The Brownsville daily herald. [volume], January 30, 1907, Image 1

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QNSVltLE DAILY HERALD.
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BROWNSVILLE, TEXAS. WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 30, 1907.
SINGLE COPIES, 5 CENTS
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THERIO GRANDE COUNTRY IS ALL RIGHT
YOUR. RESULTS depend on the RIGHT
' IMPLEMENTS and TOOLS in the hands :
of the RIGHT MEN.
WE HAVE RIGHT-OUTFITS ,IN QUR-LINE
Birdseli and Old Hickory Wagons, Stand
ard All Steel S-C. Mattocks, Avery and
Hancock Disc Plows, Planet jr. Seeders,
Wheel Hoes and Cultivators, Tents, Wagon
Covers, Axes
E. H.CALDWELL
AERMOTOR AND STANDARD WINDMILL
tells all about our goods and Is free for the asking.
Corpus Christi, Texas
I HALLAM COLONIZATION CO. I
OFFICES OVER EAGLE DRUG STORE
Representing Lands From Corpus
Christi to the Rio Grande
TO THE CITIZENS
OF BROWNSVILLE I
We wish, to call your attention to
the great bargains in MEN'S
CLOTHING Ave offer, beginning
Tuesday, Jan. 29th
We offer you the finest made suits,
overcoats and cravenettes at
33" per cent QiSGOUnt
The prosperity which we have enjoyed in the past
years, and for which we here take occasion to thank
our townspeople, -has made it imperative that we here
after make two purchasing trips a year instead of
one, and our Mr. A. Spero has already left for New
York on pne of these. We wish also to impress upon
the minds of our fellow citizens, that aside from the
benefit to the city, they will personally profit by
patronizing home trade. We assure you that the
prices we offer you are as cheap as any, anywhere.
We Must Make Room for our Spring Stock
therefore we are giving you the opportunity to take
advantage of such bargains as the following:
Men's and Youths' AH Wool
Suits, Overcoats and Cravenettes
Regular price Suit $ o.OO NOW $ 4.00
" " " 8.00 " 5.34
" " " 9.00 " 6.00
" " 10.00 " 6.67
" " " 12.00 " 8.00
" 14.00 " 9.34
" 15.00 " '10.00
" 16.00 u 10.67
" 18.00 ." 12.00
" " -20.00 ." 13.34
" '22.50 " 15.00
Reg. .$v.6.00 Overcoat or Cravenette Now $ 4.00
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All these are cash prices.
Save Money by baying NOW.
See Oar Windows.
PERO'S
Elizabeth Street
Combe BaildiBj, Next to Postoffice
W. 0. Coleman,
Real Estpte
Farm Landsf
City Property
Agent for
Bessie Land, Water and Town
Site Company
Fruit, Vegetable and Farm
Lands
TOWN LOTS AND BLOCKS
Mercantile and
Topographical Map
OF THE
CITY OF BROWNSVILLE
For Sale by Louis Kowalski at
30 Cents Each.
BROWNSVILLE
UNDERTAKING
. COMPANY
Rubber Tire Carriage on Call
PHONE 123
LAND FOfl SALE
Farms and Ranches
Tracts of 40 and 50 acres
and upward to suit pur
chasers. Situated near
Brownsville. Suitable for
Truck and Sugar cane, Cot
ton, Corn, Etc. Address,
BOX BROTH EHS,
ISABEL, TEXAS,
or phone with instructions
to have message delivered.
FREE SEEDS TO
' BE ABOLISHED
Committee RecommeiMb Such
a Course. .
Practice U A Ovtjptw-.fe Ufe&t
nm Netting AWfe ton Graft.
Money To Be Used for Expert. "
menf Staifofts.
FRANK RABB
Real Estate Agent
Brownsville, Texas
Have for sale some choice
pieces of agricultural land
in large and small tracts.
Also have a number of
tracts of grazing lands.
OFFICE: Store of Juan H. Fernandez
JAMES B. WELLS
cAttorney
at Law
Successor to Powers & Maxan,
Powers & Wells, Wells & Rentfrd
Wells, Rentfro & Hicks, Wells &
Hicks, Wells. Stayton & Kleberg
I buy and sell Rem Estate and
investigate land titles. A complete
abstract i. all dtles of record in
Cameron County, Texas.
Practice in all state and federal
courts, when especially employed.
Land Litigation and corporation
practice.
A. GOLDAMMER
CONTRACTOR AND
BUILDER
Plans and Specifications Fur
nished on Short Notice
CITY TIN SHOP
FideI Arevalo, Prop.
All Kinds of Tin Work Done
Promptly aud 'Neatly, . .
Also Plumbing.
