The Bryan eagle. [volume], March 02, 1911, Image 6

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OUTLOOK FROM ANOTHER
FARMERS VIEWPQ1N
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Civic Improvement Commendable.
Farmers and Town People Should
Be Mutually Helpful.
To the Editor of The Bryan Eagle:
I have been watching with Interest
the controversies carried on through
the columns of your paper. 1 think
that Mr. Cook and. "A True Farmer's
Wife" are too wide in their views when
they speak for the farmers in general.
It is commendable In the good ladies
of Bryan for the interest they always
take in the welfare or their town.
They are always found at the head of
all movements for making a cleaner
and more beautiful Bryan. They take
pride in all social and civic develop
ment for the betterment or town ana
country. If more farmers' wives be
longed to the clubs of Bryan the town
and country would understand each
other better. Let "A True Farmer's
Wife" attend some club. Let the cares
of home go for an afternoon. Her hus
band could surely attend I' the chick
ens and look after the baby one after
noon in each month, and it may be
that he will make the acquaintance of
the "cow that gives the buttermilk."
(I dare say he is a rank stranger to
her.)
It is a problem to be solved by the
city council and Commercial Club of the man
REJOINDER OF MR. COOK
A Calm and Practical View of
Relations Between Town
and Country.
the
Bryan to devise some means so as to
relieve the congested conditions that
exist on Main street on Saturdays and
busy days in the fall. When the farm
ers drive in town and dispose of their
produce it would be much better to
plaec their teams in the wagon yard,
autos in the garage and their aero
planes in the "hangar and leave Main
street an open driveway.
The merchant of Bryan you will al
ways find ready to dispose of his wares
to you. at a legitimate profit to him
self, and bis heart and pocket book are
always open to his friends In the
country In helping us build our school
houses and churches.
Mr. Cook calls our attention to the
Farmers' Union in regard to buying
the necessities we need. I want to
know if the Union Warehouse Associa
tion of Texas will buy our surplus
poutlry, eggs, butter and vegetables;
also we sometimes have a few spare
ribs and backbones to dispose of.
I think the farmers of Brazos county
are too loyal and patriotic to the in
terests of our home town to boycott
the companions and boyhood friends
that are now in business In the town
of Rryan.
Yours for progress in town and
country. PUT BUCHAXAX.
Harvey, Texas, Feb. 2',, 1911.
To the Editor of The Bryan Eagle:
When I sent to The Eagle a com
munication In behalf of the farmers of
thU county, which was published sev
eral days ago, I did not think :t would
be necessary for me to r.gain ask for
sraco in your paper. As staieJ then
I felt thr.t something nec!J to be
said. bjk! I said it. The editor s con.
mcnts I accepted in good faith. If the
editor fools that his position is riht
(and I believe he does) I certainly
will not fall out with him. but I au-
mire him for standing up for what he
believes is right.. I think he m::y have
taken my letter too seriously. A good
oortion of it was written In : spirit
of fun. I was a little surprised to get
that taking down by "A Farmer's
Wife." I have ever held woman to be
he crowning glory of Rod's creations
and especially do I honor and respect
hat class of women known as farm
ers" wives. I know something of their
heroism in meeting their continuqus
round of unceasing toil, and while we
farmers may work six days In the
week our wives (God bless them!)
work the whole seven. Many of them
during the busy crop season take to
market the many little farm product?
hat accumulate on the farm and that
mean so much both to the farmer and
in town. Often she is com-
CONFEDERATE VETERAN
AND PIONEER DEAD.
By Associated Press.
Terrell, Texas. Feb. 27. Capt. T. N.
Johnson, a Confederate veteran and
pioneer who lived here, died this morning.
polled to take with her two or three
small children, and It was in her ce
fense that I wrote the article criticis
ing your wagon yard proposition. I
may not know what you are intending
to do (and I am made to doubt
whether the Civic Club knows or not),
but If It is your intention to establish
a wagon yard out in the outskirts of
your city (and I know of no place any
where else to put one), and if you
intend to force all teams and vehicles
that stop in town to go to this wagon
yard, then I say to you, don't do so
great an injustice to these good worn
en. Their burdens are great enough
already. Remember that while you
farmers' wives" who live in the city
are attending your club roeetlnes and
pink teas, living in your palatial homes
with every comfort and luxury that
wealth and loving hands can place
around you remember that many of
your sisters are not so happily sit
uated. Some of them are living in
little box houses in Isolated places
(back In the sticks, perhaps), with
few comforts and no luxuries, doing
all the housework for a good-sized
family and sometimes helping some
in the field, trying to nay for a little
heme that, she can call her very own
and trying to give her children a fight
ing chance in the battle of life, mak
ing sacrifices that many of you who
ire more fortunate can never even
magine. .
