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The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1904-05-20
BUYS A DEVIL MACHINE
Gov. Asramonts to Take, the Road In
kexieo Cits-wamins to
Pedestrians.

The Mexican Herald of recent
date very aptly warns pedestrians
at the Aztec capital of impending
danger, as follows:
Ho for the tall bosquel Cen
eral Agramonte will soon appear on
the street with brand new auto
mobile of the most dangerous
breed. The machine is now down
at Veracruz en- route for Mexico
and citizens of the City of Mexico
have but a few days of grace.
The general would not make a
contract for the purchase of the
machine without the following con-
tract so that i'll case the automobile
refuses to cut the proper capers he
will have redress through the law:
1t must be warranted to climb the
highest street curbings so that i'll
case pedestrians try to escape 1t
will not be possible sor them to do
do; it must be guaranteed to stand
on its hind wheels during parades
and to stand on its front wheels
during funeral professions and on
the Reforma; it must be sure to
start off down the street at the
merest pressure of a child and to
90 dead on all country rides. 1t
must puff steam, fire and oil from
the very day it sets wheel in Mex
leo and shall have objections to be-
ng ridden by people whose cloth
ing will soil and show dirt. 1t must
out-buck the buckiest and shall be
warranted to spin round and round
in circles until its occupants are
drunk with dizziness. That saves
the expense of drinks. 1t must be
certain to take to every ditch it
passes, for the general is news
paper man and news is scarce
these days.
The general has recently pur-
chased one of the best lots in Sill
we'll Place and is going to build an
elegant house on it.. OF course it
will be some time before he will be
able to understand the capabilities
of his machine so that he will be
free to turn it loose, but when he
does understand it the people along
the Paseo will learn to known when
he has just passed by the long
streak of coat tails and moustaches
leaving the atmosphere in dis
turbed condition.
Some people, reading this. may
think it boost for some life insur-
ance company, but it is meant only
a; a reminder that man is mortal
and that General Agramonte is re-
ceiving a devil machine.
The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1904-05-20
THE WEATHER.

New Orleans. May 20.-To Collector
of Customs. Brownsville, Texas;
Tonight and SATURDAY. unsettled wealth
er, and probably showers. fresh southerly
winds. CLINE.
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Lost!

A gold watch with fob attached
watch engraved K. B. c. on out
side case. Returned to this Office
Liberal Reward. 5-19-tf.
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NOTICE.

The king daughters are request
ed to meet at Mrs. Emmett K.
Goodrich Saturday at 4::30.
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THE DAILY HERALD
FRIDAY; MAY 20. 1904.



at Olmito, nine miles from Browns
vile.
The Easteon Star chapter holds
its regular meeting this evening at
half past seven O'Clock.
The rear and north walls of the
Lindsey building are now beyond
the floor of the second story, and
work is progressing nicely
There is a move on foot in
Brownsville for the organization of
a new schooner line to ply between
New Orleans, Galveston and Bra
EOS Santiago. This line, it is said,
will be independent of any old line.
A beer saloon, restaurant and
grocery store in one is new in
stitution which was opened today
at Puente de los Negros, seven
miles road, by Nathan Lightnourn.
The we'll establishment will fill a
useful place.
Passengers going by the Lott
road mnst go by ambulance to For.
dyce, the station next above o.
mito, which is some sixteen miles
from town, as the train for some
reason does not take on passengers
at the end of the track.
Fine. new stock of clothing Just
received. Modern prices. "A Spero.
5-1o.3t
Cards have been issued by the
Kings Daughters, giving notice of
a meeting to be held tomorrow af-
ternoon at the home of Mrs. EN-:
mette K. Goodrich in the interest
of an entertainment the proceeds
OF which will be used in repairing
the Episcopal rectory.
The arrival of wagon train of
ten four mule teams, loaded with
seed rice from the La Blanca plan
tation in Hidalgo county made quite
a novel sight to the strangers in the
city today about o'clock. Each
Of the wagon contained ten sacks
of rice which was purchased by c.
II. Maris for seed rice.
A misstep in Citing off the car
at the end of the Lott road track
yesterday has laid his honor, Mayor
Bartlett, up with a sprained ankle.
The mayor had gone out to see for
himself how the road is progress
sing, and in getting off the con-
struction train encountered the ac-
cident as related. He was brought
TO town and received medical atten-
ton as promptly as possible. II
will probably be some weeks before
he will be able to walk again.
Lemons and oranges at Leo
Wise's 5-1O-tf.
The meeting of the board OF
trade directors Yesterday afternoon
was devoted to discussion of ways
and means for entertaining and
caring for visitors on the proposed
excursion from San Antonio to
Brownsville in July. A full meet
ing of the board of trade will be
held this afternoon to further con-
slider the matter. 1t is hoped that
the citizens may support the move
in their usual hearty way when
Brownsville is expected to do her
best.
Butter, Cheese, Potatoes, Lem
ons and Oranges at Leo Wise's.
5-l0-tf.
Special bargains in children's
clothing and shirt-waists at A.
Spero's. 1T.
The best fruit tablets in the
market can be found at the Botica
del Aguila. 5-19-tf.
Incident to the coming of the
National railroad to MatamoTos by
October 1st., there are many new
enterprises in readiness to be
fhot Nrtx-
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FOR FINE PHOTOGRAPHS.

