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Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1916-10-14
FREE DELIVERY
SERVICE SETTLED
Notification From Washington 10 to
the Effect that Two Routes viii
Be Started.

Secretary McElroy OF the CONNER.
cial Club is in receipt OF advices that
the government will on the first Of
next month establish two city deliv.
cry route in the city. provided the city
itself will erect street signs and have
the houses numbered on certain
street which the routes will cover.
This win be done. The matter was
Immediately taken up with Mayor
Harris and he turned this over to City
Engineer Adams and Secretary Nc.
Elroy. These gentlemen Immediately
wired for bids for street signs and by
the latter part OF next week the erec-
tion of signs will begin apd also the
Numbering OF the houseE II was not
possible TO ascertain Just the exact
routes for this service. but according
to Mr. McElroy this is only starter
and just as soon as the citizens put
in sidewalks and get numbers on the
houses the service will be extended
to include all that part OF the city so
covered.
This announcement as a matter of
fact settles the question as to wheth-
er or not the service will be given.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1916-10-14
Subs Chase Liners.

New York. Oct. li.-When the
White Star liner Bowie sighted an
eastward bound submarine in the At.
lantic Saturday. the undersea boat ap.
parently was in pursuit OF the Danish
passenger ship Hellig Alav. according
to observers on the deck OF the Bowie.
which arrived today.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1916-10-14

noon at o'clock and after the reli-
glous services by his pastor. Rev. c.
II. Storey. the A. o. U. W. took charge
and the other services were under the
direction OF that order. with the w. o.
W. acting as an escort.
The floral offerings were many and
beautiful. bearing testimony In their
silent beauty to the high esteem In
which he was held by many. many
friends.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1916-10-14
WARNING ISSUED
To GULF SHIPPERS
Storm Reported Last Week Now Said
10 Be Moving Toward the
Yucatan Channel.

Washington. d. c.. Oct. H.-Hurri.
cane warnings to shipping in the Gulf
OF Mexico we're sent out today by the
weather bureau. The storm, which is
believed to be the one which swept
the Danish West Indies last week, is
today reported TO be moving toward
the Yucatan channel in the path OF
shipping.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1916-10-14
klnq Ferdinand TO Command.

Bucharest, Oct. liking Ferdi'
nand Of Rumania, Il was announced,
will personally take supreme com
mand OF the Russian and Rumanian
armies. Considerable Russian rein
forccmcn,s are expected to arrive In
Rumania.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1916-10-14

DR.. Bev. Harrison OF Bcdias, visitci
relatives in Bryan this week.
Miss Lillian Bigger OF waxahachie.
and Miss Reba Rugeley OF Matagor'
da. are guests OF Miss Marguerite
Zuber.
J.R. Hayes OF Walker County, has
been In the city the past two days.
Henry Sheppard was a pleasant
caller at The Eagle office today.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1916-10-14
Japan and Russia Protest.

Pekin. Oct. i.-(Bulletin)-Japan
and Russia entered protests today
against concessions for railway con.
struotlon in China which have been
granted Americans.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1916-10-14
Germans on the Offensive in Verdun Region
MADE important Gain
IN STRONG NIGHT ATTACK

The Germans Have Waged Fierce Offensive on
the Somme Front and Have Gained Some
Ground and Taken Few Prisoners-Berlin
Also Claims They Are Gaining on the Mace.
donian Front German Submarines in Amer
lean Waters Reported Chasing Liners s-Ber.
lin Reports Torpedoing of Two French YES
sells in Mediterranean and Drowning of one
Thousand Men-King of Rumania to Take
Charge of Russian and Rumanian Troops.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1916-10-14
COTTON CONSUMPTION
FOR SEPTEMBER.

