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Western Kansas world., 1908-07-04

N EW YORk--TnorG recently Oc-
CURED the fourth anniversary
of the burning of the General
Slocum, when 1000 lives were
lost. AS a result of that trag-
edy and without the knowledge
of the general public great changes
have taken place in the construction,
the manning and the operation of the
steamboats, belonging to the port OF
New York and elsewhere, the net re-
suit of which has made travel by
water in this country the safest mode
Of Transportation in the world. Last
year, for instance, the loss of lives on
the railroads of the United States
reached 10000. By steamboat the to-
tai was sos, and of these 129 were
from accidental drowning and 63 were
from suicide and other causes which
could not be averted, leaving only 313
lives lost that come within the scope
of possible prevention During the
year 1907 there were 357, ,S51, SCI pas
sengers carried on steamboats, in
American waters.
So extensive and so radical have
been the improvements made in
building and equipping American
steamboats, since the Slocum disaster
that 1t may safely be said that it is
only the question of a comparatively
short time when steamboats, will be
practically unsuitable as well as un-
burnable. One company has built a
fireproof indestructible steamboat,
which has proved huge success, and
it now remains for the companies do
ing business around New York to copy
or improve on this model. That this
will be done is certain.
Jamestown's Construction.
The fireproof steamboat is the
jamestown, which, it was expected,
would be used in New York waters
this summer. She is a large passen-
ger craft, built last season for service
on the Potomac during the exhibition.
She is $50 feet long and in general de-
sign follows the usual plan of our
American river boats, differing from
them only in the kind of material
used in her construction. Passengers
walk on steel decks, and no effort has
been made to furnish the cabins with
cumbersome upholstered furniture or
of paneling them with heavy and high
ly-polished hard woods. Linoleum is
used as a floor covering. That in the
main saloon is of the standard battle
ship grade of a thickness exceeding
one-quarter inch. On the exposed
parts of the deck is laid inter1ocking
rubber tiling, which makes a hand
some appearance as well as being
agreeable to the feet.
All the upper works are of steel,
snd even the pilot house and the Of
ficers' rooms are of this material, with
corrugated metal partitions between
the sleeping apartments The stair
Western Kansas world., 1908-07-04
THE LONELY BACHELOR.
Troubles He Got into When He Tried
to Fix Up Last Years Straw.

when this hot weather came on, -
said the lonely bachelor of limited
means, "I felt the need of a straw
hat, and when ] foand that my pocket
book wasn't backing me up very
strongly / got out my last years straw
and took a look at that.
TT would do to start the season
with anyway, that is with a little
cleaning, and 1 thought 1 would clean
it myself. You know you can buy
preparations for this purpose now if
you want to clean your hat yourself.
and thought I'd try. it.
"And really I had very good luck
Western Kansas world., 1908-07-04

with it, and made it look a lot better,
but in cleaning the hat I got the rib
bon wet and spoiled that. But could
afford to buy new ribbon now, since
had cleaned my own hat.
so 1 went around to store where
they sell such things and asked the
young lady behind the ribbon counter
for hat ribbon and she knew how
much / wanted, but how about the
width?
and 1 really didn't know about
that; / hadn't measured the old rib
bon, and then the young lady said
they were wearing the hat ribbons a
little narrower this year, and / said
oh, very well, let me have it in the
narrower width, then, for you see 1
thought if 1 got ribbon of the fash
ionabIe width it would help the hat
out a little.
so she cut me of ribbon of suit
able length and of the fashionable
width, and took it home to sew onto
my hat, which l was just able to do,
for experience has made me handy
with the needle; but do you know
that when 1 came to put that ribbon
on / found that it left a streak of
white straw about quarter of an inch
wide above it all around the hat2
Yes, sir. The new ribbon was that
much narrower than the old had
never thought of that-and of course
it left that much straw all around that
had been covered up and kept bright
by the wider ribbon now exposed, and
the-sun tanned hat looked tanneder
than ever now with that white strip
around it, and the white strip looked
whittier because the rest of the hat was
so tanned
But what could 1 do about it?
didn't want to throw that band away
and buy another, and / thought 1t
would be only few days anyway be-
fore that white strip would tan up and
look like the rest OF the hat, and so
I'm wearing the hat now. hoping that
by the time it's faded up uniform I'll
be able to buy a new one"
Western Kansas world., 1908-07-04
a subtle difference.

