Brownsville Daily Herald (Brownsville, Tex.), Vol. 14, No. 43, Ed. 1, Tuesday, August 22, 1905 Page: 1 of 4
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BROWNSVILLE DAILY HERALD.
VOL. XIV NO. 43.
BROWNSVILLE TEXAS TUESDAY AUGUST 22 1905.
SINGLE COPIES 5 CENTS.
McDonald's Department Store
One Price The
n. n. Mcdonald
IT'S WORTH WHILE
E. H. CALDWELL'S
New Catalog No. 10.
Months of incessant hard work; an investment ranging from the value of
a pound of type to a fine Cylinder press and hundreds of dollars more for
fine paper and cuts; an accurate knowledge of the
Implement and Machinery Hardware Business
acquired by years of close attention to its details; all combined have
brought the work so nearly to completion that we announce the early
issue of our New Catalog No. 10.
To learn what it contains how it will be kept up-to-date and how to
secure a copy will be fully explained in a descriptive circular.
Your postage back on receipt of your request for the circular.
IT'S WORTH WHILE.
. HO Caldwell.
Corpus Christi Texas.
COMPETENT
ESTABLISHED 1865
Botica del Leon
....You Want the Best
Your Physician aims to put -nil his knowledge experi-
ence and skill into the prescription he writes. It is an order
for a combination of remedies which your cae requires. He
cannot rely on the result unless the ingredients are properly
compounded.
Be fair to your doctor and to yourself by bringing your
prescriptions here. They'll be compounded only by registered
pharmacists who are aided by the largest stock of drugs in this
part of the state. Bwythiiug of the finest quality that money can
buy or experience can select.
J. L Putegnat & Bro.
Fordyce & Rio Grande City Transfer Co
Stage leaves Fowlvce on arrival of train except Sunday and ar-
rives at Rio Granite City same Might taking just four hours.
Leaves Rio Grande City daily at 2 p. m. eaccopt Sunday and arrives at
Fordyce same .day at 6 p. m.
Makes the trip in four hours and connocls at Fordyce with trains for
Brownsville Corpus Christi San Antonio Texas; Monterey and other
cities in Mexico.
FARE ONE WAY $2.50; ROUND TRIP $4.00
Passengers will find along the route first-class hacks and teams thus
t-avcliug with case and convenience. Drivers arc the best to be found.
Ext-ia hacks will lie furnished either va if desired at reasonable rates.
QUERRA & SHELY Proprietors
THIS SPACE BELONQS TO
Watch for Our New Arrivals
from New York. Greater
Bargains Than Ever Before
PHARMACY
Lowest
T. J. CAHffiJL
Plumber & Tinner
iSGalvanized iron cisterns
a specialty.
DR. C. H. THORN
Dentist.
Office opposite The Herald.
TKUSPHONK 51
Brownsville Tcxm
C. A. ROBERTS
....DENTIST....
POffice over Botica del Aguila.
rhone 124 Kllxabcth St Brownsville. Texas
Chan Foo
Chinese Laundry
FlRST CLASS HAND WORK
PRICES THE LOWEST ?J
12th St. Brownsville Texas
Oils Gasoline!
Have on hand a stock of
Kerosene Oil and Lubri- .
eating Oils; Engine and
Stove Gasoline. Call or
write for prices. : :
Gulf Refining Co
FRANK CHAMPION Agent
When you visit the
Island City
make our store your
headquarters. W e
take good care of all
MAIL ORDERS.
E. S. Levy & Co.
Mtn'i ind Bon' OotSltltrj From Head lo Foot.
GALVESTON TEXAS 4-18
This Spice
BELONGS TO -Attorney
W. N. Parks
WATCH FOR HIS
AD.
F. W. Seabury
ATTORNEY'AT'LAW
Km Graatfe City Texts
Will practice in the District Courts of
Starr Hidalgo Zapata and
Webb Counties. '
THE ONION DISASTER
What Commission Men Said About
Cause Of Bad Prices.
So much has been said concern-
ing the onion crop of 1905 the
marketing of it and the disastrous
results that there is hardly any-
way in which the subject may be
approached or any phase in which
it can be presented that would not
be trite. The causes or the un-
propitious juxtaposition of circum-
stances some beyond human con-
trol and others due to error and ill
advice of inexperienced growers
and shippers that are to blame in
a large measure for the failure to
get prices for a large portion of the
crop have nearly all been learned
by heart in regular order like ye
horn book of old time school days.