Washington, u. c., Oct. ii.-Cotton
consumed In the United States during
September amounted to $4,000 bales,
compared with $4,000 for September
year ago.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-04-18
BARRED BY BINET TEST

nie said in German. She speaks Ruoma- nian and Hebrew also:
 First they told me to count 20 back wards, I started, twenty, nineteen, eisht- cen
 " Oh, please don't ask mo such easy things I said
 Doesn't know how to do it. said one examiner.
 Then they showed me one of these fans that work by machinery Fannie went on.
 There are lots of them in Roumania, They run by themselves I said.
 They run by electricity was what I should have said, they told me-
 "They asked me why one always begins to scrub steps at the top.'
 So from her housekeeping experience. Fannie answered that 'it was cleaner and easier"
 Binet rules say she should have said that otherwise the water would have dripped back on the clean steps
 T could tell I'd failed by the way those men looked at each other" said Fannie.
 Let me tell you my story I begged them.
 money and how my sister Rebecca had saved to let me come to America I told them could talk and write three lan- guages-but they sent me out of the room
 After this war shall have learned to speak English and I shall know more about electric fans. Then they won't send me back
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-04-18
JOHN BURROUGHS

Clara Barrus tells us that John Muir talked good literature, but did not like to write it. John Burroughs both talks and writes good literature, but, on the whole, prefers to talk it. Each has written a good deal. The works of John Burroughs make quite a long list, and they are read now more than ever. But he has only swept tho surface of his ex- perience taking 1t all the way from his close companionship with Walt Whitman to Tramping with Roosevelt"
 The latter found John Burroughs powerful ally few years ago whom the President of the United States, dropping temporarily the cares of office and the conduct of famous club, took upon him. self the leadership in a crusade against nature fakers.' That crusade created some feeling and some partisanship and not little rancor. No doubt some in justice was done. But 1t put stop to nature faking," and that is some- thing to be grateful for. John Bur- roughs knows the birds, to use an Amer icanism, like a book" and, from all ac- counts, the birds know him and like him for they were beginning to gather about him on the bare hills of the Hud.on country this spring apparently Ionr be- fore they called upon any of his neigh bors
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-04-18
Hardly Recognized City

"I spent several days in Birmingham in 1896 and had not been here since until I came Sunday for a short visit and it is needless to say that I marveled at the strides that have been made-I hardly recognized this as Birmingham" said Dexter F. Whitman of Boston.
 Tn the latter part of the '90s I heard fl om Birmingham frequently and learned tkat it was recovering from the wide spread depression that started with the panic of '93 and I have watched the census returns, but I never dreamed that the city had grown to be so metropolitan ir appearance. Birmingham today is not only great industrial center. with a population of 100000 or more, but 1t IS handsomely built up. It's residence sec tions easily surpass in beauty those of any city in the south that I have ever visited.
 Birmingham will probably have 25o,Oo0 when the census of 1920 is taken, and that will outstrip Atlanta, which made the best showing in 1910 of any strictly southern city outside of New Orleans"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-04-18
Americas Huge Trade Balance

That prosperity is now widespread in the United States, and in iron and steel districts breaking all former records, is known to everybody, but it is of interest, and very cheering, to read review of the situation with . roseate prophecy by an eminent foreign economist.
 Sir George Paish of London, who represented the British government in the Anglo-French $5O0,000,9 900 loan negotiations, and who is regarded as England's foremost financial authori- ty, has contributed an article to the Statist about the banking and indus trial situation in this country, based upon data obtained on the occasion of his recent visit. He emphasizes the lever broadening prosperity in Amer ica," due to our enormous production and enormous profits.
 "How great the exports from the United States will be in the current year." he writes, 'cannot be foretold, but they seem likely to be very much greater than in the last year. It would not be surprising to find that the trade balance to be settled in securi- Iles of gold will rise in the next twelve months from ssoo,ooo.oo0
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-04-18
THE LATIN QUARTER A VOID

Paris Letter to the London Times.
 No quarter of Paris has changed more than the Latin quarter since the war be- gan, and few have changed so much. The streets are almost empty, and there is no animation anywhere. You are tempted to stand still, to listen, to strain your ears for the chatter of footsteps, the babel of voices, the ring of young laugh ter, the busy coming and going of the students, the trades people and the dilet- tantes.
 But the silence is undsturbed none of these things can be realized, for the students are scattered all over the world; some are killed, many are wounded The trades people also have wide gaps in their ranks. and those we see in the quarter are chiefly women and elderly men. The dilettantes, too. have paid toll, and none more readily than those who were looked upon as "slackers' in the battle for money and fame. French, English, Russiara, Italians-they have all gone, leaving behind them a sad, de- serted Latin quarter, void of interest and rich only in memories. The Germans have gone also, and no one drinks Ger man beer any more.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-04-18
Accustomed to Crises

