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ownsville Daily heral
VOL. XIV, NO. 135
BROWNSVILLE, TEXAS, THURSDAY, DECEjMBER 7, 1905.
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....MANAGERS....
Cameron County
Abstract Company
Real Estate and Mortgage Loans.
Critical:
Know exactly -what you want when
buying clothes? Come here with your
mind set on what you want and yoar
desires will be satisfied. To dress well
is a matter of judgmentas well as price.
It requires judgment to select reliable
values at prices in keeping with the
qualities. Our clothing "is made right
at the right price." It bears the 'S.
M. & S." label. Prices range from $10
to ?20. You should- see our splendid
assortments.
Suit Cases and Valises, a splendid as
sortment for thetraveler, also a very
useful holiday present, from. ..51 to $10
Boys' suits from $1 to'$6. Overcoats for the boys, ages 8 to 15, i up
Stetson, Roelofs, and Young Bros. Hats, prices $3, , 55, $6 and J7
It matters not what shape you prefer, we have it, in soft or stiff hats
Also Young Bros.' Silk Hats... , $7.50
Gold and Silver Brand Shirts $1 up
cA SPERO
COMBE BUILDING, NEXT TO P. O.
& d& Wz Home of Good Clothes for Man and Boy
It's no Trouble to Buy by Mail
OF
E. H. CALDWELL
Your open orders get- the best g
prices going'. ""'Your request
for quotations "get the same
promptly. Satisfaction, ues
Quality, Right Prices. Our Ac
curacy Promptness and System
retain old and gain new.
friends slowly but surely. We
solicit your orders and in
. H. CALDWELL
Long Distance Phone
Corpus Christi, Texas
Fordyce & Rio Grande City Transfer Co
Stage leaves Frrdyce on arrival of train, except Sunday, and ar
rives at Rio Grande City same night taking just four hours.
Leaves Rio Grande City daity at 2 p. tn.. except Sunday, and arrives et
Fordyce same day at 6 p. m.
Makes the rip n four hours and connects at Fordyce with trains for
Brownsville, Corpus Christi, San Antonio, Texas; Monterey and other
cities in Mexico. .
FRE ONE WAY $2.50; ROUND TRIP $4.00
Passengers will "find along the route first-class backs and teams, thus
t-aveling with ease and convenience. Drivers are the best to beJound.
ExtJa hacks will be furnished either way, if desired, at reasonable rates.'
GUERRA &' SHELY, Proprietors
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It Makes a Big Difference to You
Whether the goods yo-a. buy are of the right quality or
not. If they are not and you have to have then, then
you have to pay first for poor goods and pay again
for good goods, which you should have had" in the
first place. To pay twice' for the sanre thing or the
same purpose is unprrofitable. 'WllXMAN CAR
RIES A LINE oF DRUGS. MEDICINES, AND
TOILET ARTICLES OF THE FIRST QUA LI XT
Come personally, phoCe cr send -us your mail order
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P2LE 40. WILLMAN'S PHARMACY
DR. C. H. THORN
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DenList..
' ?Ofic'e ooposite The Herald.
TELEPHONE 51 " .
Brownsville.
y Texas.
C. F. Elk!as. LL. B
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ELKINS & COLE
ATTORNEYS-AT-IW
Will practice in al! courts. State and Federal.
Special attention given to land and ab
stract business. Will do collecting
Office Over Eotica del Acui'a. Combes Drue Store
F. W. Seabury
ATTORNEV-AT-LAW
Rio Grande City, Texas
Will practice in the District Courts Of
Starr, Hidalgo, Zapata and
Webb Counties.
Rafael (iutierrez
... CARPENTER ...
Will work by the day, week month or by
Contract.
Orders may be left at John W. Hoyt
Burt E. Hinkley
Notary Public
Brownsville Undertaking Comp'ny
Phone 123
DRESS-MAKING
First-Class Work at Reasonable
Prices. Give Me a Call. Back
of the L. J. Hynes cottage-
Mrs. E. H. Olivares.
WHITE ELEPHANT
SALOON
" V. L. CK1XELL. Proprietor.
First-class Liquors, Wines,
Cigars. Polite Attention.
Market Square
Brownsville. Texas
Wholesale
Groceries
Cheap for Cash
Celaya Building.
D. B. CHAP1N
ATTORNEY-AT-LAW
HIDALGO, TEXAS
Brownsville
UNDERTAKING
Company
Bicycles and Bicycle Sundries,
Monuments, Iron Fencing. Picture
Moulding, etc. PHONE 123
JAMES B. WELLS
cittorney
at Law
Successor to Powers & Maxan,
Powers & Wells, Wells & Reutfro
WeDs, Rentfro & Hicks, Wells &
Hicks, Wells. Stayton & Kleberg
I buy and sell Rttu Estate and
investigate land titles. A complete
abstract of all titles of record in
Cameron County, Texas.
