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The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1908-09-03
THE SANITY OF THE
RIO GRANDE VALLEY

\ .
To The Herald:
St Louis. Mo-, Aug. S1.-The Am
erican people with whom l come in
contact in the Lower Rio Grande Val
ley in the vicinity of Brownsville.
Texas, talk Texas, talk about the work
they are doing, the books they read,
the rational recreations and amuse-
ments of the community. They think
about the plans for the great develop
ment of the productive industries of
the lower Rio Grande Valley. They
are deeply interested in the build
ing of canals that are to put water
upon thousands of acres of wonder
fully rich soil and cause homes and
human beings to replace arid wastes
and cactus and mesquite jungles and
not at all interested in the squalid
details of the debauches of perverts
and degenerates oozing from the
large city court rooms.
When in this Land of Hearts De-
light" l have the feeling of being in
an atmosphere of social sanity. In
great crowded, noisy city all the
people hurrying past with strained
faces and tense nerves seem to me to
be milling" like bunch of locoed
steers. The denizens of large city,
the people who could go away and
live under rational conditions in Tex
as, but deliberately elect to stay in
that Bedlam, surely have eaten of
rattleweed. Not one in a hundred
thousand of those bundles of noise
raked nerves knows. wants to know
that thousands of clean-living, clean
thinking, healthy, sane, CHEEKY Am
orleans have come into the Lower
Rio Grande Valley to make beauti-
full homes and to make ten blades of
grass grow where none grew for ages.
The men who print papers for
those demented people do not tell
them anything about this sort of
thing. The New York editor would
not give two lines of his space to the
Lower Rio Grande Valleys develop
ment. He gives pages, day after day,
to a degraded woman who Stays a tin
horn gambler and he really believes
that stuff is useful information of the
most important character. He is To-
coed too. If he were not, he either
couldn't or wouldn't hold his job; ne
would escape from Bedlam, come TO
the Lower Rio Grande Valley and let
the soft gulf breezes blow the bats
out of his belfry.
Southwestward is the trend OF ell
health, wealth, wisdom.
A. Investigator.
The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1908-09-03
@Doings In Lyford.

To The Herald:
Lyford, Texas, Sept. 2.-The men
and teams are out in a body this week
assisting Mr.. Stevenson in hauling
and laying of the pipe for the water
works system. One car of pipe came
two weeks ago and two more this
week.
Mr. and Mrs. Tumlinson and Mr.
and Mrs. Lyle from Bradford, ILL.,,
spent day last week visiting friends
in Lyford. They have bought prop
erty in Northern Texas.
Mr.. and Mrs. Remi Van Deposele
of Sebastian are the proud parents of
twins. a boy and a girl. They ar
rived last Thursday.
Peanut harvest is the chief theme
among the farmers.
We are glad to welcome Mr.. Craig
again He has been away for sew
eral weeks having been i'll at his
home in Michigan, but is now fully re-
covered in health
Mrs. E. J. Burch and children of
Brownsville stopped over two days
at Lyford visiting friends, before con-
tinuing their journey to DuQuoin, ILL.,,
their future home.
After an illness of several weeks,
Mrs. Henry Kring was taken last
Wednesday to the hospital at San An
tonic for treatment.
The reporter is glad to report Mr..
Schlecht on the mend. He has been
i'll two months.
The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1908-09-03
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 8. 1908
Il NEW MAT1ONF0RET0LD

Exile to Siberia, the land of which
the average person thinks with
shudder as one of insufferable cold,
and cruel sufferings, has long been
considered as one of the worst pun
ishments that could be inflicted upon
condemned prisoners of Russia. Now,
however, that dreaded land is coming
to the front as the goal of hundreds
of thousands of Russian emigrants
who are seeking home within its
borders. Instead of the inhospitable
and undesirable country that it has
been popularity supposed to be, it now
appears to be a country of many at
fractions. 1t is said that during the
past twelve months over half a mil
lion Russians have gone to Siberia,
which country is now said to possess
vast natural resources. Preceding
this year, it appears there has also
been a steadily increasing migration
of Russians to the same land, and it
is believed that a vast population is
slowly but surely gathering there,
which may some day shake or the
yoke of the Little Father of st.
Petersburg, and form new and
powerful nation. Thus do changes
&ke place gradually and almost i'm
peHSeptibly which are destined to
changA the face of the earth and af-
feet the\ political destinies of large
numbers Oh human beings.
The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1908-09-03
DEAFNESS CANNOT BE CURED

