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BROWNSVILLE DAILY HERALD. VOL.3V.m 14 5ROWNSVILBB, TEXAS, WEDNESDAY, JULY 19, 1905. SINGLE COPIES, 5 CENTS. r' SPECIAL MID-SUMMER At McDonald's Department Store Beginning July !, Continues 30 Bays SMri DfwnMieu All our men's fl.25 fthirU in the house in thi Mile go at 9Sc All tbc 5c ftbtrta go at 38c One lot nicn 'K Pongee ahirt, valoI.S0, pe dal price f 1 00 One lot men t shri i w.-usU, vatae l.5l) each, apeciaJ cleanup price , 5c All our meu'ft jM 5U und Hi pant Ml the houwe. your choice lor 30 !:t;.s ;!t. per pair 4 J One lot men' all wool pants, worth f2Jb pair, lor 30 days only, per pair . . . . . . 1 50 12 flown pair turn's pant, value f 1 .40 and 1.50 a jiair, apecial price for 3o day,. .J3 About 25 men's odd suit?, broken sire., rcgn lar 10.00 and flJ 50 value, sje ial cleanup price, per writ . . $7.99 Men's "President" suspender, sold every where at 50c, apecial price for 3o day Jk special price lor July, a yard 36 inch bleached domestic, free Iron starch, price 7'c, Rpeoal price 10 yards for inch fine brown Sea Island domestic, value 7'cc apecial price Men's bleached Ialc thread khirts and drawers 1 regular (Sc valoe, go in this sale at Genuine Scrivens 'elastic scam drawers, sold even-where at 75c, our special price this sale 50c 64'c 37c 5tc Oik lot iadn' 2.50 and 3 00 Ox lorda, Mpectal price to clean up the tot One lot men's 4.50 ahoes, broken hiea. NKcial price, a pair One lot men's patent leather pttMps and don Kola oxfords, rqrular price $1.50, special price to clean up the lot fl 12 ?o pairs old ladies' broad toe, lace aboes, rn ular $1.W value, apecial cteannp price . . . $2tfc 9 $2 9S Staple Dry Goods. Ivonwlnlc 56 (iuoli Idoaciiod domoatlc, 10c value, iu tins sale at, a yard 7'j&J 10-4 bleached 1'epptareil aliacting, apecial price for 30 day only . 22C 10-4 unbleached l'eppurell aliotftUtjf, Apecial price for July , 20c 36 inch Indian Head bleached domestic, suita able for drawn work and ladies white dntsses XiMwas. All silk watered taieta ribbons No. 22 to 80, worth 15c, 20c and 25c yard, j?o in this sale 12 l-2c One lot No. hO all silk plain taffeta riblion. worth 25c yard, goea in this sale at . . 12 l-2c All straw hats is the house S off regular price SPKCIAL -About 5 doxen men's hats, assort ed kinds, worth 1.00 to 2.00 each, our apecial price to dean np the lot, each 50c One lot John B. Stetson Big 4 hat, XXX beaver, extra fine, regalar 10.00 hat, special for Julv only, at 1750 Hardware. A few ef uciala iu our lMrdurare department. 26 inch Dlaatoti m, worth SI. 75, our special for July, each $1 37 1-2 A food S inch hack saw for metals, each 25c 12 inch mill saw files, value 25c, apucial price 15c One lot lare table lamps, regular prica Si. 75, ipacinl price for July, each $1 25 Gasoline Slovcs. All our $3.50 gasoline stoves go in this lc at 2 50 All our 3-burnuignsoline, worth 6.50 uach, go t ; $4 50 All our 4-burnur gasoline stoves, worth 9.00, goat $6 50 All our 512.50 and 13.00 gasoline stoves go at 59 50 Our goods arc sold F. 0. B. Corpus Christi, .with mil road freight prepaid or allowed to your nearest railroad station in Texas, on ship ments of KM) lbs. or more. Sec new catalog. LDWELL A R. Windmills, Pix Casing, Killings, Gasoline Eiligiues, Irrigation Pumps, Wagons, Mowers A J D HAY MACHINERY CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS J. F. CIarkson Hardware Co Corpus Christi, Texas STUDEBAKER WAGONS AND BUGGIES, CULTIVATORS. DISC HARROWS, PLOWS WALKING PLOWS FOR BLACK, SAflDV AND MIXED LAND. : : : fc3?WRITE FOR PRICES AND CATALOGUES .WHOLESALE AND RETAIL. $.0000 Reward! For the arrest and 'conviction of an' man in Brownsville found guilty of un derselling me on sta ple and fancy gro ceries. How do these prices hit you: Lion coftee, per pound . . 15c Arbucklea coffee, per pound 15c Green coffee. 8 pounds for 51 00 Mb can tomatoes, 2 for 25c 3-lb can corn, 2 for 25c, 4S-lb sack "Pioneer," flour $1 50 4-lb sack "Sunrise" flour. $1 40 Compound lard 8c lb, 2 for. 15c Beat granulated . . H lbs $1 gold With $2 olher goods 16 lbs $1 With $5 other foods IS lbs SI Fruits, N!s, Candles; Cakes, To baccocs. Cigars, Ice Cold Drinks CHARLES DEPPEN Chas. Dcppen's Macknda, Opposite Herald Office, 4 -J J T. J. CAKILL Plumber & Tinner astc ..a lGalvamzeduron DR. C. H. THORN Dentist. ?lPOI8ce pposftc Thq Herald. BrowruvflTc, " . Texas. C. T. KIkJtt. lu B A. K. cole. XX. B. ELKINS 3c eOLE ATTORS'JtYS-AT-lAW y,tt prKticr in alt court. State mm! Federal, portal aHeaUoa trivm lotaad $md ab stract bwiwrwt. Win do eollccUac OSicr Orr BoUca del Acuila. Combes One Store Constantine Hotel W. A. FITCH. Proprietor TrA'eHs ea ' s trade sohcited. Wrcte mxpie roosis arc provided 2CoChtns"too good for our quests if to be found In the market'. Corpus Christ!, Texas A VISITOR'S OPINION Of the Famous Rio Grande Coun try is Glowing. Well Known Traveling Man For Chicago Commission House Tells What He Thinks of This Section. The following letter from