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The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1906-08-24
Two Liars Well Net.

An Irish soldier wanted to get
Through and trumped up story
that his wife was sick and had
written him to come home, but the
captain knew Pats tricks, so he
said to him: Pat, I received a
letter from your wife today and
she told NE not to let you come
home, as you got drunk, broke up
the furniture and nistreated her
shamefully." Pat saluted and
started to leave the room, but on
reaching the door, turned and said:
Sir, may I spake to you-not as
offcer-but as mon to mon?"
Yes, Pat, what is it?' Well,
sor, what OF m after saying is this, "
remarked Pat, that you and l are
two of the most illigant liars that
the Lord ever made. I'm not a
married mon"
4 town that never has anything
to do in a public way, is on the
way to the cemetery. Any citizen
who will do nothing for his town
is helping to dig the grave. A
man that curses the town furnishes
the coffin. The man who is so
selfish as to have no time from his
business to give to city affairs is
making the shroud. The man who
will not advertise IS driving the
hearse. The man who is always
pulling back from any public enter
prise throws bouquets on the grave.
The man who is so stingy as to be
bowling hard times, breaches the
funeral, sings the doxology, and
thus the town lies buried from
all sorrow and care.-Yorktown
News.
The college graduates who de
livered addresses on how to succeed
are now trying to.
The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1906-08-24

! The Herald. Daily and Weekly,
is the only paper published in
Cameron county.
The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1906-08-24

The college graduates who de
livered addresses on how to succeed
are now trying to.
The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1906-08-24
LOCAL iTEms

Shoes for everybody at SNIPEs.
Alfalfa hay for sale at sl6.50
per toni. Kowalski.
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1906-04-12
HOW He STOLE $4,000
Confession Of r J. Wainwright, Ar
rested For PinauIt Robbery.

New York City.-After g pursuit OF
fOu" weeks by the police of three cities
detectives arrested Thomas J. Vain,
wright. whose correct name is Albert
w Bartlett, who is charged with rob
hing the residence of DR.: Nicholas j.
Pinault. of Minneapolis, Of jewelry, sill.
verware, pictures and securities to the
value Of 100000.
The police say that Wainwright.
who is twenty-ei@ht years old, and ap-
parently a man of excellent education
is known by a dozen aliases and is one
of the most accomplished criminals il
the country.
DR.. PfnauIt left his costly furnished
home in Minneapolis in the are OF
Wainwright while the doctor and hi;
family went South. After stripping
the mansion of such of its contents a.
he wanted. Wainwright. according to ?
confession he made to the police. forged
Pinault's name to an order and gained
access 20 the doctors safe deposit
v1ults. from which he extracted sucE
securities as he considered negotiable.
Wainwright's safe deposit box was
opened by the police, who found there
notes and securities to the face valut
OF 100000.
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1906-04-12
Pineon,s Lona EIiaht.

Wings battered and tail feathers
partly gone, too plainly telling the
story of captivity from which it had
escaped, a pigeon which. was one OF
the contestants in the 400 mile race
from Memphis to Louisville, has
reached its loft in the yard of the
home Of Charles Wirth, nearly two
weeks late. The bird flew into it's
loft as if glad to get back home, but
it showed that it mad not had a pleas
ant journey from Memphis.
1t is supposed that the pigeon was
trapped by some one when it was
blown out of it's course by the storm
the birds are known to nave en-
countered. Although. it is not posi-
lively known, it is easily supposed
that the bird, after being held in cap
tivity for several days, was released,
the c~apturers thinking the bird would
stay. AS soon as it was turned loose
the bird took up it's interrupted flight
to Louisville and home.-LouisYille
Courier7Journ2l.
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1906-04-12
BUY RAILWAYS
The Proposition For City to Operate
Street Car Lines is Lost.
Majority Favored Plan, But Not RequIred
sixty Fer Cent.LTo Issue S75,oOO..
900 Certificates For III chase.