by local applications, as they cannot
reach the diseased portion of the ear.
There is only one way to cure deaf
ness, and that is by constitutional
remedies. Deafness is caused by an
infiamed condition of the mucous lin
ing of the Eustachian Tube. When
this tube is infamed you have rum
bling sound or imperfect hearing, and
when it is entirely closed. Deafness is
the result, and unless the infamma-
ton can be taken to its normal con-
dition, hearing will be destroyed for
ever; nine cases out of ten are caused
by Catarrh, which is nothing but an
inflamed condition of the mucous sur
faces.
We will give One Hundred dollars
for any case of Deafness (caused by
catarrh) that cannot be cuerd by
Halls Catarrh Cure Send for circu-
lars free.
F. ]. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, o
Sold by all druggists 75c.
The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1908-09-03
BIG BROWNSVILLE BANANA

A banana is on exhibition at the
Brownsville Grocery Co. s store that
was plucked from tree growing in
the court yard of that firm. The ban
ana measures nine inches in length
and is eight inches in circumference
at the large end and seven inches at
the smallest It tips the scales at
121s ounces. The tree on which this
banana was grown is only two years
old and has large bunch of them
growing on it, the most of which are
equally as large as this one.
The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1908-09-03
List Of New
Text Books for
Public Schools


Below is given a complete list oil
the new text books to be used in the
public schools in the city and the
county with the price. and a.so the
exchange price.
Arithmetics: Meyers-Brooks' Ele-
mentary, price 2Sc, exchange price
14c: Meyers-Brooks' Grammar
School. price soc, exchange, zoe;
Hopkins and Underwood's Mental
price 20; exchange lie.
United States History: The Begin
ners History of Our Country, price
4Oc. exchange zoe; The History OF
Our Country, price zoe; exchange $50
Physiology and Hygiene: Kron's
First Book, price soc, exchange Is;
Kron's Graded Lessons. price soc, ex-
change Csc; Coleman's Hygienic
Physiology, price 47c, exchange SIC
Texas History: Revised, price Csc
exchange S3c.
Geography: Dodge's Primary
price, 45c; exchange. 23c; Dodge's
Comparative Geography. price, 90,
exchange. 45c.
Composition: Webster's Elemen-
tary Composition. price soc, exchange
sec.
Language and Grammar: Buell.
er and Hotchkiss' Modern English
Lessons, price S5c, exchange 19c;
Buehler's Modern English Grammar
with composition, price 55c, ex-
change 2Sc.
Our Country Readers: First Read
er, price 1Sc. exchange &c; Second
Reader, price 24c, exchange 12c;
Third Reader. price goo, exchange
15c; Fourth Reader. price 80, ex-
change Ice; Fifth Reader, price 35c,
exchange 1Sc.
Basal Readers: Cyr's Primer,
price zoe. exchange 1Oc; New Cen
fury Spelling Book, price 1Sc, ex-
change sc; Physical Geography,
Davis Elementary, price 9Oc. ex-
change 45c.
Algebra: Wentworth's First Steps
price 45c, exchange %.
Writing: Berry's Writing Books,
Nos. One to Eight, price sc; McGuf-
fey's Charts, $40 have been ordered.
The following are the text books
that have been ordered for the high
school:
Collar and McDaniel's Latin Book,
Composition and Rhetoric, Went
worth's Higher Algebra. Meyers Cen
eral History.
The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1908-09-03
JAMES, B. WELLS
attorney
at LAW.

Successor to Powers & Maxan,
Powers & Wells, Wells & Rentfro
Wells, Rentfro & Hicks Wells &
Hicks, Wells, Stayton & Kleberg.
l buy and sell real estate and
investigate land titles. A COM
plete abstract Of all titles Of rec
ord in Cameron county, Texas.
Practice in all state and federal
courts, when especially employed.
Land litigation and corporation
practice.
The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1908-09-03

The Bay City Tribune was one
month old on the 27th of August, and
IS likely infant, being a daily Wis
itor to three hundred homes in that
place Bay City is likewise thriving,
as the Tribune reports several brick
buildings, under construction and
more planned.
The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1908-09-03

The Mexican Central railroad, fol-
lowing the plan sowe American
railway companies, has wisely decided
10 plant forests OF eucalyptus trees
TO supply ties and telegraph poles in
future, when foreseeing eye dis
Germs a threatening depletion of the
natural supply of timber for such pur-
poses. At the present rate of forest
destruction, it appears probable that
the supply of timber for all purposes
viii be entirely depleted before the
present generations shall be gathered
to their fathers, and posterity will
then rise up and commend the wis
dom of those who are today laying
plans to provide against that day.
What that same posterity will have to
say about the foolish ones of the pres
ent day, who so recklessly W asted the
natural supply. without making any
effort to replace the depleted forests.
will no doubt ''be plenty" and ex-
pressive.
The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1908-09-03
FOR SALE.

