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The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1907-12-27
Setting a Bad Example.

The Missouri woman who shot
her husband because he delayed
coming to supper when she called
him, has set an example that thou
sands of housewives feel like fol-
lowing News.
The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1907-12-27
Know.AIIs of Finance.

There are times when every man
you meet is a doctor of finances
and can tell to a gnat's heel how
the finances ought to be fixed to
keep them sound and healthy
Beeville Bee.
The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1907-12-27
LOCAL ITEMS
Fresh Grits at McGovern & Co.
12-1S-tf.

Rutledge Jewelry Co.
A bull fight is talked of in Mata-
moros for Jan. 18th.
Wall clocks and mantle clocks,
at Rutledge Jewelry Co.
Full line soaps and perfumery at
Putegnat's. 12-6-tf.
For sale; 4 full blooded colts,
two years old. L. B. Puente 2wk
Go to Rutledge Jewelry Co. for
anything you want in the iewelry
line.
Losr:-A bunch of keys, finder
return same to HERALD Office for
reward. 2t.
Diamonds. gold watches. stick
pins at Rutledge Jewelry Co.'S
big store.
The weather clerk has been kind,
as ne usually is to Brownsville at
Christmas.
Do your Christmas and New
Year buying at Rutledge Jewelry
Co.. store.
Don't forget boys, that the
Brownsville Rifles meet tonight at
Fort Brown.
Build more good sidewalks, and
the people will rise up and a call
your name blessed.
We have now for sale Triumph
sweet-potatoes (high grade stock.)
See the Mason Transfer Co.
Several cases of drunkenness and
disorder were on the docket of the
mayors court this morning.
Do not fail to see the excellent
display Of silverware at the jewelry
store. Rutledge Jewelry Co.
The ladies of the Home Mission
Society viii not have the usual
market Saturday afternoon.
We have for sale Triumph Seed
Potatoes (high grade steck). See
Mason Transfer Co. 12-27-4t-p.
For sALE-163S acres, ga mile
river front, has canal already built.
$22.5O. Apply to THE HERALD. if.
Just received at Putegnat's full
line high grade stationery, manicure
and shaving sets, toilets articles,
etc. 12-6-tf.
For the best quality in rings.
bracelets and charms see our large
and beautiful assortment. Rutledge
Jewelry Co.
The train was well filed this
morning, the passengers being
nearly all strangers and laborers
returning to their several places.
WANTED, TO buy, cheap--two
work horses or mules, serviceably
sound. H. Carter, Browns
vile, Texas. 1927, 3t-pd.
WANTED AT ONCE: Cheap sec
ond hand buggy, road wagon"
or blackboard quick-Write Ben
nett-HERALD office.
For RENT:-Cash or on shares
about 20 acres cleared land near
city on canal. Call at cottage on
Madison street, End. door from the
bridge. cod If.
The streets are today filled with
strangers and have been for the
past few days and accordingly the
ferry, between here and Matamo-
ros is doing land Office business
carrying sight-seers over the Rio
Grande.
Word was received from San Be
nito ranch yesterday that Mrs
Laljrum was quite sick again, and
DIR. J. K. Combe went out in an
auto to see her. She is reported as
being better today, however.
WANTED TO BUY, 5000 to 1000
acres virgin Ind in Brownsville
district. Owners answer at once.
-RIc1E ]. DorY, ITO E. Oak St.
New Albany, Ind. 12-1S-tf.
go,
The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1907-12-27
II 10 lot.
Notice.

The regular annual meeting of
the stockholders of the First Ma
tional bank of Brownsville, Texas
will be held at its banking house
on Tuesday, January 18th, 1908,
at 3 p. M, for the election of Di-
rectors and the transaction of such
other business as may properly
come before the meeting.
A. ASHHEIM, Cashier.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1907-02-15
THE CHURCHES.