A. H. Steven, who has traveled exten sively, may be of interest to Hke aij) readers, as portraying some of the many advantages and pos sibilities of this section. The tetter follows: Brownsville. May 24; '05. Iiditor Lockport Union-Sun: Dear Sir Having traveled over nearly every state in the Union and having some knowledge of the value of products in different parts of the country , I will endeavor to describe a section which I consider an ideal place to live in both for pleasure and profit. Cameron County, situated in the very south west corner of the U. S., with Brownsville its county seat. Brownsville is the most south westerly city of Texas, being on the border between Texas and Mexico and in north latitude 26. It is situated on the Rio Grande 16 miles from the Gulf of Mexico, and 22 miles from Point Isabel the present harbor. It is 141 miles from Robstown, the junction point of the the Texas Mexican R. R., and is the terminus of the St. Louis, Brownsville & Mexican R. R. The Rio Grande R. R. con nects Brownsville with Point Isa bel. It is 307 miles by rail from San Antonio via Corpus Christi to Robstown. Cameron County is favored with a delightful climate both summer and winter, is very healthful and free from yellow fever and epidemics. The average sum mer temperature for July and Aug ust is about 90 at midday. The cool and exhilerating breezes from the gulf blow almost continuously and the evenings and nights par ticularly are always delightfully cool and , pleasant, as the rainfall is light the atmosphere is dry and invigorating such as is conductive to good health. The winters are very mild and almost entirely free from frost or cold, weather that would not injure most tender of garden vegetables. Green corn, tomatoes, etc., can be found io the market daily in De cember and January. This fact alone will rive this country an advantage for truck farming pos sessed by no other in Texas or anywhere. Now that the railroad is built and iu operation fall and winter truck gardens will beasource of delight and great revenues to the intelligent and energetic farm er. Aitaita grass all tne year can be harvested any time; several crops of produce can be grown on the same ground and a crop is al ways assured by means of irriga tion. The elevation above sea level is between 37 and 40 feet. The population of Brownsville is close to 8,000. The opening up of the new railroad for freight and" passenger service will bring in many new comers. There are a number of excellent openings for business and professional men as the city is bound to grow in popu lation and wec'th. Iramigrntica agents have been booming the Rio Grande country for months and now that the railroad has opened up for regular traffic home seekers and others will flock in. Some of the advance guard have already arrived. They have an excellent public school system and several denom- inations have already built fine! churches. Secret societies repre-j sented here are Masons, Knights of Pythias, Woodmen'of the World, ' Knights of Honor and A. O. U. W. j There are also two national banks and two good hotels. The press is ably represented by , the dairy and weekly Hau, re cognized as the leading daily of the lower Rio Grande country. The total valuation' of real and personal property in Cameron County, as shown by the assessors ' books is $3,274,573. There are 62.512 cattle, 6,840 horses and mutes. 9,000 sheep. There are 1,584,718 acres of land. The court house which is a hand some and commodious structure, cost $550,000. Taxes, state, comity and city are low and decreasing. The cus tom house for the district of Bra zos Santiago, is located here. The subports in the distridt are Point Isabel, Santa Maria, Hdinbnrg, Rio Grande City and Roma. Cus tom house building and postofnee building cost $60,000. Brazos Santiago, 25 miles from Browns ville and jnst across the Laguna Padre from Point Isabel. A distance of only three miles is destined to be a deep water port of great importance upon completion of the Panama canal The soil is two kinds alluvial and black waxey, like north Texas. The depth of the fertility of this soil no man appears to know. Its fertility equals that of the Nile and lasts for years without being renewed or fertilized. The topography of the country is such that irrigation can be suc cessfully carried on having a fall of about one foot per mile. There are few places that cannot be irri gated from one line to another. The rice industry of the Texas coast deserves great credit for hav ing redeemed millions of otherwise unprofitable acres of soil. Rice growers are progressive and it is largely due to the success they have made down this way. That a rail road has been built to Brownsville here they can grow and mature two crops a year and a remarkably fine quality of rice is threshed from the second"crop. Excessive rains do not come during harvest and threshing, and the yield is from 15 to 20 sacks per acre. There has just been completed what is reput ed to be