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Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1916-01-20

II is announced that the water.
works system OF Beaumont has been
made a paying investment. As a
general thing the waterworks plants
OF Texas have been poor dividend
PAYERS.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1916-01-20

To the Carranza government: Put
on exhibition more of the dead bodies
Of villa bandits. Let's have them In
droves. not excepting the red-handed
assassin villa himself. The more OF
them you exhibit. the more rapidly
the Carranza government will grow
In popularity and public favor.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1916-01-20
COTTON RECEIPTS.
MASQUERADE BALL.

The Eagle has been requested to
announce that the annual masquerade
ball. given by the Sons OF Herman
Lodge OF Kurten. will occur this year
on the night OF Feb. 10. The ball
will be held in the hall OF the lodge
at Kurten.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1916-01-20
WILLARD GUARANTEED ssa.soo-
Tom Jones. Manager, Said Moran Was
Lucky to Get Fight With Champ.

tlfy Associated tTcasl
Kansas City, Mo-, Jan. 2o-"Riekara
and MeCracken are out OF Il; they had
their opportunity to get the match and
refused to meet our figures" Tom
Jones. manager Of Jess Willard,
heavyweight ehampiono. said here To-
night.
i've signed with Curley and that
ends the matter. Moran's signing does
not make bit OF difference to us.
lie Is lucky to get fight with WI.
lard"
Jones and Curley offered as per
cent OF the gross receipts and 81 per
cent OF the moving picture proceeds.
Curley guaranteed ss2.5Oo as Wizards
share.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1916-01-20
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.

Any girl In school knows that a kiss
is a conjunction.
Prudery is a wig often used to cover
bald character.
Faith will move mountains today II
backed up by hard work.
By wearing a silk hat many rogue
is able to pass as a gentleman.
II angels fear to tread where fools
rush in, they should use their wings.
A woman always has TO get some
other woman to help her keep a Sc
oret.
Procrastination Is banana peel
that has caused the downfall OF many
a man.
At forty a man knows about half az
much as he thought he knew al
twenty.
Any woman may drive her husband
to drink, but she can't make him TAKE
water.
A girl may be able to pose an al
angel during courtship. but after mar
rage she sheds her wings.
II all the worlds stage it's up 4
each OF us 10 contribute something "a
,vard tho elevation thQrpOf
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1916-01-20
NOTICE.

DR.. W. s. Smith. osteopath. will DO
at Hotel Bryan Tuesday. Thursday
and Saturday afternoons Of each
week.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1916-01-20

Mrs. Wayne Evans returned to her
home in Hugo. Ok. today, after a
visit to her father. Judge V. b. Hud.
son.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1916-01-20

Better think three times before ex
tracing a dollar from your pocket to
invest In a get.rIch-quick proposition
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1916-01-20

Read the Jno. Deere cost cash ad'
vertisement OF their implements at
Hensarlings on page OF this issue.
BRYAN COTTON EXCHANGE.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1916-01-20

This is tree planting time and every
man who plants a tree is public ben
eiactor.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1916-01-20
ANnouHcE DEMENT'S.

The Eagle is authorized to make the
following announcements. subject to
the action Of the July Democratic pri
mary:
FOR COUNTY SUPERINTENDENT
PROF. W. L. POWERS.
PROF. c. NJ. BETHANY.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1916-01-20
TO WIN THE PRIZE.

II Is the struggle that makes life
and It's achievements worth while.
A perfect environment would be
both unbearable and Improbable.
"And God led them not by the way
OF the land OF the Phillstines, although
that was near"
Il was Greek culture that ate into
the life OF Roman integrity and
brought its downfall.
Let us rejoice that there's work to
do and that we have part therein.
Let us not forget the experience OF
the man who. wept because there were
no more worlds to conquer.
II may be sarcasm. but there Is un'
derlying truth in pity for the idle
rich.
Patience is virtue. and the poet
tells MS that we rise on our dead
selves TO higher things
Well did the poet sing:
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1916-01-20

A small boy says the road TO knowl.
edge has too many branches.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1916-01-20
MARRIAGE LICENSE

Sam Hester and Alice steptoe.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1916-01-20

