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BROWNSVILLE DAILY HERALD
Brownsville Herald Publishing Co.
Mrs, Jesse O. Wheeler - Editor
Martin J. Slattery - - Manager
Offiical Organ of Cameron County
Consolidated In 1893 with the Daily
Cosmopolitan, which was publish
ed In Brownsville for 16 years.
Terms o’. Subscription
Dally — Published every morning
except Sunday, by mail postpaid to
any point in the United States, Mex.
!co or Cuba, or delivered by carrier
to any part of the city, West
Brownsville, Texas, or Matamoros,
Mexico.
Entered at the Postoffice at Browns
ville, Texas, as Second Class Mail
Matter.
FRIDAY, MARCH 22, 1912.
MEET THE GOOD ROADS TRAIN.
The Frisco Good Roads train will
be in Brownsville Monday. Every
citizen who takes any interest what
ever in the question of development
of either town or country should at
tend one or more of the meetings
which will be held at this train.
All readers of the Herald know,
of course, all about the object of its
visit here—know that this train is
equipped with models of various
kinds of modern roads and road
building machinery, accompanied
by several expert road builders fur
nished by the United Spates Public
Roads bureau, who will give prac
tical lessons in road building.
All know, too, that the matter of
good roads is 6ne of vital importance
to every country and to every town
in particular. We realize than ere
long Cameron county may be con
fronted with the necessity of build
ing modern roads, and that this
Frisco Good Roads train will give
us an opportunity never before of
fered, to see for ourselves which are
the best and most practical roads,
how they are made and what they
should coat.
These lectures are given gratis.
Every business man and every
prq^erty own^y of Brownsville
should attend the Frisco Good
Roads meetings.
Every farmer of this entire sec
tion should attend the Good Roads
meetings.
All will be heartily welcomed.
The men who will be on this train
are the farmers’ friend^. They are
practical road builders, who, in
simple language and by actual de
monstration, will show how the
good roads are built.
Let one and all profit by this rare
opportunity.
Courtesy demands that all show
appreciation of this joint effort of
the Frisco and Uncle Sam to assist
in developing town and country.
Let Brownsville give the Good
Roads special the heartiest welcome
and make the opening of this highly
important campaign at this terminus
of the Frisco a Red Letter event.
ALL WANT MOTOR SERVICE.
The Frisco road is in a peck
of trouble. The road wants to
make a trial of a motor car
service over a part of its line,
and has chosen a sec;ion of the
road running into Dallas for
the experiment. Fort Worth
very broadly hints at a “boy
cott” if the road favors Dallas
in the experiment and does not
also run its motor service into
Fort Worth. On top of this,
Denison jumps into the ring
whooping that “Denison people
travel sometimes, too.—Brown
wood Bulletin.
The Frisco has already "made a
trial” of the motor car service in
the Lower Rio Grande Valley,
where it has proven a great suc
cess. Hence the pr oposed service
in North Texas would not be an ex
periment. Everybody likes to travel
on the motor car, and it is not sur
prising that all of the towns in
that section are clamoring for it.
Those straw' hats did look a lit
tle bit "previous" yesterday, but the
•‘whether" man was to blame.
Those suffragists who are smash
ing windows in London are perhaps
doing so in order to give notice ihat
their sex has done with washing
windows.
Now for the usual spring cry
from the Northern press about the
early blosoming fruit trees being
npped by late blizzard, and pre
diction^ o. short apple and peach
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WE HAVE NO GRUDGE TO
SATISFY.
The Herald does not court a con
troversy with the Sentinel, and
has spoken more in jest than in
earnest throughout the exchange of
words of the last few days. We
have no apologies to offer, of course,
for having taken a publishing con
tract from the Independents, who
are not ‘‘knifing” our friends, but
merely making an open political
fight. The Herald is in no way
compromised by doing this work,
which is entirely legitimate.
We are quite willing to- let the
Sentinel have the last word, and
have no counter charges to make
asgainst our contemporary.
