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The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1905-11-21
An Advertising Fable.

The man who swore by the
beard of the saints and the prophets
that advertising did not, pay, was
up against it good and strong.
After years of enforced business
idleness, and seasons of tax pay
ing on stuff he could not sell, he
had reached his rows end, and
was-good and ready to make an
assignment with nobody as a
preferred creditor. 1t was not
that Jones-that might have been
his nane-was not an honest,
industrious fellow, because every
body would testify that he sold
almost all the people who entered
his store, and none complained of
his incorrect conduct. In fact, he
was a most courteous and obliging
gentleman. But he did not adver-
tise. All, sad thoughts, too often
true, and as time had rolled on its
ceaseless flight, he had been sparing
the printers ink, and spelling his
prospects of a worthy patronage
then as later. The people at large,
the general public, who must be
sent for, if one would have them
come, knew nothing of Jones, or
his methods. They knew him not,
simply because he did not init oduce
himself, and present his claims on
their transactions in his line.
This tale might be stretched
out columns in Length, and the
bare facts would cause some to
class it as fictitious gadzook. And
the reasons given why Jones failed
most gloriouslymay one day just
fit your case. Jones is now beyond
redemption, look out for yourself,
that you do not follow his footsteps.
Advertise. Runnels COUNT
Ledger.
The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1905-11-21
How One Woman Keeps Young

How to keep young is one OF the
questions of perennial interest to
the feminine mind. Anelie Rives,
the noted author, who is said to
look like a girl in her teens, re-
Gently told of her reply to a physi-
clan who wrote her to send him the
secret of what he called her per-
petual youth.
I wrote back that he must con-
slider the cost, she said. 1t is a
cost that few of his fashionable
patients would make, for l rise at
7 or 7:30, ride or walk in the coun-
try roads, live close to my books,
see few people, and retire at 10.
What fashionable woman could en-
dure my life? 1 remember thinking
about it one winter morning, when
l was walking alone, the crisp,
cracking snow under my feet, the
fairy outline of gossamer frost re-
vealing every twig of bush or tree,
and I was so invigorated and hap
Ply that l could have whistled like
a boy with delight; but if had
been a woman of fashion couldn' t
have endured the silence, the empty
distances, the quiet; why, woman
of fashion would die in my place,
and 1 am quite sure that l should
in hers.
1t is in such solitude and close
communion with nature, in the
home of her chilhood-an old
fashioned rambling country home
in Albemarle county, Virginia
that much of Amelie Rives' liter
airy work is one.--Southern Mes
senger.
The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1905-11-21

THE Corpus Christi Caller says
we are always hearing about the
snan behind the counter, the man
behind the gun, ETC., but very
little is said about the man ahead
1t is all right to boost the man
who is ahead. but please tell us
what would happen if there was
no man behind the counter, and
none behind the gun. 1t IS in
formation we are after.
The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1905-11-21

HIS honor, BRYAN Callaghan,
MAYOR of the Alamo City, has been
turned down by the court OF APP
meals at San Antonio in his attempt
TO control the commission in that
CITY. In the FIVE months he has
been in Office Mayor Csllaghan has
snent about $500 of the people s
money in maintaining special po-
Iicemen and firemen, and now the
salaries of the regular men, have
TO be paid. Who will lose that $50
900 needlessly spent?-BRoWNs-
VILE HERALD.
THE HERALD man has probably
noticed the result of the election IN
San Antonio last Tuesday. The
Deople endorsed Callaghan by a
large majority, in electing men OF
his choice to serve as Police and
Fire Commissioners. The old
"Comish, 3" with its Colonies,
Lent Colonies and Majors were
told TO 90 away back, etc. Watcn
the supreme court reverse the court
.of anneals. The money spent by
Cs1laghan was fully authorized by
the Citv Council. Wilson County
Journal.
Ives, his people endorsed
Mavor Callaghan, and THE HER
am has no more to say on the sub
5acf
The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1905-11-21
JUDGE w. W. Glass of Gonzales

JUDGE w. W. Glass of Gonzales
will be a candidate for congress
against Hon. Geo. F. Burgess.
Judge Glass states that his formal
announcement will be made later
on Gonzales Globe.
If he does there will be more
oieces of broken Glass than he ever
heard of after the next campaign.
Burgess is a whole team and It Will
take something more substantial
than glass to stand any chance OF
winning.
The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1905-11-21

SOME of our exchanges are asst
ing in the distribution of lots of
free advertising by sending out
ready print supplements.
The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1905-11-21

QUESTION of the hour: Did you
go to the show, and how much did
If cost your
The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1905-11-21

Ca#tion is the golden mean; anX-
7ety is as much an extreme as
~ecklessnesS.
The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1905-11-21

THE HERALD carries a full line
of stationery, and does good and
prompt work.
The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1905-11-21
CrankS VS.. Croakers.

