davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1899-04-11
LOSSES AND GAINS
on THE TURF

It is estimated that as much as
between $500, COO 900 and $3.50
900, 00O is lost yearly on the turf.
Australia is the largest loser. No
less than 500, o0O,ooO changes
hands there yearly. If the money
could be estimated which miserable
people spend in a vain endeayor to
get health, it might prove as ap-
palling as the above amounts
The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1899-04-11

81 JOSEPH WEBB.
Clerk Co Ct Cam 60 Texas
The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1899-04-11

JOSEPH WEBB.
Clerk Co Ct tam Co Texas.
The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1899-04-11
lie OFFICIAL COUNTY JOURNAL.
Tuesday. April 11.1sga.
AESURPRISE IN STORE.

General Otis is reported as be
Heying tllatssAguinaldo VIII AZ
longer make a decisive stenc
against the American forces, con
tenting himself instead with wag
ing guerrilla warfare IN the rura
districts of Luzon.
If this-be the Filipino leader
plan for the future, he is about or
the verge eff making great-and
exceedingly unpleasanf-discoyery
Among the United States regulars
now il the Philippines there are
many regiments of the best trained
Indian fighters in the American
army, led by officers who are past
masters in guerrilla tactics. 1t is
against these men that Aguinaldo
viii be pitted in his new plan of
campaign
The result viii inevitably be the
crushing Of the Filipino bush
whackers with a celebrity and vigor
bringing full realization of the fact
that they are no longer fighting
indolent and procrastinaing Span
iards. And it goes without saying.
that the pounding viii be kept up
and1 Aguinaldo's followers see the
error Of their ways
This is an unpleasant necessity,
but being a necessity it must be
met. The first step towards inaug-
nrating what should be a beneficial
American control of the Philippines
is the whipping of Aguinaldo into
submission. So long as this has
to be done, it must be done so
sfectuaIly that a repetition VIII not
be neceSsary.-St. Louis Republic
The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1899-04-11

Weakness nianifests itself in the less OF
>.nSit;o1 and achins, bones. The bleed is
watery; the tissaes arc wasting -:se door 10
being opened for disease. A bottle Of Browns
Iron Bltters taken ia time will restore yOuI
strength, socihe YER nerves, make youl
blood rich and red. Do you moro good than
a special course of medicine. For sale by
Gal. dealers
The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1899-04-11
70 Cure a Cold in one Day.

Take Laxative Bromo Quinino
Tablets. Ali druggists refund the
money if it fails to cure, 25e. The
genuine has L. B. G. ON each Tab
let.
The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1899-04-11
Notice For Publication.

The State of Texas,
10 the Sheriff, or any constable OF
-ameron county, Greeting :-You are
hereby commanded that you cause the
following notice, in words and figures as
follows, to-wit:
No. 3os.-ln the matter of the Estate
of Rafaela Treanor. known as sister NJ.
Cecilia, Deceased
Proof of last will and Testament of
Rafaela Treanor, Deceased; pending in
county court of 'ameron county, Texas,
sitting in Probate.
TO all persons interested in the above
entitled and numbered cause:-Notice is
hereby given that Rev. Mother ST.
Claire, Applicant, by her Attorneys here
in, has fled interrogatories in the matter
of the probate of the last will and Tesla
men: of RafaeIa Treanor, known as sister
NJ. Cecilia, Deceased, pending in the
county court of Cameron county, Texas,
No. 3o5 to w. C. sarroll, Airhons Math-
is, and sister Francis, witnesses to seid
will and WAC reside in Victoria county,
State of Texas. the answers to which with
be read in evidence upon the proof of
said viii; and has also flied al affidavit
in said matter; that al of the witnesses
to said will are nen-residents of the
county of cameron, State of Texas, and
that they are witnesses to the execution
of said will; that the persons entitled to
claim by, or through said deceased have
not appeared to contest said VIII and are
unknown and have no Attorney of record
upon whom service can be made, and that
a commission will issue on or after the
thirtieth day after the publication of this
notice. to take the dispositions of said
witnesses.
Witness Joseph Webb. Clerk of the
county court. of Cameron county, Texas
Given under my hand and the seal Of
said court, at Office in the city Of Prown
vile, this the 2snd day of March, A. D
1899.
lis JOSEPH WEBB.
Clerk Co Ct tam Co Texas.
To be published IN. some newspaper for
thirty daye, and OF this precePt, and how
You have executed the same, make due
return.
Witness Joseph Webb, Clerk of the
county curt Of Cameron county, Texas.
Given under my nand 4 Id seal of said
court, at Office, in the city of brownsville !
this the 2oud day of March, a. y.
1899.
IL 81 JOSEPH WEBB
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-11-12

