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The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1903-08-15
NOTICE OF MEETING
OF STOCKHOLDERS.
BROWNSVILLE, TEXAS.

Office Of St Louis, Brownsville &
Mexico Ry, Co., Corpus Christi, Texas
Notice Is hereby given that a special
stockholders meeting Is called for Sept
p, 1898, at the temporary Of
fees Of this company at Corpus
Christi, Texas, FOR the purpose of au-
thoTizinC an increase of the capital stock
to a total Of rhree Million Eight Hundred
and Fifty Thousand 8, $50, OO0l Dollars
Also Tor the purpose of authorizing the
board OF directors to file an amendment.
or amendments, to its present charter
providing Tor the extension Of its main
line from point al or near Sintou. in
San Patriclo county, through Refugio.
Victoria, Calhoun, jackson. Wharton.
Matagorda, Brazorio and Fort Bend
counties to the city of Houston. in
harris county; with a branch from said
extended main line from point not
more than SIX miles distant from Che
mango, IN Brazorio county. to the CITY
OF Galveston, IN Galveston coun-
~ Also for a branch from its
present main line at Kingsville
IN NueceS county, southwest throupb
Hldslgo county TO Il point sixty miles
distant therefrOm in Starr county
Attest: URIAH LOTT.
CAESAR KLEBERG,
Secr5t3ry.
The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1903-08-15
Agricultural Mechanical College Of Texas

archaeological College o. Tuition Necessary
College $4,000 Labor fnnd for needy students
L. Applicants is with
examination capable Large additions equipment Military
training
AGRICULTURAL DEPARTMENT.
Lectures laboratory and experimental work agriculture hOr-
cnGre nsbanGy daryng veterinary agricultural
chemistry, and entomology.
ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT.
Courses in civil, railroad, mechanical electrical and sanitary
engineering and architecture. Manual training for teachers
TEXTILE SCHOOL
Four years engineering Students received next
GENERAL SUBJECTS
Thorough training English History Economics Mathematics,
German French Spanish Physics Botany Chemistry and Geology
Technical required of all students For catalogues address
a. Baker, Secretary, College Station.
DAVID F. HoUsToN, L. L. D.,
The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1903-08-15
ETIQUETTE IN MEXICO.

Ladies do not attend funerals.
The hostess is served first.
The bridegroom purchases the
brides trousseau.
Gentlemen speak first when pass
ing lady acquaintance on the
street.
The sofa is the seat of honor, and
a guest waits to be invited to &C.
cupy it.
When Mexican speaks to you
of his home ne refers to it as ''your
house"
When you move into new local
ity it is your duty to make the first
neighborhood calls.
When friends pass each other on
the street without stopping they say
adios (goodby).
Daily inquiry is made for a sick
friend, and cards are left or the
name written in a book with the
porter.
Dinner calls are not customary,
but upon rising from the table the
guest thanks his host for the enter
tainment.
Mexican gentlemen remove their
hats as scrupulously upon entering
a business office as in a private resi-
dence.
After a dance the gentleman re-
turns his partner to her seat beside
her parents or chaperon and at once
leaves her Modern Mexico.
-Radium emits excessively minute
corpuscles with such immense
velocity that the energy of single
millogram of them represents about
three and a half million foot tons.
The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1903-08-15
TEACHERS WANTED

We need at once a few more Teachers
for Fall schools Good positions are he
ing filed daily by Us. We are receiving
more calls this year than ever before
Schools aud colleges supplied with Tea
cheers free of cost. Enclose stamp for
reply
AMERICAN TEACHERS AssOCIATI0E
J. J GRAHAM, LII D., Manager.
l52-l5I Randolph Building
Memphis, Tenn
The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1903-08-15
MexicO's Monetary System.
The Dilemma of Her Financiers.
Suggestions for Permanent
Relief.