Don't be a croaker. If the world
doesn't suit you, plan to do your
part toward making it go around
the way you want it to. You may
be called a crank for your plans,
but better be crank than a clod.
Cranks have been found necessary
to give things a turn ever since the
world began.
The history of our own country
tells us that it was religious cranks
who settled it. independent, anti
slavery cranks did their duty by
the nation, temperance and other
reform cranks are as busy today.
We are proud of the grand re-
suits of the work of our cranky
ancestors-why not be numbered
ourselves among the fearless cranks
who make the world better?-Ex-
change.
WANTED-To see at our store all
people who are particular about
quality of their drugstore goods
and service they receive. We can
satisfy the most exacting.
1O-21-tf Eagle Drug Store.
The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1905-11-21
GAVE UP SuFPoRTER

sstvOre a suppOgter for ysaEs, for
NY womb, which had crowded every
thing down before Il, writes Mrs. S. J.
ChFiSnsn, Of Evansville, N. Y. "Esui-
feEed untold misery and could hardly
walk. After taking Cardui gave up
my supporter and can now be on my
feet half day at time"
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1905-03-30
Inhabitants of the Sudan

A %prospector for gold in the Sudan,
an Englishman, writes thus of some of
the characteristics of the. people of
that region: The natives are keen
spoi.sme and good stalkers, and re-
srect a good shot. The different
tribes are i~nnumerable, the typical
Sudanese being a fine, strapping man,
but with peculiarly thin legs. Among
themselves the men are gods and the
women beasts of burden. They are
comparatively intelligent and soon
learn if handled properly. If a man
hurts himself in any way the others
look upon it as a huge joke. One in
cident in this connection is worthy Of
record. A crocodile had been shot.
but, though apparently dead, was not
quite so. A servant started to skin
it. The beast opened his mouth and
snapped at him, but fortunately only
caught one of his fingers, which he
took clean off below the knucde. The
other natives yelled and danced with
delight. The man never murmured.
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1905-03-30
Electricity in a ROcker

Two Denver men have Just patented
an electrical device that promises to
bring fame and fortune to them. They
are Gaines NJ. Allen, an attorney, and
S. M. Cawker, a gentleman who has
a turn for mechanics, and their device
is an electrical rocking chair, II can
be attached to any ordinary rocking
chair and is so arranged that the chair
does not appear unlike the chair seen
in every house. Under the seat IS
placed a small dynamo about as large
as two fists, To this is attached two
brass rods. miniature walking beams,
which operate the dynamo when the
chair is roc.;ed.
In other words, the rocking. of the
chair causes the rods te move back
and forth, and they set the dynamo in
motion. Concealed wires lead from
the dynamo to the arms Of the chair
and to receive the electricity one has
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1905-03-30
Prototype of David Harum'

One of the quaint characters who
formerly lived at Hampstead was OIL
iyer Hendrickson, says the Brooklyn
Eagle. He was a great lover of
horses and something of a veterina-
rian. Daily and hourly he murdered
the kings English. His favorite
smile was, Jess so with a boss"
He was once heard to say that he
never failed to notice the physician"
in which a horse laid down.
A neighbor of divers had a horse
of which he was very fond and which
he permitted Oliver to use at frequent
intervals. On one occasion the own
er's little son went driving with Oil
yer and much to the latter's disgust
kept nesting about in his seat, asking
to handle the Teins ami urging his
companion to let the horse go at top
speed. Returning. Oliver told the
lads father that he was the most dis
restless boy he ever saw.
The owner of the horse soon after
was seized with a serious illness and
for q time was near death. Oliver
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1905-03-30
Told Of Russian Soldier

