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The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1905-12-08
Where There's a Will There's a Way.

A prominent Boston physician
tells of the many ridiculous re-
quests that were received by in
vestigators in connection with the
Roentgen rays when the expert
ments were first taken up in that
city. Hundreds of applications
were received from various parts
of New England from individuals
who had or imagined they had
bullets and sundry other foreign
substances in the different portions
of their anatomies. One investi-
gator received a most remarkable
request from man living i'll Haver-
hill, Mass. His communication
was couched in something like the
following form
Il have had a bullet in my
thorax for nigh onto ten years,
and, as 1 am too busily engaged all
day to come to Boston, 1 trust that
you will find it convenient to come
here and locate the bullet. I am
positive the case would we'll repay
your coming. But if you can not
come Yourself, then send your ap-
paratus and I'll get one of our
local doctors to use it.
The medical man to whom this
letter was addressed being of a
Humorous turn, his reply was as
follows
TO my regret 1 shall be unable
to visit you; nor can I send you
the apparatus. But in the event
that you should find it absolutely
impossible to visit Boston, if you
will send me your thorax, I assure
you that 1 will do the best I can
for you. "-Success Magazine,
The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1905-12-08
Your Fortune Is in Yourself.

It is not what man gets,
says Henry Ward Beecher, but
what a man is, that he should think
Of" 1t does not matter how vel
you are buttressed by the accident
of birth, or wealth, or pull, " Oh
social influence, or all of these, =
you will never succeed to any great
extent if you have not in yourself
that which makes you independent
of props and crutches.
There is no open door to the
temple of success. Every man who
enters FORCES his own key. He
can not effect an entrance for any
one else. Not even his own chill
dren can pass where he passes.
The key that will unlock great
opportunity to you must be forged
by yourself. No outside power
no help from influential friends or
relations,-can fashion it.
"Oh, I'll study and get ready,
and then, maybe, the chance will
come, said yound Lincoln, when
the good Mrs. Crawford laughed at
his joking:suggestion that he might
some day be president. Would
any power on earth, think you,
have opened the door to the White
House to the poor, awkward back
woods boy, if he had not drilled
his powers, and developed to the
utmost those qualities which make
men leaders?
As a rule, the youth who I'M
locks the door of opportunity and
makes his mark in the world fights
his way up to his own leaf. What
others do for him does not amount
TO much in comparison with what
he does tor himself. The pamp-
cred youth, who is brought up in
luxury. and not obliged to work,
W hose strength is never called
upon, rarely discovers what there
is in him. 1t is the boys who are
bound out, crowned out, and even
kicked out, that often turn out;
while those who are pampered fail
to come out. 30. S. Marden in
Success.
The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1905-12-08
How This?

We offer One Hundred Dollars
Reward for any case of Catarrh that
cannot be cured by Halls Catarrh
cure.
F.J.CHENEY & CO., Toledo, o.
We, the undersigned, have known
F. ]. Ceney for the last Is years,
aud believe him perfectly honorable
in all business transactions and f.
nancially able to carry out any
obligations made his firm.
WALDING, KINNAN & MARVIN,
Wholesale Druggists, Toledo, D.
Halls Catar Cure is taken in
ternally, acting directly upon
the blood and mucous surfaces of
the system. Testimonials sent
free. Price IS cents per bottle.
Sold by all Druggists.
Take Halls Family Pills for
constipation.
The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1905-12-08
NOTICE.
for you.

Sealed proposals for the purchase
of the Market Revenue" of the
city of Brownsville, Texas, for the
year 1906 commencing January /,
1906 and ending December 81,
1906, will be received at my office
in this city, until Monday, Deem
Der IS, 1905, at 9 O'Clock a. m. A
copy of the Ordinance regulating
the collection of Market dues as
passed by the Hon. City Council
May 25th, 1908, and under which
these proposals are asked, may be
seen at my office. The city reserves
the right to reject any and all bids
Proposals should be addressed to
the Hon. Mayor and Board of Al
dermen of the city of Brownsville,
Texas, and marked, Proposals for
the purchase of Market Revenue. I"
For further information apply to
the undersigned.
BY order of the City Council,
FRANK CHAMPION,
Secretary City of Brownsville, Tex
as. 1868
The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1905-12-08
TEXAS WEALTH.
Over Sixty Million Produced Annually
Some Figures as to Fruits and Fowl.

