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The daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1892-1897, 1895-12-13

Advertise your Christmas goods in
the local columns Of The HERALD.
Dzrp CU7s in Holiday goods tina
VIII please shallow purses at Mrs
8ollack's.
Cheaper than the cheapest! are
the Christmas toys and fireworks at
Mrs. J. Dreyfus.
Your cigar dealer viii give YOU a
briar pipe free. See advertisement
of Dukes Mixture
oar toy, and Holiday goods are up
10 date in style and underneath
everybody in price. MRs. II. Boz
LACK.
Lo-T or sroLFs; "A fine black
plush buggy rug. Liveral reward Will
be paid Tor It's return to THE HERALD
oGce
Leave Your orders al Putegnat's
drug store for pure spices, which are
ground to order and guaranteed 10
be absolutely pure.
CAzEs.-i'rui; cakes. pound cakes
and sponge cakes made 10 order by
frank TheiIan, the well known ba-
ker. Leave orders at his residence on
Elizabeth street.
Just received at Caceres' store a
large assortment Of choice staple and
fancy qroceries. Also a full lire OF
CONNECTIONS, which win please the
most lastideous. Call early.
E.J. Dejfraisse the well known
piano man is III the city. lie has ?
shipment Of fine pianos or the COM
ing steamer. Just the thing for 4
Christmas present. Don't fail TO see
;bem.
". +. bennett having resumed the
agency for Wanamaler q Brown,
Oak Hall, Philadelphia, viii. be
pleased 10 show samples ana take
or.ers fer clothing maze 10 order OF
ready made; also gents furnishing
goods Of all kinds. lie can be fcgad
on Washington street IN 'he building
opposite Mrs. 5auder's ready Tor bus-
mess every day from 10 70 II a. IN.
and from to , P. m. Go and take 3
look at his samples.
The daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1892-1897, 1895-12-13
The Cripple Creek mining
boom will probably cripple
many peoples finances before
il ends.

The New York Herald prints
this fanny story:
Among the visitors to Madi-
son Square Garden one day Of
the week while the sale Of horses
that had been exhibited at the
horse show was in progress was
Denman Thompson.
Mr Thomson wa, anxious to
secure Il pair OF carriage horses
and When team was shown
that he liked be Immediately
made mp lis mind TO purcIas.
il Tie haclsneys We're pai up
ard 4 gentleman standing a
iiille Wy ffen "a Thompson
stared t.ie hisi.iH Al 500
FIVE Kindred aad ffiyii
The daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1892-1897, 1895-12-13
N1cARAGuAN CLIMATE.

Washington, Dee. 9.-The report
of Assistant Surgeon E. j. Stitt, who
accompanied the Nicaraguan canal
commission in its trip of inspection
last summer on the climatic condi-
ton OF the country through the pFo-
posed canal would pass, has just been
publ he'd
Generally speaking the surgeons
finds that these climatic conditions
are much more favorable than has
been supposed. Nat a single day
was lost by any CT inc party On ac-
count Of sickness. While the cutting
of The canal may be source Of dis
ease for : time, ultimately tho effect
OF the construction wonld be beneh-
cial.
The daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1892-1897, 1895-12-13
TIE CRANBERRY.
Row Il Ia Planted ard Resred ard wl,ers
- Fs..l,ll.llsa.

