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The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1907-03-06
DIRECTORS:

WANTED-To buy a second hand
saddle (for man, Must be good
and reasonable in price. Superin-
tendent Post Cemetery. 211d-1w
Regular meeting of the Masonic
lodge this evening at 7:3O.
For SALE, 800 acres of land,
partly under cultivation; good well
on place, and small ranch house.
Several miles from Harrington, not
far from railroad, at SIS per acre.
Inquire at HERALD office. if.
Regular meeting of K. of P.
lodge this evening.
The weather bureau cheerfully
continues to predict showers.
The increase in the subscription
lists of both THE DAILY and THE
| WEEKLY HERALD is making the
postage bill of the office considera-
bly, larger.
For sALR.-Select Alabama
Sweet Melon Seed 10 or more 4Oc.
less SOC. per lb.
Copies of the BROWNSVILLE
WEEKLY HERALD may be bought
at THE HERALD office at 5 cents
each.
The following real estate trans
fer was filed for record with the
county clerk Monday: Mrs. H.
NJ. King to the Gulf Coast Irriga-
ton company, $4,000 acres, out of
San Juan de Carficitos Grant. near
Lyford and Raymondville; con-
sideration S2O7, $40. The deed
was dated Feb. %. This trans
action was made and reportedfin
THE HERALD some weeks ago. the
signing and filing of the deeds be-
ing tie final consummation of the
matter.
FOR SALR-44 acres, mile south
Raymondville, Joining railroad east
side, heavy Mesquite timber, $40
acre. P. o. Box IA, Brownsville,
Texas. 211d-1tw
The Church of the Advent,
which has been closed since the
departure of the former rector Rev.
Mr.. Woodward, has secured the
services of Rev. M. Green, who
arrived last week, to take the place
of the rector temporarily Mr..
Green will remain until summer,
probably, ard will conduct services
regularly at the church during
that time. He is now domiciled
at the reCtOry.
Too many men talk an hour for
avery minnie they work
The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1907-03-06

Too many men talk an hour for
every minute they work
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1907-08-23
SChmitZ Is Through.

The supreme court of the State OF
California has rendered decision
that is doubtless viewed with salts
faction by the decent citizens OF
San Francisco, and should be re-
0arded with similar satisfaction by
friends of good government every
where.
For it is said in words from which
there is no appeal that Eugene L.
Schmitz, the man who served-hiTa-
self. not the city-as mayor OF San
Francisco, was legally removed
from the position he had disgraced,
and that he has no longer any claim
to being the executive of the place.
Thus ends the career Of one who
had brilliant prospects and fine OPP
portunities for creditable success,
and had many good qualities be-
sides. but who could not cure his
itching palm except by the gold OF
extortion and bribery.
So it seems that bad mayors can
be gotten rid of. Sometimes it aP-
pears doubtful. No doubt a great
MANY San Franciscans were fearful
that Schmitz was a fixture, even
after his arrest and indictment. But
vigorous action by vigorous men
turned the tide and Schmitz went
out with it.
San Francisco has been called 3
corrupt city. 1t is a mistake. Cor
ruption was fastened upon its gov
eminent and fourished exceedingly
for a time. But no city is itself
corrupt that can arise and smite &
dishonest mayor so that he totter:
and falls. It takes courage to i'm
peach a municipal executive and de
clare his Office vacant. The exam
pie of San Francisco IN so doing vii
live long in the annals of municipal
reform in this country.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1907-08-23
FRIDAY. AUGUST q, 1907.
Still Dirty.

1t is almost unbelievable that
Cuba has not learned the lesson Of
cleanliness under the excellent
teachings of the United States. Yet
that is the case, according to Gov
srnor Magoon, whose recent cable
report on the subject of sanitation
and disease is enough to make the
medical officers of this Government
almost despair of ever stamping out
yellow fever in the island, as they
had hoped
The Cubans. says Governor Ma
COON, are Indifferent to the pres
ence of the disease, as well as gen
orally slovenly and lax in sanitary
work everywhere outside Havana.
The mosquito theory is to most Of
them a huge joke, and the effort to
be municipality clean a useless ex-
penditure of nerve force.
Truly enough, the Cubans are not
excellent citizens as yet. The United
States set them free and gave them
self-Povernment, which they pro-
ceeded to wreck in a very few
years. The United States likewise
cleansed Havana, and set a splendid
obiect-lesson of health and right
living before the new republic, but
# has been disregarded almost
everywhere. Clearly the island peo-
pie have many things to change in
their own conduct before they can
be considered fit TO go on alone.
They are too near the United States
itself to be permitted 70 run wild
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1907-08-23
ACCOUNT BOOKS
FOR CONVICTS
Recommended That New
York Prisoners Keep Track
of Their Money Deposit.