Must I be carried to the skies
On flowery beds OF ease.
While others fought to win the priz
And sailed through bloody seasw
Waco Times Herald.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1916-01-20

II all the worlds a stage it's up to
each OF us 10 contribute something to-
ward the elevation thereof.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1916-01-20

Any girl in school knows that kiss
is conjunction.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1916-01-20

BY wearing a silk hat many a rogue
Is able to pass as a gentleman.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1916-01-20

Prudery is wig often used to cove
a bald character.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1916-01-20

Faith will move mountains today !
backed up by hard work.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1916-01-20

A girl may be able to pose an an
angel during courtship, but after mar
rage she sheds her wings.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1916-01-20

II angels fear to tread where fools
rush in, they should use their wings.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1916-07-15

of q letter on the day he is wont to re-
ceive it that arouses a man to the
realization that there would be some
thing missing from his happiness If
those letters were stopped altogether.
II he had never beheld the writer,
his fancy paints glowing pictures of
the fair face bent over the page. He
is sure she must be good to look upon
Almost without realizing it at first
the tone of his letters grows more
fervent. She replies to them so mod
estly, yet with such diffidence, he be-
comes more charmed with her than
ever. At length, with manly direct
ness and earnestness, he asks her If
she Is averse to being wooed and won.
He puts in good many sleepless
nights between hope and fear, wonder
ing IL her reply will be favorable. 1t
liz. Their betrothal by mail follows
as a matter Of course.
1t is a trying ordeal for a man to
have his photo taken, but he goes
through the experience because she
has asked for it, eagerly begging for
hers in return. For one reason or an
other, she delays sending it. They set
the wedding day. Thereupon follows
the first hitch in his wooing. His
business is of such a nature he can
not go to her and after much urg-
ing it is decided that she shall come
to him. His womenfolk will be with
him to meet her at the train. The min
lister who is to join them in wedlock
will be waiting their arrival at the
church, where his neighbors, friends
and townspeople will be gathered to
give her royal welcome.
She describes the costume she will
wear. He designates the place he will
be standing. He hears the train APP
proach with a heart in his bosom beat
ing like timid schoolboy's. In fancy,
he anticipates shy, frightened young
girl alighting and looking about her
with wide, bewildered eyes, in the
brown dress and white sailor hat with
the wreath of daisies about it which
she has SO infinitely described. He
knows he will be able to determine at
glance whether she is sweet six
teen or demure two and twenty. He
almost wishes he were not yet the
five and thirty he has candidly owned
up to.
The train stops. One figure only
alights. He sees the futtering of a
brown dress, whose wearer waves an
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1916-07-15
From Bad to Worse.

Henry Guy Carleton, wit, journalist
and playwright, suffered and was not
sensitive about it.
When the Fifth avenue theater
burned Mr.. Carleton appeared in a
newspaper office where he was then
employed. The usual Saturday night
confusion was greatly increased by the
fire. The office was bedlam. Ballard
Smith, managing editor of the paper,
was believing his orders with all his
wonderful vigor in the effort to get
to press on time.
"M-m-mister Smith, began Mr..
Carleton, I've a g-g-great s-s-story
about the Fifth Avenue theater
f-f-fire."
Great heavens, mani" roared
Smith. Don't stop to talk to me
about it. Don't you know this is Sat-
urday night, and we go to press in fif-
teen minutes? Get to work and write
1T, and write as fast as you know how.
l want copy, not conversation. Don't
you know every minute is precious?"
"Y-y-yes, sir" said the other, with
an insistent effort to hold the editors
attention, but l w-w-want to k-k-know
II you w-w-would lend me. your
s-s-stenographer." -Everybody's Mag
azine.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1916-07-15
NOT Much as Bows.

