Brownsville Daily Herald (Brownsville, Tex.), Vol. 14, No. 179, Ed. 1, Monday, January 29, 1906 Page: 1 of 4
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ROWNSVILLE DAILY HERALD.
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VOL. XIV NO. 179
BROWNSVILLE TEXAS MONDAY JANUARY 29 1906.
SINGLE COPIES 5 CENTS.
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If You are
Farm Implements
When and Where
Write or
E. Hi CALDWELL
Corpus ChrisLi Texas
His Catalog No. 10 Price $1.00
Tells all About it
PROMPTNESS c4ND
NATIONAL BANK
OF BROWNSVILLE
Capital Stock $100000.00
OFFICERS
E. H. GOODRICH President
JOHN McALLEN Vice President
J. G. FERNANDEZ Cashier
E. A. McGARY
WHY ?
Send off and get factory
saddles when you can
buy cheaper and better
ones made by -
Hy. B. Verhelle
MinnlKtnrer of Saddles tod Harness
REPAIRING A SPECIALTY
TOILET SUPPLIES V
Our stock of toilet necessities was never more complete than
now. The first time vou come to our drue store ask tn look
at them. Per
not be in need
the moment
vice you that
you better than
We are doing
our power to t
WILLMAN'S
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Phone 40. Mail and Phone Orders
Promptly Attended To. Jc &
ake this the best
store for you to trade with.
EXCURSIONS 12
Every Sunday at the
For Round Trip 1st Class
For Round Trip. 3rd Class
Regular Fare Week Days
For accommodation of hunters trains will stop and let
passengers off and pick them up on return trip by
arranging with conductors. This is a pleasant and
inexpensive trip. Everyone should go to Point Isabel
where there is
DATING FISHING HUNTING
19 a u a a
Fish Dinners Unsurpassed Within the Reach of All.
G. T. PORTER
General Agent Rio Grande Railroad Co.
Free to Buy
and Hardware
You Want to
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See
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LIBERALITY j
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erchants
DIRECTORS
John MeAUen Jose Celaya. L T. hSoi
Mituel Fernndex Jr.
fe.H. Goodrich O. C. Sauder. I. C. Fcznuidei
Assistant-Cashier.
PHARMACY
haps you will
of anything at
but it will con
we can serve
anyone else
everything in
and most
convenient drug
Special messenger service.
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POINT ISABEL
Following Rates :
.$1.00 Mex.
50c Mex.
.75c Mex.
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A. B. cole. LL. B
ELK1NS & COLE
ATTO RSE YS-AT-LaW
Will practice in all courts. State and Federal.
Special attention eiven to land and ab-
s tract business. Will do" collectinz
Office Ottt Botica del Azuila. Combes Dnz Store
DR. C. H. THORN
DenList.
"Office opposite The Herald.
TELEPHONE 1
Brownsville. - Texas.
F. W. Seabury
ATTORNEY-AT'LAW
Rio Grande City Texas
Will practice in the District Courts of
Starr Hidalgo Zapata and
Webb Counties.
E. H. GOODRICH SON
....MANAGERS....
Cameron County
Abstract Company
Choice Lands and City Property.
MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS
TUNED AND REPAIRED
Piano Action Work a Specialty.
Keeps on hand piano
Strings and felts.
GEORGE KRAUSSE.
Residence on Levee St .
Union Bakery
John Thielen Manager
Bread Biscuit Cakes Etc. Made
From Choicest Brands of Flour
Elizabeth Street Brownsville Tex
Burt E. Hinkley
Notary Public
Brownsville Undertaking Comp'ny
Phone 123
WHITE ELEPHANT
SALOON
V. L. CRIXELL. Proprietor.
First-class Liquors Wines
Cigars. Polite Attention.
Market Square Brownsville. Texas
Wholesale
Groceries
Cheap for Cosh
Frank Alcedo
Celaya Building.
D. B. CHAPIN
ATTORNEY-AT LAW
HIDALGO TEXAS
Constantine Hotel
W. A. FITCH Proprietor
Traveling men's trade solicited.
Free sample rooms are provided
Nothing too good for our guests
if to be found in the market.
Corpus Ch'i'H. . Ttxw
JAMES B.WELLS
cittorney
at Law
Successor to Powers & Maxan
Towers & Wells Wells & Rentfro
WeHs Rentfro & Hicks Wells &
Hicks Wells Staytou & Kleberg
I buy and sell Re&i Estate and
investigate land titles. A complete
abstract t . all itles-of record in
Cameron Countv Texas.
Practice in all state and federal
courts when especially employed.