Mexico has the ability, the mate
rial, progressive president, and
surely, with an intelligent and ener-
getic minister of finance she can
perfect an evolment of this plan
within a very short time.
Some such move is the urgent
need of Mexico today. No doubt
there will be some old fogies who
will call it a crime to supplant the
dear old eagle dollars, (dear 10 all
Mexicans), with a better one; one
that is worth one hundred cents on
the dollar, gold standard) instead
of one worth only thirty-fve or for
ty cents.
TO do this Mexico must secure a
credit from some source, of say from
fifty to one hundred million dollars
in gold for her treasury. This
amount need not be required all at
once, only as necessary for redemp-
ton payments of the new issues of
currency, which would save some
accruing interest.
To obtain and secure this amount,
Mexico must resort to the issue of
bonds and sell for gold to either
foreign or domestic creditors; pre-
ferably domestic by all odds, as a
nation is in duty bound for its own
interest and prosperity in matter
of so much importance to favor first
its own people.
There is but little doubt that
Mexico could replenish her treasury
with any quantity of gold merely by
the issue of five, ten and twenty
year bonds to her own people in
denominations Of from $50 to $1,000,
bear lg a fair rate of interest.
To do this the government would
have to thoroughly advertise the
scheme before her people, rich and
poor, assuring them of its safe in
vestment. There is no doubt in the
world but that more than a million
of her people would be glad to pur-
chase these available bonds with
their small or large boarded treas
sure, which now lie hidden and
useless to themselves and friends.
Guarantee them of its safe keeping
and a little accruing interest semi
annually and they will be quick to
catch on.
Anyone acquainted with the char
acter, especially of the very old and
apparently poor people in Mexico.
knows their propensity to hoard
gold, and there are thousands such
people. l have not the least doubt
but that if an open and well under
stood policy was inaugurated by the
government not only one. but many
million dollars of gold could be
raised to replenish the treasury
within a few months from the small
as well as large capitalists.
Now | will come to the most i'm
portant part and the practical work
ing out of this scheme, wherein, as
is sometimes said. lies "the milk in
the cocoanut." Everybody knows
that Mexico has her hundreds Of
millions Of eagle dollars scattered
all over the world. But for the i'm
mediate present l will leave this
phase Of the subject to its fate. On
~ viii say that, under the cir
cumstances Mexico should have
stopped the coinage of her eagle
dollars at the date of the demonetiz-
ing of silver. I believe the country
The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1903-08-15

"You must not imagine she
said, "that would be willing TO
sit out here alone with you if yOu
were not so big and strong, and able
to pick me up in your arms a. if ]
were mere child-in case any
thing happened"
Then because nothing happened
she told her friends that he WIS
dull-witted and probably had sO1l
like a withered lemon.-ChicagD
Record Herald.
The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1903-08-15
Magnolia Dairy Farm.

Shears d Putegnat. Proprietors,
Will deliver Fresh Milk on and af-
ter June l, 1908, at 10 cents a Quart.
Mexican coin.
Leave orders at Botica del Leon
The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1903-08-15
Notice of Sale.

The international Saloon IS Ior
sale. Owing to the death OF Victor
Egly, the manager, l have decided
to sell my saloon property, euHO
collection, etc. For price and terms
see the undersigned.
Mrs. KATIE Z. LEAHY.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-03-02
Need of "a New Constitution.