ALBANY. n. Y. Aug. 23-Eaeh con-
Wet In the State prisons VIII be fur
nished with q book in which to keep
his accounts, in order that he may
know at any time his exact financial
condition, II a recommendation made by
Comptroller Glynn today Is carried out.
The recent Investigations CT the man
sgement Of the prisons showed, It is
alleged. a laxity II the care of con-
victs' deposit funds. and that the con-
Wet was unable to keep track of his
account, depending entirely on the pris-
on officials to keep It correctly.
Ali prison money is to be deposited
daily, as the result OF finding $4,000 in
the safe al Auburn prison. The prac-
tice of keeping a sum OF money on
hand at Auburn 70 pay the mileage OF
discharged convicts, etc, has led TO
abuses" and 1t is recommended that
the amount needed each day be est
mated and q check drawn.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1907-08-23
FIGHTS BIG SNAKE
ON ROPE LADDER
Attacked in Midair. Man
Finally Kills Infatuated
Reptile.

TRENTON, n. J., Aug. 23.-6wsnging
on a rope ladder IN midair. John Hutch
inson fought a huge pilot snake in
the Quarries of the county workhouse
He killed the snake, but the strange
situation In which he found himself.
the terror with which the angry snake
inspired him, unnervsd him, accustomed
though he is to dangers
Hutchinson is a plaster in the quar-
ries. As often before he was lowered
on a rope ladder down a face of the
quarry to place a blast OF dynamite in
the rocks. He was half way down the
chasm, when, looking Up, he saw a biz
pilot snake coiling around and gliding
down side-rope of the ladder. Plainly
the snake. living in some crevice of the
rock, was Infatuated at the mans IN
trusion.
Hutchinson had a stick OF dynamite
in his free hand: he could not drop the
dynamite because of the prisoners at
the quarry's bottom. He put the dy-
Mantle in his coat pocket and drew
from il the small steel drill he uses 70
pTy- open the assures IN the rocks, With
the drill he struck at the snake The
ladder swung under his muscular &C
ton, the blow missed. The snake struck
in his turn. but as quick Hutchinson
struck too. He hit the snakes head
dazing IT, Again and again the drill
| descended until the snake. slowly un-
coiling. fell dead in the pit below.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1907-08-23
TRUNK MYSTERY!
ONEARNED NEGROES!
Norfolk Sherlock Holmes
Solves Grave Prob
lem.

NORFOLK. Va. Aug. 23.-Anothsr
trunk mystery, in which two one-arned
negroes OF similar appearance figured.
was solved by he police detective de-
partment, when the trunks Of Mrs. Reg
ester and Miss Marshall. o. Wilmington,
N. c., were recovered. The case IS
a tangled one and would almost furnish
the plot for a Sherlock Holmes story.
When Mrs. REGISTER and Mss Mar
shall reached the city a few days ago,
they ordered their trunks delivered to
the New LenOx Hotel. AS IL happens
the transfer company which had taken
charge OF the baggage had employed a
one-armed negro that morning, who got
tired Of his work and dumped the
trunks back OF the Atlantic Hotel.
There they stayed.
Just about this time, another one
armed negro was arrested on a larceny
charge. and the police suspected him Of
being the guilty party. as his descrip-
ton Tailed closely with that OF the
man suspected. He was arrested, cues
toned, and finally turned loose.
Later, Patrolman Mitchell, OF the
Berkeley ward department, located the
original One-armed man. who gave the
location OF the trunks. They were
found, and Mrs. REGISTER and Miss
Marshall. who were on the point of go
ing to their homes, identified their
property. There will BE no prOsecu-
ton.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1907-08-23
Kisses Prettiest Girl,
Took Pick From Sixteen
Drummer Girls ALI Wore Tights, and Parad-
ed Past Him, and He Became En-
thusiastiC at the Siqht.