Call at my studio, on Elizabeth
and 18th. streets. Best work at
popular prices.
MARY NJ. WAITGENBAcH
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-12-22
oIrAKER REFLECTIONs.

From the Phila oelphfa RecOrd.l
No, Maude, dear when parrots talk it
is not necessarily polyglot.
To drink in the landscape" one should
be supplied with field-glasSes.
II everybody came early to avoid the
rush they wouldn't be any better OFF.
When a man has no enemies the public
is generally unconscious of his existence.
The Telephone Girl-"He uses shocking
language" The Electrician-''What volt
age?"
What is regarded as an affair of the
heart is often merely the result of tor
pid liver.
1t is better to have executive ability
than to earn your bread by the sweat of
your brow.
If the ostrich knew how much his
feathers were worth he would be prouder
than the peacock.
Sillfcus-"What is the maximum punish
ment in a breach of promise suit?" Cyni-
cuS-"Well, 1 suppose the defendant
might be made to marry the girl
In after years the yarns are spun
About our earthly love affairs.
The women boast of every one,
The men-well, they deny all theirs.
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Falling a Mile

1t is perfectly Understandable. that
fall lit is nothing else), or my sensa-
tons at the time. We seem to start
ment of the terrible sinking pain one
motion and the madness and the wild
ness of it all gets into my head, and
I find myself yelling and exulting in
the swift motion, in the delight of fly
ing Down we go, gathering speed
with every jump, past hillocks of
snow, I ordinarily would recognize as
containing q buried cache of goods
but which are now simply white, me-
nacing apparitions, which appear and
disappear like a flash. On we go, over
bumps and little hollows, holding on
for grim life, my steering forgotten
on, on, with the speed of an express
train. I see Jacks shoulders stiffen
and looking ahead 1 see a black line
a crevice. Now we leave the crust
and are travelling through the air
actually flying; bump, we are across
Thirty feet if twas an inch," 1 think
I look below; the tents grow larger
and larger as if by magic. 1 hear a
roaring sounds it Jack yelling, or
the wind? AS I wonder, We get an
other Jolt; we have struck a hillock
hold US when we come down? No
time to wonder; we are down with
another bump. and the keen, singing
rush of air in my face tells me our
speed is greater rather than less
1.-The tents are almost up with u.s."
think. q mean we are almost to the
tents.) As 1 think it, we pass them,
way to the left-Jack has kept wide
to the right. Good boy, Jack; has
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-12-22
IAYHAWKER JOTS.