Some of the earlier Presidents of
 the United States faced problems of international concern which it seemed at the time difficult of solution, and there were few who did not have bothers growing out of friction with their own political party; but no President since Lincoln has been weighted with so many burdens or has had to meet so many trying situ- ations as Woodrow Wilson.
 He inherited Mexican situation" :" and from the day of his inaugura- tion he had to be ready to deal with knotty questions bearing on this country's relations with our Latin neighbor. The crises touching Mex ico have been many, but the gravest international situations demanding the attention of the administration have been, of course, those which had to do with Germany and the submarine war fare.
 A half dozen times it has appeared as if the United States was on the verge of war with Germany. Looking back several months it might seem that this country and Germany have continued their diplo- matic relations up to this time; but the state department is now in able hands and with the President and Mr. Lansing in harmony and striving to keep cut of war and at the same time maintain this country's dignity, a breach has been avoided.
 How will it be in the near future? If the alleged dead body of Villa, the bandit, can be identified to the satis- faction of the Washington govern ment, the Mexican question will be the time being at least and if Germany makes satisfactory reply to the note now going forward to Berlin in the nature of an ulti- matum on the submarine warfare breach will still be averted.
 The people of this country have grown accustomed to crises, and there is no reason why they should begin now to climb mountains or cross dan gerous streams until they are reached.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-04-18
DAVIS SPELLED TT WRON

From the Philadelphia Ledger.
 They say it is wise son who knows his own father, and I say now that he is a wideawake hero who recognizes his own creator.
 When Richard Harding Davis was a Philadelphia reporter one of the office boys or the newspaper where he worked was Gallagher. He was precocious lad, and some years later Davis had become famous as a novelist and Gallagher him self had graduated into a brickyard, the latter revisited the Press office.
 Meeting J. O. G. Duffy, who had been a reporter with Davis, Gallagher asked him what had become of the "big guns" on the paper in the "old days"
 He wanted to know about Bradford Merrill and R. E. A. Dorr and Andy Watrous. "Then there was tall guy" said Gallagher, "who used to give me nickel to dance on the table He called himself MT. Richard Harding Davis Whats become of him?'
 "Wkatr' exclaimed Duffy, "don't you know that Dick Davis is now famous and that he made you famous in a st,ry:''
 Gallagher wouldn't believe it, so Duffy went to the office library and got out a copy of "Gsllegher.'' The original looked only at the cover and said:
 'FWhy, the derned fool spelled my name wrong"
 And it appears that he had.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-04-18

From the Cleveland Press
 There are electric fans in Bucharest Roumania, as well as in the United States.
 Asking a 17-year-old girl to count 20 backwards is silly"
 When you're scrubbing steps, you aI- ways begin at the top, because it's cleaner and easier. "HosE are three wrong" answers
 that Fannie Berkowitz gave in a
 Binet test on Ellis Island three weeks ago. But she is safe in Cleveland now.
 The Binet test is test by which psychologists say they can determine the mental capacity of the person to whom it is applied. part of the test consists of a series of questions
 The Binet examiners in New York said the girl had failed and ordered her back to Europe.
 'They did this, although I explained that had supported my family by doing dressmaking for two years" Fannie said at the home of her sister, Mrs. Rebecca Evans, in this city.
 T cried I was afraid to go back to Europe alone" said the girl
 Only the fact that railroad traffic be- tween Roumania and Australia has been stopped by the war saved her. She was paroled here until the end of the war
 Those Binet examiners-they asked me such silly things I had to laugh" Fan
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-04-18
A GERMAN GENTLEMAN

