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The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1906-04-18
RECLAlMING FARM LAND.
Italians Settling Deserted Farms in New
England.

The New York. New Haven &
Hartford is at present engaged in
interesting experiment, which,
strictly speaking. is hardly such
any longer. as its efforts have been
crowned with success from the be-
ginning, says the Technical World.
The road covers the lower half of
New England with an astounding
network of lines, and as a result of
the opening of the richer lands of
the West and South the men who
had been toiling on the impoverish-
ed New England farms, small and
stony, forsook them, took their
families and left New England.
The price of land declined until
there came TO be many farms that
could be bought for 81 an acre and
at last a great number that were
entirely abandoned. By reason of
the road carrying to and from
Italians who had landed in New
York and wished to go to the cot
ton mills of Lowell or the shoe
shops of Lynn, ETC., and Italians
who had landed in Boston and
wished to go 20 New York the
news OF these abandoned farms
came to be noised about among the
Italians and they began to take
them up The men would work in
the nearest factory and the women
and children cultivate the ground.
The Italian is a born irrigator,
and now all along the New Haven
road can be seen gardenlike estates
that were abandoned by their pre-
vious owners. The road was quick /
to see the trend of the Italians and |
is bent on encouraging it. 1t is /
probable that combined agricul-
tural and industrial population of
Italians, Poles and Portuguese,
aggregating millions in number,
will be gained to the territory tray
ersed By the road.
The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1906-04-18

Halletsville Herald: There was
a book agent of the feminine gender
in Halletsville last week and she
worked the town to a queen s taste.
She was either trembling on the
verge of lunacy or endowed with
a superabundance of gall, with in
dications favoring the first men
toned. She met nearly all the
business men in Halletsville to
their sorrow. There was undoubt-
eddy something wrong with the
woman mental condition, for she
labored under the delusiou that
all Texans were inhuman and in
sulting, and lnisconstrued nearly
everything said to her. Many men
subscribed to the magazine she was
representing simply to be rid of
her presence. Word of her presence
in the city and her mental condi-
dition was waited around and all
Thursday nearly every business
man had an eye on the outlook for
her appearance and the other seek
ing a successful avenue of escape.
1t is hard to tell properly the tongue
lashing she administered some of
our citizens.
The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1906-04-18
Reflections Ola Bachelor.

A girl has a lot of tact when you
kiss her to pretend you didn't.
People can enjoy doing most any
thing unless they make their living
by it.
Il makes a man a lot madden to
have to pay a IS gas bill than to
lose twenty at poker.
The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1906-04-18
PLANT beans.
PLANT onions.

WHEN you write for THE HER
AID sign your name so we may
know who you are, or your items
gsIay find the waste basket.
The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1906-04-18
WHY? WHY? WHY?
Why will you send off for goods when you can
buy them at home just as cheap and save post
age, time and unsatisfactory results? "
The Following are Few of My Many SIedge
Hammer Prices:

Spools J. & Coats Thread 25c
:, Coats Crochet Cotton .25c
Beautiful Lawns, per yard ) To- ---IOc
Sterling Percales, 56-inch, per yard 1Oc
Derby Madras, 36-nch per yard II l-2c
Cream Brliantine 36-inch, per yard- - Sc
Assorted Colors Brilantine, 44-inch per ward - Sc
Bleached Domestic, per yard 5 to -- 1Oc
Unbleached Domestic per yard, 1-2 to--------1Oc
Standard c canvass per yard 5 SC
Calicoes, per yard ---.----- 5c
Mosquito Canopies with frame ST. SIPS and 81 40
Rubber Collars each 1oc
The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1906-04-18
WEDNESDAY. APRIL IS. 1906.
Rio Grande Railroad.
ANNOUNCEMENTS.
-gHR HERALD is authorized to announ
John n. Garner,

as a candidate for reelection to Congress
from the Fifteenth Congressional District,
subject to the action of the Democratic
party.
The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1906-04-18
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The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1906-12-19

The illustration mentioned, shows a
donkey led by a child and hitched to
two hand cultivators, each held by an
operator. If the plan should become
popular, there will be some way in
vented by which one person can man
age both machines and save the labor
Of one man, just as has been done in
cultivating corn and other field crops.
The scheme for cultivating pictured
at Fig. 34S, page 81, was tried on the
carnation farm Of J. D. Cockcroft, OF
Long Island In outdoor culture car
nations are planted SO close together
that horse culture as given corn or
potatoes is out Of the question: The
work is usually done by hand cult
vators or wheel hoes. In this case a
trial was made Of donkey power A
wide whifle-tree permits the fastening
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1906-12-19

