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The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1909-08-19
The Credit Habit.

Palestine Herald
Talking about burdensome taxes
the most burdensome tax on Pales-
tine people is the credit habit. Ev-
cry man in Palestine contributes
about 10 per cent of the money he
spends to the credit habit. What
does that mean, you ask? 1t simply
means that the merchant who ex-
tends credit has to figure on los
ing so much of the goods he sells,
through failure to collect. that the
goods you buy cost you at least 10
per cent more than they would cost
were every one paying cash. The
losses through the credit system
are something enormous. The ex-
pense of keeping from one to three
bookkeepers, besides collectors to go
out and get the money. This ex-
pense is charged against the custo-
mer. If every house was selling for
cash this enormous expense could
be eliminated, and the goods could
be sold at a closer margin. The
credit habit is foolish and an ex-
The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1909-08-19
SUMMER SCHEDULE ON
RIOEGRANDE RY. JUNE |.

The following is the summer sched-
ule for the Rio Grande railroad to
take effect Tuesday, June 1st:
Daily. Excepting Saturday. Sunday
and Monday.
Brownsville Point Isabel
Leave 900 a. m. Arrive 1920 a. m.
Arrive $50 p. m. Leave 500 p, 10.
Saturdays.
Leave 800 a. m. Arrive 1890 a. m.
Arrive 500 p. N Leave $3.50 D. m.
Leave $50 p. m. Arrive ZOO p. m
Sundays.
Arrive $50 a. m. Leave 700 a. m.
Leave 900 a. m. Arrive 1890 a. N.
Arrive 500 p. m. Leave 3:3e p. m.
Leave $50 p. m. Arrive GAS p. N.
Mondays.
Arrive $50 a. m. Leave ZOO a. m.
Leave 800 a. II. Arrive 1890 a. N.
Arrive $50 p. N. Leave 500 p. N.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-12-20
Greetings Of the Season Are
Exchanged-Each Cardi-
nal Writes to His Brethren
POpe Writes to All

ROME, Dec. 20.-Christmas de-.
will be a quiet one at the Vatican,
as all holidays are under the pres.
ent regime, but in some respects at
least it is expected that the per
sonality Of Pope Plus X will make
itself felt. Christmas in the Vati-
can was at one time the greatest
and most gorgeous celebration of
the year, but, owing to state and
church differences, it can hardly be
expected that the pope will allow
his encourage to depart from the
settled policy of silent protest that
has been the vatican policy for
many years.
The pope will celebrate three
masses in the Pauline chapel, so
that every communicate may have
the opportunity of receiving holy
communion at the pontiff's hands.
That will be the chief official dis
tinction of the day, but there will
also be in the vatican itself the
usual culinary and social recog-
nitions of the event
In many ways Christmas eve is
as notable as the day itself in Ro-
man celebrations. A sumptuous
supper will be served in the vatican
on Christmas eve. at which, since
1t is fast day, the eve of holt
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-12-20

if unpretentious villa at FiesOle,
but the extreme quietness and alb
sence of excitement in their exist
ence are said to have palled on the
woman. Toselli rules her with an
iron hand and she complains bit
terly to her few friends in Flor
ence of the dull life she is compel
ed to lead Besides, she believes
that Toselli no longer loves her,
and to her that deprivation is the
worst with which she can be visit
ed Toselli, she says, take her al
lowance from the king of Saxony
and uses 1t as seems best to him
self In the first year of their mar
riage he demanded only half the
allowance; now he takes the
whole.
Then she declares that he eXer-
cises an influence over her that she
can only describe as mesmeric.
This prevented her from taking
steps for a separation long ago.
He lives eXtravagantly, while she
is dressed no better than the or
binary middle class Florentine.
More than once she has run away,
but when Toselli discovered her
she lost her will power and return
ed to him.
But she now declares that in the
new year she will cast him off and
be mistress of herself once more,
not the. slave of a tyrannical M
ton.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-12-20
PENCIL POINTS

yesterday,
that crouch! This clear cold sparkling
certainly antbues
taken by mortal.
neighbor of his the
hammock
little the
sympathy for it,
There has been bay kicked that really can't tell
no" VINO OO reach ne norm pore or eaheer!
Women pretty consider that all
S
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-12-20
rs THE TEACHING
RIGHT?