To the Editor Of the Indianapolis Journal:
If 4. mere looker-on who has been looking
on every Legislature for more than fifty
years may be permitted to express an
opinion, would be glad to be permitted to
say that the present Legislature contains
more men of eminent ability and more who
are much above mediocrity, and fewer
who are unfit to legislate at all than any
Legislature for half century, yet it is
likely to adjourn leaving some most i'm
portant measures unfinished, while it has
enacted into law some very important
measures which are defective in vital de-
tails, and all because there is not time
enough allowed by the Constitution to
properly discuss matters of such impor-
lance. 1t never was wise to limit the time
a Legislature may sit; but, assuming that
sixty days were enough to legislate for a
population of less than a million, it does
not follow that 1t is enough for nearly three
millions even If conditions have remained
unchanged; but when We remember that
when the present Constitution was adopted
there were less than a hundred miles OF
railroad in the State, and that there are
now eight thousand miles, not to mention
the thousands of miles of electric roads
with more of each kind every month, and
that as great a change has taken place in
almost every social and economic condi-
Constitution that was good for fifty years
ago needs bringing down to date.
L will not presume to specify beyond the
length of time a Legislature may sit far
Their than to say that our judiciary system
needs radical overhauling from the Justice
of the peace to the Supreme Court, but a
convention of hundred such men as could
be elected from the districts for repre-
sentatives as defined by the new apportion-
ment law could easily submit to the people
Constitution much better adapted tc
present conditions than the Constitution
we are now working under. and there
never will be better time for this reform
than the present. 1t is puerile to talk about
the cost of such a convention, or of the
cost of allowing Legislature to finish Its
business before adjourning. If we cam
keep tavern we ought to take down oul
sign. Once I'm fifty years is none too otter
for a people to meet in convention to profit
by the experience of the past I'm the matter
of government.
The time is short for preparing for sucf
a convention, but it can be done, and ought
TO be. The amount of unfinished business
much of which is very important. together
with the vital mistakes in some of the
measures already passed, demands som.
such remedy. L. l.. SEE.
INDIANAPOLIS Feb %
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-03-02
Father Tom of Connemarn.

The writer of this book, Elizabeth
O'Reilly Neville. has succeeded in drawing
picture of local life in what was once
the kingdom of Connemara an inaccessible
and little known part of Ireland The
country is peopled by brave and hardy
race whose habits and customs have re-
NAMED comparatively unchanged for gen.
erations. The book appeals 10 the read
er's imagination. Most of the families of
the middle West have Irish blood in them,
and they like TO bark back to the pride,
the easy courtesy, the geniality that were
among the foremost characteristics oi
early Irishmen Then the book furnishes
proper background for those old irish re.
with some of the well-to-do families OF
this section. Going about their work slns
ing tenderly the .Kruskeen hrusheei.,
Slanta Garma Voorna," or carefuily carihs
for little children, they are the most graf
fully remembered servant class Oh tieI
time Father Tom McDermott. an lrisn
priest, was like Goldsmith's character
"A man to all his country dear,
And passing rich on forty pounds year.
His parish was scattered and he passed
most of his time going the rounds OF MS
flock on a small pony. He was Wen eou
Gated, but had much of the roughness MS
particular constituency required His was
a lovable nature. The story is typicaily
Irish. The Irish brogue, however, Is easily
understood in this book. The plot is SIM
pie and a succession of incidents ana cnar-
acter sketches furnish the principal IN
terest. The writer puts life and feeling
into her work and makes volume OF
unique entertainment. Rand, McNaiiy q
Co., Chicago
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-03-02
PROSPECTS OF CURRENCY
LEGISLATION