When parents get discouraged over
the lack of study and the frequent &C.
centricities that their boys manifest,
or even over their physical misfor-
tunes or poverty, they ought to find
hope and consolation in the thought
that Isaac Watts was constantly
scolded for his absolute Indifference to
books and boys sports; Charles OAR
win showed such an eccentric tend
ency to Observation-Disclosures that on
one of his lonely tramps he walked off
an embankment and nearly lost his
life; Ralph Waldo Emerson was q
hopeless dreamer; the great Demos
themes was fearful stammerer; Abra-
ham Lincoln, Elihu Burritt, Charles
Dickens and Andrew Carnegie were
the poorest of poor children; Anthony
Trollope, the writer, was hopelessly
shy and the butt Of his school; Audu-
bon of bird fame was put down by all
his elders as a fool; Caesar and Ma
poleon were epileptics; Oliver Gold
smith, was a hopeless sloven, and
Thoreau was adjudged by everyone
to be a crank. The queer boy does
not always grow to be man of sno
worth.-Selected.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1916-07-15
A Few Table Don'ts.

Here are few valuable "don'ts"
for the table:
When your hostess hands you a
plate, don't offer to pass it on to an
other person. Take what your hostess
intended for you.
And when you have your food,
don't hesitate about beginning to eat.
Old-fashioned people wait until all are
served before eating but it isn't strict
ly correct to do this. OF course, If
you happen to be one of home party,
where you are passing vegetables to
others, you would naturally see that
you had done your part before begin
ming to enjoy your share OF the meal.
Don't take second helping Of soup
or fish if you are going through meal
of several courses.
Never cut your bread. It should
be broken on the cloth, or the plate
that may be provided, and broken
without raising it from the table.
Don't shake salt over your food. Salt
and mustard should be placed on the
side of the plate
For the sake of your neighbors don't
stick out your elbows when dining.
People who have acquired this very
bad habit should practice until they
find another angle. When manipu-
lating food on the plate use the hands
from the wrist, not from the elbows.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1916-07-15

candles. The customary hour of re-
firing is nine o'clock in summer and
seven In winter,
There are no old maids in Marker.
Girls have only one sweetheart. Each
sutton Is a Markenite. He has to be.
A girl could not be married on the
island to anyone else. And If she left
the island and married she would
never be permitted to return.
Are you adept at fishing?" This is
the only thing a father asks when a
young man is seeking his daughter in
marriage. If he can qualify in that
respect, personal likings are not con-
sidered.
Unless engaged young woman is
never seen promenading with young
man. After the announcement of the
engagement it is perfectly proper for
choose holding hands-in fact, that
is the custom.
There are no secret or broken en-
gagements on that island Of queer GUS
toms and traditions. The Markenites
have an engagement rite. The young
man and his affianced sit up all night
with large candle lighted on the
table between them. After the house
is closed, the parents leave the couple
each in straight uncomfortable chair
on either side of the table. Not a word
can be spoken until the candle has
burned and gone out. The assumption
is that they must be sincerely in love,
or they could not endure the ordeal
When the sun has risen, the respective
parents drink boiled wine together,
and the young man is welcomed into
the girls family. They are then con-
sidered engaged for good and all.
The people have married and inter-
married for so many years that they
are not only becoming degenerate, but
there is scarcely family on the whole
island which does not have at least
one member suffering from tubercu-
losis. They have been able to endure
as long as they have because the great
er part CT their time is spent outdoors
in the sunshine.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1916-07-15
REQUIRE REST FROM LABOR
Men Make Mistake When They Keep
Their moses Too Close to
the Grindstone."

keeping ones nose close to the
grindstone" is a popular phrase which
describes what a great many people
complishing any given task. Accord
ing to this idea, the most work can be
done in the quickest time by keeping
everlastingly at 1t with just as few
Interruptions as possible.
Science now believes that it's all q
mistake to keep ones nose too close
to the grindstone. Careful studies
made in large number of manufacture
ing establishments led to the conclu-
sion that the most work Is done with
the least risk of accident only when a
man gives his mind and body frequent
opportunities for rest.
Records kept in English factories
where men are engaged in soldering
tins show the amount of work done
during each hour of the day to be as
follows:
In the morning-first hour, ia tins;
second hour, 1877; third hour, 159;
fourth hour, 1877 fifth hour, 1888.
In the afternoon--frst hour, 119;
second hour, 165; third hour, 1853;
fourth hour, 155.
These tables agree with those of
other factories in giving a higher out
put for the second hour than for the
first, this being due to the facility
which comes with practice.
But the chief point which they drive
home, when studied in connection with
the number of accidents is that after
the second hour Of continuous effort,
both morning and afternoon, there is
a continuous and marked decrease in
the output and corresponding in
crease in the frequency of accidents.
The factory owner who wants to get
the most out of his employees will
break up their work day by frequent
periods of rest.
In this investigation it was impos-
sible to record the cumulative effects
of fatigue from day to day, and from
week to week, but there was evidence
that the physiological products of ia
tigue cannot be got rid of in working
day. This means a growing predispo-
sition to disease and to the form of
mental excitement which results in
social unrest.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1916-07-15