Still, we can not help but wish
that the Sentinel edkon would sat
isfy our curiosity, by telling whether
he did sign that telegram or not.
THE POLITICAL POT.
“Did you sign it?”
Have you ever listened to the
Katy-did? If you have, you know
that Katy first says she did, and
then she says she didn't. Did you
sign the telegram? “Yes, 1 did,” or
“No, I didn’t.”
Dear Mr. Roosevelt: We have a
candidate for the Ananias Club.
Please send blank application quick.
Yours truly,
Afraidtosignmyname
The Sentinel asks: “What does,
or does not, the signature of D. H.
Cummins (editor) to a telegram
matter?” In this case it matters a
great deal. Mr. Cummins told Col
lector of Customs Creager, against
wham the telegram was directed,
that he did not sign the telegram.
This was an extremely important
admission for Mr. Creager to have,
and you may be sure he took advan
tage of it. He no doubt informed
his chief what Mr. Cummins, editor,
told him, and added that there
might be other names used without
permission of their owners. The
telegram lost its force when it be
came known that signatures were
used without permission of their
ownprs. The telegram instead of
having any weight with the person
or department to whom it was sent
may prove to be a sure enough
boomerang. Mat.er, eh? Well, we
guess it matters. Did you sign it,
Mr. Cummins? Yes? No?
The Sentinel says: “The Herald
has not been candid in its reply that
its attempt to stick at the word
prinL when it knows that it* regu
lar force are engaged in soliciting
advertsing for the sheet that is in
tended to knife the people who have
been its best friends.”
Gee, ain’t that rich? Why doesn’t
the Sentinel be candid, and tell
us if i.s editor signed the telegram?
Notice the word “knife” in the first
sentence. Let us ask a question—
Whom did the Sentinel editor stick
the knife into when he told Mr.
Creager he did not sign the tele
gram? Was it not his democratic
fripnds? Did you not walk into the
camp of the enemy. Mr. Cummins,
and thus deliver yourself: “Mr.
Creager 1 did not sign the telegram.”
And when you did so, did you
not place upon your democratic
friends—several of whom are Sen
tinel stockholders— the stigma of
having stooped to forge your name
to a telegram?
Come, now, who has not been
candid? The Sentinel can not
discredit The Herald for taking a
publishing contract, if it talks from
now until doomsday.
But, did you sign the telegram?
McAllen Budget.
To The Herald.
McAllen, Tex., March 22—The
Business Men’s Club was well at
tended Wednesday night and a lot
of business was transacted, among
other things a special effort will be
made to get a large attendance at
the meeting of the Good Roads De
monstration meeting to be held
here Wednesday, March 27. begin
ning at 8:30 p. m. and closing at;
1 p. m. The club also chose five j
delegates to represent the city of |
McAllen at the National Drainage
congress to be held at New Orleans
April 10 to' 13. The rate" will be
one fare plus two dollars for all
points in the Valley.
Miles of streets have been set in
palms this spring and some time!
McAllen will be known as the city
of “Beautiful Palm Avenues.”
Guerra & Guerra, McAllen's'pop
ular firm of Mexican merchants, will
soon begin on a 30 by 80 foot one
story brick building on the ground
where their large business building
now stands. The frame building
will be moved back and used for
a warehouse.
The wholesale grocery eoraiTany
of Chapa & Co,, are having a fine
NEW NOMINEES ON
DEMOCRATIC TICKET.
Manuel Besteiro for Treasurer. H. J.
Kirk for Alderman in Third Waru
To Replace Withdrawals.
The Democratic Executive Com
mittee of Brownsville filled the va
cancies on the Democratic ticket at
its meeting yesterday afternoon.
Manuel Besteiro was nominated
for city treasurer, in place of Frank
Champion, resigned, and H. J. Kirk
for alderman, third ward, in place
of O. C. Sauder, resigned.