vicinity, some means must be found, II
necessary. for safeguarding our CONNER
ciaI rights and interests In the portions
of Chinese territory which are In process
of division among the European powers.
Our treaty provisions are with the SOW
ereignty of the Chinese empire. That
sovereignty is fast becoming a mere
nominal thing. Thus far the only one
of the powers which has shown une-
quivocally a friendly interest In the COM
mercial welfare of the United States In
China is Russia A great deal of senti-
ment, much of it giving out false ring,
finds expression In this behalf in Eng
land. The open door" which we are
asked to unite with England in maintain
Ing is secured TO without let or him
drance by Russia in Northern China.
English diplomacy. thus far at least, has
clearly shown a disposition to insist on
our cooperation with the British empire
In maintaining the open door," whatever
that may be. as condition precedent to
the extension to us of any rights which
are not already secured by our treaties
with the Chinese empire. We must, how
ever, be in position without reference
to England or any other power, to en-
force those treaty rights, If they are to
remain uncontested
Whatever Russia's immediate purposes
may be with reference to England in the
Orient, or of Japan with reference to
Russia, or of Germany or France with
reference to each other respectively, or
to any of the other powers, should not
be made any concern of ours except so
far as it involves the rights or interests
of Americans. Whatever may be In con-
temptation by our state authorities, our
duty to ourselves is very plain and is
confined within we'll defined limits 1t is
to safeguard our commercial rights in
China under existing treaties and to see
to it that no future policy of any power
in the Orient shall operate to close any
Chinese port or any section of Chinese
territory to the commerce Of the Ameri-
can people
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-11-12

belonged to the city streets. At the same
clans were arrested in Philadelphia and
charged with gross frauds against the In
teglity of the ballot box. They are all
government employees, and their names
are John F. Sheehan, r. NJ Drinker,
William Coe, Harry McCabe and George
Kirkland. Truly it could be said by these
unhappy prisoners that for them Tuesday
last was a sad, but glorious day
Yesterday large force landed from
British troop ships at Cape Town, and
Richard Croker made some political pre-
dictions concerning the presidential cam
paign of 1900. In his opinion anti-eXpan-
sion and anti-t trust will be pushed promi-
ncntly to the front by Democrats and the
money question relegated to the rear. OF
course, with Croker, the wish is father to
the thought, but to a locker on In Vienna
it really seems that the Tammany man
has suddenly got wise to the situation
and is purveying some decidedly pertinent
opinions on the approaching political
crisis. The reports Of yesterday regard
irg possible European alliances against
England did not particularly jar anybody
in the Northwest. The consensus of
farmers opinions appears to be that they
care not who shoots the dunn dunn bull
let's so long as they can sell the belIiger-
ents beef, pork and canned goods.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-11-12