by return mail On receipt of so
cents in stamps. Address Doctor
Pierce as below for it.
In short vGolden Medical Dis
covery" regulates, purifes and in
vigorates the aOh0le system and thus
cures very large range of diseases.
The reason Why it cures such a
varied list of diseases is made clear
in a little booklet of extracts from
the leading medical authorities,
compiled by DR.. R. V. Pierce, of
Buffalo, N. Y, and which he will
be pleased to send postpaid and
entirely free to any who send him
their names and addresses.
You can't afford to accept sub
stitute of umkmozsm composition
for this non-secret MEDICINE OF
KNOWN COMPOSITION.
DR.. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets cure con-
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cure the disease. One cPellet" is a
gentle laxative, and two mild cathar-
tic. Druggists sell them, and nothing
is vjust as good" They are the original
Little Liver Pills first put up by old
DR.. Pierce over 40 years ago. Much
initiated, but never equaled. They are
tiny sugar coated granules = easy to
take as candy.
DR.. Pierce's Medical Adviser (1OOO
pages) is sent free on receipt of 81 one
cent stamps Ito cover cost of mailing)
for paper-covered, or 81 stamps for
cloth copy. Address DR.. Pierce
as above.
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1906-12-19
Of the day, made entirely Of native
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alcohol in it's composition, is known as
DIR. PIERCE'S
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There are no secrets about it's COM
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The vGo1den Medical Discovery
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It corrects and overcomes indi-
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Bronchial, throat and 1aryngea1
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In Chronic Nasal Catarrh, it is
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Through enriching and purifying
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by taking the vGo1den Medical Dis
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DR.. Pierce's All-Iea1ing Salve as
a local dressing. The Salve can
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The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1906-12-19
Hand Cu1tivating by Horse Power.

Probably many of you use a hand
plow or cultivator in cultivating the
narrow rows of strawberries and
onions or other vegetables that are
planted in narrow rows. The labor
OF pushing one by hand becomes very
hard If followed up for any length OF
time Years ago we saw one pulled by
rope, fastened to the cultivator and
then looped around the shoulder of
stout boy. The plan proposed by the
Rural New Yorker is much better.
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1906-12-19

there, which it's free seeding enables
them to meet.
Its name, Chimonanthus, by the way,
is from two words which together sig
Nifty winter flower
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1906-12-19
Slaughter of Birds.

AS the hunting season has opened
it may not be amiss to call attention to
the shameful slaughter of birds which
has begun. Firearms are being resur-
rected from closets, cleaned and oiled,
and the bang Of the shotgun in
the land announces the advent of
sport" CD The writer is not strang-
er to the sentiment Of the field, and
in his youth he was guilty of what
mature wisdom and common sense
must now condemn, namely the inds-
criminate and reckless shooting of
birds.
The instincts of the chase is a surviv-
al from our savage ancestry some
millenniums ago. The wants of that
primitive society were met chiefly by
their success in capturing or killing the
wild animals that disputed with them
the possession of forest and plain But
their hunting was a necessity, and it
was rarely, if ever, undertaken purely
as mater Of sport, so far as we can
learn. The same is true of the rude
and barbarous races Of the present day
They STAY the beasts of the field and the
fowls of the air because they must eat
1t has been reserved for civilized So
ciety, which calls itself "Christian," to
breed and corral in parks and enc1os-
ures the harmless and useful fowls and
animals, solely in order to set apart
a season for their merciless slaughter.
Now if the bird hunters of this COM
munity were in dire extremity there
would be no objection to the killing of
these innocent creatures. Stanley once
found himself with starving company
Sin darkest Africa" when a pheasant
suddenly whirled to their feet and was
caught by the explorers little terrier,
thus affording a providential meal. II
it was case OF necessity to assuage the
pangs Of hunger there would be some
excuse for Our Nlmrods wasting their
powder and shot and cultivating the
savagery Of the chase But as it is
there is no excuse whatever for this
torture Of pain and death which they
inhict upon the helpless and harmless
birds.
To all lovers Of the furry and feather
ed tribes it is saddening to observe
that young boys are early inoculated
with this craze for sport, which tends
to harden the feelings and bruta1ize the
character. Boys should be taught the
use Of firearms as matter of protec-
ton, but in order to acquire this skill
1t is not necessary to inhict pain upon
any creature. If they must kill, let
them hunt the poisonous reptiles and
the harmful beasts. Hunting which is
purely for sport is contrary to the
Golden Rule: "Do upon others as you
would have them do unto you,'' and
it is violation Of the Sixth Command
ment: Thou shalt not kill" These
are Gods creatures, and unless they
prove to be injurious in some way it is
wrong to Stay them except for food.
Though the best were given to man
Tor his use, yet they have certain rights,
among which are life, liberty and the
pursuit Of happiness in their own
sphere, SO long as those rights do not
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1906-12-19