Land Litigation and corporation
practice.
Rafael Gutierrez
... CARPENTER ...
Will work by the day week month or bj
Contract.
Orders may be left at John W. Hoy
C F. Skins. UL. B
A VISITOR'S VIEWS.
Senator Donebori Caffcry of Louisiana
Gives His Impressions of the Browns-
vil.'c Country and lis Future.
Hon. Donelson Caffery former-
ly United States senator from
Louisiana accompanied by his son
Frank and August Ehrhart are
among the late visitors to the Rio
Grande country. Senator Caffery
is a resident of Franklin in the
parish of St.' Mary's where he is
owner of a large sugar plantation
recognized as one of the finest in
the entire south the land being
rich and the improvements up to
date. The senator and party return"
ed this morning from an overland
trip up the river distance of sixty
miles. He expresses the opinion
that the lands can be made richly
productive both in s"ugar caue and
other staples by the application of
well directed energy and enter-
prise on the part of the thrifty
planter and farmer. "If the own-
ers of lands will sell them at reason-
able prices thev can get desirable
farmers to take hold and develop
the country. By settling the valley
with thrifty industrious farmers
Brownsville will develop into one
of the best towns to be found in
the entiresouth. Its future is assur-
ed but its development is practical-
ly dependent upon getting the lands
settled and developed .by farmers
who do things."
Poetry in the Home.
Poetry might be renamed a moth-
er's helper. Her lullaby would
not be as sweet without words
though her infant has no sense of
their meaning. To the mother
with a discriminating love for
poetry and with wisdom to use the
simplest at its full value the ques-
tion of how to .guide her little
flock gently along paths of pleasant-
ness purity truth and beauty is
much simplified. What is there
all the way from home to heaven
that we ought to know but some
poet in moments of inspiration has
distilled it into rhyme and rhythm
to charm instruct refine dis-
cipline and direct the germinating
forces of character.? Verse is a
copious spring of education preced-
ing the alphabet. For cultivating
memory where can we look for
its equal? It may often happen
that in maturity out of lines early
learned for their flow of language
chiefly will come to son or daught
er some precious sentiment as the
ripened fruit of a song or hymn
"my mother used to sing." As
they grow and gain ability to
select for themselves children in
whose minds a taste for poetry has
been implanted will aid and
stimulate one another by research
and recital to lighten hard tasks
while delightedly acquiring various
little lessons of great importance-
Selected. A Prosperous Year.
Mr. John McAllen one of the
pioneers of '49 and of the Rio
Grande country predicts this year
will be a prosperous one basing his
belief on the old Scottish legend of
a fair Plow Monday which follows
Saint Anthony's day in the calen-
dar of time. He quotes the fol-
lowing and says the Saint's day
was prosperous and therefore the
year will be:
When St. Anthony's dav was fair and
clear '
It betides a prosperous year;
And if by chance it happened to rain.
It makes dear all cattle and grain.
And if the sky -was o'ercast with clouds.
Cattle and birds would die.
An application has been made
by the Japanese government to the
British Medical Council. askintr it
to recognize the degrees of Jap
anese medical practitioners in
various parts of the British empire.
It is in the Straits Settlements
that the Japanese doctors particu-
larly wish leave to practice at present.
RIO GRANDE OPALS.
Some Very Valuable Stones Found on a
Ranch Above Laredo and Investiga-
tion Will Be Made.
A recent dispatch to the Hous
ton Chronicle from Laredo says:
Opals have been found on the
Tumlinson ranch about 50 miles
above Laredo. The person who
found them is Peter Tumlinson
and he believes that the hills along
the Rio Grande are rich with opals
similar to the specimens he discov
ered.
Several were shown to the
Chronicle correspondent in the
rough form and did not appear to
be other than some ordinary stone
but when one that had been polish-
ed was shown it proved to be of a
grade second only to the highest
grade of Mexican opal. On holding
this specimen to the sun it gave
back the beautiful changes of color
which a fine opal generally pro-
duces. Mr- Tumlinson stated that all he
found were upon the surface of
some rocky hills in his pasture
and that he had not yet dug be
neath the surface to see what he
could find there. However he was
confident getting many valuable
opals.
It is not surprising in the least
that opals have been found in this
portion of the state for it is not
far from here into Mexico where
they are plentiful.
The person who develops a suc-
cessful mine of this rare sto l .a
Texas will make a fortune for
they can be easily mined polished
and sold at a profit here all below
the cost of importing them-
The African Cotton Bogey.