Tulosa Ranch, Is miles below
Brownsville, IL miles river front.
Contains over 1000 acres about one
third of which is suitable for irriga-
<tion. SIS per acre. John W. Hoyt.
agent. 7-10-tf
New-York tribune., 1908-02-04

and if there is what ii is! Between the two
there is room for almost innumerable varieties
of delusions. trifing or severe. 1t may be that
none of them will provoke serious trouble. But
ii is not creditable to either individual or popu-
lar intelligence that they should exist.
The fact is that international transactions
nowadays are almost invariably conducted in
particularly frank, open and aboveboard
manner. and that treaties drafted in the
most direct and perspcuous manner, and mean
just what they say, while secret treaties and
secret clauses are rare as 10 be almost un-
known Moreover, while treaties often ne
gotiated privately. even secretly-town meeting
procedure not being advantageous in such
busness-their terms and even their full and
precise texts are usually published promptly
TO the world, So that there is really no excuse
for any msapprehension concerning them. And
the utterance of errors concerning international
affairs is the more regrettable because of the
fact that popular prejudces and animosities
more easily excited over such affairs than
over any other topics of public consideration
II might well be wished, for the sake of na-
tional self-respect and international comfy,
that statesmen and the general public alike
would cultivate less creduty and Imagination
and more accurate information and more re-
strained and advised utterances concerning the
foreign relations of their own and other lands
New-York tribune., 1908-02-04
IN WASHINGTON SOCIETY.
TFrom The Tribune Bureau

Washington Feb. 3-Mrs. Richard H. Town
send is entertaining Mrs. Lawrence Townsend.
wife of the former United States Minister to Portu-
gal and Belgium, and her daughter. Miss Town
send of New York. Mrs Townsend has invited
fifty guests to dinner In their honor on Wednes-
day evening. Later there will be a number OF ad-
ditionaI guests to attend the ball. Mrs. Townsend
gave in honor of her guests yesterday after
Mrs. Henry Clews, of New York who is the
guest of Major and Mrs. McCawley, will begin a
visit TO Mrs Hope Slater tomorrow. Mrs. Slater
will give dinner in honor OF her guest on
Wednesday night, and they will attend the ball
Mrs. Townsends.
Cornelius Vanderbilt will join his wife to-rnor-
at the home of Representative and Mrs. Long
worth where she is making visit.
The Assistant Secretary of State and Mrs Rob
ert Bacon gave a large dinner party tonight Mr..
and Mrs. George W. Vanderbilt also gave a din
ner. and Senator Kean and his mother enter
tanned guests at dinner. other hosts of the even
ing were the Assistant Secretary Of the Treasury
and Mrs. Beekman Winthrop, Mr. and Mrs. Van
dergrift and Representative and Mrs. Louden
General and Mrs. John A. Johnston gave a din
his aids
Mrs. William Phelps Emo entertained a number
OF girls at luncheon to-day to meet Miss Sooy-
smith.
Major General and Mrs. Gillespie had dining with
them tonight Brigader General and Mrs ].
Franklin Bell, Rear Admiral and Mrs. Clover Mrs
Randolph Clarke, Mrs. Julian James Nr and Mrs
Gardner Williams. Major General and Mrs Sanger
Senator Bacon. Rear Admiral O'Neil and General
and Mrs. Fitzhugh.
Miss Nabuco. daughter of the Brazilian Arbas-
sador and Nine. Nabuco. was the guest OF honor
at dinner tonight with Miss David Y Noble as
hostess.
Senator Depew entertained dinner tonight
In honor OF the Speaker Of the House Invited tc
meet him were Representatives Payne. OIcott.
Fassett. Vreeiand Perkins. Dwight, Driscoll Fair
chiid southw1ck' Bradley. Bennett. Calder. Cocks
Dunweil, Law, Porter. Alexander. IittefYeld and
ross. ex-Representative Iittauer. Charles G. Ben
nett. secretary of the Senate: c. H. Butler. John
A Sieicher and Timothy L. Woodruff of New
York. and William Barnes. jr., of Albany
New-York tribune., 1908-02-04
THE DIPLOMATIC CORPS.
IFrorn The Tribune Bureau.l