In one of Count Tolstoy's earlier
stories, THE Wood-Felling," the nov
elist characterizes the Russian soldier
as follows: "A Russian soldiers
spirit does not rest on easily inham-
mable enthusiasm which cools quick
ly, like the courage Of southern ma
tons; it is as difficult to infame him
as it is to depress him. He does not
need scenes, speeches, war CRIES,
songs and dramas; on the contrary,
he needs quiet, order and an absence
of anything affected. In a Russian, a
real Russian soldier, you will never
find any Dragging, swagger or a de-
sire to befog or excite himself in a
time of danger; on the contrary, mod
esty, simplicity and a capacity for see
ing in time Of peril something quite
else than the danger are the distinct
i've features of his character.
Il have seen a soldier wounded in
the leg, who in the first instant
thought only of the hole in his new
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1905-03-30
lmnrouinn the VernacuIar.

It is hoped that n of the first
things done aboard the new battle
ship South Carolina when it is com
pleted will be to organize a class in
the pronunciation of its name. Let
the crew. from the captain down, be
trained to South Carolina" The
word Carolina" is pleasing to the ear,
and is. in its American application,
of historic significance. The early col
ony was named from the Latin in hon
or Charles II. who made the original
grant to the eight lords proprietors,
in 1868. 1t is, therefore, particularly
distasteful to South Carolinans to hear
their state referred to as South Call
ma" and themselves as South Calee-
mans" Such corruptions of the two
words are totally ineXcusable. Let the
crew Of the South Carolina be
trained in the proper proI notation of
the name, and perhaps in time north
erners who come in contact with the
men of the ship will catch the habit,
But, for heavens sake, do not have a
South Calina" in the United States
navy.-Columbia, S. c, State.
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1905-03-30

! Couldn't Name the Apostles


meekly came from a voice in the cor
ner.
"Ill be blamed If he was. He was a
disciple" came the curt reply.
Weren't the disciples and the Apos-
ties the same thing?" inquired the
meek voice, getting a shade holder.
Bartholomew was suggested and
accepted by several.
What's the matter with Peter?' ex-
claimed a modest young member o.
the diplomatic corps, who had hitherto
been silent.
How many does that maker some
body asked, and they counted up ten
for sure, with as many more doubt
full.
Lets look in the Bible" suggested
another, and the Good Book was over
hauled in vain. Then an cncyclopae-
dia was appealed to, but it was not en-
tirely satisfactory, for it included
Thomas and Andrew in the list, and
the justice of the Supreme court and
W Of the Senators were positive
that Andrew was not an Apostle. All
of which teaches the great usefulness
and need of Sunday schools.
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1905-03-30
ne Decline Of chIvaIry.

Chivalry grew up in Europe as a
peculiar institution after the fall of
the Roman empire and it tiourished
through the middle ages. It's decay
set in when Cervantes in his famous
Don Quixote" made it the object Of
his delicious and satirical ridicule.
Long after the institution of chivalry
disappeared its spirit survived in re,
spect and courtesy to women, and
this has been considered n of the
highest manifestations Of manhood.
In the past few decades it has fallen
more and more into disuse because
the conventional social barriers be
tween the sexes are being rapidly
leveled and the women are claiming
for their sex political, social and
moral equality with men, and thus the
old order changes and the new social
relations are growing up between the
sexes.
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1905-03-30

Very friendly are the natives,
treating an Englishman with great re-
spect. Some of the tribes, however,
are quite scared at the sight of a
white man, and Several of the ex-
tremely small villages were deserted
On our approach. Usually. on a
strangers arrival in a village. the
sheik comes forward and welcomes
one, orders an 'augrib' %(native bed
stead for ones use, and over a cup
of coffee or bowl of sugar-water en-
tertains his guest. The sheiks are, on
the whole, a very fine race of men and
in courtesy of manner compare with
the most polished European.
"On leaving the village the sheik
usually walks at the head of ones
horse, accompanied by his two or
three chief men, and, on reaching the
outskirts of his village, points out the
way to the next hating place, grasps
you hand to wrist, and thus You bid
farewell to one of natures own gen.
tlemen."
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1905-03-30