Lutheran - Preaching service
at lO:20 a. NJ. Rev. Is. N. Rudie.
pastor, Sunday School and Bible
study from ~ to | o'clock.
Methodist Class meeting. 10 a. M:
preaching, 1920; Sabbath School.
ll:45; Junior K. l.. 3 D. M; Epwurth
League. $40: evening service s p. m:
Rev. f. b. Dunn. Pastor
Presbyterian Church-Sundav sci
vices. Preaching lo:30 ID. m., SUI
day School, IL M: G.. T.. meeting 6:l5
y. M: evening service 1870 T.. tn.
Rry W. II. Aichl> ~. pastor.
kpl>c, pal :, rvicrs nn Sntda' F"h
II. murulug Service al 1880 " IN .
SUNDAY school AT II o'clock; evening
service at 1870 p M Seats free. all
welcome. Rev. III n. Tragltt, pas
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1907-02-15
That, 'Investigating'' Committee.

MLASs, tie recognized leader Of the insurgents in
VI the house, has met a foeman worthy Of his steel
show that 1T has been the plan OF the friends of Gam
Die to keep everything out of the records, while the aim
possible, but they have been handicapped by an over:
whelmlng opposition. When the committee appointed
10 Investigate and report o. the 21st made it's report,
they closed with the following sentence:
'The committee further report that all the evi
dence offered was admitted and that said evidence con
s1sts OF records, books and written statements and that
part Ut this report"
Later those who expected a square deal-or at
east a statement OF facts or truths-were surprised to
learn that all testimony was withheld by the commit
zee and that the committee refused to he the same i'm
e the house on the senate Parmley, who led the
afbn +e salled upon i1airn1an G as; and was told that
Tue testimony and Senator CANDLES statement would
be hled later The testimony was tvpewritten and
5larmley had a copy. when the report YVES made on the
alsl, ot the committee alone could file a copy The
committee 1on M ceased to exist on the 10Th of February un-
aer me RESOLUTION and that was the last -av it could
fPe srmta When the rapport of the state ofifaers was read read
ME with the report the testimony and CANDLES stafes-
aen1 referred to in the report made on the 21st Glass
, siafiee.eqp s az ndeg s was sn amd %adf g. a @ bard fight in opp
t safe of PEeR2eated calls for roll ca = put tG it to Viva an v6 5ee
1 3 was asserting 41 his rights for a roll calm terms 1t
,esuIted in +h TO De 9e ignored gls and a roll call was given. It
s he record d h snf 5 Iess Of ma pismls W5s motion 7tier !; = to s.. but
me lnsurgent leaders that thew were in q had nnod vi
.ha = WIN a lie IN the first report and now a record Of
.ne vote standing by that lie and voting to SUPPRESS the b
sfaas test testimony, there was a %hurryiIng to ca We and and
p . ~ t 9hG1a1nlng the Hoor stated that if the report made
me ae4 the testimony and Senator CANDLES Statement moul 4
n %o'1 Thu 20 TINS effect was made and carried unanimous.
y. mus after a most deliberate effort ON the nart E
'l. committee to suppress the testimony. + i; - fo paad I'll
Eve II up: II was freely asserted that much Of the toe "
n ,lbIa yy1 would De eliminated but this was not thoughtl
lands r;ataa OF R3a.rmley who might call the turn un " on the IN co 1me
sit;on than - tIsde a mem into even a more unenviabie Do
When the report came up on the ist%' ' : &c., :
= a'oSe = ootn houses over the alleged doctorinev of
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1907-02-15
..S

The coming season promises to be a unusually
Busy one i'm the building line in Sisseton.
"By their fruits, we shall know hem, and the pres
et South Dakota legislature will go down IN history as
a lemon.
Lent began Wednesday. We have decided that
there is one thing we could give up and that's tie grip
Any person with $500 in his pocket can now en-
gage in the manufacture of deratured alcohol. The
indication are that i'm the early future there will be a
large demand for this product, and an opportunity open
to farmers to make a whole lot of money out of material
now going to waste on the farm.
Those congressman may have to pay their fare now
since the anti-pass bill has gone into effect-mind you,
weasay "~may"-but they took good care to provide the
ways and means by Raising their own salaries $25OO a
year. That will help some.
We know some hen-pecked husbands in Sisseton
who don't dare to cackle except when their wives are
away.
We notice that when you do some politicians a fr
gr they are apt to be afflicted with a partial loss OF
memory.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1907-02-15
PEF>BYTERIAN NOTES,