Nevertheless it might be interest-
ing to know what the dealers in
the northern eastern and western
markets have to say upon the bub-
ject. Mr. J. P. Laird represent-
ing a large seed house who was
in this city yesterday possesses
a stack of letters written to his firm
by nearly every dealer and com-
mission man of prominence in
answer to a query on the com-
pany's part as to their opinion in
regard to the failure. The tone of
every one of these letters is the
same and is almost a reiteration
of what is the consensus of opinion
among the truck growers at home.
A composite letter based upon the
substances of all of them would
bring out the following points in
bold prominence:
In the first place some one seems
to have entered while the sower
slept and sowed tares that is
many of the planters were very
much deceived in the kind of seed
they bought producing mixed and
inferior qualities of onions. A late
and unprecedented winter cloud
and hail greatly set back the crop
and. brought it into competition
with that of Louisiana. When
fairly good prices were being offer-
ed toward the opening of the
season the planters held for higher
and would neither sell nor consign;
but later when onions began to
pour into the cities from other
onion sections the planters gt
over anxious and rushed their
product into the markets with no
regard for proper distribution.
Poor and inexperienced packing
dirty and inferior onions and onions
in a state of rottening rendered
whole car loads unsalable. In the
packing not only were the crates
often but partially-filled but un-
dersized immature .misassorted and
dirty or decayed onions that ought
never to have left the field were
rushed and crowded into the big
city markets until the coming of
more and worse onions like -the
making of many books appeared
to have no end.
Not oiie of all of those letters
states that there was any over pro-
duction. Several of them on the
contrary state that-there was not.
The United States is a large coun-
try capable of consuming many
onions; and many cities of more
than 25000 inhabitants were de-
sirous of onions last season that
did not get a smell. The crop
was lamentably mishandled and
misrailroaded.
Texas onions have nothing to
fear from Bermuda or Egypt.
They are much more popular and
will eventually crowd out the is
land product. The genuine Laredo
grown Bermuda is far superior to
the island grown stock. They
commanded from 50 cents to $1
above the imported onions last
season and are destined to com
pletely and entirely crowd them
out of the market. If any part of
Texas finds it necessary to give up
the onion business it will not be
Laredo the career of which has
but barely begun. Our stiongestl
competitor will be Louisianarbu:
we can "usually get our onions on
the market so far ahead of those
of that section that we have noth
ing to fear on that score. Exper
ience from hard knocks or softer
if they will come that way good
judgment and everlasting stick-at-
it-iveness of a kind that comes of
abiding faith are all that is needed
for this section. Otherwise she
cannot be touched. Laredo Times.
Your Boy. K
Don't coddle your boy. If you
want him to be a brave manly boy
a boy who will respect himself
don't always be asking him if
his throat feels sore and if his
head aches and if he is sure he
has not been sneezing.
Don't teach him to believe that
a few drops of rain on his back
will prove fatal. Don't fill him
with terror of the north wind and
of the bracing cold of winter.
Don't talk to him when he is eat-
ing and enjoying the food his sys-
tem craves about dyspepsia and
liver complaint. Let him climb
trees and have him taught to
swim and row and play ball.
Let him drive a horse and har-
ness it too. Don't tell him he
cannot do a thing that he under-
takes. Don't throw cold water on his
plans for doing great things even
if you know he must fail. Give
him a chance to try. Let him
have a place where he can saw
and hammer and whittle to his
heart's content without being
warned that he will surely cut hjs
fingers off and without being
Reprimanded about the clatter he
is making.
A boy needs freedom and scope
in which to develop. Cramp him
when he is young and you cramp
him for life.
Teach him to bear trials with
courage. Don't fill him with a
silly dream of sickness. Perhaps
half the diseases from which we
suffer are purely imcginary and
every physician knows it and
tries to keep the mind of the pa-
tient so employed that he will
have no time to think of himself.
Too much coddling has ruined
many an otherwise fine boy. The
mothers Gob bless them! mean
well but they are not wise always
and their boys grow up weak and
dyspeptic and languid for the lack
of a little courage which has been
completely educated out of them
if they ever possessed it.
