germs, there Hyomei will do
its work of healing
The complete Hyomei outfit is in.
expensive and includes an inhaler,
dropper and sufficient Hyomei for sew
eral weeks treatment
Remember that if Hyomei does not
relieve you Anders Jacobsen will re.
fund your money.
The Press. (Stafford Springs, Conn.) 1883-1935, 1916-01-19

In japan domestic service is very
honorable. Domestic servants rank
before tradesmen, who are considered
at the bottom of the social ladder. In
the absence of his master a servant
will receive the callers and chat away
Familiarity, but politely, until the ar
rival of the head Of the house. After
rubbing his knees together and Kissing
and kotowing he will invite you to
take a seat-on the floor, or, more
correctly speaking, on your heels, with
a fiat cushion between your knees and
the floor to make the ordeal a little
less painful. He will then offer you
five cups of tea. Even after his mas
ter has arrived he may stay in the
room and is likely to cut into the con-
versation and quite certain to laugh
at the smallest apology for joke. He
brings all his sisters and cousins and
aunts to be introduced when he takes
service, and the house is seldom with
out few of them engaged ON some
business or Grand. In the European
hotels in Japan the servants are all
men, who are dressed in indigo cotton
doublets and hose and run about bare
foot.-LOndon Answers.
The Press. (Stafford Springs, Conn.) 1883-1935, 1916-01-19
sERPENTs AS HYPN0TIsTs.
The Charm They Use on Animals They
c.>~..h e. rhanoseluae

The Charm They Use on Animals They
Succumb to Themselves.
Cases of fascination by serpents of
birds and other small animals have
been too frequently reported to admit
of serious doubt on the subject. Evi-
IDENTITY 1t is simply kind of hypnotism
and based. like human hypnotism, Oh
the effects of rhythmical impressions
made upon the nervous system.
Experiment has proved that the mo-
notonous swinging of a glittering OBJ
iect before the eyes will throw many
men and women into hypnotic sleep.
When serpent charms or fascinates
bird or small quadruped it employs a
similar method. 1t sways its head with
glittering eyes or sets it's brilliantly
eolored coils into silent rhythmic move
ment within sight of it's victim, and
the latter gradually yields to the In
duence. ~a
But the most dangerous serpents are
themselves subject to this very hyp-
motto control, a fact which is the basis
of the proceedings OF the serpent
charmers Of India and those of 9th.
er countries where venomous snakes
abound.
Music, or the monotonous repetition
Of musical notes, appears to be the
most effective agent in serpent charm,
ing. 1t may be remarked that accord
Ing to some observers the sounds pro-
duced- by rattlesnake, and even the
loud kissing of some serpents. have a
hypnotic influence, or at least sort of
paralyzing force, due probably to ter
ror The cobras of southern Asia and
the closely related najas Of Africa will
come out of holes, erect their heads
and a part of their bodies and sway
about in kind of serpent dance when
they hear the notes of a pipe played
by skilled performer.
! However, no cobra charmer ever has
sufficient confidence in his control over
his dangerous subjects to neglect the
removal Of their fangs.
A cobra bite has been known to kill
a man within few minutes of its in
fiiction.-Garrett P. Serviss in Detroit
News.
The Press. (Stafford Springs, Conn.) 1883-1935, 1916-01-19
QUAINT OLD INN NAMES.
Some of the Peculiar Signs One May
Read In England.