in the banking business. They didn't own banks-they
We're employed by bankers.
The six sent from the Hooser capital to the pen-
Tertiary in lot All were sentenced within a period
of a hours.
Their stealing aggregate nearly 100000.
This is haste to get rich The Bible says that he that
hasteh get rich shall not be inocentor words to that
effect. 1t is good, worldly wisdom. anyway Doubtless
other have fooled with other peoples money and gone
Free but these violated the eleventh commandment
and got caught But the guilt of those who escaped does
not mitigate the guilt of those who fell into the meshes of
tie law.
The trouble all begins with the way boys are educated
Education does not stop with what is learned from school
books. As long boys taught that success is to be
measured by the length of mans purse and by other
Standard long will the of Cochrane Emnerc
and others sent from Indianapolis. be repeated.
Property is all right money handy, but it is wrong to
make golden calf and fall down to worship it. you will
merit the sarcastic advice Of Charles Siras, who said:
''Steal by night and steadily day
Doing it all in a legal way;
Join the church and ne er forsake her
Learn to cant and insult Your maker.
Be hypocrite, liar knave or fool,
But don't be poor, remember the rule
Dimes and dollars dollars and dimes,
An empty pockets the worst of crimes
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-12-20
JUST AN OLD GRAY HORSE

had given their willing effort and
their noblest strength in the serv-
ice of another Between them
there was silent chord of sym
pathy which manifested itself in
the recognition of fact--that in
the course of time the toiler grows
gradually old and useless and
eventually must acknowledge that
he is no longer fitted for the har-
ness, be he horse or man. Then
comes more forcibly the question:
Il wonder to whom he belongs?'
You can think 1t out, for this Is
just the story of an old gray
horse.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-12-20
>ss Humor --Most Anything --Have Smile
MOST ANYTHING

to gnash at me with my teeth
Modern Society.
Congress is going to adjourn
early; hooray! hooray!
German inventor has invented a
gun with which to shoot in the dark
The same effect probably can be Sc
cured with an ordinary gun by
shutting your eyes when pulling
the trigger.
The baseball war has been
more Courageous and humanity.
staggering than the ebullient pu.
sillanimous curbstone scrap known
as the Nicaraguan revolution.
They walked among the shredded
wheat,
When grape-nuts were in sea-
so;
He asked her why she seemed so
sweet,
She answered.: There's a rea-
son."
Brooklyn Life.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-12-20
CONTRIBUTED BY w. S. c.

He was just an old gray horse
He was of massive frame and show
ed plainly the marks of his many
years of toll. His framework of
bones stood prominently out from
various portions of his body where
the law of the resistance of solids
refused to give way to the inroads
of toll and privation through the
shallow measure meeted out to him
in his manger. Across his withers
the mark of his masters lash show
ed recent urging to some greater
effort in the economic struggle for
existence, which simply meant that
which he ate and drank upon his
own part, and indications pointed
to even this in a Stinted measure.
His coat, rough and uncurried,
showed lack of care. but indicated
plainly the CALLING rub of tug and
collar.
He came across Howard street
bridge, wandering all alone in the
direction of the center of the city.
Somehow he seemed to be out of
his environment up there in the
midst of the big, lonesome place
without even the trace OF harness
or halter upon him. He had gotten
loose and the liberty seemed to
puZzle him. There was none of the
accustomed tug and toll OF the load
behind him. He could not. feel the
strain Of the collar that usually
fitted so closely to those massive,
toil-worn shoulders. The master
was not there to urge on to greater
effort. The jerk of the line which
waws generally the center and cir
cumference of his reasoning power
was lacking to give him the cour
age he needed even in the midst OF
his new-found liberty.
AS he passed the police station
he stopped and half turned in his
course and stood gazing thoughtful
ly toward it. 1t might have been
the proximity OF the fire horses at
the fire station which attracted his
attention. Again, it might have
been the broad back of the blue
coated guardian of the public safe.
ty which doomed so plainly through
the plateglass window which at
tracted him. But whichever it was,
he seemed to come slowly to the
conclusion that he did not belong
in either class, so with mournful
shake of his head he turned and
resumed his aimless wandering in
the midst of his liberty.
Down at Front street he turned
and proceeded east. AS he reach
ed Stevens street he numbered
awkwardly in front of a pompous
dressed captain of finance who was
hurrying from the Great Northern
depot, carrying in one hand a gold
headed cane and in the other an
elegant travelling grip of latest pat
tern. There was a sudden hating
On the part of the hurrying finan-
cier as he nearly collided with the
huge, ungainly mass of ambling
horseflesh. Like flash the gold
headed cane was elevated and its
singing weight came down upon
beast as he exclaimed:
Get out OF my way, you useless
brute"
True to his instinct-the instinct
of one who has always been driven
the old horse moved slowly on
At the next corner a group OF
dressed workingmen stood
AS he approached, one OF
them reached out his hand and
gently stopped his further pro-
Gress, Then they gathered about
him. discussing the reason of his
being there alone.
Fine animal, that, if he had
only been properly taken care of.
Seen hard usage, that old boy!
Must have been a dandy on the
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-12-20