looked after the horse carefully dur
ing his neighbours illness. Occasion
ally he would call at The sick mans
house to report conditions at the
stable. On such occasions he would
tell his friends wife hat so and 80
had made an offer for the horse in the
event of the owner dying. But" said
oliver, 81 told 'em they'd have TO bid
higher'n that; l am going to look out
for the wilder" Cheerful %conversa-
ton that for a woman who knew she
might be widowed any day.
After a time the sick man recov.
cred, and when he was out Oliver
calmly told him: Il was dreadful
'fraid We was goin' to die, Mr.. c.;
but l never let your wife know how
scairt l was. I kept her courage up,
l tell ye."
Another remark of divers to a
horse owner was: 81 kin cure most
anything in a horse, but We must new
er let one of yours get a foundry on
him; l can't never cure that" OF
course ze meant %foundered.
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1905-03-30
ROMANCE IN CONNECTION
WITH SWEDISH DYNASTY

man capable of %contending with Ma
poleon. The match. as might have
been expected under the circum-
stances, did not turn out happily.
Be%rnadotte, on becoming crown
prince and subsequently king Of Swe-
den, lost his head so completely that,
forgetful of the fact that he himself
was a peasant from the Pyrenees, he
~reproached his charming wife with
the lowliness of her birth, declaring
that he had been guilty of a terrible
mesalliance and that if he had only
waited he might have had any prin-
cess of the blood in Europe for the
asking-this, too, in spite of the fact
that lie had stood as a soldier on duty
on what is now the Place de la Con-
corde at Paris on the occasion of the
execution of King Louis XVI and that
he had taken part in the shout Of
Mort aux Tyrans'' which greeted the
exhibition of the severed head of
their monarch to the multitude
words which, along with a Phrygian
cap, were found tattooed or his right
arm after his death.
Inherited J%osephine's Eyes.
Queen Desiree, whose sister Julia
married King Joseph Bonaparte Of
Spain and lived with him for a time
at ~BordentOwn, N. J.. survived her
husband for many years and died
shortly before the Franco-German
war, universally beloved in Sweden,
and. strangely enough, without ever
having revisited her native land since
the overthrow of the great Napoleon.
1t is by an irony of fate that Queen
Desiree's only son, oscar l, should
have fallen in love with Josephine de
Leuchtenberg, daughter of Eugene de
Beauharnais, who was the only son
of the Empress Josephine, for whose
sake she had been Tilted by Napoleon.
In spite of his mothers opposition
Oscar l insisted upon marrying To-
sephine of Leuchtenberg, and in this
way the present king of Sweden, Os'
car II, finds himself a grandson Of
Desiree Clary and a gr-eat-grandson
of Empress Josephine, whose singu'
larly beautiful and expressive eyes he
alone of all her descendants is said to
have inherited.-"EX-Attache" IN
Pittsburg Dispatch.
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1905-03-30

At a dinner party in Washington,
which was attended by some Of the
most prominent men in the national
capital, one of the diners remarked
that he once sat in the Union League
club in New York with Roscoe Conk-
ling, Chester A. Arthur and seeral
other distinguished gentlemen, who
had been carefully educated in relig-
ious families, and that none of them
was able to name the twelve apostles.
That's easy said a Senator, brash-
ly, beginning, Matthew. Mark, Luke
and John, bless the bed that l lie
on, Paul, the two Jameses, Jude, Bar
nabas-" Here he stopped with some
embarrassment.
Timothy" suggested a major gem
eral, who is a vestryman in an Episco-
pal church.
Nonsense" answered a Senator.
Timothy was a disciple of Paul. He
wasn't one Of the twelve apostles"
"~Nicodemus," suggested one Of the
company.
Jeremiah" said another.
"Julas was one of the Apostles"
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1905-03-30

%sheepskin cloak, and an artillery out
rider, who, creeping beneath a horse
ttat was killed under him, began UNI
bucklinS the girths to save the saddle.
Who does not remember the incident
Of the siege of Gergebel, when the
fuse of a loaded bomb caught fire in
the laboratory? An artillery sergeant
ordered two soldiers to take the bomb
and threw it into the ditch and the
soldiers did not run to the nearest
SPOT, by the colonei's tent, which
stood near the ditch. but took it far
Their on, so as not to wake the gentle
man asleep in the tent. The men
we're consequently both blown to
pieces.
Il remember also how in the expe-
dition of 1852, something led a young
soldier while in action to say that he
thought the platoon would never es.
cape. And tie whole platoon angrily
attacked him for such evil words.
which they did not like even to re.
peat"
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1905-03-30

only to rest the hands and arms on
the arms of the chair.
A gentle rocking sends a gentle
current of electricity through the body
Of the person in the chair. A more
rapid rocking increases the strength of
the current, but no matter how VIC
lent the rocking the current generated
will not be strong enough to cause any
injury. For those who need electrical
treatment the chair will be a boon,
for the treatment may be taken White
reading or resting. Attached to the
dynamo is a covered wire ending in
a cylinder, which may be taken out
and used to send a current through
the face or any portion of the body
which needs special treatment.
The inventors believe they can
manufacture the chair at little more
cost than an ordinary rocker and they
expect soon to put it on the market.
Denver Times.
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1905-03-30
MrgCorQ MLyon