Mrs. Blank, wife of prominent min
lister near Boston, had in her employ a.
recently engaged colored cook as black
as the proverbial ace of spades. One
day Mrs. Blank said to her:
Matilda, wish that you would have
oat meal quite often for breakfast My
husband is very fond of it. He is
Scotch, and you know that the Scotch
eat great deal of oatmeal
-Oh, he's Scotch, is he?" said Ma
tilda. "Well, now, do you know, was
thinkin' all along dat he wasn't des
like us"-Woman's Home Companion.
Western Kansas world., 1908-07-04

The little year-old Spanish crown
prince has been enrolled in a regular
regiment and is now soldier. 1t may
sem very early age for his military
carer to begin, but he is already ac-
customed to arms.
Western Kansas world., 1908-07-04

The up-to-date butcher shop is now
provided with an electric meat saw,
and the old handsaw is relegated to
The junk pile In its place is a small
handsaw, driven by an electric motor,
which sewers all bones in neat and
expeditions manner.
Western Kansas world., 1908-07-04

American national songs have been
frequently criticised severely The
music has been objected to as having
Borrowed the words as not poetic. On
the other hand. DIR. Walsh. the Scot
tish preacher, who lately visited the
United States, remarks that Amer
ica'' has cne noble merit: 1T Is the
least bellicose of national hymns
Western Kansas world., 1908-07-04

The urine. Ny wife and I have both
used Doan's Kidney Pills for what doc
tors diagnosed as advanced kidney
troubles, and both of us have been
completely cured"
Sold by all dealers. so cents box
Foster-Milburn Co.. Buffalo. n. z.
Western Kansas world., 1908-07-04

An Angic-Indian. says an English
newspaper, gave the following char
acter" to his native cook, who ex-
hibited 1t with much complacency:
This servant has been with me for
six months 1t seems much longer.
He leaves me on account of i'll health.
NV i'll health
Western Kansas world., 1908-07-04

Even time changes. says cid ST
Chestnut, in Sedgwick (Kan.) Panta-
graph When / was a boy the old
grandfather's clock stood in the hall
ticking away deliberately .Take-your-
time, take-your-tiue-~ Nowadays the
fashion is to have one of these little
round clocks that gees like blazes
and says: -Get-there, get-there,
Eet-there"
Western Kansas world., 1908-07-04
Peace for once.

st tell you, Judson is a slick chap"
laughed Silas Ryetop- He took his
wife to Washington and kept her in
the congressional library four hours
What did he do that for?" asked
Hiram Hardapple.
why, begosh, they fine you if you
talk in that building, and for four
hours she didn't speak word.
Western Kansas world., 1908-07-04

a pioneer of Colo
RADIO, now living at
21S East Nebraska
street, Blair. Neb,-
says: Il had such
pains in my back
for a long time that
/ could not turn In
bed. and at times
there was an almost.
total StopDage of
Western Kansas world., 1908-07-04

Even though the Paris police have
ordered all the revolving doors out
of the cafes, if a man stays in one of
them long enough and drinks absinthe
enough, he can see the whole neigh
bOrhoOd revOlve.
Western Kansas world., 1908-07-04

A mountain railroad reported, the
other day, that it had lost a train,
cars, locomotive and crew. Anyone
finding it may keep the passengers as
a reward.
Western Kansas world., 1908-07-04

a railway through the mountains
north of the Adriatic sea, constructed
by the Austrian government, to build
ND the trade of Trieste, though only
$50 miles long, has 679 bridges and
viaducts. 1t also runs through 40
tunnels
Western Kansas world., 1908-07-04

The news that 40O,00O,000 firecrack-
ers have already been imported from
China this year is a reminder that it
is time again for editors who are hard
up for subjects to write some editori-
ais advocating a noiseless Fourth.
Western Kansas world., 1908-07-04

The pig iron production in the
United States in 1907 was 25,7S1 1861
gross tons, according to the American
Iron and Steel association. This
amount was 1.9 per cent greater than
that of 1906. Canada produced $751;
l46 tons in 1907
Western Kansas world., 1908-07-04

From Chicago the distance to Hong
kong is, via New York and Suez, H.
522 miles; via San Francisco, 1855
miles; via New Orleans and Panama,
11,742 miles, and via Tehuantepec,
1929 miles
Western Kansas world., 1908-07-04

The skin OF muskrats is largely
made use of in the manufacture o1
the cheaper grades of fur coats.
Western Kansas world., 1908-07-04

Manchuria already receives 1000 ca
BILE messages a day from Japan The
doubling of the cables is probable
Western Kansas world., 1908-07-04