Fthtualv IL: Morning text Mark !;
IS. Thrme: what time and patience
can Ia. Evening theme. A we WISH
50 Ac hlnk: a. we think, SO we Judge
a. we Judge. we live. Text. Psalm
14:l.
Rpm.mbrr the >pectal Offering on
Sunday tur the Ministerial Rtiir'
Fund.
We Wish to thank our friends '"i
tnelr >perlal interest ,nd help IN Tue
different branches "t our chu''''
work at present.
w. f.. ATCHISON, Pastor.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1907-02-15

testimony before the nvestigation com
mittee- Parmley hold a carbon copy OF the original
transcript OF testimony. n some particulars the prlnt
ed testimon differs When asked if senat rs made a
.ractice of; prointing sons to lucrative positions, Gam
BILE answered, according to Pasmleys transcript 90 40
not want to cast reflections OH amy one. The printed
report refers the questioner to the records for reply.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1907-02-15

TvpeWrlter> for sale or rent az t"e
STANDARD office.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1907-02-15

Subscribe for the STANDARD a""
secure Que OF those premiums
The Brinkley argus., 1907-11-15
Trade at Home.

Patronage of the big mail order houses is founded largely on short sightedness. In one way 1t is akin to patronage of the get-rich-quick schemes The buyer believes he is getting something for his money that Is really not given. and fails to realize either where his money goes or what he gets for 1t.
 No one would think of telephoning to furniture store and asking the dealer to send up dozen dining room chairs, without having previously ex- amined the chairs, or of ordering a dress or pair of shoes, or stove in this way. Yet that is practically what the patron of the mail order house does. He orders by mail without having seen the goods or having any idea of their appearance or character. He is taking long chance. Two things on which he has to base his conception of the articles ordered Is . description in the catalogue and the cut given there. In other words, the AttTdClbFGuCSS Ol tu0 OuCE uiduc uSs- pends on the promises of the firm and the engraver's art. It Is possible to make a very creditable cut from a flimsy and worthless model. It is possible to describe an atrocity in a way that makes 1t appear most desir- able. Incidentally 1t seems to be al. ways possible to find some one who will accept the promise and cut at their face value, without properly dis counting them, and on the credibility of these people the mail order busi- ness thrives. A little investigation and comparison viii convince the average person that his money will go further and yield greater returns if invested right here in Beverly. despite the fictitious values offered by the outside houses. But the articles sold by the mail order houses must be compared as they really are, and not as they are reputed to be in tn eata- logues.-Beverly tMass.) Times.
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Patronixing Home People.

An exchange says that war has been declared on the great catalogue houses of Chicago and other cities by the 500 retail merchants of the west. In one of the most striking eco nnmic movements this country has ever known the small dealers are fighting, they say, for their lives. The mammoth institutions, employing thousands of workers. doing their business entirely through the medium of their bulky catalogues, spending no money in the communities whence they derive annually millions of dol lars of patronage, are forcing in creasing numbers of home merchants to the wall and SO their opponents claim, are making commercial graveyards of once prosperous towns" People living in country towns ought to get wise and trade at home.-Phil., adelphia Episcopal Recorder.
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Win. B. FOLSOM. Editor.
GEORGE J. GOULD ON THE MONEY
 SITUATION.

When George Gould returned few days apo from a six months stay in Europe, he found the most remarkable and contradictory conditions that he ever experienced before. He was made happy by the many increased millions which his lines of railroads are making for him. He was present. ed with the statement that all over this great country, wherever his great system touches, from the Atlantic to the Pacific. from the lakes to the gulf, there is an unparalleled era Of prosperity; that the great crops of wheat, cotton, corn, etc; the prodigi- ous output of forests. factories. mines, etc, have so blocked the railroads that they can't even catch up with the demand upon them for months to come
 This kind of report, and then to think of people being frightened at the little financial furry of the past week, all because of scarcity of a medium of exchange, caused MT Gould 10 say of the millions of English gold which came in on the ship with him
 We need the gold now" he said, but we will not need it long, and when we are through with it it will go back again. This scare is unwar- ranted. Railroad earnings are in- creasing all over the country; the na- ton as whole is prosperous. and l do not believe there is going 10 be any great industrial depression. The worst Is over, and what we all need to do now is 10 help restore confidence. 7
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stance Dixon. and Mir. Elicit Pepper upon taking pleasant stroll in a western direction from this city. drop ped in at the home of MT. and Mrs. w. A. Morris and were quietly mar ried, Rev. w. D. Chase, officiating Those present at the wedding were: MT. and Mrs. Morris. Mrs. E. L. Grimes. Charley Crume. Tom Morris and Miss Annette Redd. This we'd ding was indeed surprise to every. one, but we hope the newly-wed couple will ever be happy. It seems to us that we hear the distant chimes of other wedding bells. Ere the win ter is gone, and Spring comes again in all her proud beauty. we think per- chance few more of cur young people will be missing in our gay young peoples society-that is-they will have become :old folks"
 Quite crowd of men, young and middle aged. came out from Helena
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hr. Vineyards Reply.