The prospect Of the passage of any i'm
portant financial legislation at this session
of Congress has about vanished. The most
practical measure that has been introduced.
and one that was generally approved, was
the Aldrich bill. Senator Aldrich. chair
man of the finance committee, is business
man and his bill aimed at practical results.
1t made few changes I'm existing law. and
the effect of these was simple and easily
tary of the treasury to deposit all surplus
revenues, those from customs as we'll as
those from internal revenue, in national
banks, accepting as security for such de-
posits bonds of the United States, bonds
of any State, and certain class of mu-
nicipal bonds. and a certain very limited
class Of first mortgage railroad bonds. On
all such deposits the banks are to pay in
terest at the rate of ~ per cent. per an
num- This is an entirely new provision.
At present national banks having govern
ment deposits pay no interest whatever.
They, however, secure these funds by gov
eminent bonds purchased at a high price,
and one-fourth of the amount of govern
ment deposits must be held as a reserve
and not loaned out. AS amended i'm the
Senate government deposits were exempted
from the provision requiring the banks to
keep 25 per cent. reserve, it being thought
that if the banks gave good security for the
deposits and paid ~ per cent interest they
should be released from the reserve pro-
vision. 1t is estimated that the interest
on government deposits would amount to
over 100000 year.
In explaining the operation of his bill
Senator Aldrich said the provision for al
of United States bonds would distribute
the government deposits over various parts
of the country. For instance. a bank in
some Southern or Western State which, in
the opinion of the secretary of the treas
ury. would be entitled to have a deposit
of $1,000 might not have 100000 i'm gov
eminent bonds and might not be willing or
able to buy them at the present price and
make any croft out of the transaction.
Under the Aldrich bill such a bank could
receive government deposits on the secur-
ity of state, city or railroad bonds and
could use the whole amount of the depos-
its in its business on payment of interest
at the rate of IL per cent. year. The bill
aims at the relief of the monetary situation
when relief is needed. at liberalizing the
national banking system and at authoriz-
ing the secretary of the treasury to do
what fnanciers have long thought he
should be empowered TO do.
The Aldrich bill ought to pass but there
is danger that 1t will not. Valuable time
has been lost in the Senate by the block
ade caused by the statehood bill. and moth
ing but skillful management and good luck
will enable the bill to get through In the
House few days ago Mr.. Payne, of New
York. chairman of the ways and means
committee, introduced bill Identical with
the AIdrich bill. The bill was referred To
the ways and means committee. of which
Mr.. Payne II chairman. but Mr.. Fowler.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-03-02

The immigration bill which became law
through the insstence of Senator Fairbanks
is a very important measure. 1t does not
go so far as many would have it by barring
iliterates, but 1t makes effective provisions
of existing laws which were vague, and
will make ii possible to reject a large class
of immigrants that are now admitted.
There are already too many cheap laborers
in the large cities, and too many OF them
scatter out into the country. Ignorant and
naturally hostile to authority, these immi-
grants become the most vicious element in
strikes, as was witnessed a few days ago
in West Virginia. In these days of pros
perity this large foreign element of rough
lahorers is not noticed, but when the
change comes and the volume of employ
ment dwindles there will be contest be-
tween the native laborer and the foreign in
which the latter will win because he can
live on half the outlay required of native
brought up to a generous diet. BY the
passage of this bill the foreign steamship
companies which thrive by bringing unde-
sirable immigrants to this country have
been defeated. Hitherto their lobbies have
been able to defeat legislation which has
long been needed. The next move forward
will be the application of an educational
fact
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-03-02
Poems Of George Cabot Lodge.

Mr.. Lodge appears to best advantage In
this volume in poems that deal with sex
or religion. His leaning is toward the
sensuous emotional rather than the spirit
ual emotional. The spirit Of the verses OF
this kind reminds one of the spirit OF
Merejkowskis trilogy on Christ and anti
Christ. This will appear in the quotations
The psychological relations or analogies OF
the sex and religious emotions are almost
as clearly shown as in scientific treatise
The following verses are illustrative:
81 have minted in marble and music the
gold Of the heart Of my youth,
And q maiden's desire has brought me the
feast of the fruit of her mouth
/ have folded my love as mantle over
limbs that were naked for this,
1 have broken my heart on a lutte string
and bartered my soul for kiss.
L have served all the alien masters still
born from my folly and fears,
I have laughed till | wept In derision, /
have wept till laughed at my tears;
And cry, Thro' the pangs of creation and
time / have tested the whole
Then come out with me to the new gods,
the great gods, Body and Soul
Cameron, Blake & Co., New York.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-03-02