Chicago.-By the >heaviest vote eve
polled in an off year, Chicago declared
for municipal ownership, but did not
declare hard enough to carry the de-
sires of the majority into effect. The
victory is weakened by the failure of
three-fifths of the voters to vote for
the first proposition on the little bal
lot" .'Shall the city Of Chicago pro-
ceed to operate street cars?
The other two propositions were car
ried. The total vote was 231,171, as
follows:
The city operation 120,911, against
11O.260.
For issuing Mueller certificates not to
exceed $75. 100000 to establish munich
pal ownership 10000, against LOG. $50.
10 proceed without delay to secure
municipal ownership 111,S62, against
1OS.O25.
The operation question received a
majority of 1861, but was short near
~ $4,000 of the required three-fifths.
Mayor Dunno was in high spirits at.
ter the election.
"It is the greatest victory yet for
municipal ownership" he said. L shall
proceed at once to issue the certificates
and take over the traction lines. Never
mind about the operation. That ques-
ton can again be submitted to the PEG
pie at a special OF general election. I
am going to take over the lines, and 7
am certain Chicago viii find a way tie
operate them"
OF the thirty-five Aldermen elected.
Mayor Dunno asserts that nineteen are
avowed champions of municipal owner
ship. and that he will have much less
difficulty in passing measures relating
to that doctrine through the City Coun-
Gil than heretofore. But the faction op-
posed to municipal ownership declare
that they still hold control of the Cou1l-
ell.
An issue was made In many of the
Alder1manic contests of whether the
saloon licenses of the city shall be $j0C
or $1,000 The lower figure was iu eN-
istence up to March 5. when the City
Council. by q close vote and after q
hard fight, passed in ordinance raising
the amount TO $1,000. The number OF
crimes lately committed in this city
against women has caused many people
to believe that the crimes indirectly are
attributable to the large number OF
Saloons and they favored the increase
in license as a means of decreasing the
number.
The liquor interests made a strong
tight against every Alderman who was
I'M for reelection who had voted fol
the license of $1,000. OF the fifteen mer
against whom they put their influence
twelve We're electedand three defeated
OF the nine Aldermen up for reelection
who voted for the continuance Of the
$500 license all were returned. There
is little danger. however, that the higE
license VIII be repealed.
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1906-04-12
rold nx . staae coach Driver.

Told BY q Stage Coach Driver.
, Joseph Hobbs, whose death occur
red a few months ago at Exeter, N. H.,
was in his younger days the driver OF
2 stage coach between Nashua n
Lawrence. He was an in~veterate
story-teller, and was always sure to
have a large audience. The follow
ing was one he used to tell:
when / was driving coach from
Nashua to Lawrence / used to always
stop over night in a small town about
halfway between the two cities. One
day three or foul Of us got a large
piece of cardboard and printed on it:
The fellow who is counting a certain
married young woman had better
leave town, as the husband is on to
him. And, would you believe it, in
less than two hours after that sign
had been posted on a tree in the vii
lage every man in town had left, ex-
cept three old cripples and one man
who had not read the sign"
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1906-04-12

wheat, hay, grapes, oates, pears, ap-
pies and berries more COWS chickens
and hogs are being raised, more mules
and horses and more live stock gener-
thy for home use or for the market;
as Immigration is becoming more
needed to meet the demand for labor
and as a larger and larger number of
farmers are perforce driven to handle
crops that they may work themselves.
Everywhere there might be a de-
sire to depart from the safe and sure
policy of last year and to yield to the
temptation to plant more cotton, I'M
der the impression that a greater crop
would not affect the price, it faces the
possibility that the supply of labor
will be insufficient to make ven a crop
equal to that of last season.. From
every n Of the States comes COM
plants of a scarcity of farm labor,
Oklahoma joining In the chorus. The
younger negroes especially are loath
to follow in the footsteps Of their
parents, and are either rendering in
ferior service or are quitting the
farms. entirely for idleness or disu-
ltory work in the towns and cities.
Lumber mills, the naval store indus
try, mining, railroad building, dam
construction and building operations
generally offer higher wages than the
farms, and, in the case of whites, the
demands of the cotton mills are hav-
ing somewhat similar crippling effect
upon farm operations, In spite Of the
incliration noted here and there for
operations under the spur of fair
prices for cotton to attempt to make a
little crop of their own. Indeed, such
is the activity i'll numbering that not
a few farmers, as is reported from
Louisiana, are following the field hand
to the lumber, camp and are turning
out their own cotton acreage for the
year.
"Another influence against extern
sive expansion in acreage is the back
wardness of the season in the Carolina
and Georgia, as well as IN Texas and
Oklahoma, the ground being still wet
and cold, or the crop OF corn, the sue
cess of which will largely determine
the acreage of cotton, not being suf-
ficiently advanced to give a basis for
any estimate. In a few spots, too, the
boil weaviI is regarded as a deterrent,
though one correspondent takes a
j~ocular view Of the power Of the cot
ton boil weavil against the cotton
bear"
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1906-04-12
PERSONAL ~GLEANINGS.