Washington Feb. 3.-Thrty days mourning will
be observed at the Italian Embassy for the death
of King Carlos. the cousin of King victor. ana
the Ambassador and Baroness Mayor des Planches.
who had invitations for several dinner parties.
one of which for tonight. have recalled them
They to have given dinner In honor OF tne
Secretary of State and Mrs. Root.
The Brazilian Ambassador and Nine Nabuco are
also in mourning the death of King Carlos
They recalled the invitations for the dinner at the
embassy last night and also for future affairs.
and have withdrawn from social iIe until arter
the funeral of the King
The German Ambassador and Baroness Won
ernburg entertained at dinner tonight In honor
of the Vice President and Mrs fairbanks Their
other guests were the Postmaster General and
Mrs. Meyer. Senator Crane, the Minister from
Spain, the Minister from Greece, Representative
and Mrs. Longworth. Mr.. and Mrs. William Cor
coran Eustis. Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt, Mrs
Hobson, Miss Cameron. Miss Langham. MI Char
teris. of the British Embassy; Count Won Hatz-
feldt. counsellor. and c. Won Schubert attache OF
the embasSv staff.
Tie counsellor Of the French Embassy and Nine
des Portes de la Fosse hosts at luncheon
to-day complimentary to Count and Countess
Dionys Szechenyi. To meet them were Mrs Law
renee Townsend, Of New York. Miss Cameron.
Mile. des Portes de la Fosse. the Minister from
Denmark. Count d'Adhemar and NJ &c Cartier
OF the Belgian Legation.
The japanese Ambassador and Nine Takahra
will sail from Liverpool for this country on Febru-
ary 8 and arrive in the capital ten days later
The charge daffaires OF the japanese Embassy
and Nine. Miyaoka entertained at dinner tonight
Senator and Mrs Rayner, Representative and Mrs
Loud Miss Hull, Miss Foraker, Miss Marion
Oliver Prince Koudacheff. f1rs' secretary of the
Russian Embassy. William Phillips and Com
mander Taniguchi, naval attache of the japanese
Embassy. The counsellor and Nine Miyaoka VIII
sail for Japan the last OF this month or the first
of next and whether not they will return to
Washington is yet to be determined by the Jap
Foreign Office
New-York tribune., 1908-02-04
THE BOYCOTT UNLAWFUL.

The Sherman antitrust law has been pro-
nounced by yesterdays unanimous decision of
the United States Supreme Court to be broad
enough to cover the interstate operations of the
labor trust. Organized labor's methods in re-
straint of trade are not SO different from those
of the more unscrupulous industrial combina-
tions that il is surprising to find them within
the purview of the antitrust law. When an
employer has incurred its dsfavor because of
some quarrel its custom is TO interfere with
the sale of his products by threatening jobbers
and retailers throughout the country with its
displeasure. So, when one of the big so-caled
trusts has tried to push an Independent to the
wall its custom has been to threaten jobbers
and merchants if they handled the rivals
wares. 1t was TO prevent just such unfair
practices as these on the part of large CON-
panies engaged In interstate commerce that
the Sherman law was passed and it seems to
make little practical difference whether the
intimidation of dealers that restraints interstate
commerce proceeds from big industrial com
pany or from large and powerful labor or
ganizaticn. In both cases it operates in the
same way and produces the same result
IL has long been expected by lawyers that the
methods of organized labor in conducting
boycott all over the country would fall under
the ban of the Sherman act. but some doubt
has existed regarding the most effective redress
under that statute. The decision of the Su-
preme Court yesterday will enable boycotted
firms TO invoke Section Of the Sherman act
under which compla inant may sue combina-
ton interfering with his business for three
times the actual amount Of damages sustained.
In this case the damages alleged were $780,
0O0 SO that S2f0.0OO may be awarded by the
inferior court agans. the defendants. 4 prac-
ticai difficulty with this redress may be the
finding Of really responsible persons to sue. AS
labor unions are not incorporated it is pos
sible to proceed only against individuals. In
this case the plaintiffs have named two hun
dred defendants, including members not only of
the Hatters' Union, which declared the boy
colt. but also of the American Federation.
which carried it on. President Gompers him
self is among the defendants. and of him the
complaint alleges that he has one thousand
agents under his supervision and personal di-
rection TO conduct boycotts. If a Judgment
for damages can be obtained against officers of
the organization who financially respon-
sible this form of suit is likely to be q powerful
deterrent TO interstate boycotts. Meanwhile
the verdict in this case fereshadows success In
the Buck stove case, which is now on its way
to the United States Supreme Court and In
which an application is made for an injunction
10 stop boycott. If the principle be estab-
lshed that an injunction is proper remedy
another and perhaps more effective instrument
Of protection against the interstate boycott
VIII be in the hands of the employers Of labor.
New-York tribune., 1908-02-04
STARTS WORK IN HUMANITY
Columbia Appointment to Make Preliminary
Study for New Department

