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The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1903-09-19
HE GOT A FREE RIDE.
Smooth Scheme Worked by an
Alleged Stockman.
San Antonio Express:

A very smooth scheme was work
ed on one of the railways by a
party who stated he was a stock
man and who wanted TO take a
trip of several thousand miles. He
went to one of the superintendent
and told him that he wanted nine
ty cars for cattle which heproposed
70 ship from San Antonio and
wanted the cars gathered here as
early as possible, as he expected
them to arrive here from various
points to be loaded here for designa-
lion. The superintendent i'm
mediately telegraphed an order to
various stations where stock cars
loaded with coal and other freight
were, to have them unloaded at
once and sent to San Antonio. The
enterprising individual, who said
he was stockman, who was going
to ship all the cattle that could be
crowded into these cars, wanted
pass TO go an ahead and make ar
engagements for feeding, watering
and marketing them. He got the
pass. but it was not very long
afterwards that it was ascertained
that the man who imagined he was
. stockman, did not even nave
brindle calf and the order for rush
ing the cattle cars to San Antonio
was cancelled by wire.
The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1903-09-19

Why not organic a business
mems league, a chamber of COM
merce or board of trade, or some
thing of the kind, for Brownsville. I?
There was never a town that need
ad such organization worse. Far
example, in today's HERALD there
Is a notice of some japanese capi-
talisist, who are at Galveston and
have declared their intension to Sc
lect a place in the rice belt for a
colony of japanese rice farmers.
These colonists will be the
best class of japanese and very
desirable citizens. If we had
well-organized and progress
IKE business mems club at Browns
willie no time would be lost in get
ting in communication with these
capitalists and having them to Wis
it this section. Why not? Do it
nov.
The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1903-09-19
Japanese Immigrants
Coming To Texas.

Galveston, Texas, September 10.
There arrived on the Southern
Pacific train this afternoon from
Houston two distinguished citizens
of Japan, who are making a tour
OF this State. One of them is Hon.
sadazuchi Uchida, consul general
of Japan at New York, and the
other is Hon. Seito Sahara. of
Toxic, Japan. The latter gentleman
Is an ex-minister OF the legislative
body of Japan and is one of the
most prominent men of that far
away country. He is quite IA
wealthy man and has been engaged
in the rice business on an immense
scale.
The object of his visit to Texas is
Tor the purpose of making a
thorough inspection of the rice
industry in the coast country, with
the view of coming to this country
TO live. 1t is Mr.. Saibara's idea
to make a large investment in rice
lands and to pursue that business
upon larger plan. He will bring
number frice experts from Japan
here, as well as settle families upon
the place if he should decide to
purchase. Mr.. Sahara is'a splendid
specimen of the shrswd japanese
and impresses one as an excellent
business man.
The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1903-09-19

ungrateful to the church? We think
not. She has more than repaid the
church for the little she has receiv-
ed from it. In fact. the church is in
Gebted to woman more than it will
ever pay. Who is it that solicits
most money for the building of
churches? Who works harder for
the church's support that woman?
Who is the largest in numbers in
attendance and membership? Who
is it that gives the parson an oc-
casional chicken dinner? All this
woman does; and the church pays
her in abuse only.
For the liberty woman enjoys to-
day she is not indebted to the
Christian church, but to her own
efforts for her rights, and such ar
dent workers for woman's eman-
cipation as Lucretia Mott, Elizabeth
Caddy Stanton, Helen Gardener
and the justice and honor of the
brave men who have challenged
the commands of Jehovah and the
church.
Should this cratic pastor wish
more light upon this important
subject, he can do nothing better
than to read woman, Church and
State" by Matilda Joslyn Gage,
"Men, Women and Gods" by Helen
Gardener, woman, Past. Present
and Future" by August Bebel, and
Eighty Years and More" by
Elizabeth Caddy Stanton. All can
be procured from the Truth Seeker
Co., % Lafayette Place, n. Y. City.
[ am, my dear sir, yours for jas
tice to the fair and better half of
humanity, and believe me, the only
solution | offer for this important
problem is absolute equality of sex
Respectfully,
FoLsToI GAGE.
Brownsville, Tex, Sept. l6, 1909
The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1903-09-19
The State OF Texas.