Dear Mir. Salesman:
 At first thought Id not answer your letter, but after thinking the mat ter over see some things in your let ter to answer--I do this to show the other side of those propositions and to call your attention to few of the many things that clog the wheels of progress in our part of the country. I'll answer few of your arguments first.
 First you say. If you buy goods from catalogue houses, you pay in ad- vance mot unless you want to. you may have them shipped on approval, everyone knows that.
 Second, you buy goods without seeing them that is answered above.
 Third. your money sent far away" Where does the home merchant buy his goods1 Doesn't he send the money far away1-yes.
 Fourth, You haul goods from the depot t'-of course and all who buy from home merchants have 10 pay that hauling just the same.
 Fifth. about redress, that is moi needed as often as you may have heard 1t was.
 Sixth, "you pay freight or expense charges extra the freight and ex pense has to be paid just the same only at home 1t is part of the "cost. '
 Seventh, "you pay price that is only apparently low''-and here it i: not often that it Is even apparently low"
 And you say "there are severa other reasons why you should trade with your home merchants. one O which Is he. is your neighbor, you brother, I.E. Allow me to reminc you that Jacob was Esaus brother and what did he do when he went tc sell Esau dinner of pottage, he charged him his birth-right and sneak ed around and beat him out of hi: blessing. We have several sucf brethren and neighbors here. Tc prove it. just take cognizance of the
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HELPS TIE TRUSTS
ERROR rco FREQUENTLY MADE
 BY THE FARMER.
BUYS THROUGH MAIL ORDER
And In Doing So Contributes To ward Capital Concentration In the BIa Financial centers, to
 His Great Injury.

Lord bless the American farmer. He is one of the nabobs of creation and he hardly knows it. In single year his work adds to the wealth or the nation more by hundredfold than all the mines of the country. He gives to the world twice the value In crops and produce than the output all the factories and mills of the nation pro duce. He supplies the lubricant to keep the wheels of progress in mo tion. and if he only knew 1t could buy and sell a few hundred Rockefellers, and still have enough left to purchase a few kingdoms as large as Spain. Yet 1t must be admitted that this great American farmer needs some enIignt- enraent as to common economies. While he is the king of wealth produc- CTS. and lot of 1t sticks to his fingers, he Is also a philanthropist and doesn't know 1t. He works hard to produce his weslth and then patroniSes the machinery that lands goodly portion of 1t in the coffers of the Captains of Finance who dictate things in Wall
 
 street and elsewhere; in fact he as- sists the trust magnates to the money required to build up combinations that the good philanthropic farmer is com pelled to support. He does it and he knows not that he doeth so. Every time the good tiller of the soil sends away to the big mail order house for his supplies, he does his mite toward capital concentration in the great financial centers, and his little mite seeks a resting place among the money held in reserve to feed the wants of the trusts. It is about time western farmers take tumble to cold facts, and come to a realization that their interests are best subserved by keeping their earnings as close to their homes as possible.
The Brinkley argus., 1907-11-15
Advertise What You Have to Sell.

After all that has been said or can be said about the big mail order houses. the simple fact remains that they get the business by thorough and persistent advertising, showing cuts of goods and givtng prices. lf home merchants would take the same meth. ods, much of the trade now going to the mali order houses in cities would como to them. A man we know re- gently made up list of tools and hardware from one of the mail order catalogues and took 1t to a home dealer to get prices. He was surprised to find that he could get the same articles at homo for less money and save the express charges, and also see the goods he was buy ,.--Clear. field (Pa.) Spirit.
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Just tell '<m you saw 1t in The Argus.
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MONROE NEWS.