Austin, Texas, December GA
statistical report of various Texas
industries has been issued under
the direction of the State agricul-
tural department. This report
states that there are approximately
IA, 240, All chickens in Texas. The
number of ducks are placed at
PA, 654; geese, 435, 700; turkeys,
The total number of eggs laid by
thesefowls annually is placed at
so, 942 $50, having value of S11, :
305.6 Texas occupies fifth place
in number of chickens of all other
States.
The report also states that there
are 8, 248,358 peach trees in the
country. There are 1,684,S46 ap-
pie trees in the State, and their
annual production is about SOL 900
bushels. The number of pecan
trees in the State is 35S, 945. There
are l 100000 grape vines in the
State, and this industry is growing
rapidly.
Texas ranks first as a honey
producing State. The total num-
Der of swarms is nearly 500, 200,
and their annual production ex-
ceeds $500, 900 per annun.
The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1905-12-08
Phone Etiquette.

We have all felt at times that
the telephone still lacks a great
deal to be a perfect machine; that
there is inattention, poor connec-
ton, needless delay and sometimes
almost impudence in the telephone
service, but how few ever feel that
it's not an automatic machine that
they are using, that the voice they
hear answering their impatience is
not a part of the machine, that
there is a personal equation to be
considered, a woman away off
somewhere in the unidentified
central who has feelings and
self-respect, just as other women
have; a woman who will recognize
a cross tone Just as quickly as if
she were visibly present, and a
woman entitled to respectful treat
ment, just as much as if she were
in her own home. The fact that
you can stand miles away and talk
into her ear does not detract from
her right to the kind word and
civil treatment. Victoria Times.
The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1905-12-08

THE Commercial club of Salt
Lake City. Utah, is trying to turn
the trend of sightseeing to our
own beautiful country, before Wis
iting foreign lands. The average
American traveller knows very lit
tie of the beauties of his native
land, but can elaborate at length
upon the enhancing scenery of the
Alps, the grandeur of Rome, etc.
There is a land of pure delight
west of the Mississippi, the beau
ties of whieh, for some unaccount-
able reason, fail to attract the
traveller, while more than $780,
100000 were spent last year by
American sight-seers abroad.
The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1905-12-08

THE many friends of Otto Praeger
will be glad to know he has been
selected as the Washington reprep-
sentative of Texas papers and also
of several northern journals. He
has been with the San Antonio
Express many years, and deserves
the promotion that has came to
him. Otto Preager was born and
reared in Victoria and is a warm
personal friend of the proprietor Of
THE HERALD, with whom he has
played marbles, long before the
journalistic bee had disturbed the
even tenor of his way. Mr.. Prae-
ger is a deserving man and THE
HERALD congratulates him and
the state papers that he has been
selected to go to Washington.
The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1905-12-08

DoN'r forget to talk up that hor-
ticultural meeting. 1t is very
necessary matter, and should be rec
ognized as such by every one in
this section.
The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1905-12-08
By the Hour.

Mr.. Brown thought the carpenter
had taken a ridiculously long time
over a few paltry repairs. He
went to see him, and found the
carpenters son alone.
Look here, nv lad (thus he
began), I should like to know
when you expect to finish here?"
Well. sir. said the young
man, fathers gone to look at an
other job. If ha gets it we shall
finish today; if he don't, goodness
knows when we shall fnish!"
The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1905-12-08

A girl can make an awful lot of
trouble by not letting you kiss her
when she wants you to.
The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1905-12-08
The


isthe best equip
ped printing
Office south of
Sa n Antonio,
so what's the
use of sending
away for your
printing when
we can give you
anything in our
line at the right
price, in any
style, plain or
fancy, while
you wait. " Wv
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1905-11-09
THE LAW OF T
Its Decay Due to White Race Travel
Ing In All Parts Of the World.
CFrom the London Lancet.)