TO THE SHERIFF OR ANY Cons
TABLE OF CAMERON COUNTY, GREET
ING:-August Thorsell, Guardian of
the persons and of the estate of F
B. Garriga ct. ais. minors having
filed in our county court his final
account Of the estate of said minors
together with an application to be
discharged from said guardianship,
YOU are hereby commanded. that
by publication of this writ for
twenty days in the BROWNSVILLE
DAILY HERALD, newspaper
regularly published in the county
of Cameron, YOU give due notice to
all persons interested in the ac-
count for final settlement of said
estate, to file their objections there
to. If amy they have, on or before
the September ;erm, 1903, of said
county court, commencing and to
be holden ut the court house of said
county, in Brownsville on the Dist.
of September, 1908, when said ac-
count and application will be con-
sidered by said court.
Witness my hand and seal of Of
flee, ut Brownsville this 29th. day
of August 1908.
JOSEPH WEBB, Clerk,
County Court Cameron County,
Texas.
By VI. }. VALDEZ, Deputy.
A hereby certify the above to be
true copy.
CELEpoXIo CARA, Sheriff Cam
eron County, Texas.
BY DoRoTEo VARGAS, Deputy.
The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1903-09-19
Woman, Past And Present.

Three young men were greatly
surprised last Sunday evening to
hear the pastor of the Episcopal
church, of this city, tell his con-
gregation that woman was a mere
plaything previous TO Christianity,
and that the women of the present
} do not show enough gratitude for
the benefits they have received from
the Christian church.
Such gross error is only due to
a careless handling of the truth, or
a total ignorance OF many indisput-
able facts. We would like to know
ifthis pastor has ever heard of the
brick libraries of Assyria having
been unearthed, or of the strange
Gums finding an interpreter? Even
Darkest Africa has been opened to
the light. But perhaps our reverend
sir does not read the papers. The
science of philology unfolds to us
the history of peoples so completely
lost that no other monument of
their past remains.
With a little careful study on
these lines the average man will
soon make himself acquainted with
conditions of early peoples, their
laws, customs, habits, religion,
comprising order and rank in the
state, the rules of descent, name,
property, the circumstances Of fam
lily life, the position of mother,
father, children, their temples and
priestly orders. All this has been
investigated and new historic
basis has been established by
modern thinkers.
Never has research been so
thorough, or long lost knowledge so
fully given to the world. And all
these records prove that woman
had acquired liberty under the old
civilizations. A form of society
existed at an early age known as
the "Matriarchate, or Mother Rule.
Under the Matriarchate woman was
first in all things, her son and
daughter next and the husband
last. Mother and children were
first in each Others esteem on &C
count of their blood relationship.
Woman held all superior positions
and was the controlling power in
the government; and never was
justice more perfect
The story of Moses will convince
us that woman was more than a
mere plaything previous to Christi
anity. when the Egyptian princess
found baby Moses, She did not only
preserve the infants life but car
ried him to the king as her son,
given to her by the bounty of the
river and heir to his throne" show
ing woman's power in the kingdom.
Tracing the incident a little farther,
Joscphus says: THAT 10 please his
daughter, the king took the child
in his arms, placing his crown on
the baby head; lut the chief priest,
at that moment entering the room,
in a spirit Of prophecy cried aloud,
'Oh, king! this is the child of whom
| foretell danger; kill him and save
the nation, at the same time striv-
ing to take the child from the king.
But the princess caught the child
away, thus setting both kingly and
priestly power at defiance Does
this look as though woman was a
mere plaything previous to Christi
anity? And this happened one
Thousand eight hundred years before
the teachings of Jesus founded a
religion.
The pastor can find plenty of
evidence in the Old Testament Of
The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1903-09-19

She may be thing of beauty
until you see her emerging from
the surf.
The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1903-09-19

Brownsville, Tex, Sept. 16, 1908.
Water Valley progress., 1903-06-20
THE NEW SERVICE RIFLE.
"A Unique and Powerful Weapon Con.
structed Wholly by the Ord
A&A nance Depar tment.

The army board, which has been
for months past considering the mer-
its of the new service rifle or musket
has finally declared in favor of
weapon with barrel only "a inches
in length, using a 80 ball. The new
gun is a remarkable weapon, accord
ing to the ordnance officers, for while
it is four inches shorter than the
KIag and only two inches longer than
the carbine, it is more powerful than
either, with a higher initial velocity
and fiatter trajectory. 1t can easily
penetrate "a one-inch pine planks. 1t
Is a pound lighter than the service
rifle, which is consideration in the
tropics. A new feature is a complete
encase,nent of the barrel in wood to
prevent burning the hands of the
marksmen when the gun is rapidly
discharged. The weapon was evolved
by United States army officers and is
not patented, 1t is asserted to be the
most powerful musket in the world.
Water Valley progress., 1903-06-20
SCHOOL BARS KIPLING VERSE.
scituatc (spassJ Authorities Think
"Gunga DIN" Improper for Reel
tatiOn for Pupils.