The Afghan's idea of the simple life
is taking to the hills and potting sol
diers in khaki.
Western Kansas world., 1908-07-04

In the Slavonic section of the New
York public library there are S,527
volumes and very large proportion
of the Russian readers select books
on social and governmental subjects.
Western Kansas world., 1908-07-04

The Philadelphia child who fell
down stairs without waking is going
to make a first-class citizen of that
community when he grows up.
Western Kansas world., 1908-07-04

German children convicted of seri-
Gus offenses numbered in 1905, As, ,003,
in 1906, 81 ,232, and in 1907, SO, PIG. =
Western Kansas world., 1908-07-04

Ink for rubber stamps is made of
anf1ine dye mixed with glycerin. The
dyes can be obtained at druggists
shops.
Western Kansas world., 1908-07-04

In the last eight years the three
great iron countries have produced
SIC. 100000 tons of pig iron, of which
over half has come out of the United
States.
Western Kansas world., 1908-07-04

A man in Indiana led a double life
on a salary of SIG week, and yet
some people tell US that the price of
living is going up.
Western Kansas world., 1908-07-04

Mrs. Pinkham, of the Lydia E.
Pinkham Medicine Company of Lynn,
Mass, together with her son, Arthur
w. Pinkham, and the younger mem
bers of her family, sailed for Naples
on May goth for a three months tour
throughout Europe and a much needed
vacation"
Western Kansas world., 1908-07-04

trouble with her head she consults a
milliner instead of q doctor.
Western Kansas world., 1908-07-04

The number of families in France is
estimated at 1915 900, of which 1,S04.
72O have no children.
Western Kansas world., 1908-07-04

Lotteries Pay Big Dividends.
Nearly 100000 is spent in Mexico
City every week on lottery tickets and
in the same period only about $4,000
ID paid back in premiums.
Western Kansas world., 1908-07-04

And now somebody declares that
Mr.. John d. Rockefeller is a socialist
He isn't thinking, however, of divid-
ing up.
Western Kansas world., 1908-07-04

Those who await no gifts of chance
have conquered fate.-Norton-
Western Kansas world., 1908-07-04
lmportant to Motners.
BUSINESS Amounts to Something.

Last year Brazil needed over 10000
600 jute bags to hold the years cof1ee
production. Each bag costs the ship
pers trif1e over IS cents Tie busi-
ness of making coffee bags thus
amounted last year to nearly $4,000
o0O
Western Kansas world., 1908-07-04
Il Cures While You Walk.

Aliens Foot-Ease is a certain cure for
hot. sweating, callous, and swollen, aching
feet Sold by all Druggists. Price 25c Donf
accept any substitute Trial package FREE.
Address Allen s. Olmsted. LIE Roy, N Y.
Western Kansas world., 1908-07-04

Lewis, Single Binder straight Sc cigar
made of rich mellow tobacco Your deal
er or Lewis Factory, Peoria, HI
Western Kansas world., 1908-07-04
VETERAN OF rHREE WARS.

Pioneer of Colorado and Nebraska-
z-~
Matthias Campbell, veteran OF the
Civil War and two Indian wars, and
Western Kansas world., 1908-07-04

THE GErERAL S1octaM
wASH 1uND orr raN NTfR 10IArD
wEwNsK HrTR. agNE IS, 1903 :
WITH LOSS OF ZOOS INES uSMM$
The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1908-02-13
Historic Fort Abandoned.

Gen. Albert Myers, chief of the
Department of Texas and having
headquarters at Fort Sam Houston,
San Antonio, has issued orders for
the abandonment of historic Fort
Reno, Okla. The departure of the
troops from this fort will mark
the passing of another landmark of
he old west. In the early days,
when the Indians were on the
warpath, Fort Reno was established
. guard the trail from the Nor
thern states to Texas. At one time
it was the most important post in
the Indian territory. All of the
old frontier posts are gradually
being abandoned. An officer and
IS men will remain at Fort Reno
until the property has been dispos-
ed of.
The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1908-02-13
ST. Louis Grit On
Lower Rio Grande.