Of two wheel hoes, and with proper
guidance the donkey cultivates two
rows at time. The plan would not be
practical unless the animal were trained
to walk perfectly straight or small
child could lead him. 1t is, however,
often a good plan to use these little
animals with children to do light work.
With a pony or donkey stout child
can often cultivate strawberries, onions
or potatoes so as to be very helpful.
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1906-12-19
beings, is the mark Of both gentle
man and Christian.

beings, is the mark of both gentle
man and Christian
Thus much for the moral aspects
Of the case. But there is another
reason why the birds should be protect
ed, and that is their economic value
to the farm If the farmer only knew
it, the birds are his best friends, for
without them all the arabic lands would
be choked with useless weeds and the
insect pests would devour whatever
scanty crops might be raised Indeed,
the planet would soon be we'll nigh I'M
lnhabltable for man if all the birds
were destroyed. This is especially true
Of those birds which are the favorite
game Of sportsmen-the doves and
qualls. Ornithologists of the Agricu1-
tural Department, who have Investigate
ed, declare that the Bob White' is
probably the most useful abundant
species on the farms" 1t has been
proved by field observations, expert
ments and examinations that the quail
consumes large quantities of weed seeds
and destroys many Of the worst insect
pests with which the farmers have to
contend. Yet the quail does not injure
grain, fruit or any other crop.
A recent article states 1T is
calculated that from September 1 to
April 30, annually, in Virginia alone,
the total consumption Of weed seed by
Bob Whites amounts to 373 tons.
Some OF the pests which it habitua1ly
destroys are the Mexican cotton boil
weevil, which damages the cotton crop
upward OF 100000 a year; the pota-
to beetle, which cuts off $1O,ooo,ooO
from the value Of the potato crop;
the cotton worms, which have been
known to cause $30,Ooo,ooO loss in
year; the cinch bug and the Rocky
Mountain locust, scourges which leave
desolation in their path, and have caus-
ed loss to the extent of 500, 100000 in
some years.
In view of these facts is it not the
height Of folly for an agricu1turalist
to allow these useful and necessary pro-
tectors to his farm, orchard and grove
to be ruthless1y destroyed? Every
quail and dove that is killed is Just that
much deducted from the general pros
per1ty of the community, and if the
farmer is SO unmindful of his own in
terest as to permit these useful birds to
be slaughtered on his land, then the
state should take measures to preserve
them for the common good There
are strict game laws in this state, I am
informed, but | am also informed that
these laws are not enforced as rule.
10 appeal to the generality of hunters
is useless, for their selfish qualification
will override all considerations of senti-
ment, moral and commercial prosperi-
ty. To appeal to those whose duty it
is to enforce the laws is almost as
futile, for the majority Of them are
doubtless enrolled among the hunters.
The only resource is for every land
owner to post his holdings and prose-
cute every sportsman who hunts on his
land. This he will do if he properly
appreciates the value of the feathered
denlzens Of the woodland and the farm.
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1906-12-19

Imported from India; absolutely free from
fibre. Pot-grown, $2.5o each. Largest as
sortment of Citrons in the United States.
Also Citrus stock. Address
JOHN w. BEACH.
West Palm Beach. Fla.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-04-11
TWO MEN ARRESTED FOR 1REspAss
Constable Peterson Hides in Odd Fell
lows Cemetery and Makes Cap.
ture in Early Morning.

BERT Goodwin and Noah Andregill,
cigarmakers in the employ of the Fled
Ter cigar factory, east of the city, We're
placed under arrest in the Odd Eel
lows cemetery at Z o'clock this morn
ing nv Constable Peterson on charge
of trespass and destroying fencing be-
longing to the Odd Fellows Cemetery
association.
A number of cigarmakers employed
at the Fielder factory reside in the
city and in going to and from work
persist, it is said, in passing through
a two-acre field of grain leased to
German near the cemetery. The sex
ton attempted to put an end to the
practice without result, and this morn
ing before daybreak Constable Peter
son hied himself to the silent city and
lay in wait, with the result that the
two men were caught Lass1ng Though
the field.
The men, it is said, claim the ceme-
terry association fenced up a road it had
no right to and will make a defense in
the justice court.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-04-11
CHICAGO'S M. o. REFERENDUM.

Chicago's vote on municipal owner
ship is assumed in some quarters to
have been contradictory, but it is not
necessarily so. The voters, by a small
majority, declared in favor Of Issuing
the Mueller certificates. and they voted
also in favor of the city taking over
the street railways. This was a neces-
sary consequence of the vote for Muel
Ter certificates. If Mueller certificates
are to be issued, they must be issued
for the purpose of buying street rail-
ways, else there is no reason for issu-
ing them. Yet the proposition to enter
upon the operation of street railways
failed. 1t failed because sixty per
cent of the vote was required to carry
it, while majority carried the other
propositions on the little ballot. If all
the propositions had required a sixty
per cent vote they would all have been
defeated. If they had all been mere
majority propositions they would all
have carried. AS a matter of fact, the
operation proposition received higher
percentage of the vote than either Of
the ohters.
The fact seems to be that there were
about 40 per cent of the voters OPP
posed to any sort of municipal owner
ship of street railways and a bare ma
jority in favor of both ownership and
operation. The forty per cent is very
likely composed of those who believe
the best interests of Chicago would be
conserved by granting a twenty-year
franchise to a private operation COM
pany according to the geenral terms
offered four months ago.
The bare majority Of a small vote
represents those citizens in the strap
hanging class who have some hopes
that Mayor Dunno will yet accomplish
the hanging of the managers of Chica-
COS miserable means of transportation
Winston Churchill, M. p, accuses an
opponent of archaeological inexacti-
tude." This will make our ex-president
take notice
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-04-11