The high school authorities at Scitu-
ate, Mass, are opposed to Rudyard
Kpling's descriptive poem "Gunga
Din Scituate has no love for this par
ticular poem, and it will be cut off the
Forthcoming exercises at which the
pupils are to speak. One student Sc
lected the poem so as to recite some
thing out of the ordinary run at the
Scituate school exhibition The objec-
tion raised against the speaking of the
piece before the high school pupils are
that it contains the word hell and
tells of liquor drinking. So "Gunga
Din VIII be replaced by ''The Old Oak
en- Bucket" or something equally IA
miiar.
Water Valley progress., 1903-06-20

A regularly constituted eastern au-
thority says hats may be taken off in
an elevator when lady enters, if the
elevator pertains to hotel or an apart
ment house, but should not be taken off
if it is an adjunct of an Office building
or public institution. An unsophisti-
Gated public, says the Chicago Tribune.
will be grateful for the information. 1t
is horrible to commit blunder in Q
case Of this kind.
Water Valley progress., 1903-06-20
ARP'S FRIEND is DEAD
Mourns the Passing of Another of
His Old Comrades.
The Problem Of Capital and Labor m
Seen at short Range-Strike Ties
Up Second Edit M of Arp's Book
True Philanthropy.

l am feeling sick and sad. Another
friend has gone and left me. Jim
Warren was my college mate and 1
loved him for nearly 60 years. He
was only two months my junior and
] sometimes wondered who would be
called away first. What an awful death
was that! Crushed and mangled and
his poor old body torn and dragged
for a quarter of mile and his dis
membered limbs strewing the track
and his brains larding the rails. Alas.
how little do we know about life or
death! Sometimes watch the cattle
going to the slaughter pen and am
thankful that Providence conceals
from them their empending fate, but
we do not know much more about our
own. How shall we die and when? :?
James Warren was one of my true
friends. l loved to love him and it
gave me comfort that he loved me
and always called me Charley as ten
killed and that was all. His pure soul
went back Immediately to it's Creator
and is now resting in the bosom of
God. That is my faith and 1 hope it
is the faith of all those who loved
him.: for my heart bleeds with them.
Strike for your affairs and your fires.
Strike for the green graves Of your sires,
Strike until the last armed foe expires"
l used to speak that speech, and
when | got to that part which said,
'Iheyr come-they come--the Greek
the Greek!' put on martial agony
and elevated my voice and shook the
floor. | thought of all this the other
day when | read about the strikers
IN Atlanta going to Mr.. Byrd's pub
fishing house and trying to seduce
his nonunion printers to leave him.
His partner, Tom Lyon, showed fight
and used some cuss words and drove
them off and they had him arrested
and the recorder fined him for dis
turbing the public tranquility, but if
had been the recorder | would have
excused Tom.
This thing has come home to me
at last, for Mr.. Byrd is printing
book for me and l can't get copy,
striking interlopers get all his print
ers away but two or three, and the
rascals hung around the back door
all that Tom could do was to watch
them and eXclaim: "They come-they
cOme-the Greek--the Greek!'' But
Tom is game and says he will whip
the fight and have, some books for
me by the last of the week. The
first edition has all been sold and the
second is in the press and has been
delayed and enfladed and barricaded
and paralyzed by these contempti-
BILE strikers, and if there ever was
justifiable excuse for using cuss
words man ought to be hired to
stand at the back door and cuss 'em
by the day as fast as they came.
I've no patience with these strikers
and less with their leaders. One of
Water Valley progress., 1903-06-20