class Of American newspapers in other
directions, 1t Is found that the good
vastly overweighs the bad In their col
umns.
Let US take the two examples of the
world and Journal, of New York, ac-
cepted generally as the two most proml-
nent representatives of so-caled yellow
Journalism They give undue prominence
to cri9inal news, but their success IN
bringing criminals to justice through the
general publicity of the facts re'atine
to the crimes told of has been aimoss
phenomenal. They have shown them
selves, moreover, to be leaders in public
movements Of one kind or another with
the most benefcent results They are
offensive to the sensibilities of great num-
bers Of people; and, taken all In all. they
must be regarded as undesirable guests
In any we'll ordered household, especially
where they may reach the hands of tha
young. There Is little really to be said
in defense of their sensational tendencies,
just as there is nothing at all to be saIo
In defense Of the hopeless stupidity and
solemn priggishness of the average big
London daily.
But these two or three offending New
York papers do not by any means COM
prise all the pebbles on the editofial
beach There are others. There is no
American hamlet so small that there is
not at least the pretense of a weekly
paper maintained within it's bord rs.
There Is no community in America CALI,
ing itself a city which has not one or
the usual type of American journalism
which presents so vicious a stencil to the
respectable British journalist with a ham
die to his name. He may be very much
shocked by them, if as a matter of fac,
he ever sees any Of them, which Is at
best doubtful. They do the business
Of news purveying to the entire satisfac-
ton of the American reading pubic, and
one Of the admirable things about them
Is that unlike, for instance, our Anglo
maniac national administration. they
don't give tuppence for all the opinions,
good, bad or Indifferent, of all the British
journalists that have ever written =
line, from London to Lands End, for the
past 100 years or over.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-11-12
KILL 1T.

The G o b e regards with much ap-
prevail the expressed determination Of
certain members of the board of aldermen
TO withhold their sanction of the selec-
ton made Of a market site by the Joint
committee of the council. The selection
is bad-very bad. Indeed 1t Is so bad
that it ought under no circumstances to
be concurred in. 1t has the opposition Of
three out of every four of st. Pauls
householders. There is nothing whatever
to be said in favor Of 1t; and 1t represents
a most unfortunate ending of all the
thought and discussion bestowed on the
subject of a city market
The G b has steadfastIy declined to
be the advocate of any particular site.
All such proposed sites have something to
commend them, save alone the one
chosen The selection Of that one is
wholly inadmissible The Christ church
site was rejected because 1t promised to
be too expensive. The objection was per
haps well founded. The other proposed
these objections We're nothing when COM
pared with the great objection which lies
against the Eagle street place.
Let US appeal directly to those members
who agree with the G. 10 b to stand
firm in their position. We believe there
are enough CT them to prevent the selec-
ton being made. The whole question has
resolved itself into one of public decency.
That should be a controlling considera-
ton. There is not a single advantage put
forward in behalf of the selection All
the arguments thus far advanced on be-
half of it have been of an apologize or
defensive kind. It has no affirmative ad-
vantage over even the least desirable of
the others; and it's selection will be little
less than an insult to all we'll ordered
members Of society.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-11-12
WOOD HEARD FROM AGAIN.

The completeness with which the public
imperialist crusade in the Philippines has
resulted in but little attention being be-
slowed on the existing condition in Cuba.
It is fair to assume that, If everything
goes we'll with the imperialist programme
In the East, the promoting crowd will feel
that, thu flag having been hoisted In the
ever-faithful isle. it would be a national
crime to remove 1t.
Things have gone at Havana fer many
months. past In a way which indicates Il
purpose to be in readiness for just such
a contingency as this. All is game which
comes to the net of the imperialist in this
campaign. The island of Cuba, when it
has overcome the desolation and ruin
wrought upon its people by the Spanish,
will be quite a rich treasure. We have
BEEN prepared. moreover for such
course by the insistence of the imperial
lists that that congressional resolution re-
citing our ultimate purpose with refer
ence to Cuba is not to be taken too liter
ally The complaints of anarchy and the
great prominence given to the political
gasconade of few ex-army adventures
Of Havana sustain this general view
Whatever our representa- in Ha-
vana design shall follow their present
control there. there is at least one Amer
lean official in Cuba who Is cutting out
the pace in such fashion as will render
1t quite difficult to apply the providential
theory to our continuance In the island.
How 1t happens that Gen. Leonard
Wood has been permitted to hold on to
his position as governor of Santiago prov
ince would be difficult of understanding
had that gentleman not succeeded in So
curing the confidence of the American
people to such an extraordinary degree in
his fearless honesty and striking ability
as civil administrator.
The brief synopsis of the last report Of
Gen. Wood which has appeared in the
press dispatches shows again how hard
he is making the way OF the promoting
crowd In Cuba. His latest recommended
tons embody the extraordinary demand
that the American troops at present IN
the province be materially reduced. Ills
idea is that those troops be further re-
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-11-12

