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The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1901-08-23
PUREl Y PERSONAL.

Miss l.. Mielke returned to the
Point last evening.
Four Sisters of the convent came
mp from the Point today.
Mrs. II. Grunewald returned
from the Point this morning.
Mrs. R. NJ. Miller of Matamoros
returned from the Point today.
Mr.. and Mrs. E. G. Forto have
returned from visit to their ranch
in Hidalgo county.
Edwin Woodhouse is in the city
from Las Tresquilas ranch, where
he has been spending some time.
German Aramburu returned to
Matamoros by yesterdays train
from a business trip to Monterey.
l.. Kowalski, F. Champion, n.
E. Kendall and j. o. Wheeler went
down yesterday for an outiug of a
few days on Padre island.
Mrs. X. Leahy, Miss NJ. Egly
and Miss NJ. Schneider went to the
Point last evening to visit rela-
tives. Mrs. Leahy returned this
morning.
l.. Il. Bates, E. Crockett, the
captain of the schooner Caroline,
Master f. Rlvadulla and brother
were arrivals from the coast this
morning.
Lon Hill, Esq of Beeville arriv
ed by last nights stage, to see
about his rice interests near
Brownsville. He visited the rice
plantation today.
E. r. Jefferds and two sons from
TOluca, HidalgO county, after
spending a day or two in town,
tranSacting business, left today on
their return home.
w. Fl. HearndOn of Houston ar.
rived by the Alice stage last even
ing, and is stopping at the Miller.
Sheriff John CIosner left today
on his return to Hidalgo.
Mrs. C. b. San Roman, with her
niece, Miss Maria Browne, aud the
children of a. a. Browne, ESQ. =,
returned last evening from a visit
of several weeks at her ranch.
Prof Barbour, J. |. Kleiber, l..
Il. Bates, E. Crockett R. Creager,
F. Garriga, Master F. RivadulIa
aud brother and Master Lee Camp
bell We're passengers to the Point
last evening.
The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1901-08-23
800 Reward, 500.

The readers of this paper will be
pleased to learn that that there is at
least one dreaded disease that science
has been able to cure in all its stages
and that is Catarah Halls Catarrh
Cure is the only positive cure now
known to the medical fraternity. Ca
tarrh being a constitutional disease, re-
quiresa constitutional treatment Halls
Catarrh Cure is taken internally, act
ing directly upon the blood and mucous
surfaces of the system, hereby destroy
ing the foundation of the disease, and
giving the patient strength by building
up the constitution and assisting nature
in doing its work. The proprietors
have so much faith in its curative pow
ers, that they offer one Hundred Dol
lars for any case that it fails to cure
Send for list of testimonials.
Address. F. J. CHENEY & Co.,
Toledo, Ohio.
Sold by druggists, 75c
Halls Family Pills are the best.
The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1901-08-23
Educate Your Bowels.

Your bowels can be trained as wen
as your muscles or your brain. Cas-
carets Candy Cathartic train your
bowels to do right. Genuine tablets
stamped c. c. c. Never sold in
bulk. All druggists, Ioc.
The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1901-08-23
GRULLA WHIM.WHAMS
Ell SOlterO Threatens Something
Sensational II the Hot Wealth
er Keeps Up.
Editor HERALD.

Grulla, Texas, Aug. l9.-This
writing letters in hot weather, at
least such hot weather as we've been
having the last few days, is not a
thing of JOY. 1t eonss of being
too conscientious, my writing you
a weekly letter (do | write you a
weekly letterf) as per my promise.
We had little shower on the
l4th., but not of much consequence.
On the 18th. there was a norther,
and the weather become most dis
agreeably hot. The thermometer
at 2:30 p. N. that day went to
103 >, and we suffered. The wind
was dry and hot like that of a
furnace. Only at II or l at night
did it become cool.
We are needing a heavy rain to
make crop Of corn. 1t is now,
especially the smallest, looking
twisted. Cotton is doing better.
A good deal has opened aud some
pioking is going on. One tieRderO
has bought about nine hundred
pounds, which he got at odd inter-
walls.
Mr.. H. +. Hord has been sick
with muscular rheuinatism-quite
sick, indeed. He was in bed for
two weeks, but now he is all right
"a little stiff, but able to get
around
Mrs. Nix has moved into her
house, aud MIR Seabury is having
the old homestead fixed up for his
housekeeping.
Mr.. CalixtO Vale is building
himself a brick house as a perma
nent home. He was one of our
best county clerks. l hope he'll
return 10 the true (red) fold.
Public schools open next month,
and our long holiday is over. There
are some changes to be made, |
hear, in the teachers, but | think
it is only a rumor. We don't get
many months, owing to the num-
Der of communities
That is about all the news--as
news-that can;report. fittings
keep on as dull as now, must take
to iuventing news. Therefore
don't be surprised, if some fine day
you receive budget Of astounding
reports hot weather sometimes
makes one light headed, and if
this confounded heat keeps up, |
renounce all responsibility for
what | may hereafter write.
| have two good things incnbat-
ing, with dim, far off idea of a
third.
Some day, not in the distant
future | shall spring them on an
astounded editor and public. One
which is full-Orbed. glorious, and
ready to burst on an astonished
world, is about certain lawyer
not many miles from the Grulla.
T'other touches my friend the
Englishman, only haven't work
ed up the final catastrophe, and
am puzzling how to bring it to- a
iii conclusion.
| hope You may be grateful to
me, Sir, for this mild hint as to
the future, and not hereafter ac
cuse me of springing things on
you unawareS.
By the way, didn't you, in an
editorial, promise your contribut-
ors box of grapes-or their juicei
Let mine be basket-Cliquot for
preference. Or was it a dream-a
gorgeous dream? FL SOLTERO.
For Over Fifty Years
The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-05-06
GRANDMAMMA'S REMEDY.