Elicit M. Pepper went to Clarendon last Friday on business.
 Mrs. Lula New and Miss Eva Watson went to Brinkley Wednesday to do some shopping.
 Mir. Mccoy, of Helena. came out to our city Tuesday to attend to some business at Buck Horn mill.
 w. T. Riner went to Helena Mon day.
 Mir. Lambert, of Brinklcy, came down one day this week on business.
 Mrs. H. C. Stillwell, of Helena. is the guest of Mrs. R. V. Wallace this week.
 Our depot agent. Mir. Jay Cannon, of Blackton, who has been forced 10 abandon his position since August on account of illness, returned Saturday to take up his work again.
 Last Sunday afternoon Miss Con-
The Brinkley argus., 1907-11-15

Prof. Reynolds of the university, by Mayor Mulholland. local ministers and prominent bankers and business men. A resolution was adopted asking both political parties to insert plank in their platforms against the saloon. One thousand university students. by unanimous vote. pledged themselves to support the league.
The Brinkley argus., 1907-11-15
STATE PROHIBITION.
Movement to Compass il Launched at Fayetteville.

Fayetteville, Ark. Nov. l2.--ln an enthusiastic mass meeting held here last night, Fayetteville sounded the bugle note for statewide prohibition
 The Rev. pr. Eichclberger ef the board of trustees and the Rev. Edward Tabor of the state league led the movement, and vigorous speeches were made by President Tillman and
The Brinkley argus., 1907-11-15
Don't Pay AIlnany.

to be divorced from your appendix. There will be no occasion for it if you keep your bowels regular with pr. Kings New Life Pills. Their action is so gentle that the appendix never has cause to make the least com plaint. Guaranteed by all druggists 2sc. Try them.
The Brinkley argus., 1907-11-15

fact that when farmer brings any produce to town and offers it for sale, 1t matters not whether there Is as much profit on 1t to him as on nails. wire or any of the other things that are handled without CD profit. His brother. the merchant, begins to quote St. Louis, Memphis and other wholesale markets to him and forces him to sell at that price or not sell at all. Let a farmer have COW or steer to sell and his brother, the butcher, will pay him the St. Louis price. less the freight, shrinkage and profit and sell 1t here at the top of the market. But, let the farmer or any other man who trades at home or elsewhere, want to buy anything and suggests that the price is too high and refers to Memphis, St. Louis or other wholesale markets, he is told that the goods are inferior or that they cost more than his quotation and he has committed quite an of- fense.
 am forced to say if some of the merchants here pay the price they claim for their goods, they would make big money to get me to buy for them. Also I'd refer to the fact the farmers do not get as much for their cotton seed here by S250 per ton, as they get at other places in this coun- ty and the price paid for cotton here is often 1s to cent lower and some times more than at other adjacent towns. Why, o why do our "breth- ren" suffer us to be treated that wayp And, why do they fight our organiza- ,tion, The Farmers Union. They have unions, can't they let their country brothers have one1 And also why don't they arrange some way to eliminate some of the VAST army of drummers we have 10 pay and support who do not add one cent to the intrinsic value of the goods. A pound of meat or a pound of flour will not last one minute longer by having drummer tax on if. Of course those two items have theleast tax of anything except nails and wire. But if there is any country in which the consumer is ridden to death, This Is 1t. 1.-The merchant helps to pay the school tax, and yes, after he has rented his country farm to some poor farmer and made the money off him to pay lt with,
 We all prize at its full worth. all the credit we get at home. and fear many of us use it more than we ought
 The money helps to build Up my community does itp Can't you take time some Sunday and ride out ir the country and just take good look l at the huts and shacks we live in and then go back to town and thank oul brothers, who built them for us and allow us to live in them. 70 well. ' some will say. "the farmer is to blame himself for that" thought the mer- chant was the one who used the money we paid him to help build it up l know, and So does everyone else whc has ever worked behind a counter
 there are hundreds of articles sold a
 from 100 to 1000 per cent profit.
 1 And furthermore we "have credit, we'd all be better off if we did no have credit but of course we'd thinl hard of our friends and brothers in tn,
 mercantile business if they refused tt credit us. when they know they vii get their money back with interest.
 The fact of the business Is. tos many of us abuse our credit and bu,
 more than we need simply becaus. we can get t on a credit. We ars too much inclined to buy what w