How's this for an example OF
what the photographers stock phrase,
would call speedy development?
C. L. Denny came from St. Louis
less than four weeks ago and bought
land on the La Gloria canal in
Cameron county. Henry Ratz and
w. A. Mattox of St. Louis are in
terested with him. 1t is not over
three weeks since Mr.. Denny began
the work of developing the land.
In that time he has had built a
neat little cottage aud has cleared
considerable land. Monday he be-
gan blowing land that three weeks
ago was covered with thick brush,
and in a very short time will have
the land planted. He has about
sixty hands at work clearing, grub
ing, blowing and laying off bitches
for irrigating the crops which will
soon be growing there. He will
clear and cultivate about sixty
acres this season. Mr.. Denny will
plant for his first crop cucumbers
and beans, which yield quick re-
suits. 1t will probably not be over
four months from the time he first
touched the land that he will be
selling truck from it.
The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1908-02-13
Deafness Cannot be Cured

BY local applications, as they cannot
reach the diseased portion of the ear.
There is only one way to cure deafness
and that is by constitutional remedies.
Deafness is caused by an infamed con-
dition of the mucous lining of the Eus'
tachian Tube. When this tube is iHfam'
ed you have rumblihg sound or imper-
feet hearing, and when it is entirely clos
ed, Deafness is the result. and unless the
Inflammation can be taken out and this
tube restored to its normal condition,
hearing will be destroyed forever; nine
cases out of ten are caused by Catarrh,
which is nothing but an inhamed condi-
ton of the mucous surfaces.
We will give One Hundred Dollars for
anv case of Deafness Caused by catarrh
that cannot be cured by Halls Catarrh
Onre. Send for circulars free.
F.J.CHENEY & Co.. Toledo, o
Sold by Druggists 75c.
For the best commercial printing
of all kinds go to THE HERALD,
The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1908-02-13

Your printing will be done right
at TIE HERALD.
The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1908-02-13
Contractors Notice.

am now ready to let the con-
tracts on the Indiana COOPERATIVE
Canal, 500, 900 yards of fine drag
scraper work. $50 teams wanted.
For information write me at San
-Benito. 2-4-6t.
SAM ROBERTSON,
Contracting Engineer.
The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1908-02-13
Position Wanted

by an experienced rice and sugar
cane man. Understand irrigation
thoroughly. Also experienced sta
tionery engineer. Refer you to any
bank in Jackson county.
c. P. LAUGHTER,
12-2-tf. Canada. Texas.
The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1908-02-13
ELECTION JUDGES
NAMED FOR YEAR
County Commissioners Appoint
Officials In All Precincts.
Also Provided Pay for Running New Line
Between Cameron and Hldalge
Counties-Dr. layton Is
County Physician.

commissioners court held last ev-
ening, judges of elections for all
the districts in Cameron county
were named. The list of these OH
Gals will be found below, the pre-
siding Judge in each district be-
named first, the names of the other
Judges following:
Precinct No. /. Point Isabel
Telesforo Pefa, Antonio Valente,
Arthur Lightburn and Charles
Champion.
No. 2, San Rafael-W. H.
Schmidt, Henry Keller.
No. 3, Los Nogales-J. P. Cot
tingham, Teodoro Hinojosa. n. N.
Mcdonald, George NJ. Smith.
No. 4, Fourth ward, Browns
vilIe-A. Bollack, c. H. More. V.
Tamayo, Leo Wise.
No. S, Third ward, Brownsville
r. E. Holland, c. NJ. Cara, A.
Turk, John NJ. Hoyt.
No. 6, Second ward-A. w.
Wood, Domingo Benavides, Mar
celino T. Valdez. John Bouts.
No. 7. First ward-Benjarnin
Kowalski. T. A. Kinder, Antonio
Alfonso, jose Ramirez.
| No. s, FL Carmen-Julian Vera,
Philip Rock, Michael Werbiski,
George Michael.
No. g, Las Yescas-Fernando
Glaevecke, J. D. Scribner, Vicente
Sandoval, Emiliano Cortez.
No. 10, La Observation-Disclosures
| Alcala, ]. E. Keller, Silvestre
Aguirre. Ed Walls.
No. II, Santa Maria-F. 5.
Champion. Jose M. Longoria. Leo
nardo Villareal, W. w. Stocking.
| No. II, Harlingen-J. H. Dish
man, Bias Olyera. Julian Villareal,
Oscar Morris.
No. ID, Laguna Larga-Rafael
Cavazos, Emilio Villareal, J. Van
Kirk, Jose NJ. Loya.
| No. "A, FL Arroyo-Nicolas Ca
fvazos, c. Balduf.
| No. IS, Punta del Monte-Ra-
mon Mufioz, P. S. Coy.
No. 10, Ell Sauz-George P.
| Durham, c. H. Pease.
No. II, La Parra-Willlam Tur-
cote, George Turcotte, Macedonia
Salinas. Sabine Salinas.
WILL RUN COUNTY LINE.
The commissioners yesterday au-
thorized the clerk of the courts to
issue warrants to the county sur
veyor for locating, surveying and
running the line between Cameron
and Hidalgo counties. The amount
for this purpose is not to exceed
1890.
| DR.. Layton was re-appolnted
county physician for the next year.
his salary to be as heretofore. 5000
per annum.
| WE return thanks to Congress
man Gregg for Is bundles of gov
|ernment garden seed-peas, cucum-
bers, lettuce, mustard and radish.
Congressman Gregg must think we
Town a plantation.-Liberty Vindi-
Gator.
Now if the esteemed congress
man had planted that bunch of
lseed and carefully cultivated them,
then sending the results to the
Vindicator, there would have been
no kick whatever.
The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1908-02-13