In the doctrine that each is respon-
sible for all, that suffering is puri.
flying discipline, and may be vicari.
GUS as well as personal, and that
through such discipline man may
find God, is the answer of Dostoev-
ski, the Russian novelist, to the rid
die of the ages.
The words he put into the lips of
Father Zossima may be taken as sum.
ming up his message to mankind:
Brothers, have no fear of mems
sin. Love a man even in his sin, for
that is the semblance of divine love,
and is the highest love on earth.
Loving humility is marvelously
strong, the strongest of all things, and
there is nothing else like it."
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1916-07-15
DzDDY'S EVENING
FAIRY TALE q MARY !
go J yl $50 ESQ., g ! e
PIG WHO TOOK A WALK.

There was once little fairy, who
was named Fairy Sunrise, because
every morning she got up just at the
same time as Mr.. Sun did.
she had a great love for nice little
pigs, as she thought they were very
cunning, and not at all the horrid lit
tle creatures some people think they
are.
But one little pig worried her
great deal. He put on airs and was
very proud of himself. The little
pigs name was 'Gink,' and he was the
pet pig of little girl who lived on
a farm. or course, although there
were plenty of other pigs on the farm,
this little girl was fonder of Gink than
of any other. She thought his squeal
was much the incest little squeal she
had ever heard.
"Gink was very much petted, and he
had most beautiful home. There was
delicious mud for him to play in. He
could make mud pies all day long if
he wanted to, and if he felt lazy he
the time.
But this special time l am going to
tell you about, Gink had very great
wish to exercise. 1t was simply be-
cause he was becoming so vain.
HE had overheard some city folks
who had visited the farm talk about
their figures. For a long time he
couldn't imagine what they meant.
Then, after listening for some time,
he heard one of them say that it was
quite all right to eat everything any
one wanted to, but everyone must ex-
ercise, walk and play games so as
not to grow fat-for it was so ugly to
be fat!
"Gink had never thought it was
ugly to be fat, but then that was be-
cause he had never really thought
about it at all. And yet when he did
think about it, he decided that he
would much rather keep just plump
as he now was than grow as fat as his
mother was For he said that his
mother was little bit old fashioned,
and he wanted to be very modern
pig.
THE next day he went for walk.
He went through the little village, just
managing to escape from under horses
feet, and the little boys bicycles. He
went as far as the lake, where he saw
some boys starting off on a camping
trip.
Don't you want to come with us?'
asked ono of the boys. n..l
THE little pig was Just about to
start off, thinking in his vain way that
the trip would do him good, when he
heard a second boy say:
"'Wont he make wonderful bacon?'
Then you should have seen little
Gink run home to his mistress. And
after that awful fright and narrow es-
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1916-07-15

