The Brownsville daily herald. [volume], September 14, 1909, Image 4

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- THE BROWNSVUJjE DAILY HERAIiD
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II By F. MARION CRAWFORD I p volved and the weapons employed. In a I I fet.wyw'wroaw I I w '!' j
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.It is a great story, by a remarkable 'an TJeTt!! 1 V 1 j "
Story-teller, Superbly told. Chapter 5 1 erect it, an army of soldiers to defend S3 . i M it 1
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C.It is a great story, by a remarkable
story-teller, superbly told. Chapter
after chapter is brimful of exciting ad
ventures. The strong characters know
how to love. You love with them. And
there is one scamp, as picturesque as a
stage villain, and as real as your dearest
enemy, that you would like to get
your hands on.
CRead the opening installment, and
after that well, you'll thank Fortune
you have found one more great story.
WATCH FOR IT REMEMBER
IN THIS PAPER ONLY
To describe the war-like use of the
wall properly, a military historian is
needed, who can set forth accurately
and technically all the strategy In
volved and the weapons employed. In
default of him, a lay view may help
the general reader.
The very conception of a chain of
thousands of strong blockhouses,
linked by a rampart, and stretching
over more than a thousand miles, be
tokens a mind that can conceive great
measures. Vast resources were need
ed to execute the idea and to defend
the wall when once erected. A wall
would need an army of workmen to
erect it, an army of soldiers to defend
it. The trowel might be laid aside in
a few months, the sword must be ever
ready. A mere wall without men be
hind it can not delay an invader for
a day. The wall of China involved a
standing army, and historians say it
numbered 2,080.000 men.
There are signs in the brickwork
that the towers were designed and
finished first before any wall was
erected. The order was not, there
fore, wall first and then towers on It;
but towers, and then a curtain between
them. In China and in South Africa
there was a time -when it was found
wise to erect rows of blockhouses
near enough together to command the
Intervening space by rifle fire, and nu
merous enough to stretch for miles.
The line of Chinese defenses aipajv .g
ently began in the same way; only, ai) pS
they had no missiles that could be -t
thrown far and swiftly, a solid line of
wall became needful nt an early
stage. We can Imagine that each gar-
rison would be charged to build a sec- B
tion of wall on to meet the builders l
from the next forts and thus the time jfi
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watching. W. E. Geil, in Harper's 3
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W e believe it is unequaled by any job office in Southwest Texas
bcey lavish in fitting up our Commercial Job Printing
wire stitcher, stapler and
"We have
Department.
We have purchased new presses, a new
numbering machines.
We have purchased xvy type suitable for all kinds of printing.
We have fitted our linotypes with extra magazines and matrices.
We hayeu complete stock ,qi envelopes, paper, carls, etc.
We are pre pared to tiki care ;or your commercial printing, and we
want to do it.
It is no longer necessary to send yotur ,'vork away.
We are especially (riged for the pironirA execution of brief work.
Tew materi d and n-sir. .matrices have been hought especially for this work.
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Not tn Evidence!.
Done Their
For Was
I have 160 acres of splen
did land, cleared, fenced,
and under cultivation for
three years.
In 1908 thirty-three acres of this land yielded in
cabbage $400 an acre. In 1909 it produced in
cabbage $175 per acre, the difference in price be
ing occasioned by a poor market.
This land is now ready to
be planted in cabbage or
other vegetables.
It is situated four miles from Brownsville, one
mile from station, and is irrigated by the Browns
ville Irrigation Co. "Water laterals all built. Three
miles from Ohio and Texas sugar mill. The best
kind of land for sugar cane.
This land can be purchas
ed for $90 an acre, one
third cash, balance in one
or two years.
jj you niggers doing?'
A lawyer from New Orleans tcl ,
the story about a jury trail in a little
obscure village somewhere in Lou
isiana: "Of course, strange as it may
seem, the jury in this trial was made
up entirely of negroes. It seems that
all the available white men were eith
er at work or had gone hunting or '
fishing. And, anyway, it being a caso
of one negro charged with stealing
from another, the interest of the white
people of the nlace, of whom there
was a conspicuous minority, was not
sufficiently involved for it to make any ;
difference.
"When the evidence was all in and
the prosecuting attorney, a white man,
of course, had submitted the case
without argument, the accused, for
tunately, had no counsel the judge,
also a white man, ordered the jury,
which could not agree in the box, to
retire to an adjoining room and find
a verdict
"The jury retired. At last the judge
could stand it no longer, and went in
person to the room to see what was
delaying the verdict. He found each
of the jurymen crawling around on the ,
floor peering under chairs and tables,
and also into corners. The court was
amazed. He did not know whether the
whole jury had gone crazy or what
was the matter.
'"Here," he thundered, 'what
Ask for Prices
We can meet any foreign competttkm, and besides, your work will be
going on where you can keep in close tench with it.