The Time When Little Charles Did Noi
 Turn Black in the Face.
 What would the world come to if il
 were not for the leaven of an occasion
 al grandmother? Out on Columbia
 Heights there's family I have in
 mind, who till lately made out as best
 they could without this particular kind
 of leaven There Is one child, a boy \ for whose benefit exclusively the sun I rises and sets. He has always been
 reared in the most approved modern fashion, so that there isn't human be- ing on the block who would not bear up
 if he were transferred to some other sphere. Last summer he fell III with some trifing disease of childhood, and 1 when he recovered the physician ad- vised that he be not unduly excited. l So he played with papa's silk hat and rubbed it all ways, and papa dared not 1 interfere, lest little Charles should scream, hold his breath, turn black In the face and fall to the floor almost un- conscious, for that is what little Charles did when he was unduly excl- ted. He played with Mammals chiffon toque, too, and mamma almost unduly excited him over that. There were so many things that had to be given to little Charles to keep him from fatal exxcmement that the house began at last to look as if a cyclone had struck 1t.
 This spring grandmamma on the ma ternal side arrived for a visit. Little Charles was delighted with the toys she brought him. All went well for a few days Then mamma gave lunch con in grandmamma' honor and little Charles, of course, gave such threaten ing signs of one of his spells that he was allowed to come into the room. He fingered everything and tasted eve rything. Then he took a fancy to grandmamna s brooch. Grandmamma said firmly that he couldn't have 1t. Little Charles lifted up his voice and began. Mamma sprang up in great alarm. Grandmamma rose also, but calmly:
 "Sit down, Mary" she commanded, "and attend to your guests"
 Then she reached out for little Charles, who was now turning black in the face and with the skill which comes only with practice, tucked him under her arm. face to the fear.
 Ladies'" said she, kindly excuse me for moment"
 And there descended on the knicker- | lockers of little Charles a number of | well-directed spanhs.
 Now, Master Charles" said she, Ego | upstairs and think yourself oyer.''
 Little Charles went, and apparently | his medita tions were valuable, though | think he stood up to make them. Any way he can stand all manner of excite nent these days,-'The Woman About | Town" in the Washington Post.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-05-06
THE LATE BISHOP OF LoNDor

THE LATE BISHOP OF LONDON ] He was now, at the age of thirty, one \ of the most individuaE which OK | ford, then abounding in men of charac- I ter, could offer to the observation of a
 visitor. He was already one of the fea-
 lures of the society: he was perhaps
 more frequently and freely discussed
 than any other Oxonian of his years.
 He was too strong man to be univer-
 sally approved of; the dull thought him paradoxical, the solemn thought him l flippant; already there was the whisper
 abroad that he was mot a spiritually
 minded man" But the wise and the
 good, if they sometimes may have doubted his gravity, never doubted his
 sincerity; nor wouldli ' there be many
 ready to denounce their own apprecia-
 ton of good company by declaring his
 conversation anything but most attrac-
 tive.
 It was soon after he became priest
 Tt was in the early summer of 1874
 that first met Creighton. was on a
 I
 who were then residing in the suburbs of Oxford, in Bradmore Road. To lun- cheon on Sunday came little party of distinguished guests-Henry Smith and his sister, Max Muller, Bonamy Price q think) and lately Mr and Mrs. Creigh- ton; for he had married two years be- fore this. Much the youngest person present, I kept an interested silence most of the talk, indeed, being fitted for local consumption, and, to one who knew little of Oxford, scarcely intelligl- ble. During the course of the meal, at which Creighton scintilated with easy mastery, I caught his hawks eye fall upon me once or twice; and when it was over, and the ladies had left us, he quilted his own friends, and coming over to me proposed walk In the gar den. I cannot say that this brilliant clergyman, of doubtful age and intim- idating reputation, was quite the com pa.nion I should have ventured to choose. But we descended on to the greensward: and as through that long golden afternoon we walked up and down the oblong garden I gave myself more and more unreservedly to the charm of my magnetic companion, to his serious wit and whimsical wisdom to the directness of his sympathy and to the firmness of his grasp of the cord of life. I was conscious of an irresist, ible intuition that this was one of the | best as we'll as one of the most re- men whom I was ever likely to meet; and our friendship began in that hour.-Edmund Goose in the At antic Monthly.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-05-06
A. QUEER TRIBE OF sAvAGEs