EX-Mayor Van Wyck. of New York
sailed to make Paris his permanent
home.
When Secretary Root makes his triL
to South America next summer he will
go on the cruiser Charleston.
Jean Baptiste MiiIet. the artist
brother of jean Francois Millet. the ia.
nous painter. died recently at Paris.
E. S. Curtis. Of Washington. has
been making Iii exhaustive Study il
photography of the American Indian
Andrew. Mcconnell, q practical phi
lanthropist, of Washington. will ut.
tempt to place libraries ilhalI the small
towns of the South.
William II. Mcdonald. the actor and
singer, who was one Of the founders OF
the original BostonianS, died at Spring
field, Mass, Of pneumonia.
The presidency of the Rhode Island
Agricultural College has been accepted
by Professor Howard Edwards, Of the
Michigan Agricultural College.
The Rev. DR.. john " atson (Ian Mac.
Laren), Of Liverpool. England. viii! he
the lecturer extraordinary in the West.
ern Theological Seminary e year.
AHC 1NSNs w IiAidllI WV 81 Ddpl1St
clergyman, will be 100 gears old Oh
May 20, 1906. He is the founder OF
fremont Temple, Boston, and lives III
Cambridge.
James NJ. Breslin, wideIy-known no.
tel man, for years identified with the
business at New York, Chicago. st.
Louis aud other cities, died at New
York, aged seventy-tWo.
Senator Allison, of Iowa, senior Sen.
atOr in point of service, is seventy
seven. He has been in Congress forty
three years. thirty-thrce Of which have
been spent in the Senate.
DR.. Paul G.. Wooley, director of the
serum laboratory Of the Bureau of
Science, in the Philippines, has accept.
ed the dictatorship Of the pathological
laboratory which Siam proposes to
start
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1906-04-12
DIED ON TINY PERCH IN AIR

Steeple Repairer's Body Rolls Down
Roof Where Firemen Rescue 1t.
Jacksonville. Ill.-While repairing Il
church steeple Louis Rechloeffel died
on his tiny scaffold sixty-four feet
above the street. Persons on the street
saw him throw up his arms and his
hammer came Gathering to the pave,
ment. Then his head pitched forward
and his body slowly slid through the
narrow space between the scaffold ana
the steeple and fell heavily upon the
roof. 1t rolled to the edge. but was
caught by the cornice and hung, bleed
ing and limp, until removed by a hook
and ladde' company.
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1906-04-12
The Bells Of England.

The metal tongue of the big bell
rings out many changes to our mod
ern ears. It speaks of disaster and
death, Of rejoicing and devotion. In
England 1t often tells of old times
and quaint customs. Mr.. Ditchfield,
in a book on Old England, gives some
of the traditions handed down through
the Standardization of the bells"
In some parts of the country the
bell which tolls the old year out is
called the "Old Lads Passineeell."
In western England the bells peal
merrily on "Oak Apple Day" to cele-
brate the escape of King Charles at
Boscobel. Another bell, rung at the
beginning of Lent, is known as PAN
cake Bell" because, in old time
phrase, it summons people away from
their pancakes to confession and fast
ing"
A lively peal of bells is often rung
at the end of the Sunday morning SER
vice, and is called Pudding Bell"
Perhaps is purpos is to announce to
the stay at homes that service is over
and that the pudding may come out
of the oven.
Every night at five minutes past
nine "Great Tom," the great bell of
Christ Church College at Oxford,
booms out it's ponderous note n hun
dred and one times. This particular
number was chosen in accordance
with the number of students at the
foundation of the college<-Youth's
Companion.
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1906-04-12
Women.

Women are born, not made.
There is only one kind of womer-
namely, women.
Against the eternal feminine the
daily male has no chance at all.
Schopenhauer did not approve NJ
women. Women did not approve of
Schopenhauer.
The chief topics of conversation in
female society are husbands and SER
wants. The distinction seems arbi-
trary, and doubtless is seldom drawn
Those whom the gods love Ii. e..
ladies Of the chorusI dye young.
The popular idea that women have
no sense Of humor is quite mistaken
They marry us.-London Punch.
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1906-04-12
A FoREGoNE CONCLUSION.