From the Louisville Courier-Journal.
 The "horrid din of war; as horrid in hymns of hate and the criss-crossing charges of savagery, as in the zone of "reeking tube and iron shard,'' is agree ably broken now and then by a soldiers report of the gallantry of an enemy.
 Capt. R. I. Sade of the Royal Flying corps, of England, writes that he was 'ambushed in the air" by Lieutenant I'm melmann of the German Army Flying corps, driving his armored Fokker plane Slade and his pilot Captain Darley, were flying over the German lines when Im- melmann swooped upon them from the rear with his machine gun in action. The first intimation of danger received by the Englishman was stream of lead through their petrol tank Riding on fuel was no longer possible, so the startled British aviators tipped the nose of the plane downward and plunged toward the earth, followed closely by the German, who still kept his machine gun splitting bullets through their machine. He hardly once got off of the target, says Captain Slade, who, niraculously, lives to tell the tale. llc put tAulLD WdS ludI6lcu Dy c pdi- let and while the pursued and pursuing machines were cleaving the atmosphere at high speed and while the machine gun kept at its work, Captain Slade ann putated Captain Lariey's thumb with a Lenknife. The wounded man managed to land safely. Lieuterhnt Immelmann, aware that the Englishmen were alive, planed down to earth and came forward to them to make a polite offer of assist ance.
 ''He behaved in a kindly manner" writes Captain Shade. He is gentleman and I hope that if we capture him he will be treated as one.'
 A bit of the romance of war Is revealed in print occasionally and constitutes proof that human nature is about as it always was. The history of warfare while it is in the making always is too much blotched with blood to be otherwise than sickening. But few of the many deeds of gallantry that leaven the saturnalia of slaughter are reported. As time passes they are remembered while the scenes of the abbattoir are obscured by dis tance, and the war of the past becomes heroic and romantic.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-04-18
sEwICKLEY MAN JoLTED

New York Correspondent Pittsburg Dis
 patch.
 A rude jolt was given today to Se- wlckley man who has sound ideas in the uplift line and is so situated that he can give help in the way of jobs to those whom he believes are deserving and will help themselves He peers into out-of- the-way places in his quests when in New York as he does in Pittsburg, and meets some queer experiences He had gone into a cheap restaurant and thought he spied a likely candidate when a one- armed man sat beside him. The Pitts burger noticed his neighbor's left sleeve hanging loose and kept eyeing him in a sort of how-did-it-happen way. The one armed man failed to break the ice, but continued to keep busy with his one hand supplying the inner man. At last the in quisitive one with an object in view changed his position a little. cleared his throat and said: T see, sir, you have lost an arm" Whereupon the unfortunate man picked up the empty sleeve with his right hand, peered into it. looked up with surprised expression. and said: By George. sir. you're right" The Pitts burger was stumped and quit.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-04-18
A Famous Trademark

The inventive minds of American business men have originated many famous trademarks which have be- come known in all parts of the world Some of these trademarks were the result of inspiration which has made them as popular as they are familiar. Perhaps there is none more happily conceived and exerting a wider ap- neal than "His Masters Voice, which has probably sold more Victor talking machines than all the argu- ments ever advanced by an army of salesmen.
 Daniel Farrell, who was for many years tinsmith at Camden, N. J., was said to have been the owner of the dog which has been given immor- tality in the advertising world. MT. Farrell died recently at the age of 75. When the Victor company was a small concern he had pet fox terrier which followed Eldridge R. Johnson, now president of the company, around the plant. When MT. Johnson experi- mented with talking machines it would sit before the horn and listen to the sounds that came forth. This was the origin of the Victor trade mark, perhaps the most attractive ad- vertising idea ever conceived.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-04-18