my boys has just established a tele-
phone plant in Houston, Tex, and
had about 40 girls employed at good
wages when suddenly some interlop-
ers came and made them all strike
and he hired others to take their
places and the interlopers went round
to all his patrons and tried to- get
up a boycott, but failed. The rich
Mr.. Huntington is the chief owner
and he telegraphed my boy to whip
that fight regardless of expense, and
he has whipped it. Last year at Day.
ton, O., a big-hearted rich man estab-
lished cash register plant and had
200 girls employed and he cared for
them just like they were his chill
dren, and had bath rooms on every
floor and hot and cold water, and
mirrors and soap and towels, so that
they could battle and clean up before
they went home and the girls were
contented and happy. for all this was
no part of the contract, but some
interlopers came along and ordered
strike because some poor old wom-
en- who did not belong to the union
had the job of washing the towels
that the girls used in their bath
rooms.
Well, now, that is one side OF the
case, but it is said every case has two
sides. The war between capital and
labor still goes on. but labor has but
little to complain of in this blessed
land. We see by the papers that
these union strikers in Atlanta have
plenty OF money in their treasury to
live on while they are idle and some
of them have gotten up baseball
club and are having a good time gem
orally. There is no suffering here
like there was in London rs wears
ago when Tom Hood wrote the song
of the shirt and the lay of the la
borer. 1t would make an angel weep
to read that poor woman's song:
For it's work, work, work-my labor never
flags,
And what are its wages-a bed of straw.
A crust of bread and rags,
This shattered roof, this naked floor. a
table, a broken chair,
And wall so blank, my shadow thank
For sometimes falling there
Her sad song aroused all London,
but there was no strike. Our own
George Peabody was there in the
banking business and it aroused him.
Immediately he bought the ground in
the suburbs and spent $2,OOO,O0O in
building cottages for the poor. Nice
cottages, with bathrooms and hot
and cold water and flowers in the
front yard and vines over the door,
and paid the taxes and charged only
little, nominal sum for rent, lust
enough to keep up the repairs, and in
less than year he had comfortable
homes for over 10000 people. That's
the kind of philanthropy.
Our wisest statesmen ask for an
income tax as they have in England,
and it is based on that principle that
the more man accumulates the
heavier his tax should be-a graduat-
ed income tax-and so if he has piled
up $1O,OO0,000 in a year, take half of
it for tax. This would stop Rockefel-
ler and Morgan and Cornegie and the
surplus would be, as Bob Toombs
said, Poured back in the Jug" 1t is
no great honor to man to give
good part of his profits to charity. 1t
is surprise and that is all. Men
forget that all they have got is but
loan and sooner or later they give
in all up and pay the debt.-BilI Arp.
in Atlanta Constitution.
Water Valley progress., 1903-06-20
WORLDS PETROLEUM SUPPLY
Scientist Declares That DepOsits ~
the Globe Are of Volcanic
Origin.

+. Coste, the president of the Cana
dian Mining institute, recently read an
interesting paper before that body,
says the New York Commercial Ad-
vertiser, setting forth his reasons for
believing that the petroleum deposits
OF the world are of volcanic origin. He
points out number of facts which
render the theory at present generally
held by geologists-that it has arisen
directly from the decomposition of or
ganic remains, animal and vegetable
untenable.
He calls attention to the fact that
no such process is at present under
way; that all organic decomposition Of
animal matter is SO rapid and COM
plete that there is no opportunity for
the entombment of anything but
bones in sedimentary rocks; that as
the oil deposits of the lower silurian
limestone of Ohio and other fields are
below the carboniferous beds and as
it is generally admitted by geologists
that previous to the latter age there
was very little vegetable life on the
earth, these enormous deposits could
not have arisen from organic remains.
because there were few organisms at
that time, and, finally, that if petrol
cum was due to the destructive distil-
lation of coal, there would now be no
coal beds, all having long ago been
transformed into petroleum and a
cokelike residue.
Water Valley progress., 1903-06-20

Every mother has bright hopes for her baby,
These hopes depend on the health of the little
one during the first few years. A baby is sure
to be WELL fat and healthy If its health Is looked
after. Baby's health depends on its getting
through the teethinx period safely. Babies are
generally affected with diarrhoea summer COM
plants when teething. which could be avoided
by using Mccee's Baby Elixir to digest its food
and prevent its food from souring on it's stomach.
McCes's Baby Elixir contains no opiates or
poisons. or other harmful Ingredients. It II
especially suited to sick and we'll babies Great
care should be used in due time to prevent any
trouble.
When Needed.-McCee's Baby Elixir reeu-,
lates the stomach and bowels. corrects Sour
Stomach. cures Diarrhoea and Summer Com
plant. corrects Indigestion. prevents fermen-
tation of food in stomach and bowels.
Baby Elixir will carry your baby through the
dangerous teething period; prevents and cures
fretfulness and feverishness; insures natural
rest and sleep.
McCee's Baby EMxir.-so harmless IT should
be used freely to prevent diseases as we'll as to
cure. 1t can never do anything but good. 50 do
not hesitate to use it If there are any signs that
baby's digestion is out of order. Keep your
baby's bowels in good order to insure health.
"SSOCO DoUy AH~Hs Just aS BOou III WAutcI
assummer; also to delicate women
for sick stomach. Price. IS and SOC.
The Mayfeld Medicine Mfg. Co.. ST. Louis.
DEAR SIRs-I have used McGee's Baby Elixir
with my little girl, two years old. and boy Eve
years old. for Summer Complaint and Sleepless-
ness, caused from Bowel and stomach trouble
with satisfactory results: advise ali mothers to
keep it on hand for quick relief.
Respectfully,
MRS. H. n. HICKS,
Bells, Team.
Water Valley progress., 1903-06-20
SOCIETY WRECKED HER HEAL TIL.
Tired, Nervous, Aching, Trem-
bling, Sleepless, BlOOdless.
Pe-ru-na Renovates, Regulates,
Restores.