the largest rice mill in Texas or the south, with ample capacity to handle nil the rice in this section for several years to come. ' Owing to their inability to secure a market for garden truck there has been but little raised. Both the soil and climate are ideal and with the railroad now operating to Brownsville, there will be no reason why the residents of the northern large cities should not have green corn fresh from the truck farms of the Rio Granda country throughout the entire year. Roasting ears are common on the market during January and February, and in this vicinity they cau market green cabbage, onions, new potatoes, string beans, i!4, turnips, spinach, tomatoes and a score of other garden crops in November, De bember, January and February. Nowhere in Texas or along the gulf coast does such a variety of wild game abound ae in Cameron County. Deer, turkey, ducks, geese, quail, wild hogs, wild cats, etc., are plentiful and make shoot ing a delightful sport. Both salt and fresh water fish, sea turtles of enormous size, oysters and shrimp. It is the only place in the United States, where oysters are better in summer than in winter. A. H. STltVKWS. A tall girl named Short Long loved a certain Mr. Big Little, while Little, little thinking of Short, loved a little lass named Long. .To make a long story Short, Little proposed to Long, and Short longed to be "even with Little's short comings. So Short, meeting Long threatened to marry Little before long, which caused Little to marry Long. Query Did tall Short love big Little less j because Little loved Long? J Old newspapers for sal$ here. j HIGHER THAN A HOUSE. Laredo Man Has Cereal That Is Wonder Of the Neighborhood. Justice of the Peace N. Idar. f this city, is exhibiting to the won der and admiration of the plant rs of this section a patch of com of extraordinary growth, the t.ilks of which stand like bamboo trees and are visible above the rxw of a house near his garden, where the miraculous corn is planted. He got the seed i few months ago from a correspondent in the state of Jalisco, Mexico, who de scribes the climate conditions of the section where this gigantic cereal is found to be in many ways- like that of Southwest Texas. The name given to the corn by the natives of its natural soil is maiz gigante," or giant maize. It is reported to reach in its growth to a height of more than twenty tour feet and to bear upon each -uatk about a half dozen ears of corn of over twice the lineal dimensions of ordinary ears of corn, or eight or ten times in bulk. The ear. -vat to Mr. Idar measured from t uty to twenty-four inches in length and were big in diameter in propor tion. The grains of the corn are much larger than those of ordinary com. The stalks of this astonishing- plant that have grown in Mr. Idar's garden from the seed he planted are now nearly twenty feet high. There are ativeral ears budding upon each stalk, but they are very new and undeveloped. The advantages that this corn will have over the tjsual variety in do mestic and agricultural economy are not clear, as too little is known yet concerning it or its edible qual ities, but as a wonder to agricul turists it is proving a great success and Mr. Idar is receiving orders from different sections of the sur rounding country for seed. If the corn proves to have, equal qualities accredited to it, there is no reason for supposing that it may not be introduced into this country with advantage. Laredo Dis. to Mon terey News, v AGRICULTURAL AND MECHAN ICAL COLLEGE OF TEXAS. The Technological College of Texas. Tuition free. Board, lodg ing, fuel, .lights, laundry, Trust and Incidental fees physician's services, One Hundred Fifty-five Dollars a session. Minimum ad mission age sixteen. Qualified ap plicants Eighteen or over enter on. certificate without examination. Military discipline. AORICrLTUMK. . Lecture, laboratory, experiment al work iu Agriculture, Horticul ture. Animal Husbandry. Dairy ing, Veterinary Science. Agricul tural Chemistry, Entomology. UNO I NHK ft INC. Degree courses in Architectural, Civil Electrical, Mechanical, Tex tile Engineering. OICfHRAL Sl'lJKCTS. Thorough training in English, Hiatory, Mathematics, Economics, German, French, Spanish, Botany, Chemistry, Physics, Assaying. For catalogue, address: The Sec ritnry, College Station. David F. Houston. S-1S-21 President- When the average citizen says that he cannot do his town any good he never made a greater mis take in his life. Of course there are some who en do more than others and there are still others who take a greater pride in the work of upbuilding than others, but no man is without his influence and the there is not a man who cannot help out wonderfully. For that reason every genuine citizen of every town .should make of him self a committee of one to see that the town in wlilch he lives gets all the advertising and pushing that is coming to it even if he has to do it all. So help to build. You can do it if you want to Lockhart Post.