The following letter is only one of
many thousands which ate on file in
the Pinkham office, and 90 TO prove
beyond question that Lydia L. Pink
hams Vegetable Compound must be a
remedy of great merit, otherwise it
could not produce such marvellous re-
suits among sick and ailing M
Dear Mrs. Pinkham:-
About nine months ago I was a great suf-
ferer with womb trouble, which caused me
severe pain extreme nervousness and fire.
quent headaches, from which the doctor
failed to relieve me. l tried Lydia e. Pink
HAMS Vegetable Compound, and within a
short time felt better, and after taking five
bottles of it l was entirely cured. Therefore
heartily recommend your Compound as a
splendid uterine tonic. 1t makes tine monthly
periods regular and without pain and what
a blessing it is to find such a remedy after so
many doctors fail to help you. l am pleased
to recommend it TO all suffering women. -
Mrs. Sara Wilson, 81 East Sd Street, Cincin-
natl, Ohio.
II you have suppressed or painful
menstruation, weakness of the stom-
ach, Indigestion, bloating, leucorrhea,
flooding, nervous prostration, dizzi-
ness, f%aintness, "don't-care and
want-to-be-left- alone" feeling. ex-
citability, backache or the blues, these
are sure indications of female wax
ness, some arrangement of the uterus
or ovarian trouble. In such cases there
is one tried and true remedy-Lydia
E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound.
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1905-03-30
Born to Die in Bed.

An Italian of the name of Robarto
was painting some of the iron work
of the bridge that spans the great
gorge at Victoria falls, Africa, the
other day. The plank on which he
was standing tilted and p~reeiptated
him down the side of the gorge. He
struck the rock three times. turning a
half somersault on each occasion, and
eventually landed among the founda-
lions a hundred feet below Beyon6
three scalp wounds and a severe shak
ing and bruising he was mona thq
worse for his adventure.
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1905-03-30
MERIT is PROVED
RECORD or A GREAT MEDICINE
A Prominent Cincinnati Woman Tells
How Lydia p. Pinkham's Vegetable
Compound Completely Cured Her.

The great good Lydia e. Pinkbam's
Vegetable Compound is doing among
the women of America is attracting
the attention of many of our leading
scientists, and thinking people gener-
ally.
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1905-03-30

THE G. w. FAIR CORNICE WORKS
co. Metal skylights, stamped steel ceting-f
piping and slate, tile and metal roofs, etc
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1905-03-30

The New England Electric Co.. 15Y elake
VI, RI fr Catalogue s o SSar ELECTRICAL SUPPLIES
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1905-03-30

For Every Service
DYNAMOS MOTORS
CROCKER-WHEELER COMPANY
Electrical Engineers, Denver
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1905-03-30

INTERNATIONAL. STOCK FOOD
WRITE G. E. ADV q Co. DENVER
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1905-03-30
BROWN PALACE HOTEL sso pPSo1Z.
European plan, s1.5O and upward.

COLUMBIA HOTEL. si S 6 from rom III, I'm
st. Rates $50 to 81. 100. Xmerlecan plan.
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1905-03-30

ri AnKSulTucj and wagonmakers' supplies.
nLhuhOWll no wholesale and retail. Moore
Hardware & Iron Co.. 18th s. Wazec. Denver,
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1905-03-30

The A. E. MEEK TRUNK & BAG MFG. CO.
1901 10Th St., Denver, Colo. Write for catalogue.
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1905-03-30
Denver Directory

every where for s27.O0. Send for our free cat
alogue OF saddles and harness. Lowest prices
in the IT,. s. The Fred Mueller saddle ~ llar~
ness Co.. 1413-i9 Larimer st.. Denver, Colo.