| Sheriff Jelly of Miami county has soured
on tramps and is sealing them up
Two Wichita .1en Will spend the ho;i-
days having in the courts over ooi-
| lar.
| No, anxious enquirer" the lion that
! died hero last week was not a social lion,
simply a Gagged one.
Brother Iooley draws the color Inc on
| Brother Vernon, and will not appear al
the Republican banquet.
The latest slam on Burlington Is that a
citizen is going to move from there TO the
Klondilxe country Tor !:.- health
An Abilene man is bubbling over with
enthusiasm because his make of ginger
ale TOOK a prize at the worlds fair.
A Winfield man purchased four gold
watches the other day and his wife now
expects him to come to his meals on time.
A Wellington man received a Christmas
box from Manila containing IL cigars. The
number alone should be sufrlclent warn
ing.
A Salina man has got even with a Cal
ifornia friend who sent him box OF 1rult
by return shipment OF some homemade
cigars.
An Abilene boy has sworn off on Skinny
since he had the side or his race lalo
open rather than a mere bruise on the
shanks.
The Cottonwood Falls merchants charge
Mr.. Bell With going to EtuicF1 tnr ms
Christmas purchases and want him TO
ring Off
The Fort Scott chief of police has nine
calves. But it is only fair to state that
seven of them were strays, taken up on
the street.
Industry seems properly named. Three
juvenile citizens came to take their first
Christmas dinner with their parents one
day last week.
The story going the rounds of the state
press that the brewers have raised $4,000
to close the Topeka drug stores on Sun
day is thought to be untrue.
Hutchinson has at last decided to build
the Cow creek canal and Billy Morgan is
worried to death by political applications
for a place on the commission.
Congressman Scott writes nome to the
lola Register from Washington about
seeing a rat four feet long Sooner or
later that Potomac river water is bound
get a man.
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its way northeastward from the Cape
of Good Hope, while another squadron
has passed through the Suez canal and
the Red sea. The main naval reliance
of Russia is unquestionably in the
ships of Rojestvensky.
This fleet has five first-class modern
battleships, two battleships of an older
but serviceable type, and nine cruisers,
several of which are fast and formula
BILE craft in their own class. In addition,
it composes a host of torpedo boats, be-
sides GOLFERS and merchant steam
ships converted" into naval auxiliar-
les. Assuming that the Port Arthur
squadron is virtually nonresident, there
are still two or more cruisers, and half
a dozen Russian torpedo boats at Via
disvostok. whose harbor will doubtless
be kept open by ice-breakers. It is evil
dent, therefore, that so far as ships and
guns are concerned, the Muscovite EN-
pire has by no means been denuded.
To confront this array, Togo, if the
report of the sinking of the Yashima as
well as the HatuSe by floating mines is
correct, has not more than four first
class modern battleships. He has, how
ever, eight fine armored cruisers OF sig
nal fighting power and high speed,
which should prove extremely valuable
and as for unarmored cruisers and
torpedo craft he possesses a distinct ad-
vantage over the Russians. On the
whole, the two fleets are perhaps not
unfairly matched as regards battery
and torpedo power. That the Japanese
are by far the best seamen and gun
ners has been repeatedly shown. But
if the Russians should fight at sea as
tenaciousIy as they have done on land
it is not uncomfortable that they might
succeed, though at presumably heavy
loss to themselves, in sinking or dis
abling a large portion of the fleet which
is the sole safeguard of the lines of
marine transportation by which alone
Japan is enabled to supply her armies
on the Asiatic mainland with reinforce
ments, food and other necessary sup
niles
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-12-22
SPENCER ISN'T READY.
May Not Be Able to Make Waterworks
Report Tonight.

The city attorney may not be able to
make a full report to the city council
tonight as to the title of the water
works property. He intimated as much
this morning stating that he had said it
would take ten days to go through the
matter thoroughly and that the ten days
specified by him had not as yet elapsed.
The hitch that has been found with re-
gard to the title of right of way which
the water company possesses along the
Rock Island tracks west OF the city has
as yet not been cleared. A contract of
but the Rock Island has no record of
it's existence here and NJ. A. Low, the
general attorney stated at noon that he
had no memory that such an agreement
had been entered into between the rail-
way and the waterworks company re-
garding the placing of the mains along
side of the Rock Island tracks
1t is not thought that any delay will
be experienced, however, in the trans
fer on this account though it makes It
rather vexatious for this to occur at
this time. The mayor states that he
the mains very highly anyway and
would like to see them transferred
across the asylum grounds to the West
Sixth avenue road. The water COM
pany once thought of such a plan, but
the land was in private hands at that
acre for each acre passed through and
then would only allot a 12-foot strip.
Since the land is state property now
this may alter affairs some. j. w.
O'Neil of the water company thinks
the present location of the mains all
damage will come to them in their
present location.
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POINTED PARAGRAPHS.