= Fzerrisllez.
Tho cranberry IS naive 10 cold,
messy hogs, such as lis on tic sandy
slopes Of tie Atlantio STATES and
about tins ripper great lakes. Where
cold waters flow slowly through
sands hoes arise. By tie growth ~
ages a pond Ills with vegetation ard
becomes a paa5 bcC, the lower voae-
taton decaying under water, form
ING peat. From tho tangle Of laurel,
fern and sphasDun Of tie surface
the change is gradual through dense
masses OF wiry stems OF the true
peat lying 20 or 50 feet below. II
some Of the boys IN southern New
Jersey forests are buried. The bog
sussains many hardy perennial
shrubs. often heathlike plants, with
a great Quantity Of whitish oorallike
moss called sphagnum growing mp
ward from It's deoaying base. This
vegetation holds slow 0cving waters
Ike a sponge, and on its upper por-
tons TIE cranberry. which is 2 sort
Of heather. fiouris;es in company
with sheep laurel, ferns. rushes and
saplings. The first stepin cranberry
tillage IS 10 shave of from two to
four Feet of this surface. This proc
ess, called turing it IS strictly
unturfng-is followed BY drainage.
bitches are dug At intervals OF about
five res. = surface OF sand IS next
spread over tho top. The white life
less sand Of the Massachusetts, coast
seems best suited. ard IL this warm
bed the CUTTINGS arc SUCK, some
times atregular intervals. sometimes
sow. broadcast and narrowed under.
The Grst two years is e struggle
with weeds. b the thi-l the Gran
berry gets ahead ana Eoeps so. Aft
er the thiT7I - comes to bear
ing. The plant IS orc eff tha b.eau+i-
ful allies Of The heathers-a 77irJ.
slender shrub. perennial apd trail
inr. but niscaTeI q vine. 1t contin-
ues t. bear from - TO % years and
can bs moved for pruning Cglti-
walton consists chiefly il protection
from the frosts md n GEy Seasons
IN moistaniGc th5 lower part OF 5ae
bed. Tais lncIa5 System of iTri-
eating ponds, dil1es, 9aJcs, etc, Of e
small extent i wi,11ar the bogs
The daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1892-1897, 1895-12-13
TIE ubiquitous bicycle has

TIE ubiquitous bicycle has
deprived the city hack drivers
of many fees, and therefore the
Jeias are down on the giddy
cyclists In Mexico City, so
strong has become the aversion
Of he hacikmen to The wheel
that they hrotally drive into
wheelaen on the public. streets.
50 common has Tie practice he
consa that Consul General Crit
t-nden has made pablo ap-
peal on behalf Of the cyclists.
The action Of the consul general
IS likely TO bring down upon
his head the wrath Of the nu-
merons cabbies in the capital
and he may get run down him
self-and then what!
The daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1892-1897, 1895-12-13


THE editor of the Allentown,
Pa, Chronicle pays the follow
ing touching tribute to a broth
or editor: Our esteemed friend,
Mr. Cyrus Kantz. editor Of the
Item, has been highly honored.
His picture appeard in the Phil
adelphia Press recently. Thus
are the truly good at last
being honored aud receiving
their jast dues Tie picture is
IL fine one and can readily be
recognized by the line under
meath, Which plainly says it is
Cyrus Kantz of Allentown. >
And really it looks more like
dir. Kuntz than any body we
know Of The pose Of The head
is graceful, The general ensenI'
bic severe thougil chasie, ming
ling with a pleasing dignity
and q massive brow We CON
graduate AIr. Kaniz upon the
new honor which has been
thrust upon hiH, as We Know
ii viii have ae Tendency -
wards q megae'p1a-ie c9adi
iion."
The daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1892-1897, 1895-12-13
GALvEsrog NEws: Democrat.

GALVESTON News: Democrats
won in the recent special elec-
ton in Louisville. giving 4. j.
Carroll, sound money democrat
a majority of 466 votes over
his republican opponent This
makes the Kentucky Legislature
a tie, 6s to eS, with two pop
nlists on the side.
The daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1892-1897, 1895-12-13
CONGRESSMAN BAILEY want.

CONGRESSMAN BAILEY wants
to save himself the embarrass-
inert of having to choose one
out of probably a hundred or
SO ofhis constituents 10 recon
mend for federal PIE, and has
introduced a bill 10 prohibit
congressman from soliciting APP
! oinimen;s for anyone. This
plan viii hardly snit the pol
itici9ns whose main hold nron
the votes of their constituents
is through the judicious dis
tribulon OF such federal po-
sitioHs as he can control. The
federal pie counter IS big
factor in politics.
The daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1892-1897, 1895-12-13

JUDGE T. Il. NUGgYT Is re-
ported 10 be seriously III al his
home in Fort Worth. The PEG
pie of Texas, regardless Of pol
itical creed, hope that the judge
may be spared and restored 10
health.
The daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1892-1897, 1895-12-13