A certain teacher in a history ex-
animation asked a class OF small
girls: "Who was Virginia Dare's
grandfather?"
Small Betty had forgotten. But at
last a brilliant idea occurred to her.
She wrote, "Old Mister Dare, I
reckon."-New Orleans Picayune.
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1906-04-12
Steady Advance of Spring Trade.

Beneath the surface happenings OF
the week are to be discerned the steady
advance of spring trade. the continu-
ance of the immense activity in build
my. with collateral heavy dealings in
all kinds of lumber and material, and
the underlying confidence in a heavy
years turn over in all lines.
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1906-04-12
NY Endorsement of Pe-ru-na is
ESsed en- Its Merit"
ED Crumho.


IND CRUMBO, ex-Mayor of New Al
n bany, Ind, writes from 5ll E. Oak
street:
MY endorsement of Peruna is based
un IT'S merits.
TIA man is sick he looks anxiously
Gar something which will cure him
,ana Eeruna will Go tie work.
"TAnoW that it will cure catarrh of
tire head or the stonaeh h, indigestion,
AeaGsrhe and any weary or sick feel
ing.
K is bound to help anyone, if used,
4aeeaxding to directions.
~E also know dozens of men who speak
IA G&e highest terms of Peruna and have
pet So near of any one being disappointed
IN a-"
3EE- CEumbo, in a later letter, dated
AGS- .. 1904. says:
My health is good, at present, but if 1
>aA0Kzd have to take any more medicine L
wsEI Eii back on Peruna."
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1906-04-12
WOMAN ACQUITTED OF MURDER
Wife of South Carolina State Senator
Killed InSulfer.

Columbia. S. C.-In just five minutes
Mrs. ella Bivens, the young wife OF
State Senator Bivens. was found not
guilty Of murder in killing George HOl-
ton about two months ago. Mrs. Biy-
ems asserted that Holton came to her
home n the absence of her husband
and grossly insuited her. Mrs. BivenS
told her story briefly, and the jury.
without leaving the box, returned Il
verdict of acquittal, which was loudly
anplauded.
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1906-04-12

Eugene Hawley, of Wilmington,
Del, is under arrest at Newport News
charged with bigamy.
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1906-04-12
All Good Business.

American business ywhere-t'S all
good, every bit of it.
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1906-04-12
PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD co.
General Offices, Brevard, North
Carolina.
WINTER SCHEDULE

Effective Monday, October 6, 1906.
No. 8 Eastern Standard Time No. Z
Daily STATIONS Daily
P. NJ. p NJ.
1926 Lv S. Ry. Asheville S. Ry l2I5
$50 So. Ry. Biltmore So. Ry l2:lO
Hender-
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1906-04-12

Flag Station.
Parlor Car daily between Lake Toy
away and Ashev:le.
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1906-04-12

Necessarily to diversity, to divert
some energies from cotton-growing in
to the raising of other crops, is Civ
ing place to d-eliberateness in follow
ing the policy as this stronger fnan-
clal condition of the farmers permits
them to enlarge upon the wisdom of
not depending upon one crop. Diver
.slfication, which implies more fertiliz-
ing and greater attention given to the
crops, began primarily for thousands
OF growers in carrying out a ''hog-
and-hominy" campaign--that is, in
living on ones own farm, in making
supplies at home. The growing in GER
tain favored sections of early vegata-
bles and fruit for Northern markets,
the tobacco crop, as much q staple in
some sections of the South as cotton
IS IN others, and rice and sugar plant
ing have, of course, engaged the atten-
ton of many persons for years. New
tracts once devoted to cotton, or that
ordinarily might have been planted in
cotton, are being given over to a
greater amount of cane, tobacco apd
rice, while in many localities more and
more attention is being given to
peaches, cantaloupes, melons, toma-
toes, potatoes, peanuts, alfalfa, corn,
The Cairo bulletin., 1906-05-21
CAUSE OF "DAMPlNG OFF,"
Well to Sprinkle Sulphur or Bitumin-
Gus Coal Over the Soil in
Window Boxes.