You accuse mp of being a stirrer un
of strife and I am not going to enter
any denial, but will you be -.o kind
as to ask my neighbors who have
I'nown me sincp I was a little bare
footed, tow-headed, one-gallused bov
forty years ago? Whatever they say
I plead guilty to. As to helping to ad
vertise the resources of Brazos county,
ask those gentlemen of your town who
do not make much fuss but alway3 do
things if we folk3 didn't furnish some
of the goo.ls. Many thanks to "A True
Farmer's Wife" for speaking in my
defense. Such acts of unselfish friend
ship are the rays of sunlight that pene
trate the dark clouds of selfishness
and misunderstanding, light up our
pathway and make life worth while.
As to my co-operative store proposi
tion, I am in dead earnest, not as an
act of splto against Bryan but a? a
matter of convenience and economy
from the farmer's standpoint.
In conclusion, let me say to the
editor and all others taking part in
this controversy: Let's be cool and
considerate. I fenr we are all out of
order, anyway.. Iet Bryan say just
what she means to do and how she
means to do it. Ho reasonable and I
guarantee that the farmers of this
county ere as reasonable a set of peo
pie as can be found, who do not wish
to force any injustice on the town
But if you should attempt to force tin
injustice on the people of the country
then there will" be "something to pay
on the Wabash. But. you re not goin
to do that. So now, colonel, when you
start these missionaries out to teach
the Golden Rule, Just keep half of
them In town and send us the other
half. With test wishes to all.
I. M. COOK
R. F. D. Xo. fi, Bryan, Texas.
DEVOTEES OF ALU
PERISH IN FLAMES
French Steamer Loaded with Moham
medan Pilgrims Burned at Sea
and All on Board Lost.
By Associated Press.
Constantinople, Feb. 24. The Turk
h steamer Ilurrlet, filled with .Mos
lem pilgrims, was burned at sea. It is
reported not a soul aboard escaped
death.
TOMATO BLIGHT IS
CAUSED BY BACTERIA.
WHITE GIRLS STRUCK
Because Negro Girl Was Put In Charge
of Box Office at Fort Worth
Moving Picture Show.
By Associated Press.
Fort Worth, Texas, Feb. 27. -White
girl ticket sellers at moving picture
shows here struck this morning be
cause a negjo girl was put In charge
or selling tickets at one show.
TRAGEDY OF COLD t
ON CASPIAN SEA
The Remedy is Crop Rotation and
Treating Seed with Formaldehyde.
Discovery ha3 been made by S. A.
Wright, a fruit grower and truck
farmer at Opportunity, Wash., that
Western tomato blight is caused by a
form of bacteria in the soil. Ills rem
edy Is crop rotation to purify the soil,
treating the seed with a solution of
formaldehyde and setting the plants
In non-infected soil.
Mr. Wright has reported his discov
ery to the experiment stat'on of the
Washington state college at Pullman
and expects to interest agricultural
college and experiment stations in the
Xorthwest In a movement to stamp out
the mysterious disease, which ha3
baffled exports for years and cost mar
ket gardeners in the Pacini 3lope
country hundreds of thousands of dollars.
"Like the so-called 'wilt,' which Is
SLUMP IN STOCKS
Of Interstate Commerce Commission
Prohibiting Railroads from Ad
vanclng Freight Rates.
By Associated Press.
Xew York, Feb. 24. There were
shafp declines in the stock market to
day, owing to the interstate commerce
commission's decision yesterday after
noon aaglnst increased freight rates
In the North and East. Western rail
road stocks have averaged a 'loss of
four points. Industrial stocks also have
been affected. '
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Says Interstate Commerce Commis
sion's Decision Will Not Affect
Business Much.
EGG MAN TOJHE BESCUE
and Show. How It Benefit! 7
th Farmnr. f
I have been so busy recently (with
the general routine of life I haver had
no time to devote to correspondence,
but I have dully read The Eagle and
have been entertained by the numer
ous correspondence contained therein.
I am proud of our county paper and it
13 becoming better every week. Well,
it must so as to keep pace with the
prosperous city of Bryan. The last
time I was in the city I noticed im
provements on every hand, even the
boys appeared to be KettinK a kind of
a city move; and right here allow me
to say that we farmers take a deep
interest in your city airs, but we
realize that we are not only welcome
in Bryan, but that each business man
without an exception wants U3 to
ume to uryan as orten , as we can.