Practice in all state and federal
courts, when especially employed.
Land Litigation and corporation
practice.
Constantino Hotel
J V, A. flTCfl, frojwteiw
' Trarelinc men's trade solicited.
Free sample rooms are provided
! Nethiaftoo food for onr guests
-if t be foaad in 4. be 4ricl.J(
Qarpu Q!ttL Tus
70TH ANNIVERSARY.
How Ben Milam Lost His Life in Old
Veramendi House on Soiedad Street
in Campaign Against Mexican
Dictator.
Sunrise this morning ushered in
the anniversary of the capture of
San Antonio by Ben Milam and
his plainsmen.
On the night of Dec. 5, 1835,
the Texas soldiers were encamped
on the river, near Molino Blanco,
and the generals held a council at
which it was decidsd to be bad
policy tp attempt the capture of the
city. Late m the evening Ben
Milam, after a great deal of per
suasion, got permission to see what
the men thought about attempting
the storm of the city.
He walked into the center of the
camp and, with the men about him,
called, "Who will go with old Ben
Milam into San Antonio?"
Frayed old brorfd-brimmed hats
went into the air and a shout of joy
was the answer he received. The
men had always been very ready to
fight and very tired of remaining
in cunp. Tjhey accepted it as a
matter of fact that one Texan was
equal to about ten Mexican soldiers
and, consequently, never feared
about the force before them.
Late at night the army-was divid
ed into two divisions, .which ap
proached the city from, ppposite
sides.
As the sun came over the horizon
on a very foggy morningjone divis
ion of the army attacked the
Alamo, which was occupied by
Mexican soldiers. When the other
division heard the cannon roll they
knew the ruse was a success, and
Mexican soldiers from all parts of
the city were on their way to the
threatened point.
Leading the attack, Ben Milam
came down Soiedad Street until
discovered, when he and"his men
took refuge in the adobe houses
and fought their way from house
to house until they reached Main
Plaza.
While standing in the door of the
Veramendi House, on Soiedad
Street, Milam was advised to "tep
inside as the sharp-shooters were
doing great execution from the
housetops. He had been directing
the men behind a breastwork which
had been built across tlie street.
He thought the advice was good
and stepped inside. He walked into
the courtyard but was shot by a
Mexican sharp-shooter.
The men in the other part of the
city effected an entrance and came
to the assistance of those who were
fighting from-room to room of the
houses on Soiedad Street. The
death of Milam was kept secret and
many of the soldiers did not learn
of it until they missed his encour
aging words wnen tney nau cap
tured all the houses around the
plazas and were crushing the last
feeble resistance.
When the cannon were mounted
on the housetops and turned on the
places of refuge of the Mexican
soldiers, General Cos surrendered,
and San Antonio had been captur
ed by a force much smaller than
the oce defending it. It was held
until the battle of the Alamo.
Milam's body was buried in he
center of what is now Milam
Square, though it was in i the sub
urbs then. The Daughters of the
Republic have placed a stone over
the ground u here it is thought he
was buried and have placed a tablet
in the Veramendi House to com
memorate the deeds euacted there.
S. A. Express.
The modern steam turbine was
in some respects anticipated by an
invention of-an Italian architect shifts were worked daily.
ELOQUENT EULOGY.
Delivered by W. H- Blanton, of Flores
ville, Before lhe old Confederates
in San Antonio
During Fair.
The orator of the day 'was W.
H. Blanton. His subject was "The
Prowess of the Confederate Sol
dier." In part hesaid:
"When I received your kind
and courteous invitation to be
with you and address you on this
occasion, I telt grateful tor tne
honor it conferred and deeply im
pressed with my inability to
properly speak of the 'Prowess of
the Confederate Soldier;' for no
tongue, however eloquent; no pen,
however gifted; no poet however
sweet hissong, has ever yet correct
ly told the story of the glory of
the Southland's noble sons.
"A love for country, for home
and the Creator.are the three bright J
stars in virtue's deathless crown, j
f
and in each of these the Confederate
soldier" was and is the equal of the
world's truest and best. For the
anctity of his home he freely offer
ed his life in the ihock and carnage
of war, and through the years of
gloom and sadness following that
war he wrought and labored with
an unconquerable spirit to lift it
from wreck and ruiu and render it
once more earth's only type of
heaven. .
' 'He loved his country with a
devotion unsurpassed in all the
annals- of time, aud rendered its
soil fdtever sacred with his blood.
Beneath its starry banner he endur
ed the dreary march, felt within
his heart the chill of every pain,
faced every danger, bore every
burden and folded it away forever
with a heart breaking with an
unutterable grief.