"WHEN he recommends the
funding and retirement of the
greenbacSs and treasury notes,
which are simply debts of the
government, as the only way
to take the government ont OF
the banking business and re
lieve Ike treasury OF the neces-
sity Of maintaining the 500,
000,000 of gold reserve ard OF
periodically Issuing bonds"
says Colonel w. L. Crawford,
referring to the presidents
message, she but repeats the
democratic view of government
that guided President Jackson
and the democratic party when
they destroyed the United
States banks and made gold
the practical standard Of value
IN llis country" -Galveston
News.
The daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1892-1897, 1895-12-13

FARMERS are beginning to
find their way into this fertile
region once more. Lci them
come! The man with the hoe is
the one most wanted here.
The daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1892-1897, 1895-12-13

WITH Rio Grande corn cribs
bursting with corn, the crop of
convicts from this section is
not likely to be SO large at the
next term of district court.
The daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1892-1897, 1895-12-13

VENEZUELA has an insnrrec-
ton going on within her
bounds. while England is
threatening her eastern bound
AIRY. President Crespo need not
complain of ennui Al present.
The daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1892-1897, 1895-12-13
FRIDAY. DEC. -. 1895.

THE gold reserve seems to be
threatened with farther dppie-
ton, and unless congress comes
to the rescue, another bond is
sue may be necessiiaiea.
The daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1892-1897, 1895-12-13
DON'T TOBACCO SPIT OR sMoEi
YOUR LIFE A4yAY.

Is the truthful, Startling tile Of &
book aDoUt No-Ta-D e. Tie harmless
qt1cgqatec3 to- acec-iaiit cure this.
5sac,s "a. nicoinized nerves. eliminates
the nicotine PG;aoa- nfars "e;sh Hen
gt.a .trer 9Th. yigGr aAi I~iaa0' q,
\ Oh lgu no pii, s-ca or i!Dan iai Kiss
IS No-3'.s-sisse IS s9ti iiY ioo'ea der
Agai.;i under = suardate.s to care q
ia nay Tefu'id,si. IS 'ok free. Ai'!ress
Sterling itsHaelig To-, New Y05k, Ell
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1895-04-25
Ano,her OFFENSIVE Trust.

1t Is the opinion of the expert In the
Department of Agriculture tina the pres
ent very serious rise in the price of beef
is almot entirely fictitious. As Secretary
NJ orton points out, if supply and demand
are the only influences being exerted why
should the price of beef continue high
and the price of cattle be suddenly lower
ed. II is now stated that Chicago will
soon have all the cattle needed but there
is no prospect that the price of beef will be
lowered although the price of cattle will
no doubt take "a tumble. Since the be-
ginning Of this advance in the price Of
beef cattle have advanced but little.
Therefore the state of facts which puzzles
Secretary Morton will be equally puzz-
ing to everybody except those who be-
licvc with the Secretary that there has
been combination among the packers
which, as usual, has resulted in the pub
lie being 1ecced
When such staple as illuminating oil
sells Wholesale at about fourteen cents u
gallon when it recently sold at retail for
ten cents per gallon and beef is marked up
in city markets five cents pound on choice
cuts, the consumer who pays the heavy tax
to such trusts the Standard Oil Company
and the Chicago Packer Association have
brought home to them very graphic
illustration of the oifensiveness of nearly all
trusts. But 1t is an evil wind that blows
nobody any good. While the people are
weighed down with such additional taxes
they are being rapidly educated by their
experience and will soon be able to take
Up intclligently the question of national
control of such combinations of capital.
Just now the trusts are having their
innings. Later the people will be heard
from,
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1895-04-25

The recent slump in oil from 1910 to
S2.l7 is now generally recognized as thor
oughly fixing the responsibility for the
present advance. That advance Is not
caused by any scarcity in crude oil but
almost without doubt by the big Stand
ard oil octopus, which superseded natural
conditions by its own orders. The utter
hclplessness Of those operators who bought
and sold on the theory that the rise was
genuine is now seen. From the beginning
they hadn't the ghost of show unless
they quit before the break came. When
the break did come the Standard OIL
Company coolly dishonored its own GER
tiflcates thus leaving helpless many who
could have made u turn that would have
greatly reduced their losses
We know of no more detostablc corpor-
alton than this concern. 1t levies its toll
on the rich and poor alike but particularly
on the poor oil consumers of the country
who pay heavy tax on every gallon Of
oil used. Its managers roll in wealth,
defy public sentiment, have no fear of
adverse laws and care nothing for
wrecked homes or wrecked lives. John
Rockafeller squares his individual ac-
count he thinks by making a big gift to u
university and then goes on making addi-
tional millions by establishing arbitrary
prices and developing crises
We trust the country will get enough OF
all this some day and that public opinion
will then rise in its might and smite right
and left, first cleaning out the United
States senate and all other law-making
bodies that are now tainted with corpor-
alton rottenness and then moving for
laws that will be so wisely considered and
so far reaching in their effects that such
corporation as the Standard Oil Com
pany will be impossible.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1895-04-25
Stand by the Administration.