And we are so much benefited by your
growth. This farmer remembers hav
ing had to sell good fresh yard eggs
in Bryan for 2.1 cents for six dozen;
good fat spring -chickens at $1.25 a
dozen. How now? The last eggs I
sold I got 30 cents for a dozen, and
spring chickens sold readily at 40
cents each all on account of demand.
Yes, Bryan is destined to be a city,
and we country,, people are going to
Mudge, of the Rock Island railroad
system, says the decision of the inter
state commerce commission not to al
low the railroads to raise rates nrob-
llterally wiping out the flax industry ab,y not nrfect business, except It
By Associated Press.
Xew York. Feb. 24. President help It be a city. Sure! I for one have
In many parts of Montana and North may sl)ni10 down lumber, steel and
Ice Coated Derelict and Frozen Crew
of Thirty Discovered
Adrift.
By Associated Press.
London, Feb. 27. In the Caspian
sea, near Arstrakhan, a derelict ves
sel was discovered completely coated
with Ice and the entire crew of thirty
frozen to death.
TWO DRUG STORES AND
EXPRESS OFFICE ROBBED.
By Associated Press.
Mesquite, Texas. Feb. 27. Two drug
stores and the Pacific. Express Com
pany's office were robbed last night.
Considerable clothing and jewelry
were taken.
Dakota." said Mr. Wright recently.
'the blight first attacks the root of
the tomato plant. The rest of it soon
becomes affected and Is rendered
worthless. Each year 'adds to the
amount of Injurious germs in the land
and the crop becomes smaller. In
some instances the soil Is so infected
that tomatoes will not grow and that
soon will be the case In many parts
of the west if the blight is not checked.
'The growers must unite if the fight
on the blight Is to- be successful, as
tne germs are easily spread bv Irriea
tlon ditches, wind and farm imple
ments. io insure healthy plant everv
grower should raise his seed trom vig
orous, blight-resisting stock and use
only fresh and purified soil in making
the hotbed and take care of the nlants
after they have been set out In the
field. The remedy is so slmnle thnt
every tomato grower should Join In
this campaign against the blight."
BAKER'S DOZEN CARLOADS
Of Egrjs Shipoed from Flatonia Alone
In a Few Weeks.
By Associated Press.
Flatonia, Texns, Feb. 27. In the
coast country the enormous egg indus
try is shown by the shipment, from
this point a'rno of thirteen soiid car-
loarls of eses to New York in the past
few weeks. '
Iron prices.
Field incommunicado
AT JUAREZ
Two Young American Adventurers In
the Middle of a Pretty
Bad Fix.
By Associated Press.
El Paso, Texas, Feb. 24. Lawrence
Converse and Edward Blatt, two young
Americans captured by General Na
varro, and who told him they left the
insurrectos because they were cruelly
treated, are held Incommunicado in
Juarez. They said they were return-
ng to the United States, hut the
United States consul at Juarez says he
can do nothing for them.
INVOKE THE HABEAS
CORPUS PROVISION.
By Associated Press.
Palestine, Texas, Feb. 24. The six
white men who are charged with the
murder of eight negroes in the Slo
cum race riots were brought here to
day from Galveston. They will try to
secure their release by habeas corpus
proceedings.
oh! bo many friends in Bryan, and
I for one will always feel a deep a.id
lasting Interest in our county seat and
hojie to live long enough to see good
residences built all along the Inter
urban line to th college. And it Js
coming. We are busy on this eiW.
Now, you get busy; clean up the old
town; get your rest rooms, wagon
yards, water fountains and have some
good Ice water and make the place
more attractive as the days roll by.
Xow with your business league, ladies'
societies and the old Eagle, we are
bound to spread.
We farmers are a little blue on ac
count of the recent cold, as it got
gardens, fruit, potatoes and nil: but
we are at it again, realizing that God
does all things for the best, and still
we live and prosper and praie the
name of our God.
The health of the nelghborVM !s
fair. We have had several tntr,''"",
lately and several souls made bnnnv.
Regular meetings of praver and s'ne
ing every Wednesday night. Sunday
school every Sunday at 3 p. m. and
the league every Sunday nigh. Con1"
op, come all, and heln us serve God.
Union Hill, Texas. Feb. 24, 1911.
EGO MAX.
JURY OUT THREE DAYS
By Associated Press.
Vernon, Texas, Feb. 24. The Jury
In the case of Clarence Weatherford
was discharged by the court this after
noon it being unable to agree on a
verdict, after lelng out since Tuesday
night. Weatherford is charged with
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