Don't coddle your boy. If he
is sick nurse him as tenderly as
you please but don't coddle him
and make him sick for the sake of
nursing him. Teach him to be
manly and independent; to have a
courage for any fate aud nine
chances in ten are in his grasp for
success in life. It is not the timid
hesitating apprehensive man who
rises but the ma:i who sees the
opportunity and who says "I will
grasp it." Ozona Southwest
Texan.
There are men in this town and
in every town are not entitled to
credit and they should be required
to plank down the cash before any
character of services is performed
for them or they are allowed to
take any goods from a store. Noth
ing so harasses a man as to have
the profits of his labors scattered
among a lot of fellows who give
the collector the high ball every
first or leave town to avoid him.
The noblest work of God is the
man who pays his Dills promptly
aud cheerfully but the fellow who
doesn't pay his bills at all will
never join old Elijah on the other
shore no matter if his prayers jar
the roof. Honey Grove Signal.
El Campo Citizen: It is estim-
ate that Louisiana and Texas will
product about 4000000 bags of
rice this season. It is supposed
tha; Japan rice will bring $3 while
Honduras will sell for $3.50 to open
up on. The present prospects are
flattering aud rice farmers can ex-
pect good prices. j
SOMETHING BREWING.
Conference Between Railroad Officials.
Important News Looked for in
Few Days.
JeffN. Miller vice president and
general manager of the Gulf Coast
line and R. H. Baker vice- presi-
dent of the Trinity and Brazos
Valley railroad were closeted to-
gether yesterday morning and a
lengthy conference ensued.
The appearance of these gentle-
men on the grounds with the engi-
neers in charge of the survey and
construction is an indication that
something will be brought to the
surface within a few days.
They departed for Galveston at
noon yesterday and last night pass-
ed through the city en route to
Austin.
It is well known that an order
has been issued for hurrying the
construction of the Bay City ex-
tension of the Gulf Coast line into
Houston and Galveston in order to
put the line in operation by Janu-
ary 1.
It is understood that large con-
struction forces have been added
to the present force and work will
commence in arranging terminals
both at Galveston and Algoa aud
in all probability Houston at an
early date. When seen by a Post
representative last evening at the
Grand Central depot Mr. Miller
and Mr. Baker stated that they had
little to give out for publication at
this time. However Mr. Miller
stated that the grade work of the
Gulf Coast line at Augleton Bra-
zoria and Algoa was nearly com-
pleted and that he expected the
contractors to commence laying
track Algoa south in the direction
of Bay City by the last of this
month. Further conversation was
cut short by the departure of the
train for Austin but news of an
interesting nature is looked for be-
fore many days.--Houston Post.
NEWS WAS SUPPRESSED.
Dr. Guiterai Yelftw Fever Expert.
Think Hague Will Not Be Con
trolled Until Frosi
A recent dispatch from New Or-
leans to the Galveston News says:
Dr. Juan Guiteras the world fa-
mous yellow fever expert after one
week's investigation in this city
does not take an optimistic view of
the situation here. He has little
hope of the fever plague being:
stamped out before frost. In sum-
ming up the situation tonight Dr
Guiteras said: "I can hardly ex-
press an opinion yet but I am cer-
tain it will be a long hard fight-
There is no chance of an early vic-
tory. Everything that can be done
is being done but it is all the fault
of the disease being allowed to get
two months' start with nothing be-
ing done to stop it. I can not un-
derstand how it happened.'
"Would you say" was asked
Dr. Guiteras "that the situation
is under control?"
"No. I would not except in the
fact that the Marine. Plospital offi-
cers have stopped .ts making the
great strides which it did. They
are holding it down to the original
foci and their immediate neighbor-
hood. The ncv foci in most cases-
are in close proximity to the old
foci. This shows that effective and
good work is being done. But so
far as stamping out the disease be-
fore frost; I am afraid that it has:
gone too far. What we have to do
now is to keep it from spreading to
other districts and if this is done all
has been done that could be expect
ed under the circumstances.
"My candid opinion after one
week's study of the situation is
expressed by the simple words that
it will not be as bad as it was in.
187S."
For Rent..
Two story house at Point Bjafcc-f
next to Mrs Hill V For terms ap-
ply to Hkald. 8-21-26
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Wheeler, Jesse O. Brownsville Daily Herald (Brownsville, Tex.), Vol. 14, No. 43, Ed. 1, Tuesday, August 22, 1905, newspaper, August 22, 1905; Brownsville, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth146943/m1/1/?q=%22%22~1: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; .