The action of the Senate in advancing
engrossment causes surprise. The bill is
in line with the prevailing mania for gov
eminent by commission. 1t provides
for the creation of a State railroad COM
mission to consist of three members at a
salary of $1,000 year each, a secretary
at 5000 and a clerk at $3.50 The commits
sion is authorized to employ experts to ex-
anime into the freight rates of any or all
roads in the State, without any limit as to
the expense that may be incurred in such
investigations. 1t is also authorized to
establish a uniform system of bookkeeping
on all railroads. This would be almost i'm
possible of accomplishment and would be
a very arbitrary interference with private
freight rates, though the roads may APP
peal from its decision to the local courts,
where, as everybody knows. they would
stand little chance of getting justice from
jury. The effect of the bill would be to
transfer the most important features of the
railroad business in the State from its
legitimate management to the hands of a
commission without any interest i'm the
property or any knowledge of the bust
ness. In as far as the bill proposes to
regulate railroad business between differ
ent States it would be unconstitutional.
but there are other reasons why it should
not pass.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-03-02

General Roe. commanding the National
Guard OF New York, is in Washington to
protest against the application Of the new
militia. laws to that organization. For one
thing, he says. the New York troops are
now armed with the Springfield rifle and
much prefer it to the Krag-Jorgensen.
which the War Department proposes to
Issue TO all militia organized in accord
ance with the provisions OF the new law.
The National Guard i'm all the States should
be armed with the same weapon. and that
the best The fact that the government
has no ammunition for the old Springfield
rifle Is sufficient reason why it should not
be insisted on by any State militia. New
York Is a big State, but there are others.
and In a matter of this kind 1t should not
try to dictate. especially in favor of an
obsolete arm.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-03-02

chairman OF the committee on banking and
currency, raised such commotion about
the reference that he succeeded in having
1t withdrawn and the bill referred to his
committee On Saturday he introduced a
bill containing some features of the Al
drich-Payne bill. but chiefly those of his
own asset and elastic currency scheme
This bill also was referred to the commit
Mr. Fowler will report it instead OF the
Payne bill. Thus. between waste OF time
in the Senate and conflicting ideas In the
House there is little probability of any
practical financial legislation during the
present Congress.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-03-02
Mont Pelee.

General readers will remember that when
the memorable eruptions of Mont Pelee oc-
CURED last summer one of the earliest WIS.,
itors to the scene was Professor Heilprin.
member of the Geographical Society Of
Philadelphia and distinguished scientist.
He made two visits to the Island of Mar
Unique, one in the latter part of May and
again in August. and enjoyed unusual op-
portunities for prosecuting an Intelligent
inquiry into all the features and phenomena
of the death-dealing eruptions. the second
of which he close witness of. He
now publishes work entitled Mont Pelee
and the Tragedy of Martinique" in which
he gives a remarkably interesting account
of the eruptions, the phenomena connected
herewith the volcanic formations of the
Caribbean and his personal expert
ences. His narrative combines graphic de-
scriptive power with scientific accuracy of
detail. and deals with. the whole subject in
a very interesting and instructive way. 1t
should easily supplant all other books on
the subject. There are about twenty Illus
trations from photographs taken by the
author, showing different phases Of a vol
cano in action Philadelphia: The j. B.
LippincOtt Company.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-03-02

The city Is to be congratulated on the
fact that the passage of the compromise
bill regarding railway track elevation will
md In existence a commission in which
the public has entire confidence and which
Il clothed with full authority to investi-
gate the whole subject and report a plan
for the permanent solution OF the oues-
tion- This commission is not only organ
lied but II has already taken considerable
testimony and made considerable progress
In its investigation The ground has been
cleared for conference with the representa-
tfves OF the railroads and no time need
be ket in preliminaries. 1t took the MAYOR
good while to decide on the appointment
or commission. and this ground does not
have TO be gone over again. AS the COM
mission will be In a position TO proceed
1eisureiy II should inform itself as to the
experience OF other cities and take the
opinions Of experts In the matter Ii would
b. mistake to decide of hand that track
elevation Is the only or-the best solution
- the question The objective point to be
aimed 1t r. the elimination Of grade cross