4 Pretty New York Womsn's Recovery
the Talk of Her Numerous Friends.
Mrs. j. E. Finn, 50 East High street.
Buffalo, N. Y, writes:
Peruna Medicine Co., Colum bus Ohio.
Gentlemen:-'.A fey years aqo.
Ihad to gfpe up social life entirely.
as my health was completely broken
dozvn. The doctor advised a COM
plete rest for a year. As this qvas
out of the question for time. I be-
gan to look for some other means of
restoring my health.
"Ihad often heard of Peruna as
an excellent tonic, so I bought a Bot
tie to see zvhat it would do for me.
and it certainly took hold of nv
system and rejupenated me. and In
less than tzvo months I 4vas in per-
feet health. and nov 7vhen I feel
4vorn out or tired a dose or tqvo of
Peuna is all that I need. Mrs.
j. E. Finn.
Water Valley progress., 1903-06-20
Catarrh Causes Female Diseases.

America is the land of nervous women.
The great majority of nervous women
are so because they are suffering from
some form of female disease. BY far
the greatest number of female troubles
are caused directly by catarrh. These
women despair of recovery. Female
trouble is so common, so prevalent,
that they accept itas almost inevitable.
The greatest obstacle in the way of re-
covery is that they do not understand
that 1t is catarrh which is the source
of their illness.
In female complaint, ninety-nine
cases out of one hundred are nothing
but catarrh.
Peruna cures catarrh wherever To-
Gated.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1903-01-07
The Plague in Mexico.

Mazatlan, Mexico, Jan. There
is no longer the slightest doubt that
the disease now affecting the city is
genuine Asiatic plague, for microscopic
Investigation proves that bubonic pest
bacilli are in the blood Of those affiict-
ed with the disease. The plague has
grown virulent within the last As
hours and the alarm, which had be-
gun in some measure 70 abate, has re-
turned with increased strength. The
people are fleeing from the city at the
rate of 300 per day and some 5000
have already gore.
It is a remarkable fact that more
than so per cent. of the persons attack
ed are women.
The news OF the recrudesence of the
plague at this port has reached the in
terror towns Of the State and is caus-
ing panic. Sanitary cordons of arm
ed men have been placed around the
towns to prevent the entrance of any
one from this place.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1903-01-07
McFADDEN TIMBER SOLD.
The Last Large Body of Virgin Yellow
Pine in Sumter County Bought by
Mill Men.

Goodwill, Dec. 31.-The largest
timber deal that was ever made in this
section was put through last week
when the Dargan Lumber Company of
Florence in competition with a num-
Der of other mill men, bought toe
superb round timber Of Messrs. R. c..
McFadden and r. G. Blanding. The
tract comprises upward of LOCO acres
lying west of Black River, just north
of the Clarendon County line, in Con-
cord Township, Sumter County. It is
one of the finest pieces Of virgin pine
in the country. It is stated that $40
an acre was the price paid for the
timber.
The Dargan Lumber Company have
secured tract of $50 acres on the
Wilmington, Columbia and Augusta
Railroad, two miles west of Sumter,
where they will establish brand new
plant, sawmill, dry kilns and planning
mill, and build a tram road eight or
ten miles long to the timber which
lies in coApact body and will not re-
quire branch lines. In addition thou
sands of acres in smaller tracts, some
of which has been more or Jess cut,
will be opened up. BY this deal larger
quantities of wood will be available
for the brick yards and factories ot
Sumter that was too far off for wagon
transportation.
The outlay for plant, tramway, etc.,
will run up close on to 500, 900 anc
the payroll will add much to TIE
business of Sumter.