dueed to two squadrons of cavalry and
two battalions of infantry. Gen Wood.
1t is also understood, is in favor Of rails
ing Cuban regiment, to be Differed in
the higher grades by Americans, with a
view to the still further reduction of
American military forces and the utiliza-
ton of the natives in the final arrange
ments for handing over the control of the
affairs of the province to those who must
ultimately be vested with all RESPONSE
bility
Here is an example which might well
be followed, even though not, perhaps, to
the same extent in and about Havana
policy such as this Is certain to instin
into the minds of the Cuban people the
conviction that the delay essential to
transferring their national concerns ia
their own charge will be as brief as this
people can make 1t, consistently with the
welfare of the country.
When we shall have emerged from the
present partial nightmare of militarism
In winch this people are wrapped, and
the nation has resumed the pursuit of the
ways of peace, the name of Gen. Wood
will survive in the minds of the American
people as the one man above all others
who illustrated in his conduct in Cuba the
truest conceptions which can be entertain
ed of American love of civil liberty and
order.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-11-12
MORE coAL1NG STATIONS.

The report Of Rear Admiral Bradford
on the necessity for adequate coaIing
stations for our warships must be re-
garded as a public document of primo
Importance. It touches the weakest spot
in our naval and commercial policy.
Whether we aspire to become a world
military and naval power, with our pos
sessions extending beyond our own hemi
sphere, or whether the national activity
Is to be confined, as it should be- to the
development of the grand possibilities Of
our position as commercial power, it Is
indispensable that we should better our
present facilities for securing coal sup
plies. All intelligent Americans have
known for years the strangely inadequate
resources which were at our disposal in
securing coal for our steamers away from
our own shores in case of existing war.
But not until the great crisis of the sum-
mer of 1898 came upon us did our people
stop to comprehend fully the significance
Of our situation in this regard Had we
the navy of Britain 1t would avail us
nothing in a continental war which call
ed our ships to foreign waters
Such details as these appear to have
given our imperial authorities but light
concern. We are laying up for ourselves
stores of international trouble by our
most recent political policy in es- aging to
assume the character of a colonial DOW
err But whether we persist in that pol
icy, or whether we merely go forward In
the path Of a conquering commercial ma
ton, depending on the peaceful genius
Of our people and the wonderful resources
of our own wonderful land, we should be
Independent as far as possible of all ma
tons in our supplies Of coal for the use of
our naval vessels.
AS Admiral Bradford points out, we
have the pathetic example Of Admiral
Cervera before US in enabling us to com
prehend the tremendous disadvantage at
which the vessels of any power must be
situated as we are save In the Pacific
ocean. We have fulfilled our duty as the
paramount power on this continent in
such way as to assure the continued
liberties Of the Latin-American races.
But If, In the progress of international
events, we had ever been seriously called
on to defend our character in this regard.
we would not have waited until TODAY
to have brought home to us, as it has
been brought by the report of Admiral
Bradford, what helpless situation we
occupy as a naval power
The most ample resources In the way Of
coalfng stations are at. our disposal for
the seeking of them in South and Central
American waters. We should hasten to
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-11-12