I suppose they were a fishing people living so near the gulf. l found them essentially agricultural. cultlvatine corn. beans, peas and squashes, and To- eating their farms according to the ca price of the floods They professed to be inimical to the Mexican government and to be anxious to move to the Uni- ted States.
 The Cocopas are of fine physique, and the men are tall and robust. I measured one, and found him to stand six feet three inches. Their skins are dark. They have very large feet nota- ble for the fact that the middle toes are invariably the longest. I saw the big fellow measured run bare-footed over apatch of sharp stubble left by the stalks of the cat-tail flag, which had been burned. His feet were not hurt in the least.
 It was common to see the men come to our camp fire and poke the coals with their naked toes. One fellow had thus burned all his toe-nails black, al- though his feet were otherwise unin- jured.
 The toes of these people are remark able for their nimbleness. I saw one man pick up red-hot coal with his foot to light cigarette. Another, walking along the road, thus clutched stick which he wished to use for a cane. gave child lump of sugar. He dropped it. but the nimble toes caught it and brought 1t to his hand.
 Upon the death of one of the tribe his kins men all cut their hair to shortness proportionate to the relation ship off each to the deceased. The property of the dead man is given to different members of the tribe, never to the relatives. This is to prevent dis putes as to ownership. The house having been deprived of the valuables. the corpse is permitted to remain with in while fuel Is collected and a fire kindled underneath. Thus each mans house becomes his funeral pyre.
 All the Cocopas paint their faces and are more or less tattoed. The fore heads of the men are tattooed with cir cles or sigzag marks Upon marrying, the women must be tattooed with vari- ous designs.
 When Cocopa girl Is ready to take a husband hole is dug in the ground, and in it is built fire, kept burning
The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-05-06
FISHING IN THE POTOMAC.

An old fisherman, who has followed
 the business for many years, says that oysters and fish are getting very scarce In the Potomac river and it is his be-
 lief that some thing will have to be done to protect them. The laws on the
 statute books of Maryland and Vir-
 ginia, he says, afford Potomac river
 products no protection whatever Many people say the spring fishing sea
 son is backward this year, but this vet
 eran fisherman says poor results afe
 due to the scarcity of fish. Years ago,
 he said, fish and oysters were plentiful. { Fishermen on the Potomac river al-
 ways did well with their nets. Now,
 he says, there are so many pound nets
 from Alexandria to the ocean that it is
 hard for the fish to escape them.
 Something, he thinks, should be done
 to prevent this wholesale slaughter of
 the fish. SO that the good seasons of years will return. Terrapin and ducks,
 he says; promise to become extinct un-
 less some protective measure is adopt ed. The spring fishing season has opened, and the big seines are now in operation. Thus far the catch has been anything but large, although there has been a fair supply from the Carolina waters
 Captain Faunce is operating the shore known as "Passapatanza" this year. This is the Virginia fishing shore farthest from this city. Twenty
 men and five hundred fathoms of net are employed "Passapatanza' is fshed early in the season. the chief catch consisting of rock fish and perch, but at this season shad and herring are the principal product. Windmill Point" is the next shore on the Virgin ia side of the river, and 1t Is considered one of the best for shad and herring. R. A. Golden, who is fishing the shore now, employs forty men, several horses and uses steam power in hauling one thousand fathom net Ballenger & Gibson are fishing what Is known as the Gums" a famous place for rock and perch, although a few shad and herring are caught there. Three miles to the north, MT. Waller operates net of one thousand fathoms with forty men and about six horses. This shore Is noted for the big catches of herring early in the season. "Freestone Point" is ten miles away and this shore is be- ing fished by Ballenger & Gibson, who use two hundred fathoms of seine. Perhaps the most important fishery on the Virginia side of the river is Stony Point" where MT. Neitzey uses steam power to haul sixteen hundred fathoms of seine. Seventy-f1ve men are em-j 4 ployed at this shore. Two hauls day are made, and q steam tug is constant ly employed to haul the fish away. On the Maryland side of the river there are not so many fishing shores, and the nets are not very lengthy ones. Be- sides these nets there are small seines in the numerous creeks on both sides of the river, besides the nu- merous stationary nets, so that the shad and herring have no easy time i reaching the spawning grounds within the district, where they are properly | Washington Star.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-05-06