wheel when he was younger.- :.
A new arrival in the crowd came
up and passed his trained hand
gently over his limbs, examined
and tested him for any possible de.
feet in his makeup. Then he turn
ed to one of the others with the
query:
Il wonder to whom he belongs
A little old and crippled, but there
is a little work left in him still.
Il wonder to whom he belongs"
Just an old horse fast growing
useless. He had served his time
in the harness; had pulled the
masters burden beneath the goad
of the whip; had toiled patiently
through the whole day and often
long into the night, as any good
horse will do-and for what?
A little food, even this in a stint
ed measure at time; narrow stall,
perhaps leaky and lily kept. Now
he was old and crippled, but there
was SOME work left in him still
But the question was: Whom did
he belong to?
When heb got in the way of the
hurrying captain of finance, when
be blocked HIS progress, quick
came the angry blow and get out
of my way. you useless brute"
But when he came in touch with
the workingmen there We're kind
words and the touch of gentler
hands.
There was a respondent chord
of sympathy between the working.
man and the horse.
Both had felt the Juggling ache
of toll. Perhaps both had received
the same comparative result from
their toll. Both were toilers in the
economic march of nrOgreSS. Beth
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-12-20
CHRISTMAS IN THE VATICAN

day. all officials in attendance on
the holy pontiff will be guests Of
honor.
The supper is one that would not
appeal to the mind of the modern
epicure, unless he be thoroughly
Roman. Fish and vegetables con-
stitute the only foundation. beef,
lamb or chicken being out of the
question, and even the butter, eggs,
cheese and other animal products
quite impossible.
The large cells, "capitone," some
of them three inches in diameter,
that infest the bed of the Tiber,
form the great delicacy in any Ro-
man fish dinner, and few days
before Christmas the demand for
capitone well exceeds the supply.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-12-20

Fearing danger to the lives Of
number of children that are to par
ticipate in a Christmas entertain
ment at the Rescue Mission in the
operation of a moving picture ma
chine showing the Passion play,
Chief Myers of the fire department
has ordered that the machine be
not installed.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-12-20
JOSH WISE SAYS:

"A good deal o. current
liter 'chure seems ter be kiln
dried"
cts a pity that soft min
O. tn brain doesn't spread
Ter tn heart"
Ice trust fined in New York. Cold
wave making itself felt.
Red Cloud, the big Sioux chief,
has gone to the happy hunting
grounds. So far as is known he
never had silver nor even lead
lining.
We'll. did he pay you?" asked
the wife of dentist who had been
to collect a bill.
Pay met growled the dentist.
Not only did he refuse to pay me,
but he actually had the effrontery
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-12-20
Plans for Government by
Commission.