IFrom the Chicago Daily News.I
Before selecting the seed be sure of your
soil
Cooks are the leading ladies in many do
mestic dramas.
Photographs. like some people, are shy
of originality.
Girls beg the question when they try to
induce men to propose.
He who only thinks marriage is a lot
terry is still a bachelor.
The latest sanitary mattress is said to
be stuffed with breakfast food.
Many a young man who thinks he is a
girls intended is only her pretended.
1t takes a college graduate about TWEEN
ty years to learn how little he knows
A girl may have music in her soul, but
it doesn't necessarily reach as far as her
voice.
A man may have enough money to keep
him out of heaven and still not have
enough TO get into society.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-12-22

Philadelphia Record: On a purchase
of 10000 tons of steel rails at the COM
bination rate of $28 ton the Pennsyl-
Vania Railroad company will pay nearly
a million dollars more than a reason
able rate of profit. This is an example
only of the enormous system of extor-
ton that is practiced by the steel trust
upon the railroads OF the United States.
Upon every ton of rails is levied a tax
of S7.s4, not for protection, but for
spoliation- Yet there are multitudes of
''stand-pat" protectionists who loudly
complain because the rates for railroad
freights and passengers are not reduc-
ed in presence of this exorbitant tax
upon railroad construction and mainten-
ance
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-12-22
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR
IFrom the New York Press.l

IFrOm the New York Press.
A girl is an awful nice thing not to ex-
pect any sense from.
A man can be happy smoking an old
pipe and woman looking at an old pho
tOgraph.
Either a woman thinks her husband is
good looking or she says he is distir-
guished looking.
The greatest surprise to a girl who gets
kissed for the first time is that there is
no taste to 1t.
1t disgusts a woman beyond measure to
have men want to talk about a stock
market panic when it is rumored that one
of her neighbors has a detective shadow
ing her husband
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Washington Post: The plain citizen is
booked for all sorts of trouble If he
takes with deem seriousness-a habit of
the plain citizen-all we are hearing
these days about impure food" DR..
Wiley started it some time ago by as
surfing us that the average man. who
lives in just a modest sort of way, is
loading himself daily with germs and
microbes and bacilli and bacteria and a
lot OF things, all deadly in their effect
upon the human system, for which
Latin names have not yet been invent
ed We learned that our coffee is faint
ed with some kind of an acid that Just
glories in chewing up the nerves and
membranes and furnishing physicians
with new clinical subjects for the
paresis class. The oatmeal contains a
liberal percentage of sawdust secured
from trees that grow in marsh where
the original malaria germ has its hab-
ttat. The milk is silent partner of
the typhoid germ, and the rolls are
shortened with a lard substitute made
from cottonseed oil produced from cot
ton that is full of boil weevils The
man who lodges these and other at
tendant evils at breakfast, and is allow
ed to live until dinner, finds prussic
acid in his peas. strychnine in his olives.
uedulS pnoSpnateS IN the soup, sure
death in the cheese, and borax in ev-
erything. If, after gorging on this pois-
on saturnalia, he decides to encourage
digestion with a drink of whisky or
wine or brandy, he may find expert
authority that he is Just adding poison
to poison and hurrying the end. In the
meantime, we viii have to keep on eat
ing, with zest or fear, according to
whether we ignore or believe all that
the experts are telling us about our
mems
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his nerve with him." I have a mo-
mentary glimpse of dancing,
Jack raises his hand; I see his stick
go whirling away-mine follows. I
give a hard pull at the rope I find still
in my hand and roll to the left; Jack
falls to the right, and then 1 am dimly
conscious that it does not hurt, but
that 1 am being fearfully shaken and
jolted, and that I am rolling over and
over. / feel a singing pain in my
ankle and on my face and arm and
head, and then a mountain seems to
fall on me and I sink down in the
water-I wonder how 1 got in the
water, but I am very tired and lose
consciouSn ess.-Outing.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-12-22