NEW YORK, Aus. 22-Deluded into
the belief that he was IN a Western
honkatonk by the sight of sixteen young
women parad!ng through the audience
on the New York Roof Garden in tights,
Solomon Baxter. OF GoldhsId. New, In
an excess Of enthusiasm grabbed out
Jessie Howe from the bunch and kissed
her fervidly.
Was there a scene of Wild excitement
o. the New York Roof Garden7
There was.
There were cheers CT applause, much
laughter and screams Of annoyance
from the young women who had not
been kissed.
Miss Howe Is one OF the Emma Carus
Drummer Girls. II is TO be remember
ed that IN this act Emma Carus, whose
mOdesty and a redundancy Of curves re-
strict her to skirts. sends her drummer
girls out into the audience. while she
remains upon the stage. The sixteen
girls drum up and down the aisle, and
finally take a position near the elevator.
where they bang away az their drums
for q few minutes while the audience
rubbers rearward and gets a slightly
nearer view OF the shape and ut OF the
tights than IS possible when the girls
are on the stage.
AL the men IN the audience were able
70 restrain themselves except Mr.. Bax-
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1907-08-23
ALIEN BAND PLAYS WAY
RIGHT INTO COUNTRY

NEW YORK, Aug. 2s.-The Ellis
Island board - inquiry had a new
kind of hearing.
Through some ones blunder forty-two
musicians, composing a band. were
taken to Ellis Island from the steamer
Main. on the supposition that they were
contract laborers- The contract labor
laws specify that musicians c, ming
here as these men did are not under
restrictions.
The lizard OF inquiry asked the musi-
clans to prove they were really artists.
The forty-twO massed In the gallery.
and they played one lively air after an
other.
They're artists all right" agreed
the boari, applauding, and the forty
two vent on their way.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1907-08-23
DR.. Morgan'S Way.

The Rev. DR.. J. c. Morgan, Lon
don evangelist, now arousing more
or less attention in this country,
has a unique method of finding out
exactly what is right and wrong in
the matter of personal habits. For
instance. he told the conference of
Christian Workers at East North
field the other day that he smoked,
and that he would not deem it a
mortal sin to go to the theater oc-
easionally. Dr. Morgan did not hold
that these things were right in all
men, but he distinctly avowed that
for him they were proper enough,
because he had received the Divine
word that such was the case-or
rather he had failed to receive the
Divine word that such was not the
case. eff you really want to know,
ask God about it," is HIS injunction
as to the various forms of personal
indulgences, those that are not gem
orally recognized % wicked, al
though occasionally denounced as
tending toward evil
But the enthusiastic evangelist
failed, we fear. to do his meaning
full justice. How is the Divine mes
sage to be received? The answer is
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1907-08-23
CENTRAL AMERICA
SOON TO GET BUSY
Diplomats Make Mystic
rious Calls at State
Department.

There's either something doing down
IN Central America or about TO be do
ING. State Department officials and
Central American diplomats here alike
are rnvsterfous and reticent- Their at
titude seems to indicate, Not YET but
soon"
When Robert Bacon. Assistant Secre-
tarv OF State. left for his vacation OF
a month several days ago, the Central
American ministers here gave up hope
and began to look for opportunity to
get a breath Of cool air. Senior Corea,
of Nicaragua, FASTENED TO the seashore.
and Senior Mejia, of Salvador, went TO
New York the first Of the week to re-
euperate from his duties of helping
In hold the lid down on the ever-boil-
ing pot Of Central American revolution
and neighborly warfare.
Senior Mejia has been suddenly called
back, however, and he made two hur-
ried trips to the State Department. No
one would explain the nature Of these
visits. He visited the department in
company with an American whose
heavy mining interests in Salvador
have been greatly injured by the dis
turbed conditions in that country.
Senior Godoy, the charge d'affaires FOR
Mexico, has kept In close touch with
the situation lately and has discussed
the matter at the State Department
Senior CalvO, Of Costa Rico. and Senior
! Toledo, Of Guatemala. each are remain
ms in town to "stand by" in case OF
developments.
Since ssnor Me5ia's sudden return
| from New York, senior Corea, repre-
sent tive of President Zelaya, who
seems to be preparing to stir up trou-
| BILE, is expected back In town tonight
/ or tomorrow morning.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1907-08-23
CAR POKES ITS NOSE
into TENEMENT HOUSE

NEW YORK. Aug. IA car OF the
New York City Railway, Company.
which was being repaired on the fourth
floor of the barn OF the Fourteenth
street line, started on a queer rampage.
The current that had been turned on
for shifting cars to other tracks reached
the car and It started, ran of the end
OF the track. through two brick walls,
and into six-story tenement house oc-
cupied BY twenty-fcur families.
The car pOked its forward end sew
eral inches into the three-roem apart
ment of Rosario Caccamo. an Italian.
A panic resulted in the tenement
house, men, women, and children rush
ing into the street and up TO the roof.
Nobody was hurt, However.
Though the car tore a hole twelve
feet high and seven feet wide in the
thick wall. the only damage it sustained
Was a badly battered platform
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1907-08-23
Sip of Raspberry Wine
Tastes Like Champagne
So Much Like 1t That Jeweler Pays 600 to
Extend the Business-Nine Others
Duped, He Says.