Press is the originator of the the Des
MONIES plan OF government for Spokane and it does not
intend to see the project defeated, in any way.
In address delivered by John Il. White, eminent po-
ltcal economist and printed in The Press Saturday.
of the defects in the present plans explained.
There is grave danger that the force of the initiative
referendum and recall be lost if the present ideas of
the committee sustained The clause providing that
those who desire to sign recall petition must go to the
city hall to sign it is not right and it is ridiculous idea
1t looks like effort to spoil the recall An nsstance
the word Registered in addition to 'Quaed'' voters
is another superiority which should not be incorporated
in the recall provision of the proposed charter.
Before final adoption by the people, the majority of the
people will want to know fully and clearly just how the
commission charter will deal with public service corpor-
atons, and how well it will guard the interests of the
people.
Spokane wants the commission plan of government, he
it has been proven to be the best yet found but
wants that form of government in the right way. Th4
commission idea very easily be used a Of
massng very much greater power i'll the hands Of the few
If the police firmly convinced that the free speech
fight over and that they have stamped down anarchy
and that there is further danger of hearing the red flag
song would be very wise thing for the city government
to consider adopting liberal street-speakng ordinance
There is limit to all foolishness and stubborn
stupidity.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-12-20
HOUSE
SHOES

Twenty-Five different styles in
MEMS WOMEN'S AND CHILL
DREN'S FELT SHOES AND SLIP
PERS, at $1.00, SIPS, $3.50 and
$1.75 a pair. Christmas assortment
complete.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-12-20

Today six Young men, all
from the state of Indiana,
are at work in the federal
prison at Fort Leaven-
worth. All were engaged
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-12-20
PRINCESS
S|GHS TO Be FREE
Complains That Loselli
Makes Her Life Dull
and Is a Sort of
Svengali.

FLORENCE. Italy, Dec. 1S.-If
current gossip is trustworthy the
marital troubles of Nine. Tosell!
(ex-Crown Princess of Saxony) are
not at an end. There are again
rumors of an impending separation
between her and the pianist whom
she married three years ago.
They still live in their delightful,
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-12-20

TO MAIL SUBSCRIBERS-The date when subscription
expires the address label of each When that date
subscription
taken the address
S a
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-12-20

There is real danger of
miscarriage of the plans for
the adoption of the commits
sion plan of government for
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-12-20
.
} AVIATOR ATTACHES, NOW

= WASHINGTON, Dec. 90
. The French, Italian and Brit
. ish governments will send to
. this country as attaches at
. large three expert aviators to 4
. be identified with the respec-
= tive embassies. Lieutenant
. Calderara, who was instructed
. by the Wright brothers last
= will represent Italy.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-12-20

Ice trust fined in New York. Cold
wave making itself felt.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-01-05
SAY RUDE THINGS TO COURT
MANY WRITERS SEND LETTERS
TO JUSTICE WRIGHT.
Decision Holding Gompers, Mitchell
and Morrison in Contempt Cause
for Caustic Censure.

Il am amused. rather than terrified -
Justice Daniel Thew Wright replied when
asked concerning the receipt of a num-
who appear displeased with his recent de-
cision holding Messrs. Gompers, Mitchell
and Morrison in contempt of court
'Of such communications have receiv-
ed waste basket full. but am losing no
sleep over the threats contained in them.
The letter that amused me most was
signed 'Nuff Sed,' and read in part. Your
name should be Judge Wrong Your de-
cision In the Bucks Stove and Range
Company case will prove to be very IN
healthy affair for you before we are done
with you, The undertaken will have Job
down your way before many moons and
you will be the chief mourner.'
Il have not been measured for nv
shroud yet, Justice Wright added s'nor
can i say l am afraid to go home in the
dark
While the letters received by Justice
Wright are in a threatening tone. one
going SO far as to say that the writer
would arrive in five days to kill him. the
majority of the communications have
been insulting comments on the position
taken in the decision
Marked copies of various neWspaners
nave also been received by the court One
OF them, which the justice exhibited TO-DAY
boldly printed the same material con-
tanned In one of the dodgers Incorporates
IN the decision as one of the bases of the
alleged contempt. In this article appears
the name of the Bucks Stove and Ranpe
company as unfair to organized labor
Inc Judge says he is consisning all such
communications to the waste basket
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-01-05
NEW BUILDING WILL COST So, 500, ooo

