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The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1902-07-18

Some time ago told you OF the
narrow escapes of my friend leo
flo Garcia. Well be has had a
narrower one, which | must tell:
Week before last he WAS helping
drive and pen some 800 head OF
cattle that were sold to Mexican
buyer from San AntoA 10. 1t was
near Don Eduardo Narea's po-
trero. The cattle were corraled
when, for some unknown cause
they stampeded. TeoflON who
was in front, Immediately shiNned
up a slender tree to the top. This
tree was Immediately broken, and
Teoflo was hurled quite distance
through the air and alighted on
the other side of a fence, just
behind a post. The maddened
brutes trampled the fences fiat,
but this post remained. TeOiIO
and another man put themselves
behind the post and, thus saved
their lives. The post caused the
cattle to divide and the two men,
by waving their hats and yelling,
prevented the cattle from crowding
up aud knocking them down.
Further down the callejOn, where
it was wider, another man saved
his life by jumping mp and down,
yelling and waving his hat.
None of the animals were killed
aud only three lost their horns.
Two saddles hing on the fence
were trampled so deep and hard in
the sandy soil. they had to be
pried out by crowbars. If it had
not been for the curious Mexican
habit of coraling their stock every
month to gentle them, the animals
wonld not have paid any attention
to the men and would have killed
them sure.
The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1902-07-18

REFERRING to The HERALD IS recent
remark TO the effect that the late
Congressman Crian was self-made
mar, the CuerO Star says The
HERALD is very much mistaken,
as Mr.. Grain was man Of finished
classical education, having grad
uated from St. Francis Xavier
college of New York. The HERALD
is we'll aware that Mr.. Grain was
past master of the classics, and
also remembers, since the Star
recalls the fact that he was a grad
nate of the said college, yet it
still has a persistent recollection
of having read somewhere that
Mr.. Grains first knowledge of
Latin was gained with his book
tied to the handle Of plowshare
as he traversed the field behind it.
Not that such a thing was meant
20 be in any way derogatory to the
memory of the lamented statesman,
however, for this paper has the
greatest respect for the man who
strives to gain an education for
himself, despite adverse circum-
stances.
The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1902-07-18
GruIIa Whim-W hams.
Editor HERALD:

Editor HERALD:
Grulla, Texas, July 14.-No
cbangein the weather; the Their
mometer ranges in the daytime
from 81 to 90 Q. with great
regularity. Now and then clouds
gather, lightning flashes, and
thunder rolls, but the rain falls
not.
Several weeks ago there was
quite an unusual series of sunsets
and afterglows of vivid yellow.
[ intended to speak of them but
forgot. have an idea that
Mount Pelee had something to do
with it.
We had most abundant crop
of lnezquites, and now are having
a second crop equally as abundant,
if not more so. And there seems
a prospect of a third crop! is this
a sign of a great drouth7 Back of
US everything is drying up. The
browse is getting short, too, and
even the nopal is beginning to
wither and look yellow.
On last Thursday, Friday and
Saturday was held the examination
of Mr.. Palafox's private school
for boys at this ranch. | attend
ed and was very much pleased.
Mr.. PaIafOx is fine teacher, and
the boys have made great advances.
The school numbers some IS boys,
big aud little. In the evenings,
the boys, who were organized IN
companies were put through the
drill aud manual of arms aud did
surpI isIngIy we'll. They were III
uniform-red trousers aud blue
jackets, with wooden mnskets.
They drilled both by word OF COM
mand and by trumpet and drum.
Large numbers are leaving this
section for the cotton picking.
Some thirty have already left this
place, and daily squads of e or
six are leaving. Soon II HE but
the old men, aud the youAg boys,
and the women will be left. There
is no work here aud no hopes of a
second planting, which accounts
for this exodus.
The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1902-07-18

The citizens of Norfolk, Vir-
ginia have presented "a handsome
sword as a testimonial of admlra-
ton to Major LittletOn I. w. Wal
Ter Of Samar fame. 1t is Lot to be
presumed that the act of Major
Waller 10 having a dozen natives
killed without a trial called forth
such a testimonial, but it was
most probably intended more
as balm for his injured feelings
at having been subjected to a trial
by court martial on account OF
that act.
The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1902-07-18