NEW YORK. Aug. 23-Convincing ten
different men that raspberry wine was
champagne, Frederick Spaetch. of 3ls
East Twenty-eIghth street. and Max
GrabstoDe, of 607 West 18Th street, OBJ
tanned $1,000 from each possessing an
unframed palate. according to aIlega-
tons made in the Yorkville police court.
They were held in default of 5000 bail
each for examination tomorrow.
Ernest Wolf. a jeweler. OF Pleasant
vile. n. Y. made the specific complaint
on which they were arrested. He al
legged that on June = the prisoners had
defrauded him out of $3.50, for which
they gave him a partnership n an al
legged champagne business, which later
proved to be nothing more than a deal
IN raspberry wine at champagne prices.
august z. Wagner, counsel for Wolf
SAID that tomorrow he would have nine
other victims OF the alleged swindlers IN
court.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1907-08-23
BIRDS AS SURGEONS
CANNOT SET WINGS

NEW YORK, Aug. 22--"If birds are
able to set their broken legs, why do
they not set their wings7''
This was the comment Of Frank Nj.
Chapman, assistant curator of the de-
partment OF mammalogy and ornithol-
ogy Of the American Museum of Natural
History, when he was asked about the
continuation of the Rev. William J.
Longs story that birds could mend
their own broken legs, which came in
a cabied interview with the Rev Theo-
dOre Wood, an English naturalist
eAIr. Long and his defenders cite
many instances of birds setting then
own legs. but they mention no birds
setting broken wings" said Mr.. Chap
man. "A bird may live without its legs
but II is placed 81 a great disadvantage
when it lozes mower OF 6iEht''
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1907-08-23
Should a Gentleman Dodge7

He lodged and thereby raised a deli
cate question as to whether a gentleman
is justified in lodging when a lady
throws something at him and there Is q
plate glass mirror behind him.
Annie Kavanagh Northumberland that
was what brought Policeman Benjamin
OF the East TWenty-second street sta
ton. into the case-that no gentleman
would think OF lodging under such con-
ditions. She held that ne should have
stood his ground ard got what was COM
ing 70 him for his audacity.
But Mr.. Cummings had lodged and
the tumbier had smashed into the plate
glass mirror back Of him with disastrous
results.
When the case came up in YorkvfIle
court Annie Kayanagh wanted to dis
cuss the delicate point IN etiquette IN
volved by a gentleman's sidestepping q
glass under such conditions She Il
over on the island now, still wonderspe
why the magistrate would not accept
her point OF view.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1907-08-23

that for most men It is a matter Of
conscience to choose what they
shall or shall not do, although con-
science is very often sent to sleep
by powerful narcotics. Yet, ulti-
mately, conscience, or the Unborn
feeling that such and such a thing
is wrong, must rule. Therefore, DR..
Morgan's advice is perfectly proper
and logical. If a man prays 70 his
Divine Maker for guidance as to
smoking or the consuming of alco-
holic beverages, that answer can
come in no other way, nowadays at
least, than by a conviction in the
soul that should settle the matter.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1907-08-23

According to Wolf. the two men
represented themselves as being the
Grape, Fruit, Champagne. and Tonic
Company" at 313-3l5 East Twenty-ninth
street, and after he had answered an
advertisement OF theirs asking 8 partner
they showed him a large stock Of goods
at the Twenty ninth street address.
among which were fifteen barrels OF
what they said was champagne and
which they valued at 500 a barrel.
Ihey assured him, Wolf declared.
there was as much more champagne on
its way from Europe and Il was TO carry
the deal through that they said they
needed the extra partner Wolf was
given a taste of the wine. and being
satisfied that il was all right did not
test any Of the other barrels
In court were Jacob Nellisen, OF
Union Course. L l., and Nicholas
Trenst, Of . DOdworth street. BROOKLYN.
who say they also lost 81. go each. WOLF
said that he intended TO have nine other
partners IN court tomorrow, having been
In communication with each OF them.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1907-08-23