(From the London Lancet)
race into regions of the earth which are
inhabited by colorod races may be ga d
to have eliminated in the recent expcdi-
ton to Lhassa. which probably marks
the beginning of "A sapping process des-
tined ultimately to lead to the fall of the
last citadel of immemorial custom and
prejudice says. Under the title or 1.-The
decay of the law of CUSTOM an interest
ing address was recently delivered at the
4th annual melting of the Devonshire
association by the president. Basil II.
Thomson. governor of the DartnloOr con-
Wet prison. The laws of custom which
have governed thccolored races for
less generations are, ii is pointed out,
gradually breaking down.. though it is
estimated that some 500. co... 600 Of the 1,jn).
M0,0oo constituting the population of the
globe are still comparatively Nncivilized
ard stagnant under the influence of these
laws. The evcr-increasinE facilities of in
accommodation must make steadily
for a great uniformity of view conduct
among the different races of makind. for
the white race question is of the first i'm
portance as to what part the colored race
will come to play in the affairs Of the
world when they shall have assimilated
the teaching of western civilization.
With this is bound up the question of
the relative mental capacity of the white
and colorod people. 1t would be rash
to assert that any race is inferior in
mental endowment to and inherently in
capable of reaching the mental level of
another. though plenty of white men are
to be found who. after years of residence
in Africa or the East. speak confidently
of the general mental inferiority of the
colorcd races. Even instances in which ii
is manifest that no such inferiority en-
lists. there is, they say, and always will
be. a profound difference between color
ed and white races in the manner of
viewing things. This is to maintain that
a mans attitude of mind is as innate and
as little liable to alteration rs is the color
of his skin.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1905-11-09

hrourh, before Justice Nj. w. Chamber
lain of Washington on Thursday and
were placod under bonds of $50 each for
nppearance at a continued hearing to
he held November 81. 1t is currently re-
portcd that the Comstock brothers have
Frequently violated the Sunday and other
hunting laws. When asked regarding the
results of this seasons deer hunting,
Warden Pike said that it Is too early to
tell Just what was done rs the figures are
not vet all in. liut he said that so far as
he knows no does were shot in Orange
county and in the town of Marshfield Tour
bucks were brought down.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1905-11-09
M MANAGES FARM.
Has Been Successful and In Wealthy
Lives Alone hut In Handy with
n~evO1ver.

Living all alone on n farm eight miles
from Brodhcad. retiring and practically
unknown beyond the circles of her friends.
Miss Lucinda Lake personally manages
two farms in the neighborhood of Brod-
head a%ssregating 2m acres, says the Mil
wHukec Sentinel. She hires men to work
in the timber lands during the winter.
and she also transacts all the business
connected with extensive real estate hold
ings in the Dakotas. besides looking after
the rentals and sales of city property
in Brodhead.
Miss Lake is wealthy. although She dis
claims the fact. She is II success, but she
modcstly refuses to admit it. She is Il
spinster and takes pride in the fact. She
is exceedingly generous and charitable
Money which Miss Lake gives for charity
she earns by hard work on the farm.
hiring herself instead of Il man and only
allowing herself % cents II day, because
she cannot put in as long hours at out
door work as a man could. BY clearing
away brush and burning out stumps she
earned a generous contribution toward
the private rescue work among Milwau-
KEGS unfortunate girls and other lines
of work in which she is interested.
Eccentric in many way Miss Lake or
ders her entire life by the same unbend-
ing system which regulates her charity
giving. She allows herself % cents a day
for board and clothes. the stipulated
amount for clothing being s25 "A year.
Sleeping always with a revolver within
reach. practicing frequently at shooting
at n mark and determined in her decision
to shoot without warming anyone who at
tempts to enter her house unbiddefi. she
is not afraid of being molcsted. Neigh
bors who visit her in the evening speak
from the gate in order not to friehten
her. and to avoid accidents.
Il have never had an unpleasant eX-
pcrienoe,' said Miss Lake yesterday.
"Whon | first began living alone ] was
afraid that the boys might play jokes
on m" and that | might injure them, but
l let them know | had a revolver. one
OF them came to me one day and asked
| ne if | could shoot. | invited him to 70
out with me and see me practices and You
can be sure that the boys don't bother.
II rent out portions of the farms and
only hire men myself for the timber
land work in the winter. Even then !
try as much as possible to get the men
to do the work by the piece. for | have
found that when | hire them b.. the day
there is more danger of their imposing
on me-
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1905-11-09
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.