Asked in regard to these nomi
nations, F. W. Seabury, chairman of
the committee, said: “These men
are all right, and they will be elect
ed. The Democratic convention set
the example of nominating only
good men to office, and we have tried
to follow suit. Manuel Besteiro
ought to make an excellent city
treasurer. He is well known as one
of the most successful business men
in Brownsville, and enjoys an en
viable reputation for honesty and
fair dealing. We figure that a city
treasurer ought to have these qual
ifications, as we like to feel that the
city’s money is safe and will not
! be paid out on unlawful warrants.
“Mr. Kirk will make a good ald
! erman, and has sufficient leisure to
| attend to the city’s business.
“We are greatly pleased with
these nominations, and we believe
] the people will approve them."
THE RAVEN.
As Poe Might Have Raved it Today.
(O. B. Breurer, in Norfolk Ledger
Dispatch.)
Once upon a midnight dreary, while
I pondered weak and weary,
Through my door there flew a raven
of the days of nineteen-four—
Flew and looking at me sadly, while
my pulses pounded madly.
Perched upon a bust of Hadley high
above my chamber floor—
Perched and muttered “Theo
doreT”
Then 1 seemed to hear the twaddle
of the gentle mollycoddle—
Crash of rifle in the jungle, and the
rush and slush of gore—
Heard I nature faker shouting—saw
a silly gargoyle shouting —
Wealthy malefactors pouting, and
the Ananias corps—
All these things and more were con
jured from the misty days of yore
By the raven’s ‘Theodore!”
“Sir!” in rage I broke out yelling,
“by the great phonetic speelling—
By the notes to dear Maria, whom
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the two of us adore—
By the storks, in fear convening—
tell me, sir, if 1 am gleaning
Some faint knowledge of the mean
ing in your melancholy roar—
Some faint gleam of understanding
from your melancholy roar!”
Quoth the raven “Theodore!”
“Prophet,” said I, “in my wallet
there is coin that says La Follette
Will be running soon as candidate
has never run before;
And the portly William Howard
Taft is not a coward*”
But the raven only glowered high
above my chamber floor—
From the plaster cast of Hadley high
above my chamber floor—
Flared and muttered “Theo
dore!”
And the raven, never quifting—
neverflitting—still is sitting
On the plaster cast of Hadley high
above my chamber floor;
And his eyes have all the' seeming
of a dik-dik’s that is dreaming,
And the limelight o’er him stream
ing casts a shadow evermore;
And that dark, uncanny shadow,
floating on my chamber floor,
Is an omen—Theodore!
trade, beyond all expectations.
There will be a masquerade ball
here at the K. P. hall tonight, given
by the Terpischorean Club of Mc
Allen to the homeseekers of the Star
Land company’s excursion, which
arrived today. This ball will be the
grandest affair of the season for the
club.
Work on the brick husines build
ing of R| L. Gregory is progressing
nicely. The Valley is full of home
seekers today, and many new set
tlers will be added to our rapidly
increasing population.
Cheap Rates to New Orleans.
It was announced yesterday afe
ernoonuiattTiere will be an excur
sion on the St. L. B. & M. Ry. to
New Orleans, on account of the
National Drainage Congress to bo
held at New Orleans April 11. The
round trip rate from Brownsville i
$23.80. Tickets will be on sale
April 7, 8 and ft, goon on train ar
riving at new Orleans before noon
April 7, 8 and 9, good on train ar
25. Upon the payment of $1.00 re
turn limit may be extended until
May tiih.
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When a man is sick he pays a doctor for advice
before he uses it; he does the same with his lawyer. The
banker gives advice cheerfully and free. When you are
in financial difficulties, why not consult us? It is strange
that the hanker, whose advice is as cheerful as it is free,
is never sought BEFORE men have risked and lost their
money, hut AFTER. If you want some advice or help,
come in; we will welcome you.
Do Y() UK hnnkinir with US.
We pay 4 per vent interest on savings and on
nl1 time deposits.
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