Patronage Respcetfilly Solicited
The recommendation of the
House committee on agriculture
that the congressional free seed
graft be abolished, and the money
heretofore wasted on this expendi
ture be applied in future for the
purchase of rare seeds and plants
for J;he government experiment
stations, commends itself to the
approval of most of the leading
papers of the country. Among
others commenting favorably on
the committee's decision, is the
Kansas City Packer, which says:
"The decision of the House
committee on agriculture on Mon
day to recommend the discontin
uance of free seed distribution by
members of Congress was the only
one that could have reasonably
been arrived at, circumstances con
sidered. "The practice long- ago outgrew
its usefuluess and for years it has
amounted to nothing more than an
advertising scheme for congress
men at the expense of the people.
The seeds distributed have been
no more than the ordinary quality
and it is a well known fact that
growers have made it a practice of
consigning the little congressional
packages to the waste basket.
"The original intention was un
doubtedly to place in the hands of
fanners new varieties and to en
courage improvements in agricul
ture, but the political congressman
no doubt found that to send seeds
to one or a limited number of his
agricultural constituents injured
the sensitive feelings of those not
so favored and this made it appear
necessary to generalize the seed
distribution. The practice grew
until the up-to-date congressman
had to hire a clerical force to mail
seeds to his entire list of constitu
ents and the immense quantities of
seed stock required for the purpose
made it impossible for the govern
ment to use even ordinary care in
making purchases. Much of the
seed distributed by congressmen
has therefore been worse than
worthless and the limited number
of growers who have planted such
junk have really been the victims
of imposition. Congressmen have
no doubt : understood right along
that the practice was iniquitous
but the individual member could
not well get away from it.
"It is small wonder, under the
circumstances, that the agricultural
committee of the House has recom
mended the abolishment of the
free seed distribution as heretofore
practiced.
"The committee's recommenda
tion that the appropriation be used
in future for the purchase of rare
seeds to be distributed by the De
partment "of Agriculture through
the experiment stations, if finally
approved by congress, should prove
of real benefit to the country at
large and such a course cannotibe
commended too highly."
They certainly do things on a
wholesale scale out in California.
The traveler down the coast from
San Franrisco to Los Angeles rides
through thirty-five miles of grow
ing beans. A tract of 3,000 acres
is owned by one man. A''bean
ranch" may sound rather odd, but
that is what it amounts to. The
annual bean crop of California
amounts to 600 carloads.
Overheard at the Opera. Blobbs
. Beautiful! Exquisite! Her voice
has matchless timber. Slobbs
Timber? It sounds to me like a
like a whole saw mill in operation.
Philadelphia Record.
THE GREATEST BATTLESHIP
America's. Gum WiM.' Hurl Thousand
Pound Shot a Distance ef Twenty
five Miles.
The "America," when that giant
of the seas takes her first dip into
the waves, will be- the acme of
naval construction, superior fb any
thing ever yet planned and built
by man for the promotion of peace j
and the preservation of national
honor. To cost $10,000,000, she
will carry a crew of 875 men and
be able to throw 7,000 pounds of
steel at one broadside discharge.
Her maximum gun range is to 25
miles from rifles weighing 55 tons
and hurlingl2-inch steel projectiles
weighing half a ton. The old
"Constitution," the pride of the
early navy, fired a shot weighing
32 pounds, its greatest effective
range being three miles. She car
ried 468 men and her largest gun
weighed 5,134 younds. This gun
cost $450 as against 64,000 for
each of the 12-inch terrors of the
"America.'' It is expected that
the new ship will be in commission
within three years.
Hotel Arrivals.
The following were arrivals in
town Monday at the Miller: B.
Grossett, P. E. Todd, Taylor, Ky.,
G. B. Smith, San Marcos, Tex.,
Clarence E. Smith and wife,
Waukegan, 111., E. S. - Heyser,
Geo. H. Avery, Ed. Gollihar,
Corpus Christi, C. W. Haight,
Lyford, F. A. Manson, Windsor,
111., R. M. Ball, R. B. Ball,
Muncie, Ind., F. B. Harrison,
Corpus ChrLsti, Ed. Stiliwell,
Eureka, Kan., D. W. Weed and
wife, Windom, Minn., John
Norton and wife, Herman, Neb.,
L. C. Norton, H. Crook, Neb.,
wade Hampton, Dallas, A. E.
Allen, DesMoines, la., T. N.
Dryden, Winden, Minn., John
Hargis, Lexington, Ky.
At the Leahy: Mr. and Mrs.
Paul Jones, John L. Bruce, St.
Louis.
Tuesday's arrivals at the Miller
were as follows: S. T. Turpin,
Zanesville, 111., J B. Knox and
wife, Abilene, Texas, J. M.