Mr.. Cleveland, whatever an body may
say to the contrary, Is the cad Of the
democratic party. He is not only the head
but he is the head of it because the peo-
pie by a large majority elected him to
that position. Thus when Chester A.
Arthur found himself in the position that
Garfield was elected TO fill he became the
head of his party; and much more would
he have been looked up to as such leader
had he been elected president If the
case Of Andrew johnson is cited as an
instance of a president who was not nc.
cepted as a party leader. We point out
the fact that although he was finally re-
jected as the responsible head Of liis party
yet that act of rejection, doing violence as
II did TO tradition, caused tremendous
convulsion within the republican party;
which fact showed that, in the minds
of the people, the president Is looked up
to rs the responsible custodian of party
power
The reason for this is plain. When
party selects standard bearer he Is sup
posed to be the flttest man in the organ
ization for that position. Being nomi-
mated and elected he finds himself under
the constitution, clothed with more power
than is exercised by the crowned heads of
Europe, outside the autocrat of Russia.
With this power at his disposal he can de-
yelope or wreck his party. The leaders
In the senate, house and among the people
can advise but it is not given to them to
act But the president, by means Of the
large amount of patronage at his dis
posal, his veto and the prestige that at
taches TO the position wields sufficient
influence TO jsutify the people unlocking
to him as the real shaper of party policy.
At present within the democratic ranks
tber is very strong undertow In favor
of silver, by which is meant the free coin
age of that metal to the virtual exclusion
OF gold as a circulating medium; because
the cheaper metal always drives out the
dearer, on the theory that man win not
pay a debt in dollar worth hundred
cents II he can use legal tender that Is
worth intrinsioally but little over half
that. This undertow is very similar to
the one that was running against tariff
reform in 1887 when Mr. Cleveland took
a firm stand in special message, that
has become historical, in favor OF that
very reform. That message first brought
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1895-04-25
The Sentiment in the West for Free
Silver.

The Chicago Herald has been interview
ing two state legislatures on the question
of free coinage. In Illinois forty-seven
democrats and twenty-six republicans
expressed themselys in favor of free coin
age while four democrats and thirty seven
republicans expressed themselves against
it, The total number Of republicans is 1l9
consin legislature only thirty democrats
and forty-hye republicans were inter
viewed OF the democrats seven were for
to eight against free coinage while the re-
publicans were opposed by vote Of
twenty-one to nine
Illinois is claimed by the free coinage
men as on of the strongest silver states in
the West This feeling has been banked
on to such an extent that the democratic
state central committee of Illinois has
called state convention for the purpose
of defining the partys attitue on silver.
This extraordinary procedure was com
batted by Senator Palmer and il was To
forstall the probable action of such a CON
vention that Mr.. Cleveland's letter was
written. And yet here we have but forty-
seven democrats out of membership Of
eighty-a who are willing to go ON rec
ord as being in favor Of free coinage. In
Wisconsin about one half the democrats
who gave expression to their opinion were
opposed to free coinage.
The great stronghold of cheap silver
the South. In Georgia only 81 out Of 2lf
members of the legislature are opposed b
free coinage. As to the West with the
administration arrayed on the side Of a
sound currency, it Is not probable that
free silver can carry single state this
side of the Missouri river, while the east
win go solldly against the heresy which
IL Glasses along with the old greenback
and rag baby theories.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1895-04-25
The Presidents Keynote on Silver.