The San Antonio Gazette says it
is patiently waiting for some
Texas paper to say that Onion
would make strong candidate.
Evidently Mr.. Alden does not read
the exchanges.
The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1908-02-13

Unfortunately, at tnls lrne
there are thousands of men and
women throughout the United
States who realize all too we'll how
ADEQUATE any size salary would be.
The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1908-02-13
THURSDAY. FEBRUARY Is, lsO8-
RYOUCANTBOOS TDOWT
: KNOCK!

,tsWHrN I talked with a couple
of real estate men," said visitor
10 Brownsville" and heard them
say that so-and-so's land was
worth nothing, / came to the opin-
ION that there wasn't any of this
country worth while. and I almost
determined to go on back home. or
to some other part of Texas"
The familiar phrase. IF you
can't boest, don't knock would
seem TO apply in certain quarters.
If the remarks of the visitor quoted
are correct.
Every man wants to make
money. The man who doesn't
either has too much now, IS wrong
mentally or is an exception to the
general rule for other reasons But
when real estate man orland owner
or land broker finds that he can
not land a visitor, that he himself
doesn't have property where the
stranger wants it, why should ne
deliberately knock" the property
that is wanted? Why should he, in
his attempt to make sale. dis
garage the lands for sale by other
people,
1t isn't fair to himself! 1t isn't
saaure to the other agent 1t isn't
the right sort of deal" to give
the prospective purchaser And il
isn't fair or square to Brownsville
and the Rio Grande country!
That's certainl
1t doesn't seem as if it would be
much out of the way of any bust
ness man, if he found that he
didn't have what the buyer wanted
70 get it for him or to see that he
got II from someone else. 1t looks
simple. Why not do it? Turn
about is fair play. always, and ac-
ton such as this on the part of all
agents, brokers and owners could
not but rebound to the credit of
Brownsville, the Gulf Coasr coun-
try and the citizens of South
Texas
IF you can't boost. don't knockl
The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1908-02-13

1t is difficult to see how Morse
managed to blow in fortune OF
$40, 900, 900 in a few weeks. There
are plenty of men in Houston who
have fragment of their January
pay left.-Houston Post.
Fragments" is good.
The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1908-02-13

IF you speak gently and CALAMITY
50 the telephone operator you will
6ud out that the seevice is moi SO
Dad as you thought it was .-Liber-
ry Vindicator.
Wouldn't work at all in Browns
vile. The operator doesn't hap
men &c be the kind that it is usual
TO speak gently and calamity to.
The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1908-02-13

No wonder St. Louis fans think
the outlook for that Cardinal bunch
for 1908 is bad. The team works
out in Houston.
The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1908-02-13

FROM the stories sent out from
San Antonio the battle about to
take place over that part of the
AIauo property recently vacated
nv a wholesale firm will rival that
which took place when Davy
Crockett and the other heroes fell.
Two factions are fighting for pos
-...e;o,, If the huiidiug.
The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1908-02-13

Export manifest blanks, vendors
Elm and promisory notes at THE
HERALD.
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Few of us begin TO realize how
inadequate salary can be until
we begin to draw it.-Galveston
News.
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BILLY Sunday, b baseball
evangelist, says people may have
heaven on earth, if they want to be
True. The St. Louis Cardinals
are going to get theirs next month.
They are coming to Houston.
Houston Post.
ALL that Houston needs now is
a certain wholesale firm from the
beautiful hamlet of Johnstown, Pa.
This firm is the Love & Sunshine
Co. Old Billy Joy used to be the
third member, but he's dead.