Johnson, jr., St. Louis, C. W.
Justman.- W. H. Robinson, Wa
baska, Minn., J. K. Munford, N.
Y., M- Heidemann, San Antonio,
J. C. Porterfeld, Sidney, 111., M.
E. Strauss, New Orleans, Jewett
Allin, Chattanooga Tenn, John F.
Steck, Kansas City, Louis Derrs.
Battle Creek la., J. Si Tripp, St.
Paul, Minn, F. A. Munson and
H. J. Smysor, Windsor, 111.
Hidalgo Happenings.
From The Advance Jan 27.
County Treasurer W. S. Dough
erty is still under medical treat
ment at San Antonio, but reports
are that he is rapidly regaining his
health and expects to be with us
in a couple of weeks
Wurk on the extension of the
ditch of the Hidalgo Canal Com
pany is being pushed with vigor,
and the lands are being rapidly
taken up. There will be a large
farming community a mile or two
north of here in a few months.
Sheriff John Qosner has moved
his pumping station at San Juan
plantation about half a mile further
up the river, so as to run water
into the new canals recently made
leading to the new sugar fields.
Next season Mr. Closner will have
about 400 acres in cane at San
Juan.
Mr- Smith, . an experienced
apiarist from Oklahoma, has pur
chased from E. R. Jefferdo the
property in the rear of Judge Vina's
place, and will- at one fit up an
up-to-date apiary. There is no
question about success in the bee
and honey business in this section,
and Mr. Smith's experiment will
be watched with inlerest.
, There are a good many fish in
the matrimonial sea waiting to be
caught with a. hook of gold.
LOUISIANA MOLASSES.
Nearly AH of Last Fall's Output Un
marketable Under New Food Law.
The fact that probably nearly -
all the sugar cane syrup and
molasses output of Louisiana; last:
fall will be unmarketable under a.
strict interpretation of the pure
food law has been brought out in .
correspondence made public here .
recently between Secretary of
Agriculture Wilson and the Louis- -iana
sugar dealers. The latter
pointed out to Mr. Wilson that for
50 years sulphur has been used in
this state in treating the cane- J
juice for clarification, and that be
cause of a widely published but
erroneous statement last fall that
the department of agriculture
would permit the use of sulphur
to continue the crop which is to
be marketed during 1907 was made
in the old way. In a few in
stances this product has already
been refused by those who con
tracted to take it, the contractors
fearing the law.
The Sanitary Kitchen.
Inasmuch as all the food enter
ing the human system, the fueT,
if you please, which feeds the vital
fires, is prepared in one room, the
kitchen, and inasmuch as this same
room is used constantly by all
members of the family, it behooves
the home builder to plan this room,
for the easiest methods of doing:
the work, and at the same time to
keep it in absolute sanitary con
dition, with the least effort.
Touching on this matter Farmers'
bulletin, No 170, United States de
partment of agriculture, says:
Perfect ventilation is the first
requirement of a kitchen; light
comes next, and in turn the pos
sibilities of perfect cleanliness..
The walls "should be painted, so
that they maj be wiped off with at
damp cloth, making cleanliness
possible without great demand om
strength, and without the disar
angements caused by whitewashing
and calcimining. The walls and
shelves of all kitchen closets should!
be painted. Painted shelves cam
be wiped off with a cloth every
day, if need be. Paper in kitchen
closets is always a bid for dust andi
vermin. v .
Hard wood makes the best
kitchen floors. Linoleum or oil
cloth, if cut to fit the floor, and"
with edges cemented, is perfectly
sanitary. A hood suspended over
the kitchen range and connected
with the flue of the chimney, will
gather all the steam and odors
and carry them away.
Kitchen and pantry sink andl
range should be treated frequentlyr
to a wash of hot water and am
monia, or soda, to keep them clear
from deposits of grease. Refrigr
erator drains should never con
nect directly with the drainage
system.
Jackson County, Kentucky, is?
far famed on account of its family
feuds, but it has other claims for,
mention besides the deadly battles
of its mountaineers. It has a pop
ulation of 10,000, yet there is not
a single colored voter, nor a citizen
of foreign birth. It has no ex
Confederates within its borders, no
saloons, no registered distilleries,
and no work houses. Further than
this, no citizen within its domains,
ever locks his house.
Boise, Idaho, Is the only placte- .
in the world where the streets are
sprinkled with hot water. . The
city and the county buildings are
heated during cold weather with
out the use of a fire, and subscribers
to the city waterworks system get
hot water all the time without the
expense of stoves. This has beem
accomplished by harnessing an in
exhaustible hot spring, amd the
novel plan works perfectly.
It is nothing but contrariness:
that enables a woman to cry at o
wedding and laugh at a funeral.