The presidents keynote on silver will
still further intensity the lines between
the different factions. These can probably
be defined as follows:
/. Those who want the money of the
country reduced to a gold basis, on the
theory that the silver dollar is an unsafe
dollar in that silver violently fluctuates,
cannot be kept on a parity with gold and
as u coin is always below standard.
2 The bimetalists under an interna-
tional agreement, who believe this cOun-
try cannot maintain stable relation and
equivalence between silver and gold by
itself. If, they say we maintain gold
standard, as at present, prices will con-
tinue to fall, business will be depressed
the demand for labor light and wages
consequently low. On the other hand if
we go in for bimetalism alone by the
adoption of free coinage of silver, silver
will no longer be measured in gold but
probably have two currencies of unequal
value.
3. The bimetalists without, an inter
national agreement, who think we can
maintain the value of, the~silver dollar
measured in gold by a reform ,of,, our
present fiscal system which will .elimi-
nate legal tenders
4. The free silverites who think silver
is good enough money If the government
issues it, who think the tparity between
the two metals will maintain'itse who
say silver will buy just as much as it ever
did, that its only debasement is in rela-
ton TO gold, which has steadily risen in
value instead of silver declining.
The president probably would prefer to
be put in class 2, but as there is no imme-
diate prospect of an international agree.
ment he puts himself in class 3. He is
for modification of the present system
and emphatically insists that the unlim-
tied coinage of a silver dollar which'is a
dollar only in name and not in value,
would produce an elusive prosperity that
always follows rapid expansion, of the
currency. Such debased or wild cat cur
rency, in the presidents opinion, would
bear heaviest on the laboring classes
precisely as 1t did during the war when
gold was worth such big premium
which Is another way of saying that the
ordinary circulating medium was de.
based-and flour went to SIT per barrel
He asks what benefit a large quantity OF
debased money is to the people If prices
rise in proportion to its debasement? Or
to quote his exact language: If reckless
discomfort and wild experiment should
sweep our currency from its safe support
the most defenseless of all who suffer In
that time of distress and national dis
credit will be the people, as they reckon
the loss in their scanty support, and the
laborer and workingman, as he sees tn,
money he has received for his toll shrinl
and shrivel in his hand, when he tenders
it for the necessaries to supply his hum
BILE home"
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1895-04-25
Progress in Weather Prediction.

There are times OF great progress In the
art of weather predictions. Meteorology
is one of the new sciences and the prac-
tical study of this science with view to
the guidance of mankind as to the
weather is but a decade or so old. The
weather observatory that is now recog-
nized as doing the best work in this conu-
try is that located at Blue hill, just out Of
Boston, where at an elevation of 635 feet,
the highest along the Atlantic coast, the
observer has exceptional opportunities for
studying both ocean and land conditions.
The director, Mr. Clayton, has now pro-
gressed TO the point that he issues every
Friday prediction for the following
seven days. AS intelligent people will see
at q glance such prognosticating, to be
successful is no child's play. 1t must be
based on accurate scientific data and the
fact that so many of the predictions are
fulfilled indicates very clearly that there
is something other than guess. work being
issued
Concerning these long range predictions
for New England Mr. Clayton has this to
of all the forecasts were fully .verifled.
The frequency Of rain was II per cent.
greater on days when rain was forecasted
than on other days. This still leaves con-
siderable room for improvement but
proves as fully as is possible that the fore
casts have scientific basis and are not
mere guess work. But these average con-
ditions give only partial measure of the
value of the bulletin as isl proved. by the
prediction of critical occurrences. For
example, the first general frost in North
ern New England occurred on August 22,
1894, in the very week it was predicted
for that region; the first general heavy
rain fall during the season occurred on
August 1920, during the week when. the
first general heavy rain was predicted, and
the first general frost in Southern New
England occurred on the very morning it
was forctold The coldest daysJof the
winter, December 30, January s. Febru-
ary 8, were predicted as the coldest days
of the week in which they occurred, ex-
cept Feb 8; and the warmest days of.the
winter, Noveml er 3, December l6 and II,
were all predicted as the warmest days OF
the week in which they occurred.
This is all very good indeed and indi-
Gates better things to come. We base this
prediction of progress partly on Mr.. Clay
tons little pamphlet on "The Rhythm in
the Weather" which shows that he Is a
close student and broad generalizer.
Such men do not stand still even when
they have already achieved a success OF
which they, can be proud.