Read In England.
Man Loaded With Mischief is the
name Of an inn in the Madingley road,
Cambridge. but 1t is not stranger than
many others. At Underwood. Motifs. ia
an inn called "Thr Toad Ii tls Lie.
and in the neigh ',Urhood of Somer
cotes. THE Old House at Home" An.
other inn at the same place is called
The Old English Gentleman
1t is a debatable point whether the
sign of 1.-THE Man Loaded With Mis-
chief was painted by Hogarth But 1t
is like his satire. for it represents a
man carrying woman.
Many peculiar signs are the result
Of a misconception, THE Bag o Nails"
is really THE Bacchanals." The Goat
and CompaSseS" is an ignorant shot at
the old motto, God encompasses us.
while THE George and Cannon" is a
modern corruption of George Canning,
who was prime minister when the inn
was built.
One of the funniest of these corrup-
/, lions is The Iron Devil" corruption
Of "Hirondelle" Swallow 1t is said
that the ink called The Pig and Tin
der Box" was originally The Ele
plant and Castle" but very poor
artist was engaged to paint the sign.
and somebody said it looked like a pig
and finder box, and the name stuck
until it ousted the old one.
1.-THE Plum and Feathers" an inn in
Oxford, should be plume of Feath
ers." and THE Rose of the Quarter
Sessions" was originally LA Rose des
Quatres Saisons" One might think
The Ship and Shovel belonged to the
same category. but it does not. The
reference is to Sir Cloudesley Shovel,
the powder monkey who became al
admiral in the reign Of Queen Anne
London Tit Bits
The Press. (Stafford Springs, Conn.) 1883-1935, 1916-01-19
WRITTEN BY CHILDREN.
Some Famous Hymns That Have Out
lived Their Authors.

Some Famous Hymns That Have OUT
lived Their Authors.
Some of the best known hymns in
the language have been written by
children. Everybody knows My Faith
Looks Up to Thee" hymn with
unique record. 1t was the frst hymn
the author. DR.. Ray Palmer. ever
wrote. 1t Is by far the most popular
Of his hymns. 1t was written when
he was a mere lad. and he survived
its publication and popularity sixty
years. 1t was set to music in the year
Of its birth and has always been sung
to the same tune
One Of the best known hymns in the
world is There Is Land of Pure De-
light" Yet 1t was written by Isaac
Watts before he reached manhood. 1t
Of Wight and looking across to Hamp-
shire when he penned the lines: .p.s
Sweet fields beyond the swelling food +;
Stand dressed in living green.
That fine soldierly hymn. loft In
Danger. Oft In Woe, Onward, Chris
tan. Onward Co." was actually writ.
ten by a boy and girl who never saw
each other. The boy was poor Henry
Kirke White. who died before he
reached manhood. and the girl was
Frances Fuller Maitland
The fact is that when the boy poet
died the little girl was not born. Elk
actly when Kirke White wrote His
verses is not known. for they were
found among his papers after his
death. He had worked some sums in
algebra on the same sheet
Twenty years later the little Frances.
fourteen years old. wrote the verses
beginning respectively. LET your
dropping hearts be glad" Let not
sorrow dim your eye" and Onward.
then, to battle move" which made a
fine hymn Of what was really only a
set of verses.
Frances Ridley Havergal wrote one
Of her best known hymns when she
was a girl Of fifteen. In fact. it was
the first thing Of any Importance she
ever penned. This Is the pathetic
hymn. "Thy Life Was Given For Me-"
1t was scrubbed on the back of cir
cular in pencil and first read to an old.
bedridden woman who liked it so
much that the little girl repented Of
her first intention to burn 1t. and her
father wrote the we'll known tune.
Baca. to it.-London Tit-Bits. 49,
The Press. (Stafford Springs, Conn.) 1883-1935, 1916-01-19

In The Log of the Shark" by Char
milan Kittredge London, is this bit OF
sea description:
1.-THE sea is not a lovable monster
And monster it is. 1t is beautiful, the
sea, always beautiful in one way oil
another but it Is cruel and unmindfu
Of the life that is in it and upon it. Ii
was cruel last evening in the lurid
low sunset that made it glow. duly
TO the cold, hooking, ragged moonrisC
that made il look like death. TIL,
waves positively beckoned when they
rose and pitched toward our boat la
boring In the trough. And all the long
night 1t seemed to me that | heard
voices through the p.anking. talking
talking, endlessly. monotonouSly, quer-
ulously. and couldn't make out
whether it was the " can calling from
the outside or the J herself mutter-
ing gropingly, findin; herself. If the
voices are of the ship they will soon
cease, for she must find herself. But
if they are the vol cS of the sea they
must he sad sirens that cry, restless,
questioning, unsatisiied-quaint home
less little sirens"
The Press. (Stafford Springs, Conn.) 1883-1935, 1916-01-19
SOMERS.