ter. Golheid apparently had spoiled
Aar. Baxter for the effete East. He gave
one resounding cheer and Ieaped for the
Inns OF drummer girls.
notwithstanding his condition Mr.
Baxter made a wise selection. Miss
Howe was By far the prettiest girl IA
the line OF sixteen and Il was Miss
Howe he selected
He caught Miss Howe about her
slender waist and implanted a Goldfeld
kiss right where # should have been
planted
Miss Howe drummed on Mr.. BAKERS
features with her drum sticks ana
sQuealed 1rantical!y as though she didn't
Ike X. Then Mr.. Baxter kissed her
several times again and she sduealed
some more. and again gave Mr.. Baxter
a facial massage with the drum sticks
The audience BY this time was in a
state OF high excitement -Four ushers
and the house detective Jumped for Mr.
Baxter and landed on him. They hustled
him below and were Just about 10 put
MN IN irons when mr.. Baxter explained
out in GOldfeId Il Is the custom IN
the hOnkat0nkg 10 kiss the girls IN
tights when they come down into the
audience"
Just for that he ought to be shot.
said Flo Ziegfeld Indignantly. Does
he take the Jardin de Paris for a honk-
atonk' -
But Mr.. Baxter was released. Later
when Mr.. Ziegfeld realized what a hit
had been made by Mr.. Baxter. he de-
cided 70 have some one perform the
same stunt every night
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1907-08-23
Mr.. Taft and the Negro.

Political issues are fast in the
making-out in the Middle West.
Mr.. Foraker campaigns Ohio upon
the prestige of a fight for what he
believes to be the rights of the
negro. Mr.. Taft invades Kentucky
with a plea 10 Southern Democrats
TO crown the Roosevelt administra-
ton by breaking the Solid South,
the whole appeal being based upon
the contention that negro domino
ton is impossible, and that the ex-
+clusion of the negro from the polls
Is neither contrary to law nor OBJ
1ectionab1e IN morals.
To be sure, the astute Secretary
of War says much to saIve the
Negroes woGnds. He has far pro-
crossed since the war of the rebel
lion; he is a good citizen; the laws
which exclude h.m must likewise
exclude the white neighbor subject
to the same classification. But the
end of his lane is Republican su-
premacy in Kentucky, achieved by
white votes, and maintained bv
white domination.
A time, a plea, an outlook less
proPitious for Mr.. Taft's plan would
be a political miracle. The South
is still disturbed by the uprisings
IN Atlanta, Texas, and Mississippi.
Rape has made the suggestion Of
negro domination a living issue. a
terror, a horror to every white
mans soul. If. as the Secretary
thinks, there be many Southern
Democrats who believe in a protec-
tive tariff, that entire number is
FESTIVE under Republican party tao
tics which have made il impossible
for a Southern white man to vote
the Republican ticket and maintain
his self-respect. Given 20 hero-wor-
ship as they are, the people of the
South are not likely to love either
Mr.. Roosevelt or his spokesman the
more for the prospect Of a party's
supremacy wherein negroes are now
officeholders, and wherein. as the
delegates to the national conven-
ton, they are bought and indiffer-
emily permit themselves to be sold
like cattle.
But a greater evil than the fail
ure o. this plan to break the Solid
South is threatened by Mr.. TafFs
Lexington speech It is the drag
ging into politics of the whole ques-
ton of the Negroes position in the
South.
Left alone, the white men of that
section might have restored the
law, quieted the alarm which now
frightens every rural community.
enlarged the opportunity of the
negro, and so In the shortest rea-
sonable time have eliminated the
negro problem. But once that prob
lem becomes the thing of politics.
once it is made the torch of raIAes
and parades, once the negroes self
importance-easily aroused and in
stantly responsive to the prospect
of office-is swollen by the fattery
and grandiloquence of the stump,
then the cure of this sore is post
poned by decade.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1907-08-23
WANTS 2-CENT RATE
ON ROADS IN KANSAS

TOPEKA, Kan, Aug. 23-In a letter
to the State Board Of Railway Commits
sioners this morning. Governor Hoch In
Inmates that unless the board puts q
S-ecnt fare into effect in short time,
he viii call u special session Of the Leg
islature.
He says:
II request that you inform me i'm
mediatefv whether or not II is your In
tention to put e straight 2-cent fare
in operation in this State, that I may
know what further steps, If any, should
De taken to secure that result"
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1907-08-23
YOUNG GIRLS PLUCK
SAVES MOTHERS LIFE

ST. LOUIS. Aug. 23.-Mrs. Lewis X.
Rentchler. wife OF Lewis K Rentchlar.
OF the wabash railroad, believes that
had It not been for her daughter. Mas
Irene. nineteen years old, she would
have been killed or seriously injured in
a runaway on Kings highway viaduct
Sunday night.
Miss RentchIer, as their horse plunged
wildly forward with her mother Juggling
vainly at the reins. chung to her parent
and when the latter was drawn over the
dashboard and fell between the animal
and the trap the girl held 20 her mother
md shielded her from the heels OF the
frightened horse.
Three distinct marvellous escapes
marked the runaway,