Correspondence solicited on all mat
ters Of local interest. or Of iaterest TO
the people of Southwest Texas. Each
communication must be accompanied
5y the name of its author, not for pub
Gication (unless so directed), but as a
guarantee of good faith, and when by
request anonymous signatures appear
to such communications the right is re-
served to disclose the name OF the
Rriter should a necessity arise for
such disclosure
Subscribers who do not receive their
>dper regularly are requested to notify
this office and the matter will receive
prompt attention and insure better ser
vice thereafter.
The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1902-07-18

exodus for the cotton picking keeps
up, there will be no use to do any
thing until September or October
| doubt if I'll be here TO report
the fight. l think of moving some
where else, in this county, and any
Whim- Whams will have to go by
another name.
The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1902-07-18
REMEDY FOR BOIL WEEvIL.

Mr.. j. NJ. Brownson, the we'll
known banker of Victoria, Texas,
is a gust at the Bristol. He told a
representative of The Post that
business in his town was on a
prosperous basis and that crops
were satisfactory. "COttOn is all
right, so far" said be, "and the
boil weevils are not doing much
harm" When asked i, the farmers
of his vicinity had yet suggested a
remedy for,the weevil, Mr.. Brown
son said: eyes, sir. We have
discovered a remedy-a sovereign
one-whieh | can heartily recon-
mend" (The reporter drew forth
a pencil and tablet and waited ex-
pectautlJ for the prescription, and
the gente mau remsrked): Take
a good, 1 out stick, catch the wee.
vii and beat his head off. -
Houston Post.
The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1902-07-18

| do rot know of any reason why
the democratic party should be
confident Of winning in this
election. That they will cut down
the republican majority in the
House, quite believe, but nothing
else.
Our party is not yet in harmony.
If Bryan is to be muzzled, so must
Cleveland. The fact that the latter
was twice victorious does not
condone his disruption of our
party. We are allowing ourselves
to be too much governed by what
is called conservative business
interest. This, in plain words,
means New England and New
York. Taking III view the ter
ritory, climate, products, and
people, it is patent to all save the
wllfully blind that the West and
the South are to be the ruling fac
tors in the Reptile. 1t is then the
height Of policy to ally ourselves
with the West, and let the Yankees
slide. The North has had The
shrewdneSS To fOrpSee this and to
get the good will OF the West. But
the West like the Suath is an
agricultural section, and this leans
more to democratic doctrines, and
her natural ally is the South.
Nothing but our blind, silly be-
lief in the growth of Northern de-
mocracy has prevented us from
seeing this. Don't let us keep up
this deluSion. The North is a nest
of prOtectiOnist (nOt that | do not
think moderate amount of pro-
lection is bad thlng) manufactur-
ing and commercial states, and any
alliance with them is a delusiOn
and snare.
We should Try and ally ourselves
with the West aud reserve our eff
forts Tor 1904. | believe the btne-
ficiaries Of protection have gone
mad; and | more firmly believe
that 1903 will be year of panics !;
aud that from these two sources
we will win in 1904 But fear the
gift bearing NOrtherners.
Ell SOLTERO.
The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1902-07-18

MRS. ROOSEVELT was refused a
seat in the pew of an elderly lady
at an Oyster Bay church because
the president had offended the
nephew of the elderly dame. Pol
tiles even invade the churches.
The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1902-07-18

There is a rumor that the county
convention of both Blues and Reds
will not be held till very late.
Everything, AS yet, is very Ian
guild, politically speaking. If the
The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1902-07-18

CIVIL service reform continues
to do service for political stump
speeches.
The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1902-07-18
FRIDAY, JULY IS, 1902 J..

THEY are calling it the Hanuama
canal now.
The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1902-07-18

How Are Your KIdneysS
or Hobbs Sparagus Pills cure all kidney ills. sam
-lR free. Add Sterling Remedy Co. Chicago or ny
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-03-27
CONFERENCE ON Gu.
BAN RECIPROCITY.