The total number of bushels Of wheat
exported in the eleven months ending
with November. 1904, is stated by the
bureau Of statistics at 1928, 173, as
against 67,7s9.731 in the corresponding
months of 1903; of flour, 1856. 467 bar
rels. as against IL, 102, 75S barrels in the
same months of last year: of corn, 3S,-
314,9S4 bushels. as against Sc, 659,013 in
the same months of last year, and of
oats, 1,026. PAS bushels. as compared with
1,415,OI5 bushels in the corresponding
eleven months of 1903. This falling off
in exports of breadstuffs, is believed to
be due, first, to a slight reduction in
the home production; second, to a ma
terial increase in home consumption.
and third,to unusually large wheat crops
abroad which reduced the worlds de-
mands for breadstuffs of the United
States.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-12-22
And should think my thoughts aloud
The night alone would hear me.

And should I think my thoughts aloud
The night alone would hear me.
But would the night my secret keep
And give it no diffusion;
Nor bring a blush to maiden's cheek,
Nor rack her with confusion.
eff I should whisper in her ear
Beneath the moonlight beaming;
That Cupid sits beside me, and
OF love we both are dreaming?
1--WE dream of one not far away
We dream and blush and smile-oh;
And wish again that he were here
To whisper words the while-oh.
1.-THE moonlight filters through the
vines
And romance comes a-Wooing;
But ahi alasi I sit alone,
And there is nothing doing.
"Say, Abe" remarked Aunt Sarah
after / had finished, you have beaten
pies and fried cakes that 1 shall make
all winter against a turnip that no
other poet on this earth ever got off
anything to beat that
HWell, am glad you like it.
Like it, Why, it's immense. Maria
will copy and send it over tomorrow,
and do you know what the result will
be? She'll never have to sit in the
moonlight alone again. That Teller
will be over here every night, and
when there's no moonlight they'll be
sitting by a coal stove. BY gum! if
must say it, if I was a young man
with a weak voice and got such a
piece of poetry as that I'd pop the
question before 1 was a week older,
and I guess Jim is a goner. Moon
light = nightingale howers-night-
maiden alone-Cupid-ro
in the world is he going to stand out
ina I'm
telling you, Abe, that if we get Maria
married off our hands it will all be
owing to you and your poetry, and
don't you think we won't admit it and
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-12-22

Isn't it strange that the following
editorial paragraph was printed in the
Detroit Evening News and doesn't refer
to Kansas: LAS long as supposedly rep
utable citizens will vote for a known
thief If he is on their ticket, 1t will be
customary to ask the politics of pros
pective jurors in political cases"
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WAR POSSIBILITIES.

It is not impossible that within the
next so days the world may see a series
of naval operations which will go far
toward determining the outcome of the
war in the far east. The Baltic fleet
is steadily, if slowly, drawing nearer the
scene of conflict.
Part Of it is now supposed to be on
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-12-22
Dolber WIN Sustained.

San Francisco, Dec. 22.-The will OF
Miss Bertha NJ. Dolber. who was killed
by falling from an upper floor of the
Waldorf-Astoria hotel in New York
was today sustained by a jury in
Judge Coffey's department of the su-
perior court In the will, which was
contested by her near relatives, Miss
Dolver gave the greater part of her
million dollar estate to her friend and
travelling companion, Miss Eta n.
Warren.
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federation
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do the right thing in return"
Whereupon 1 said that I was glad
if 1 had been of any assistance in the
case, and climbed upon my cart and
drove on with a feeling that it is far
better to do one good action than to
rob half a dozen hen roosts.-(Copy-
right 1904, by T. G. McClure.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-12-22

In Mississippi a white man has been
sentenced to the penitentiary for killing
. negro He pleaded justification on
the ground that the deceased was steal
ing corn but strange to say the Judge
wouldn't stand for 1t.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-12-22

The voice of Paul Morton can be
plainly heard in the report of Commits
sioner Garfield. President Roosevelt's
reason for placing a railroad man in
the cabinet is becoming apparent.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-12-22

It is difficult to discover Senator
Shoots connection with the investiga-
tion which is being carried on in Wash
1ngton, in his name.