THE FIRST HEAVIES' BIG GUN
 We suspect that nothing more is needed to insure the contribution of what money is needed for providing the monument of the First Heavy Ar tillery than a general understanding of what has been done and what is pro posed, and-among the older men-a calling up of memories of the time of the civil war. So here is something by way of reminder.
 First as to what has been done: The regiment used, with much satisfaction to itself and disaster to the enemy, some thirteen-inch mortars which, in their day, were considered the greatest things going. These big guns were as sociated with the regiment in the minds of all who knew it in the service after they were procured One of them is at the service of the regiment now. It will cost about thirty five hundred dollars to provide suitable pedestal and set up the field piece as a lasting memorial The state has appropriated a thousand dollars towards the cost. Part of the remaining twenty-five hun dred dollars has been subscribed, but most of 1t remains to be raised. So much for the recent and merely formal history.
 When we ask why the money should be given it lis easy to answer that by reason of being formed early and hav- ing an abnormal taste for fighting this regiment of artillery obtained pecu- liar record, part of which has especial local interest. The first company in it was the famous war company of the Hartford City Guard. The regiment itself was the first three years regi- ment accepted for the civil war. In 1863 the adjutant-general of the state said in his report that the First Heavy Artillery, for conspicuous services at the places named, had been authorized, in any order, to have the names: Siege of Yorktown, Hanover Court House, Chickahomlny, Gaines Mills and Malvern, enblazoned on its col ors." He said further: ~
 The high character of the regiment acquired by arduous services in the field has been so we'll sustained that it Is ranked by competent military judges as the best volunteer regiment of heavy artillery in the field, and is con- sidered equal in all respects to any reg iment of the same arm in the regular service, and model for imitation.
 This record did not suffer afterwards.
 To return to the thirteen-inch mor- tars. They were to the artillery of that time what the thirteen-inch rifle is now. They were so much heavier than anything else in use, that moving them was a difficult and sometimes almost an impossible task, and because of all this and other peculiarities the soldiers were proud of them and proud of hav- ing them. To set one of them up to commemorate the memory of the regi- ment is to choose the most suitable l monument possible, and to appeal most |
The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-05-06

With the revival of Bicycle riding aS
 sport. cofnes a demand for better
 class of wheels than has been called for during the past two years. ~ X Sales are now running more lareeJy on Bicycles costing from forty to fkfyN dollars, with many buyers at still higliA Ter prices. The Hygienic cushion sd X frame models come in for share of attention from those who care more for comfort than high speed. They ars especially appreciated on our somewhat rough pavernents. N
 The NATIONAL Bicycles cover thsE range of models most in favor. with tliaf Roadster at Forty, the Special at Fifty. Racer at Fifty-five, and Chainless at \ Sixty-five Dollars. shall be glad to have you call and try one on the rond! There is something about them that cannot be fully explained A trial denl4 onstrates their superiority.
 NDINNC 7 Nnu<nY. cyA
The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-05-06

Burgess woke up one morning and
 found himself famous. The hope. that
 the same good fortune may happen to Crowninshield, who is one of the most
 popular and able yacht designers of the
 Hub. Like Burgess, until he designed
 the Puritan, Crowninshield' experience
 has been with racing craft and cruisers
 of modest dimensions In his concep-
 ton of the Independence he has made a daring advance. Taking what yachts
 men term the scow type of moderate size, he has carried out the principle in the Independence, a boat of nearly ninety feet on the water line. How this audacious step may answer re-
 mains to be seen. The originator speaks
 of it with, becoming nodesty and hope
 fulness. Theoretically everything Is
 lovely. The form of the Independence
 is easy to drive through the water.
 There is nothing to stop her, once she gets started. So long as the water Is smooth she will be like witch. What she will do in a heavy sea is problem atical. She is of a trifle heavier con- struction than the Constitution. To the tyro, however, she looks fragile. It looks as though the apparently fimsy framework could never support the hollow bronze trough which constituted her fin, and contains some eighty tons of nickel steel, which has double the strength of ordinary steel and that they braced scientifically with clamps, stringers, braces and struts. The plat ing below the water-line is of manganese bronze; above the water line the plat- ing is os steel The deck is of steel plating, where the heaviest strain will come; the rest being of aluminium; the whole is to be covered with painted canvas. Steel spars and hollow spars of wood will be provided and whichever happen 10 be ready first will be used for the trial spins.
 The Independence will be watched closely. She Is an unknown quantity, but will certainly be very fact under certain conditions. Boston has never been so enthusiastic over 9 boat since Puritan showed her inettlc, They wish | Lawson (who by the by, has not yet | seen his boat. the very best of luck, Boston wishes to- see Bristol taken down q peg.