Acting upon tho recent gift Of 500 GOO to sstab-
Nsh a chair in humanity. the trustees Of Columbia
University at a meeting yesterday appointed Pro-
lessor r c. McRea formerly of Bowdoin College,
to make a preliminary study Of the subject OF hu
fessor McRea Is not at Columbia now but will
work independently along lines OF individual re-
search
At the same meeting gifts were announced an
foho-s: From w. X. Vanderbilt S25oO: from,
James Douglas. $500. for the departments oY
mining and metallurgy; from Rutherford S.rvv.
sant' class Of SO. $500. for the department ~
astronomy; from William c. Low class Of s5
800. for the library; from DR. ]. Ackerman Cole.
class OF 3d. bust of Houdon's washington II
was announced that the class Of s3 purposed mark
Ing It's twenty-ffth anniversary Is customary ar
Columbia, by the gift Of two bronze torches FOR
ST. Pauls Chapel The estimated COST or Thea.
will be $500. They will be presented ar n.xt
commencement.
Upon the assembling Of the trustees the homo
rary degree OF Ii. D. was conferred unon D-
Rudolf Leonhard. OF the University of Breslau who
has just completed his term OF service a. Kaisar
Wilhelm professor in Columbia University for
1so7-0S Professor Burgess dean OF tha ,acuI,v
OF political science. presented Dr. Leouhard for
the degree In the presence Of the trustees the
university council and ths faculty Of political .cI
Professor BENJAMIN D. Woodward of tbs IA
paftnent or Romance languages, rendered his
resignation to take effect June 30 1908 Pro-
fessor Woodward will live In Paris where n. ha.
entered upon a business career
New-York tribune., 1908-02-04
THE NEWS THIS MORNTNG.

CoNGREss-Senate: bill providing for
new immigrant station at Philadelphia was
passed - House: There was a lively poiiti-
cal debate, with President RooseTeits recent
message Cor its topic: bill granting pension
Of s12 month to all soldiers widows was
passed
FORETGN-Prenier Franco resigned Office,
and Portuguese Cabinet was formed un-
der the premiership of Admiral Ferreira do
Arnaral the opposition parties being well repre-
scented: Lisbon is said to be regaining its normal
condition; strict censorship is still enforced
Advices from Delagoa Bay, the Portuguese
colony in East Africa, say that many Repubu-
cans and adventures openly r1oiCing over
the murders IN Portugal, and that prayers for
the assassins have been offered in one church
the House of Commons, said that the govern
ment had decided not TO reintroduce the Irish
Council bill; Mr.. Birreli refused to enforce the
crimes act, and the Ear! OF Dudley, in the upper
house. opposed coercion. Eight French
soldiers were killed and fifty We're wounded in
an action with the Moors south Of Kasbah ber
Rechid; twenty-one men Of the Foreign Legion
perished in snowstorm in Algeria
DOMEST1C.-The United States Supreme
Court declared boycott instituted by a labor
organization a combination in restraint OF trade
under the terms Of the Sherman antitrust law.
and therefore Illegal - Governor Hughes
was unanimously indorsed for President by the
Saratoga County Republican Convention -
Senator Page introduced bill at Albany pro-
giding for the adoption in New York of the
unadulterated Massachusetts ballot; Senator
Cassidy introduced another bill striking at the
Independence League. - James s Whipple,
State Forest Fish and Game Commissioner. in
an address before the Legislature at Albany.
urgently recommended action looking toward
forest preservation in the Adirondack and Cats
xiii regions - Mayor Hibbard of Boston
announced that city employees must work the
hours for which they paid.
CITY.-Stocks declined. - There a
sharp decline In the stock and bonds of the
Rock Island system. - Henry Ciews sent
word TO his customers that il the future all
dealings with him must be credit basis
with 10 per cent security Judge Swami
began his career in General Sessions by calling
for investigation OF bank crimes. The
Industrial Christian Alliance voted 10 build a
new i've story home. - The Public Service
Commission for the I'd District held four hear
tngS In this city. - There one OF the
worst Jams on record the Brooklyn Bridge
during the evening rush hour. - Ex-Con-
gresham CooInbs discussed a plan have the
federal government build and own transcon-
1nental railway. - The Municipal Art So
. clety appointed q committee to obtain more
Fairgrounds for the children. Presby-
terfan and Baptist ministers indorsed Governor
Eughes's fight on racetrack betting
THE Observation-Disclosures for to-day:
teir The temperature yesterday: Highest
q degrees; lowest, 13.