At conference of the republican
members at Washington, on the even.
ing of March IS, and upon the vote on
the proposition for a reciprocal agree.
ment with Cuba, the beet sugar men
were overwhelmingly defeated. The
proposition of the ways and means
committee was that this country
should reduce the rates on Cuban sug
ar and tobacco 20 per cent, and in re.
turn Cuba should admit all United
States products at lower tariff and
pass the United States immigration
laws. The Sibley amendment was
adopted, which merely limits this re
ciprocity with Cuba to December /
1908.
Representative Lacey advocated the
reciprocity plan, with the suggestion
that the farmers of the west would be
great gamers by it's adoption.
The agreement of the conference is
regarded as a substantial endorsement
of the Presidents policy and indicates
that Mr.. Roosevelt has the entire con.
fidence of the party that elected him,
as well as the good will of a majority
of the people without regard to party
affiliations.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-03-27
PASSING OF THE PASSENGER
PIGEON.

The American pathological society
after the most strenuous efforts, has
been able to secure but twelve speci.
mems of the wild or passenger pigeon,
and it may be safely announced that
the bird is practically extinct, in the
United States. The last great flight of
the wild pigeons over this part of the
country was in the year 1873. Prior to
that time the pigeons came in immense
numbers in the spring and fall of the
year. They had roosts in the forests
south of this city, in Green and Keo.
kuk townships, and gathered in such
great numbers as to break down the
branches of the trees upon which they
roasted. In the early morning they
would fly across the river to the oak
groves north of the city and there they
would fall easy victims to the hunters
who were acquainted with their habits.
The wild pigeons are gone now and
those who have become citizens here
since their departure can scarcely con.
ceive of the immense numbers of these
birds that furnished not only sport but
excellent food to the early settlers.
The wild ducks and geese are yet in
evidence, but the pigeons are practic-
ally extinct.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-03-27
Mr.. BRYAN AS AN AuTocRAr.

Mr.. Bryan will not add anything
good to his reputation nor will he com
mend himself to a large and respect
able number of the democratic party,
by his attack on Mr.. Cleveland, whom
he denominates as traitor, migrate
and political nonentity. The attack
was made or called out by an utter
ance of Mr.. Cleveland to the effect that
the time is fast approaching when
our grand old party will shake off the
dreadful dreams that have afflicted it,
and fight again, as of old, the glorious
battles of pure democracy"
Mr.. Bryan seems to have assumed
for himself that he is one of the
dreadful dreams" that are to be shak-
en- off, and in the spirit of an autocrat
issues decree which in effect means:
that no man shall be nominated for
President by the democrats except
that man be endorsed by Mr. Bryan.
The fight is among democrats, but
republicans cannot help observing the
injustice and autocratic methods
adopted to rule the democratic party
or to ruin it, Mr.. Bryan has been CIV
en- fair chance; he was twice nomi-
mated and twice defeated. Mr.. Cleve-
land. was twice elected, and in spirit
of fairness he should be given at least
the privilege to speak as a represent
alive democrat. This would be the
case in the republican party, but mod
ern democracy. inoculated as it is
with populism, is an unknown guam
titY
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-03-27
THE AGRICULTURAL DEPART.
MENT.

The constant growth of the work
performed under direction of the sec.
rotary of agriculture shows that the
comparatively new department was de.
manded by the expanding country and
its agricultural enterprises. The men
who have been selected were we'll cho-
sen and among those who have served
with great credit is Hon. James Will
son who is the present secretary and
an Iowa man.
Agents of the government under the
direction of the agricultural depart.
ment are in all lands where civilization
reigns gathering facts and looking for
useful fruits and vegetables that may
find congenial home in our own coun-
try. The department has introduced a
species of corn in the arid districts of
the west, that is well adapted to stand
drouth; tea farm is in operation in
South Carolina where it is being dem.
onstrated that an excellent article of
tea may be raised in the United States
at a cost far below that which we pay
for the best tea from Japan and China.
New agricultural possibilities are be.
ing developed in Florida in the cultiva-
ton of cassava a nutritious and very
desirable product that is said to yield
more starch per acre than any other
plant known. Its valuable parts are
its roots which constitute an excellent
food for fattening cattle, sheep and
hogs.
These are but examples of what has
been accomplished by the agricultural
department and the work has but fair
ly begun
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-03-27
PHASES OF cRIMINALlrY.