He has shown his reverence
for his God and has dotted his land
with houses, erected for this praise
and worship. He has sought to
bring his children up to the lofty
ideals of splendid citizenship, to
impress upon them the lessons of
good government, the inestimable
boon of freedom and to lead them
in ways of truth and honor; and
that is the only way in which to
serve and reverence the Creator-
"Old soldiers, as one of the
'new South,'-it gives me pleasure
to meet and greet) in the name of
every sacred memory of our land,
yon, the glorious remnants of the
old South.
QUICKSILVER OUTPUT.
Terlingua Has Produced Over 600O
Flasks This Year.
According to advices received
from the Terlingua quicksilver
district in Brewster County, the
output of quicksilver of that dis
trict this year will exceed six
thousand flasks as compared with
an output of 5336 flasks last year.
The development of the district is
being retarded on account of its
remoteness from railroad trans
portation facilities..
More progress has been made in
the past few months in opening;
new properties than during the
whole of the preceding year. The
new mining law is causing the
abandonment of all prospecting;
upon State lands and the delelop
nient of the industry is confined to
land owned by railroads and private
parties.
The "Due! of Scx.'r
Clothing is just like
It fits or it don't; it wears
Letter to M. Alonso
Brownsville. Texas.
Dear Sir
paint
or it don't; turns weather and wa
ter or not; and goes out of fashion,
What do we wear clothes for?
Did you ever think of it? Differ
ent persons have different reasons,
no doubt, but one paints Devoe
for beauty, to be in the fashion,
and keep-out water.
Fashion says paint: weall paint
There is beauty in paint; a good
deal for that. And buildings are
costly and fashionable; put-on a
water-proof two or three costs of
paint, and your buildings last as
long as you keep them dry. It
costs nothing to paint; it coats your
buildings not to
Devoe, is the paint that lasts;
disappointing paints are the paints
that cost.
Yours truly
F W Devoe & Co
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P. S Frontier Lumber .Co., sell
our paint.
It took fourteen months to drill
hole 5500 feet deep at Doornloof .
South Africa, and three eight henr
At -the
named Branca, who Jived in the f depth of 5000 feet, or neariy
Seventeeth century. Iff far more
distant times the engine devised
by Hero was a: least-ar hint of the
lurbins which , bow making head-vray-axainst
the fctailiar rsciptocil-
mile, it required from three and
one-half to four hours to raise the
rods from the deep hole, and al
most as Ions to lover them after
the diamond drill point ms put in
order. Hoastoa lost.
The following is quoted from -The
Autobiography of an Old
Maid , ' ' Everybody 's Magazin e
for December:
"I was broght up to regard witb
repuguance all efforts to attract or
to please mankind. My native
indifference was fostered. Girls
who ran after the boys' weredeclaif
ed, when mother and uiy auui&
met in sewing-roo conclave, to
be the most disgusting objects.
Young women who permitted
'familiarities' such dire licenses,
I suppose, as a romping dance, a
careless use of first names, a free
circulation of photographs how
they were condemned, held up to
scorn in our sitting-room! Not for
my mother's daughters, ,not for
my aunts' nieces, were such ways!
"Mother would have thought it
vulgar and indelicate to the last
degree to train us to look toward
matrimony as a goal. She wonld
have died of shame at the thought
of teaching us the artifices ot
attraction, She disdained to sug
gest to us in auy way that it was.
desirable to please. I think she
heartily despised those mothers.
who invited young men to their
houses, or made things attractive?
for young men in their houses. Im
her heart I suppose the dear !ady
was convinced that the intrinsic
worth of her daughters, their
compelling, their natural charms,,
would be a resistless magnet, and
that, in due course of time, there
would come 'three Dukes a-riding"
to bear us off in a whirl of gloryj
Poor mother!
"What Nature began, and
mother continued, novels, I think,
completed for me. In all my early
favorites the heroine was as unap
proachable as a star; her love was
a reward graciously bestowed uwb
the doer of great deeds not an
equal force flowing out to meet the
love of a mere man. Or she was
capricious, wilful, charmingly
difficult. Her withdrawals lured
on her wooers; her petelances, her
piques and poutings, were so many
enhancements, her very refusals
inflamed. But in our town and
our circle, the men, when one
refused them, went off and married
the girl around the corner; when
one adopted the distant attitude of
the tournatnentiqtieen, they stayed
away. And when one flouted and
jeered them, one was held to have
bad manners aud a sharp .ongue."-
Reflections of a Bachelor.
It is very exciting to kiss ajnri
before she lets you.
If a man wants to marry a girl
it is a sign she thinks s lot of others.
do.
A jolly father of a family
about as jolly as some of the jokeS
be tells.
Most anybody seems to able
to catch a crook, but the best law
yers and the sternest judges don
seem to he able to hold him. New
Yrk Prea.