The trend Of current intelligence re-
gardfng the affairs of the Orient clearly
indicates that matters of political, CON-
mercial and territorial concern are rush.
ing toward a crisis of some kind. japan
is FESTIVE. The old-young empire is DIS
posed to resent Russian advancement in
Northern China. Russias designs with
reference to Afghanfstan are g,vlr,v some
trouble to British politicians. The pro-
longed visits Of the repres entaIiv.s Of
China, Russia, France and other = #, mo
interested in the Chinese territory To orr
state department at Washington. couuled
With the very cautious announcements
as to certain pending demands Of our cNn
government are all circumstances which
show the state of International unrest
which marks the Oriental situation.
Thus far we have managed to keep out
Of European entanglements in China.
The indications are not that we will con-
tfnue to do so. So persistent are the
declarations of the press and politicians
cable, that the United States and Eng
land are as one in all commercial and
political policies which affect other ma
tons in China and elsewhere, that it does
not seem at all probable that our ma
tional authorities are adhering too closely
to the policy of non-interference which
has been found in the past to work so
admirably.
Negotiations of some kind are evident
ly afoot on the part Of our state depart
ment concerning the attitude toward
American trade of the European powers
VINO have territorial interests in China.
Indeed there has been some talk, whether
proceeding from the imaginative re-
sources of newspaper correspondents or
not, about an American sphere of in
Iluence In China. We have the right,
and 1t is our duty toward our own mer-
chants and manufacturers, to have our
treaty rights In China respected and
clearly defined with reference to the ag-
gressive disposition of European powers.
Whatever exclusive rights may be pos
sessed in TonGuin and whereabouts by
France, or by England in Shanghai and
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-11-12

secure them. There our most serious ma
donal responsibilities now lie In the
philippines as in Samoa. we are already
In full possession Of the most ample OPP
portunities for coaling our vessels But
untii we are as Well supplied in every
other section of the world 1t will never
be possible to us to- maintain the suprem-
acy in foreign commerce which we are
looking forward to. The construction of a
great navy is under. way. In the life of
this generation we. will have wholly re-
cast our position as a naval power. Let
us see to it, as we progress in that direc-
ton. that we have provided ourselves be-
forehand with the means of making our
naval strength avallabIe in every sec
ton of the world and in every conceiva-
BILE international contingency.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-11-12
THEY HAVE DONE RIGHT.

1t is, indeed, great hardship that our
teachers should be confronted with the
necessity of having to appeal at their
own expense to the courts to compel the
payment of their salaries. Ordinarily it
would seem that some means would be
found to nave the matter in issue deter
mined without placing the teachers in
any such attitude toward the city and its
people. But no ordinary principles of
conduct can be made to apply to any
thing connected with our wonderful local
system.
1t is an entirely reasonable position
which those of the teachers take that
insist that the city authorities should
take the initiative in the matter. The
city attorney is naturally looked to as
the official whose Intervention ought tc
save the teachers the necessity which is
imposed on them. But, as the Gil O b e
looks at the matter, 1t is best all things
considered, that the teachers should act
Independently.
1t is needless to inquire whether Comp
troller McCardy is acting under the adj
vice of the legal department of the city
in the attitude he has assumed. That
gentleman IS to be regarded in all situa-
lions as a law unto himself; and the
probability is that he has acted or
rather withheld action, on his own under
standing of things. We suppose the city
attorney will feel called On to assume
a hostile attitude toward the claims of
the teachers. While case might very
easily be presented to the court by the
city attorney In the relation Of ANXIOUS
curiae, on which a decision could be
easily arrived at, that gentleman, We
presume, prefers to remain at liberty to
urge on the court the view which Mr.
McCardy insists on taking
Whatever the decision of the court may
be the teachers will simply have done
their duty as citizens. The GIobe be-
lieves them to be the victims of Injustice.
as we'll as hardship. Since no action has
been taken to save them either burden.
gard for their own interests, demands
that they shall act, and act promptly. If
they Win they will be under obligation
to no one but themselves. If they fail,
then they will simply have furnished an
other demonstration Of the great need
which exists of a reform in our local
methods Of transacting public business
There is no other course but to sit idly
by and endure the great wrong which is
done them. This they should not do.
The expense of their undertaking will not
be great. Among the great number Of
able lawyers practicing at our bar there
is more than one whose sense of the in
justice done the teachers will lead them
to save the teachers all considerable ex-
pense. Whatever the outcome may be
the teachers will at least have the thanks
of the community that at their own ex-
pense they have secured the settlement
of question which affects not them
alone, but the taxpayers as body.