Girls dream they have curly hair tn,
way men do that they are John ID
Rockefeller.
People jcer at women who kiss DOGS
hat it Is much better for that kind than
to try to raise children.
When u man can enjoy three squar,
meals a day it is mighty hard to max.
him believe that the cour try il going t.
the dogs.
y woman Is so mistrustful that whei
she Is travelling she never feels sure til,
train will stop when it gets to the end O
the road.-New York Press.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1905-11-09
VERMONT SHEEP INDUSTRY GOOD
Hrom the Middlebury Rogistor.)

(TTUm IIt MIUUTtDTTN K'ElSt'r.1
&. A.. Chapman OF FcrrisburGh, secre-
tary of the Vermont MerinO Sheep Breed
ers' association. says that the sheep in
dustry in Vermont has not been so good
in years as at present. The price Of wool
has advanced 80 per cent. over Il year ago
and there is IA revival in raising Merinu
sheep. Quantities of this breed are be-
ing shipped to Australia for intorhreedins
and the market has picked up immensely
in Vermont. Mr.. Chapman predicts big
things for the Vermont Merino again.
Farms are being stocked with them and
the sheep of the coarscr grade woods are
being disposed OF.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1905-11-09
How's Thisl

We otter One Hundred Dollars Reverb foS
any case Of Catsrrh that cannot DO cured By
Halls CatssTh Cure.
FL. CHENEY &c., Props, Toledo. o.
We the undssigned, have known r. J. che.
ney for the last u years, and believe him per.
fectly honorable IN oil business transactions
and 6nsuciaily sbis to carry out any obiiga.
WsSrxTSuzzx. ~hcie.als DrugG!sts. Toledo, o.
WAIpiEs, KInHANe nAsvlN, Wholesale Drug.
Raj s c:t.ssS Care = taken internally, .stas
dirsctiy Spoa ths 6loed and mucous sufiscsse
the svcten. Price, 76e. per bottle. Sold by o0
os1i.i,.:, ~, Ptis ~ r. e: bat.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1905-11-09

1t is probable that the figures gener'
are too large. although it is to be ad-
mitted that to assert that such is the case
in any particular instance invites con
troversy, to say the least. The provinces
little known to foreigners. ~S0,chuan,
Honan, etc, are the uncertain element
So good an authority on Szechuan as
A. Hosie estimates the population OF
that province at 5000, 00O, instead of al
most 1000. 900 as given in this table
Missionary accounts. however. lean &c
the larger misunderstanding American.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1905-11-09
OF CHINA.

The latest authoritative attempt to &c,
at the actual number of people in the
Chinese Empire has been made by tn,
officials of the imperial maritime GUS
toms. The following estimate. furnished
by Consul Anderson, covers the treaty
port provinces in detail:
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1905-11-09

Washington. Nov. 5.-Postmastcr-Gen.
eral Cortelyou yesterday issued an order
excepting all fourth class postmasters
from the operation OF the order prohibit.
ing n~otoriai charges by notaries public
who are officers or employees OF the execu-
tive service Of the government
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1905-11-09
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CLUBBING LIST.
The Free Press and Other Periodicals I'd
Low Rates to One Address.