Walter Field has a place with the
A. G. Spaulding company of Chicopee,
Mass.
Miss Fannie Holcomb has returned
from Hartford, where she was the
guest of cousins.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. Vail Smith at
tended the wedding of their nephew,
Aaron B. Whitlook, and Miss Ina
Humason on Suffield, Monday even.
ing.
At the special town meeting Mon
day, the 18th, to appropriate sum to
establish night school in Somersville,
the measure was voted down, with At
no and Is yes.
Mr.. and Mrs. Bert u. Fuller have
as guests Mrs. Leland Slater and two
children of Brattleboro, VT, and Miss
Blanche Fuller is entertaining Miss
Mary Robinson of Hartford.
Mr.. Crawford and family of Spring
field have moved into the house
owned by Mrs. S. p. Moore, and Mrs.
Hattie Doyle, who formerly occupied
it, has moved to one of the Elmwood
apartments.
Mrs. Maude P. Kimball has returned
to her home in Ellington, after being
called here from Toledo, O., by the
illness, with pneumonia, of her
brother, Charter W. Pomeroy, who is
now on the road to recovery.
Word has been received from An
dover, o, of the death of Miss
Geraldine Russell. Miss Russell
in former years has spent much time
in Somers. She was a niece of Mrs.
Enos Arnold and a cousin of G. P.
Russell and L. W. Russell
Charles S. Fuller, registrar of vital
statistics reports for the year 1915
thirty-five births, fifteen marriages,
twenty-one deaths, showing a slight
decrease since 1914 which report
was forty -four births, seventeen mar
riages, and twenty seven deaths.
A deputation team from the Y. NJ.
O. A. college in Springfield has been
visiting the local Scouts and young
men of the town. Saturday evening
social was held in Piedmont hall.
Sunday morning two spoke at the
morning service, one addressed the
Brotherhood at their noon service and
q service was held for boys at 3. 80
O'Clock, at which the young men
spoke.
E. s. Fuller, L. A. Gowdy and
R. d. Keeney, assessors of the town
of Somers, have completed their work
aud report the following list of
The Press. (Stafford Springs, Conn.) 1883-1935, 1916-01-19
TEST "ALL w." 81 FIr.E.
TO Detect Cotte- F;tcrs Burn Sam
ple Of TIE Cloth.


pie Of TIE Cloth.
Until the proper lubeling of textiles
has been made compulsory there ar"
certain simple tests iIy means Of which
one may determine whether an "all
WOOL fabric is re lily all wool or not.
The old way OF telling by feeling and
looking is no longer reliable. for cotton
can be made both To feel nul look lat
wool. The only sure way is to take
samples of the goods home with you
and make tests of l.lem there.
If piece of cotton cloth is ignited 1t
will be found to burn rather rapidly
no disagreeable Odor. and when the
material is completely consumed there
will be left only small amount Of
light gray. fluffy ash. Ii piece OF
pure wool is lighted it will he fOlBd 10
burn much more slowly ard with n less
steady fame. emitting II IInraneFisti"
mild, Kissing noise aud II strong od0f
very similar to t.,at of burned horn
There will be much more ash remain
ing than In the case of cotton, and IL
will be in the form Of II crinkly. black.
crisp ball.
In applying this test to "A fabric the
whole sample should not be burned ~
once for If 1t is q so called wool piece
containing considerable cotton it wiz
be very difficult to determine whether
1t is burning more like cotton or wool.
Threads should be taken from the sam
pie. several each from the warp and
the wool. and burned separately. With
a very little practice one will he able to
detect the cotton threads by the char.
acteristic ma:.ner OF burning Some
times 1t Is well to pick IA thread apart
with a pin and test the individual fiber
with the fame to determine whether
the thread is entirely wool or mixed
with cotton.-Jean Donaldson Martin
in Mothers Magazine.