In these columns we stated a few
weeks since that an agent of the
English Cotton Growers' Associa-
tion had admitted to us the folly of
expecting to grow cotton commer-
cially on the Liberian Coast of
Africa. Today we enjoyed a per-
sonal visit from our German East
African correspon ent who is
again on Texas soil and he told of
some of the most specific reasons
for the failuie of cotton in that
portion of Africa.
The half savage tribes of the
Dar-Es-Salamn region are in open
revolt againts the German govern-
ment. One of the moving causes
is found in the fact that the natives
do not care to work in the cotton
fields when a living is at every
man's door in the form of wild
cassava root ana sorgnum seed
These are enough for them and
"enough is as good as a feast."
The insects are extremely damag
ing to cotton grown in that region
A red boll worm and a cotton
stainer is either considered as bad
as the boll weevil. Cotton fields
sometimes fail to produce a pound
of good staple.
In many districts it rains every
day during the cotton growing
season. The plants grow fifteen
feet high and do not fruit.
Europeans can not work in the
summer climate because of a fever
resembling black jaundice. A tick
will at night suck the blood of
persons and fever results just as
with cattle attacked by a certain
tick in this region. This fever is
very dangerous to white people but
the blacks are immune
It is not probable that in the
East African Colon' Germany will
grow cotton commercially during
this generation. The spinners ot
Germany may find it profitable to
grow cottou in a wild country but
from inside information the scheme
appears to be a "bluff" a bear
argument designed to beat down
the prices of American cotton.
-We wonder if Harvie Jordan has
incited those African tribes to rebel
nrrninet fi'nir Ontfnn nrA Va Tim.
peror of Germany? Texas Farm j
and Ranch.
vendor's lien
Promissory and
notes at this office.
NO BIBLE IN COURT.
New YorX Judge Says Book Is Desecrated
Thereby and Will Not Use It.
New
York. Justice John M.
Timey of a municipal court in the
Bronx has abolished the use of the
Bible in his court. Explaining his
action he said last night:
"I have removed the Bible from
use in my court. It was a desecra-
tion to use it there. Lying words
from the mouths of witnesses made
its use a mockery a travesty. I
was brought up to regard it with
veneration and reverence as the
word of God. It is shocking to find
men calling upon the deity to wit-
ness the truth of what they says
'So help me God' with a flie in
their hearts and upon their lips by
which they profaned the good
book.
"I now swear or affirm a witness
with uplifted hand but it really
has no significance to my mind. I
would prefer to let every person
tell his or her story without either
oath or affirmation and then do
the best I can toward ascertaining
the truth."
Brooding Over Mistakes.
Probably the one thing that does
the most to make men and women
grow old and to wear out the
springs of energy is the habit of
turning over in mind what might
have been. We brood over past
mistakes and see how at some turn-
ing point we made a wrong choice
and then harass ourselves unceas-
ingly by imagining what we would
have gained if we had taken the
other path. Somehow we cannot
get the bright alternative out of
mind and its very brightness
makes the conditions in which we
live abnormally dark. Sometime
we doubt whether forebodings as
to what may come or regrets for
what might have been do the
more to cloud and depress sensi-
tive spirits. But this is a case in
which philosophy and faith have
their say. Suppose you had made
a better choice at that crisis there
is no certainty that you would
have continued to make wise-
choices to tly end of the chapter
and subsequent mistakes might
have been as ruinous as the one
you now deplore. Furthermore
no amount of regret is going to
bring back the lost opportunity.
You have to take things as they
are and the very weakening of
your powers through vain regret
will certainly prevent your mak-
ing the best of your present op-
portunities. Above all it is not
in man that walketh to direct his
steps. If there is a God we cer-
tainly are in His hands and the
final issues of life arc safe with
Him. Very often in this life we
come to see what we deemed to be
errors were working out higher
purposes of good. The faith that
all things even our blunders and
mistakes work together for good
to those who love God is not to be
reserved for hours of devotion but
to be taken boldly into the in-
terpretation of daily life. Souht-
ern Messenger.
Weather Report.
New Orleans Jan. 29. Tonight
fair; slightly warmer. Tuesday
increasing cloudiness. Light south
erly winds. Clink.
"What have yon learned in your
long life?" asked the priest of an
old woman who was about to die.
I've learned ycur reverence that
I worried about a great many things
that never hjppened."
" It if strange ho.v many men be-
lieve thty bli mld have gone into a
bu-.ints uiiich better fitted their
great capacit; .
If a man only had nine lives.
j like a cat he could insure them all
J and collect on 01.0 occa-ionally
.whets he got hard t.p
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