The Weekly FREE PRESS can be obQ
tanned in combination with other leading
periodicals at low rates. 70 prevent uns
necessary correspondence we will stats
that after the subscription has begun
notice OF IL change of address, or anything
concerning the receipt of the other periods
icals, should be sent directly to the office
of that periodical. The Weekly FREE
PRESS and any one of the following
periodicals. will be sent to any one addres
for one year at the prices annexed:
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1905-11-09

proposes 10 have his own supply of
plants for ornamenting the grounds in
the spring.
IMPROVEMENT FOR THE NURSES.
The nurses, taken as a whole n class
OF young men and women who Sacrifice
much comfort and uncomplainingly un
dergo many hardships in order thai their
charges bcreft Of reason shall lie pro-
J,erly cared for, have not been forgotten
i'm the improvements that are under way.
y large dining room where they can all
rongregate for meals is being arranged.
heretofore they have been compelled to
cat In the SAM room as their patients
and in many instances with surroundings
that give little zcst TO appetite, but as
soof. as the now dining room, can he
finished they will all gather in one room
and ENJOY their meals together. Eating
will then he transformed from "A part of
the drudgerics of the day to one of its
attractions and pleasures.
The escape rf Leroy Kent early in the
uiriner called attention to the old fash
toned locks which could be easily picked
on the criminals ward. 10 prevent tho
escape of any other criminals new locks
| have been placed on all the doors IN that
| ward, and the doors have also been
reinforced so that a person carnot break
through them.
THE CASE OF LEROY KENT.
| Tie case of Kent is one Of the queer
| ones which devclopc in the enforcement
If law. 1t will b, remembered that h,
escaped from the asylum early last sum
nier by picking three locks and getting
TN the roof of the building and from
there 20 the ground. While ont nc stole
Clothes to wear. robbed a house and got
into II scrapc with his uncle in which
the latter was nearly killed. He was
recently recaptured and is now i'm the
hospital. His minimum sentence has al
ready expired and the maximum nearly
So. There is no evidence OF insanity
about hin. now and he cannot be prose
cuted for any OF the misdomcanors he
committed while he WAS recently al
liberty. So there seems no other colrs,
open but to soon release this man, Whr
IS one Of the most desperate and con
firinrd criminals within the boundaries
Of the State.
Another procaution aiken is the pay
nlent of the curplovccs of the hospital
10y check instead Of cash. It was former
~ the custom for the bookkecper 1T the
hospital TIC take tn" surerintendent's
clicck for about 500 to the bank and
get it cashcd. This cash was kept ut tn,
hospital Over night and then the heir
was paid the mex day. The institution
has never lost Il dollar by this method
as it has been in charge of The sam,
efficient and honest boc kkGepcr. but il
seemed a safer method to allow the
money to remain in the bank and so the
check system of paying wages has beer
adopted.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1905-11-09
CANTON DAIRY MARKET.

Utica. N. r.. Nov. Son the Canton
dairy market 100 tub OF butter sold al
% a. cents and 200 oxes of twin
cheese at II Ia cents.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1905-11-09
GENERAL CONDITIONS.

OF the general life. nj the asylum little
ton has about so patients and these are
separated into classes as far as possible.
Each patient is allowed n good single
bed and so far ~ possible allowed 10
associate with other patients of his class.
Those able to work are provided with
work to do and many of them are more
then self supportins. They are better sup
piled with outside wraps and are given
more outdoor exercise than ever before.
The tubcrcular patients arc isolated from
the rest. and are treated according to
the most advanced ideas regarding that
disease. The nurses. about 20 in number
all hav rooms outside the ASYLUM
and ave home life comforts during their
hours off duty. Fifty of the finest Hol-
stein cows are kept IN the asylum farm
and all the milk they give is used for
the patients. Besides this some Young
rattle are kept to replace the dairy COWS
as they fail and at present the hospital
has abou. 80 steers to be used for work
and beef. Nearly every cow in the herd
is registered stock and kept in coidltion
In make good beef any dav. Nearly all
tho calves are disposed of at from SIS to
s-j each. farmers being glad to get them
for breeding purposes. Resides the hay
and ensilage produced on the farm there
was ever 1900 bushels of potatoes raised
this year and in the vegetable cellar
there are large quantities of %cabhaSes.
tuinips. carrots ard other garden pro-
IuCe.