1t is a curious study, in going back
into history, to observe ,he develop.
ment of crime and % see how Grimm
al practices change and form them
selves in line with the inventions and
methods of succeeding centuries. Men
in all ages are moved by the common
impulses out of which grow outbreaks
against the rules of society. Avarice
Is the foundation of all crimes that in
volve robbery or the wrongful taking
away of the property of another The
human passions are the prolific source
of more than one-half the offenses in
the great chapter of criminology. The
phases ofthese crimes differ only in en-
vironments. Highway robbery as it ex-
listed in England two or three hundred
years ago, has been abolished, not on
account Of the severity of the laws,
nor because bad men do not exist, but
because the country has become more
thickly settled, stage coaches have
passed away and are succeeded by
steam cars. Train robberies succeed
the ordinary stage coach attacks Men
no longer travel with large sums of
money on their persons, but are pro-
vided with letters of credit, that can
be used only by the one to whom the
letter is given or by his order. The
opportunities for robbery are lessened
by the progress of civilization and this
progress has prompted the evilly in
clined to invent new and more ingeni-
Gus schemes for fleeing the unwary.
The race, or competition between
those who would preserve their hard
Garnaa dallax2 ana thasA p.ha sLa.,lA
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-03-27
RUMoRs OF PEACE IN SOUTH
AFRICA.

London is agitated and hopeful that
peace is about to be made with the
Boer authorities who are said to be on
the way to meet Lord Kitchener. The
universal opinion is that the prospects
for peace are brighter than they have
been for many days. The Brussels
papers commenting on the question
say that the move on the part of the
Boer President and cabinet is in re-
Spouse to fresh British oyertures for
peace made out of gratitude for the
release of General Methuen, and pre-
dict that these overtures will lead to
no result unless Beor independence
is conceded. There seems to be some
thing unusual in the situation. King
.EdNara has declared that peace must
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-03-27

shed their blood and secured great
victory; the field is Helena Arkan-
sas, and the Thirty-third, Twenty
ninth and Thirty-sixth Iowa reg
iments were conspicuous in this
engagement where the combined
forces Of Price, Marmaduke and
Shelby. commanded by Holmes, and
numbering over $4,000 men, attempt
ed to capture Helena, and a force of
$500 union troops commanded by Gen
eral Prentiss The result was COM
plete union victory. 1t would be an
act OF justice if the deeds of these
Iowa regiments were commemorated
by enduring monuments. This battle
took place July 4, 1868, and won east
ern Arkansas for the union.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-03-27
$4,000 RECOMMENDED.
burlington Hawk-Eye.)

The Iowa house appropriation com.
mittee has a comprehensive idea of
the greatness of the state. At yester.
days session it recommended for pas
sage the bill appropriating $150,000 for
the Iowa exhibit at the Louisiana pur.
chase exposition at st. Louis in 1908.
This amount is none too large to prop
erly set before the people of the coun-
try the advantages, Importance and
progressiveness of the great Hawk-Eye
state. In the past quarter of a CEN
fury Iowa has made tremendous
strides to the front among the Ameri.
can states. She now stands promi-
nent with the leaders. Her sons are
among the nations most cherished
and valued councillors. Her reputation
as an agricultural state is unexcelled.
Her people are honored as Iowan's not
only in the United States, but all over
the world. The fact that man comes
from Iowa gives him good standing
Everywhere. More has been said in
complimentary way about Iowa than.
OF any other state in the union, and de.
servedly so.
1t is exceedingly appropriate, there.
| fore, that Iowa present herself at the
coming exposition, of which she is so
important part, in such a manner as
will rebound to the high credit with
which she is blessed throughout the
land. The sum recommended by the
house committee is, if anything, barely
adequate to do justice to the occasion.
| The Legislators should take heed of
the broad Interpretation by the com.
mittee of Iowa's standing in the ma.
ton, and adopt the bill unanimously.
Any other course, resulting in small.
err appropriation, would be a disgrace
/ and an injury to the commonwealth,
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-03-27
win them by stealth, is about evenly