cially in politics, is very serious mat
ter. 1t costs the railroads a great deal
in the way of loss of pay for passenger
service, and it operates-whether they
are conscious of it or not-as an influ-
ence upon both legislative and admin
istrative officers. When, the pass is
done away with. the open rate can be
lowered probably without loss to the
railroad companies. The people who
pay fare will no longer be paying their
own and that of other people as we'll
the other people generally riding In
better accommodations than those who
pay This amendment has been
brought in at rather late hour, but 1t
ought to aid in the passage OF the
bill through both houses of congress.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-04-11
DAIRYMEN AND PURE FOOD
LAWS.

Washington dispatches state that
the dairy people are beginning to scan
the pure food bill carefully and take
exceptions to the provisions with re-
gard to the use of coloring matter
The bill provides that no deleterious
coloring matter be used
OF course, ingredients deleterious to
health are no more excusable in butter
than in patent medicines or canned
goods, or preserved meats. The govern
ment has been good to the butter
makers. giving them a merited advan-
stitutes, and they can afford to comply
with all reasonable and proper regula-
lations against the use of harmful in
gradients in food products Doubtless
much butter color is harmless. Ger
tainly that which is harmful ought to
be prohibited. We cannot make anv
exceptions in an article of food of
such general and large consumption
as butter, and it is to be hoped that
no Washington dairymen will allow
the name of this state to be dragged
into any resistance against laws pro-
hibiting the use of deleterious coloring
matter The reputation of this state
as a producer of the best butter would
suffer seriously if the buttermakers of
Washington should allow themselves to
be placed before the country in the
attitude of pleaders for the privilege of
using substances deleterious to health.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-04-11

was called at o'clock this afternoon
for the purpose OF organizing and
electing officers. According to report
that comes from good authority, the.
new officers of the club will be Fred
W. Kaser, president; Frank S. Dement,.
vice president. and Phillip M. Winans.
secretary. John H. Mcdonald will be
elected temporary secretary to serve
until It is decided whether or not a.
salary is to be provided for the secre-
tary so that he can devote all his time
TO the work in the office. If this is
done it is very probable that w. d.
Church will be selected as permanent
secretary.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-04-11
THE END OF A FAKIR.

The return of Prophet Dowie will
furnish yellow-sheet sensation for a
few days. Affairs at Zion will be warm,
and Gladstone, who has never been
kissed, is quite likely to learn the
weight of the paternal hand in another
sort of caress. At any rate Dowie can
not consistently complain, since he
treated his own father shabbily in
Australia years ago. The most that
concerns Dowie, apparently, is his po-
sition as a prophet, with a large
amount Of valuable property threatened
with confiscation. When you touch an
American, even a prophet, in the pock-
etbook, you hit tender spot.
The course of Dowie has been the
atrical in the extreme He has posed
as a prophet and a healer by prayer,
and for several years he occupied a hall
in Chicago, and every Sunday he hec-
tored the entire community in the ap-
proved jargon of a fishwife. He pre-
tended to heal diseases and he did
build factories. He was at one time
considered as great financial as re-
ligious wizard. But such foolery as
Dowie INDUCED in must come to an
end. His downfall began when,
tempted by the feeling which the gods
instil in those whom they would de-
stroy, he took a trainload of V
followers and camped in
Square garden in the w
convert New York to z
The raid on New Yo~.
Gothamtes did not give
scriptions and DOwie returne..
nois poorer and more bitterly G. &c
than before. Then his creditors got
after him and a receiver was appointed
for the whole of Zion.
Dowie has been credited with being
very shrewd because he has created
some values at Zion. There was moth
ing very mysterious about that. He
received immense sums from his delud-
ed followers. Almost any man could
run a big business if he could go out
in the streets and take up a fat COL
lection every time his bank balance
was short or his payroll was long.
Dowie has been a financial cheat from
the start, and should have long ago
been taken in hand by the public pros
ecutor. If the truth were known he has
received thousands of dollars through a
species of blackmail and other thou
sands by means of hypnotism. such as
he tried and failed to work on the rich
young woman from Switzerland, Ruth
Hofer.