We have a special department to take care of this fast-growing branch
of our business.
.Call No. 7 if you need anything in printing. Our representative
will be quick to call upon you, and we you prices and any other infor
mation ou mav require.
Job Printing Department of the
Brownsville Herald
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FOR RENT. Furnished rooms.
Applv corner Adams and Ninth.
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FOR RENT. 104 acres truck
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Co., Brownsville, Texas.
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The foreman arose, and, making
humble obeisance, answered:
" 'Yo' honah, tain't no use; we jes
kaint find no verdict in dis here room.
Fact is, you honah, I doan b'lieb dere's
a vuddict in here nohow.' " Central
Law Journal.
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National Cemetery.
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new C room house.
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Brownsville, Texas
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Consternation in Drawing Room.
In "Stories of a Famous London
Drawing Room," in the August Mc
Clure's, William H. Rideing says:
"The company always included
many delightful women, and I remem
ber the consternation caused among
them one day by Burnham, the scout.
He explained that he attributed his
success as a scout to the acuteness
of his sense of smell; it was like a
bloodhound's. 'There's no one here
to-day,' he affirmed, 'who at any time
anywhere in the future I could not
recognize In the dark. Yes, I could
tell you, and you, and you,' nodding
at an alluring group In modish ap
parel, 'by the way you smell.'
"For an awful moment the conver
sation flagged."
ONE QUESTION ALWAYS ASKED
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TEmployer of Labor Wants to Know
If Formation of Jaw Is Natural
or Acquired.
ARCHER . ARCHER
Architects and General Contractors
Attention Given to Construction of Buildings
Anywhere m the Rio Grande valley
FIRST NATL BANK BLDG.
BROWNSVILLE. TEXAS
Decline of Ancient English Fair.
After being held annually for 800
years Stow Green pleasure fair has
practically ceased to exist.
Established by charter of Henry III.,
It ranked as one of the largest fairs
in England for merchandise and last
ed three weeks. All the large travel
ing shows in the country used to at
tend and they covered nearly four
acres of ground. The fair is now
limited to two days and when it com
menced it only consisted of a few
catchpenny devices.
This year the magistrates curtailed
the hours for drinking and it is ex
pected the fair will soon collapse alto
gether. London Standard.
CUNNINGHAM CS, ERNEST
Real Estate Brokers
Why Did You?
"Why do women marry?" inquires
the Baltimore American. "Usually be-
j-ir-- tj cause men ask them. Give us a hard-
Rio Grande Valley Irrigated Farms and Liult Coast Lianas er one," says the New York Herald.
We have some attractive bargains near Brownsville "AnLn"Heraldmen
Fine Alfalfa, Sugar and Truck Land at Harlmgen "SfSffStt S sti.l harder when
you can answer It yourself? Cleve-
Offices: . . Brownsville and Harlmgen, Texas land Plain Dealer.
"There is one question I always ask
a man who wants a job," remarked
the business man who has to hire
several hundred men for different po
sitions each year.
j "The question I always ask them
.Is: 'Do you smoke a pipe much?' Of
'course the answers are various. Some
,-of them smoke a pipe a great deal and
others not at all. Some smoke cig
jarettes, although I seldom can get a
man to tdmit It. There seems to be a
general guilty feeling when a man i3 a
I cigarette smoker. Some of them
jsmoke cigars. My business is such
that It makes very little difference to
.their availability to me no matter
(What they smoke.
, "Why do I ask about the pipe? Well,
mot that I have the least interest in
their habits, or that I have any pre
judice one way or another in the mat- j
,'nater. The reason is that I want to j
'know whether the formation of their j
lower jaws is natural or acquired.
"A man with a firm lower jaw is al
'ways a man of parts and of will. I
'say 'always,' anyway, most always. If
he does not smoke a pipe his square ,
!jaw, back near where it hinges on to !
the upper one, is natural. If he is a
pipe smoker the looks are deceiving,
and I have to judge his caliber some 1
other way. 1
"Pipe smokers always have strong
'muscles back on the face about the I
'place a man stops when he makes the j
first stroke downward in shaving.
These are the muscles that hold the '
Jjaws together. They often give a !
square-jawed effect to a man who j
J hasn't any square-jaw characteristics.
My men think I ask funny questions, '
but there's a reason."
JAS. A. I1KOWNK. Prfsidkn r
K. C. FORTO. Ji) Vice Pres.
S. I.. HWORMAN. NT Vlihl'Rfs
A. ASIIHKIM. Cvshier
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1ST NATIONAL BANK
OF BROWNSVILLE, TEXAS
CAPITAL $100,000.00 SURPLUS $65,000.00
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J. A. BROWNE.
S. I- DWOK3IAK.
A. ASHHKISf.
J. B. WELUS.
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W. F. SPRAGVE.
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