one of the troubles of raising plants
In window boxes is that they are apt
to rot of AT the gound and fall over
This is called "damping or" and is
caused by Il web-like fungus which
grows on the surface of the soil, envelopes
the little stems and causes them to rot.
To avoid this. sprinkle dust of sulphur
or bitumlnous coal olaT the soil after
sowing the seeds, give tie little plants
plenty of air and light. but do not set
them in a cold draught. The direct rays
OF the sun, when not too hot, are al
ways beneficial to Seeding plants, az
also frequent stirring of The soil DO not
let the plants stand too thick. as this
excludes light and air from the roots;
do not water too often, but do not let he
soil dry out When the fungus shows it,
self Gin the rottlng of the plants and
1t can be arrested by run
ming "a knife Nyde betYeen the rows,
thus taking up he web which adheres
10 the blade, when it may be destroyed.
Parks Floral Magazine.
The Cairo bulletin., 1906-05-21
The general aituation continues "a


isfacIory. In spite OF occasional heslta-
ton the volume Of business continues
unm large and increasing scae.
Clearing house returns al leading
gain OF q per cent ID week ana "
per cent. the week before over the
preceding year Railroad earning. al %
continue very encouraging. Fifty six
roads in the month of April reported
gross earnings Of S52,4O1,O0D, an in.
crease Of nearly II per gent. over lass
year. These are surprising figures in
view OF the disturbance caused by the
coal strike, which however, may be
more seriously reflected ia later re-
tulns. Indus rial activity continues IN.
abated. Enormous orders have been
placed for steel rails, some OF them
for delivery as faf' ahead as 1907.
There are 10000 tons already ON the
order books Of American rail mills
and other important contracts are
which will soon bling the To-.
tai up to 100000. tons. This means
continued prosperity for the steel
mills for monllI to come. The rail-
roads are certain TO consume large
quantities Of material nor merely for
improvements but also for new mile
age. The extensive OUTLAWS by the
Pennsylvania and New York Central
for accommodation of New York traf-
liz give some idea Of what Is being
done in this iii. lection Evidently these
gigantic corporations have unlimited
faith in the future or New York City.
or such vas outlays whicl cannot be
Immediately profitable would not be
Another incident which
attracted attention was the announce
ment that the veteran railroad mag
nate, j. j Hill. would build a new
Pacific railroad throagn Canadian ter
ritory, accompanied by tao inIimatl9n
that he might be able 10 cut the rate4
ne-half Tai, illustrates he rapid de-
yel0pment of the continent II also
suggests laat time ans cabnged c1ndi
lions may somewhat affect the com
muniU- of-interest idea. which has for
some years dominated our trans CONT
mental railroad systems. There is GER
tainly much les harmony in these
The Cairo bulletin., 1906-05-21
CELEBRATED
Clairyoyant and Palmist
OF NEW YORK
j. Visiting 10 This City by Special
Rogue .t---To Prove Ills Wonder
fui Powers lie VIII dive
Special Readings
SOC and 81 For One Week

without asking single question,
tells who you are, whence and for
whu yor came. Gives fall name.
MR.. HAROLD WELTNER is Il gen
tleman wonderfully gifted the most
refined need not hesitate 20 call; his
powerful mediumship is inherited
through generations; he has gained a
victory over all others intruthf1ll pre-
dictions. If you would know the ia.
lure and be successful in business,
speculaii rs. love and all things. do
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Aour p.gi cypsr.cnc" with yoyanis
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II. after reading. you are not satisfied,
It viii cost you nothing. lie tells yoa
how 20 win the man or woman you
lowe how 10 Sontrol those you wish.
even miles away. Tells you how 10
remove domestic troubles. 20 cure the
drink habit. restore health. reuniies
the separated i'm seven days locates
lost or stolen property. RECEIVERS old cs-
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Hours & a. m. To . p. m, daily and
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ventiently located at Mrs. Walders.
$50 Ninth street.
TAKE NoTICE-Prof. Welmer's re-
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The Cairo bulletin., 1906-05-21
Sterilizing Milk.

Stcrlzing milk is not such a for.
midable job as one would think Here
Is an excellent way to make sure'
The bottles themselves should first
be- sterllized by placing shoppers of
cotton wool In the neck and putting
them into an ordinarily hot oven for
80 minutes: then fiji them with milk
and place them In a steamer over
boiling water for 10 minutes; insert
glass or rubber shoppers into them
be fore removing from the steamer.
MIX prepared this way may be kept
perfectly sweet for two weeks, aud.
If steriized second time, may be
kept longer. Sterilizing in this way
does not change the quality of milk
"a does boiling IL. and milk thus pre-
pared Is much better for the child.
@c-u,s 7oacreo stone.
The caaba, OF sacred stone Of Mecca.
is recovered every year with dpmask
sent by the sultan or khed.,e. A sin
gle covering has. on occasion. cost
S75,0cO.