+G0x40o feet. located just to the south of
the present building. 1t will front on
d street, overlooking the Speedway. and
will have another entrance on the 14th
street side. II will occupy two squares
of ground and will close up street
west of 14th street.
The street cars will run down 18th
street and east on d street instead of
turning out b street. as is now the case
This will bring them just past the new
railroad station that will be on the OPP
posite side of the street from the south
east corner of the new bureau build
ing.
There will be side track for the street
cars running into the new building with
a Y that will deposit the employees of the
bureau at their door and under cover.
The present building will he retained
and will not be interfered with in any
way. There will be a covered way from
the old building into the new structure
so that employees can go from one to the
other without going out of doors.
The new building will be Of salmon
brick with limestone trimmings and
granite foundation While square and
plain. it will be artistic, but everything
about II has been subordinated to utility.
There will be but one entrance and exit
for employees.
The building will be run on much closer
lines than a bank When a worker once
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-01-05

enters he or she will not be permitted to
go out again except on a pass. and that
not till everything in his section has been
balanced up and every sheet of paper and
even every ink spot accounted for.
The building will be six stories high.
Just 90 per cent of the wall space
will be devoted to windows, so that there
will not be dark corner in the whole
place.
There will be two interior courts open
overhead. These will be 125X3OO feet
each. The building all around these courts
and the II bar running across the center
will be each fifty feet thick.
There will be no corridors. Where it is
necessary to cut off the rooms from the
passageway it will be done with a one
inch steel lattice work from floor to cell
ing.
The windows will be eleven feet high
The light, striking at an angle of forty
five degrees from each side, will cross
the room in the middle.
sAn effort will be made to have the en-
ployes as comfortably situated as pos
sible. on the theory not only of humanity,
but because that will get the greatest
possible amount of work from each one.
The lighting. heating and ventilation
will all be of the most modern type.
There will be lavatories and baths. both
tub and shower, for men and women.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-01-05
jill. TORCH PRESIDENT
Fourth Time Chosen Head of
Central Labor Union.
|OE NEDREY SECRETARY
Congress to Be Asked to Observe
Lincoln Centennial as Holiday.
DAY IS CHOSEN FOR PROTEST
Mass Meeting to Consider Gompers
Contempt Case to Be Held
February 12.
|E NEDREY SECRETARY
DAY IS CHOSEN FOR PROTEST

After a triangular contes; at the meet
ing of the Central Labor Union last night
for the office of president of that body, in
which three candidates figured. John n.
Torch Of the Stationary Engineers Union
was reelected for the fourth successive
term.
Sam De Nedrey was unanimously re
elected for the fifth time as secretary.
Other officers chosen were: Harry W.
Templar, Columbia Typographical Union.
No 101, elected vice president 10 sue
coed n. A. James. Stationary Firemen's
Union. whose term expired last night
Clarence f. Mcclure. Plate Printers
Union. for the fifth time unanimously
elected financial secretary: James w Con-
sidine. Sheet Metal Workers Union,
treasurer for the fifth time: j. C.. Ozark,
Painters and Decorators Union, SER
geant-at-arms, to succeed Jack Beckett
Board of Trustees.
Oliver T. Beaumont, Columbia Lodge of
Machinists: Frank l.. Mckenna. Plate
Printers Union. and Thomas McGilton,
Painters and Decorators Union, were
elected trustees
The legislative committee was instructed
to petition Congress TO pass joint reso-
luton making the coming one hundredth
anniversary of the birth of Abraham
Lincoln holiday in the District of Co
lumbia. A committee of five was APP
pointed to arrange for big mass meet
ing to be held in this city the evening of
February 12-Lincoln's birthday-when it
is proposed to protest against the recent
Gompers-M Mitchell Morrison decision by
Justice Wright. The committee is COM
posed of 10 Evans. D. F. Manning. n. A.
Il c0nSi6inp
ton, H. w. Templar and John II. Lorch.
Duties Of Unionists.
Sam DeNedrey urged closer affiliation of
the various trade unions In the District.
He spoke of the non-affiliation Of work
men with unions and said
They need our assistance as much as
we need theirs. Getting them into the
fold of unionism will tend to help the en-
tire city as well as our cause.
THE main trouble with local unionists
is that they do not mix with the outside
world as much as they should. Banquets
and receptions are often given by Wash
ington business men, to which our rep
resentatives are invited. In but few in
stances are these invitations accepted.
Our members should associate with the
business and financial elements Of the
city in order to better acquaint them
selves with the work of the latter. This
also will tend to give them a better in
sight into what trade unions doing
for the betterment of the District as a
whole