win them by stealth, is about evenly
balanced.
1t has been thus through all the cen.
turtles, as recorded by historians, phi.
losophers and poets. The phases OF
crimes as recorded by Herodotus con.
tain some details that exhibit such de.
pravlty that only a dead language can
be employed in making the record
Crime is not product of civilization
buta concomitant; crime has common
incentive but has different methods of
expression varying according to envir-
onments. Avarice and passion are the
incentives of almost all crimes, to
which is to be added spirit of adven.
ture, on the part of the criminal. There
are crimes that seem to be the out
come of peculiar sort of culture and
are regarded as novelties in criminol-
ogy but deeper study into human ex-
perience shows that the lowest depths
of degradation were traversed by the an
clients. st. Paul did not hesitate for
choice of words in denouncing the IL
centiousness of the age in which he
lived. 1t is safe to say that crime ex-
presses itself as we'll as it can, accord.
ing to the conditions that surround it..
AS an example of the horrible tortures
of conscience with sort of base love
toward the victim, the case of Bill
Sykes as delineated by Dickens, will
stand in all ages in the literature of
criminology as masterpiece of de-
scription. The author has accurately
depicted the thoughts, the hopes, the
fears of the murderer, who at last is
drawn back to the scene of his crime
there to suffer.
The case of Judas Iscariot, the arch
criminal of EARTH is an example of
crime that seems to have no recon-
pense nor terms of adjudication. 1t is
a crime that has no prescribed penalty
but is involved in such horror that we
shrink from delving into it's mysteries.
Crime has it's periods; it comes in
waves, and although it never dies out,
yet it has it's full tide and in sense
its ebb and flow. There occurs a peri
cd of wife murder, each horrible affair
succeeding the other in rapid success
sion. Then a period of the poisoning
of husbands. There appears now to be
a period of revolving crime. 1t is not en-
tirely new phase of criminality but a
recurrence ofthat which was SO sound
ly denounced by the apostle to the
Gentiles. Swift and sure punishment
according to law will modify if it will
not entirely cure the evil.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-03-27
FARMING OR GARDENING IN CIT
les

An organization has been effected in
Philadelphia, known as the Vacant
Lots Cultivation association, and it
has published it's fifth annual report
of its work. The report shows that
by making use of vacant lots which
otherwise would have been overgrown
with weeds, the association had in
cultivation no less than 632 gardens
and the product of these was worth
over 100000.
This is an application of the the
DRY and plans of Mayor Pingree of
Detroit, which was simply to grow po-
tatoes. The Philadelphia plan is to
cultivate all kinds of vegetables. AS
a rule, the owners Of vacant lots will
freely contribute the use of their
grounds to worthy, INDECENT and indus
trious persons, who will use their best
efforts to get all they can out of the
soil and all they produce is to be their
own.
This leads to the observation that
in Ottumwa there are many vacant
lots owned by charitable persons who
would gladly give the use of such lots
to those who will cultivate them.
There are many poor families who
would be pleased to have such an OPP
portunity and all that is required is
for some responsible association to
bring the plan into effective operation.
1t is better to have the vacant lots
cultivated and made into green GASES
d,iiiaa tho si1mnnr than to lat thana.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-03-27
MONUMENTS OF VICTORY.

The Iowa house on Tuesday passed
the Vicksburg monument bill bya unan-
imous vote and it will no doubt pass
the senate. The bill appropriates
$150,000 for Iowa monuments on the
Vicksburg field. OF this $4,000 is to
be expended during the biennial peri
cd. Iowa soldiers were conspicuous
on this field and it is but right that
their services should be recognized in
an enduring manner. There is anoth-
an Aald Of hanoe Whare Iowa soldiers