Y r THERE is one place on earth
more conservative than all the
rest, that place is the little Dutch
Il island of Marken, in the Zuyder
Zee.
There are only five hundred inhabi-
tants on the island, and all are, in a
measure, related. For centuries no
stranger has ever been permitted to
settle and live there. So unfriendly
are the Markenites even toward tour
lists that an inn or hotel is not per-
mitted on the island. To stay all night
you must bride an INSCRIPTIONS Mar
kenite to let you sleep in his flood
attic.
The people have an indescribable
dialect of their own which staggers
even a Dutchman.
Although they can reach Amster-
dam in less than two hours by gaso-
line launch, the women never leave
the island, and the men leave only on
business. 4ft
Their attitude toward the people of
Holland and the inhabitants of any
other country is one of antipathy and
strict isolation.
In addition to being the cleanest
people on earth, they are most peace
full. No alien power has ever had
any perceptible influence on them.
Fashions Don't Change.
Fashions of men and women do not
change in Marken. They are wearing
the same styles today that their great
grandmothers and great-grandfathers
wore. From infants to old women, all
dress alike Women never wear mourn
ing, but add piece of black material
either to the left or the right side of
the sleeve, or to some part of the skirt
to. designate the relationship to the
member of the family deceased.
Boys and girls are dressed alike I'M
til they are six years DID, and can be
distinguished only by a button on the
cap of the boy, and a rose on the cap
of the girl. The sixth birthday is
great event in the life of every boy,
for 1t Is at this time that he doffs his
corset and dress and puts on male
garb. The only change that girls
make in the mode of dress is that on
the day of marriage corsets are laid
aside never to be worn again, and it
becomes stylish to wear many under
skirts. This gives hoop-skirt effect.
The men and the boys over six years
old habitually wear what Americans
would call boomers, and loose plain
jacket with a couple of gold or silver
buttons on the collar.
The Markenites are tall, heavy of
frame, have eyes of blush gray, sand
colored hair. conspicuously poor teeth
and large lips, which they seldom
close. This description applies to both
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1916-07-15
"GIRL MYSTERY" IS AMUSING
Girls Disguise Faces In Pretty Colored
Masks and Boys Guess ldenti-
ties Of Lassies.

In the game of Girl Mystery" all
the girls wear the pretty colored
masks obtainable nowadays for few
cents-disguising their faces and hair
and allowing only their eyes to be ex-
posed to view. The girls then stand
on chairs behind curtain or screen,
allowing their heads only to appear
above, and the boys equipped with pen
ellis and paper proceed to guess the
identities of the dainty lasses and to
write their names down in order. The
player who makes the most correct
guesses obtains the prize.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1916-07-15

Their houses are all pretty much
alike. There Is never more than two
rooms downstairs, dining room which
is also kitchen, and living room and
bedroom combined There is always
a fireplace of old blue tiles. From the
rafters hang jugs, dried fish and hams.
The Markenites are not meat eaters.
The ordinary diet consists of fish
cod or herring-dried peas or beans,
and cheese. The cheese is made Of
goat milk.
The people use the street as sit
ting room. Outside the door of each
house is bench, where the house
wife knits wooden socks and jackets.
Marken has no street lights. The
extravagant burn gasoline, others,
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1916-07-15

swer: oh, yes,
but there is and it
is the most ro-
mantle kind of ro-
nance. Introduce
lions are made by
mutual friends by
letter and the PEN
dulum is s e t
swinging"
A score or more
of friendly letters
may pass between
a man and woman
ere interest Is
awakened by the
few casual words
which touch the
h e ar t = h / d d en-
spring. 1t is usu-
aIly the missing
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1916-07-15
Judged by His Talk.

rs it possible to become habitually
optimistic?"
THAT depends great deal on per-
sons environment and the way in
which he earns a living"
"Yes% 80 n'''a'l@- o.. ---.'s-
81 notice that after a man has sold
suburban real estate for few years a
hundred square feet OF swamp seems
to him Garden Of Eden In Disguise"
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1916-07-15
Wooing by Mail
May Be Romantic
but It's Also Risky
By LAURA JEAN LlBBEY
Copyright, 1850

Copyright, 1860
Oh, golden opportunity that means so
much, Ni.a
They do me wrong who say I come no
more
When once 1 knock and fail to find you
in,
For every morn I stand outside your
80 door E....s.I-
And bid you wake to rise, to fight and
win. .I.- .r-
There can be little or no successful
wooing by mail, you say, and an
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1916-07-15
One on Grandmother.

Bobby Ito grandmother) -Grandma
have you ever seen an engine wagging
its ears?
Grandma-No, nonsense, Bobby, 1
never heard of an engine having any
ears.
Bobby-Why, haventyou ever heard
of engineers?
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1916-07-15

umbrella vigorously in his direction.
In the woman who has come on at his
solicitation to marry him he sees
person of fully 200 pounds weight, red
as to face and white as to hair,
specialized grandma looking every one
of her fifty years. He begs off at
heavy price.
Moral-It is dangerous to WOO and
win a stranger by mail!