(1,5OO, ,Ooo,OOO) to s4OO,OOO,OOO ($2,- COG, 0,000, ,000) or even $500, ,00O, ,000 ($2,- 500,o0o,O0O), unless conditions change.
 "There are, however, two factors in the situation which may to some degree affect the quantities of goods the United States will sell. The first is the size of Americas crops and the amount of farm produce America will have available; the second is the con- tinued willingness and ability of American bankers and investors to finance the great quantities of goods required by other countries, and for which no exchange is available other than securities"
 Sir George predicts that the trade of the United States in the current year will be "the most active that this country has ever witnessed, and industries of all descriptions will en- joy unprecedented profits as a con- sequence of the great demand for their products and the high prices at which they are likely to be sold"
 Sir Georges review was prepared several weeks ago. If the financier were to make fresh survey today he would see his prediction being abun- dantly fulfilled. As the spring ad vances prosperity more and more abounds. All that is needed for con- tinuance of that prosperity through out the summer is good crop fore casts,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-04-18

The giant black walnut tree, "Tunlaw ,' l25 feet high and z1 feet in circumference, with boughs that extended 50 feet in every direction, has been sold to make gunstocks for the British army. This fa- nous hardwood tree was the handsomest in the vicinity of Washington, D. C., and had an interesting history. It was nearly 900 years old and was said to have been named by General Grant, the name be- ing walnut spelled backward. The "Tunlaw'' tract was purchased by Adol- phus H. Pickerell in 1868. magnificent mansion was built on the property in CO., lonial style, where national celebrities were guests during General Grants two administrations General Grant and Gen eral Sherman were frequently enter trol of the property and 1t was this com pany which sold the famous tree to an agent of the British government, who has made extensive purchases of walnut trees along the Potomac He paid s160 for the tree. "Tunlaw," with eight other hard wood trees of smaller size, will furnish gunstocks for arms to supply 500oo Brit ish soldiers. The entire lot was bought for s920. The same agent tried to buy some trees on the estate of Charles c. Glover president of the Riggs bank but lis offer was refused
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-04-18
RUSKIN ON WAR

From the New York Sun.
 To the Editor of the Sun-Sir: Is there not food for thought in these days in the following:
 But, es it is at their own peril that any race extends their dominion in mere deslre of power. so it is at their own stlil greater peril that they refuse to undertake aggressive war, according to their authority would be helpful and protective Nor need you listen to any sophistical objection of the innpossibil- lty or knowing when a peoples haln Is needed, or when not. Make vour na- tanal conscience clean, and your national eyes will soon be clear. No man who IS truly ready to take part in . noble quarrel will ever stand long in doubt oy whom or in what cause, his aid is neeoed' tell you that the prtn clpie or noninterference, as now nreached among us, is as selfish and cruel as the worst frenzy of conquest and differs rom it only by being not only malig- nant but dastardly.
 No, this is not Theodore Roosava,t delou1cing the Wilson administration. It IS rom lecture on War; delivered many years ago at the Royal Military academy Woolwich. England. by John Huskln And there is much more there m tsee Grown of Wild Olive'J which were ere wei worth pondering by Americas
 New York, April 12.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-04-18
Panama Canal Reopened

The Panama canal was reopened to traffic Saturday afternoon, sixteen vessels passing through. Seven were northbound and nine southbound. Among these ships was the United States armored transport Buford. The first vessel to use the reopened canal was the British steamer St. Veronica.
 According to all reports the channel is now in excellent condition and the first days traffic was handled with out incident. The canal may not re- main open permanently, but the gov ernment engineers have shown them selves fully competent to cope with slides of enormous extent and if there is any further trouble of this sort it will probably not be of long duration.
 When the canal was closed the pres ent time by earth movements to an inexperienced observer the task of opening the channel seemed almost insuperable, but the task has been ac- complished in a comparatively short time. As a feature of national pre- paredness the canal may some day play an important part in American naval warfare and the knowledge that no accident could ever again close it to navigation for any length of time would add considerably to the feeling of national security.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-04-18

the market. The packers, if they have been pursuing trust methods, should need only a hint from the govern ment' to cause them to desist. Certain ly long drawn out probe should not be necessary.
 Such cases as these, against which cattle farmers protest, might be han dled to advantage by the federal trade commission, which has com mended itself so strongly to the pub lie, by reason of it's tactful policy and anti-drastic rules. This, under the circumstances, would be better than a congressional probe and would ac- complish the desired end.