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The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1909-06-18

On the other hand if there is good
drainage, copious irrigations will tend
] to wash out any alkali that may be
in the soil. 1t has been repeatedly de-
monstrated in the western states that
when proper drainage has been provid-
ed, any soluble mineral salts can be
enough to drain we'll
If it is desired to cut off seepage
water the location and slope of the
water bearing stratum must be deter
mined, and deep bitches cut into it in
such a manner that a water-table will
not form within five feet of the sur
face An intercepting ditch may an
swer the purpose but in most cases
| it will not. The intercepting ditch
may have very little fall and the wa
ter bearing stratum considerable fall
so that there is less resistance to the
passage of water, all factors consid--
cred, through the soil than along the
intercepting ditch. If this is the case
the intercepting ditch will not cut
off the water. If the flow cannot be
cut off, it then becomes necessary to
drain in the direction of the slope of
the water carrying stratum.
Again it is repeated that deep
drainage is necessary in order to keep
the water-table a safe distance below
the surface. Since the water-table is
a curve between drains the farther
apart they are constructed the deeper
they should be. All outlet bitches
should be deep enough so that the
surface of the seepage water flowing
in them will not be nearer than 3
feet to the surface, in order that a
good outlet may be furnished for lat
eral drains All small drains should
be constructed of tile as both the first
cost and maintenance will be less, to
say nothing of the loss of land, in
convenince, and unsightly appearance
of the open ditch. The main outlet
bitches now being surveyed should be
constructed as soon as possible. Such
work goes slowly under the best of
conditions and no Instructions should
be thrown in the way of their early
completion. There can be no question
of the need of these bitches.
1t has been reported that the con-
stitutionality of the new state drain
age law is now being tested by the
Chambers Creek Drainage District in
Ellis county. If the court finds it con-
there should be no serious
Instructions in the way of the speedy
of the bitches in this
L. L. HIDINGER,
Drainage Engineer.
The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1909-06-18

The Brownies missed the Luling
team to keep the engagement with
Monterey. and now have lost both.
They are ready to meet either team
however, and are keeping in good
trim by constant practice.
That's the right kind of spirit to
show. Build a new grand stand and
let's play ball
Just wait until we get Hyder
Brown and then we will show those
upthestate teams a little about base
ball With Brown, "Possum Bin''
Taft and Big John" Palm, they will
be up against a pitching trio proper.
"Soxtop' Toles is there with the
goods when it comes to the second
sack, always just where the ball is
hit and wherever needed.
1t sure does make a fellow feel
good when he sees those flies going
out in center field for 'Sambo" Bell
nabs them like starved fieas on a
pelon dog
Talk about your stick artist but
have you ever watched Juni Cobolini
send out those bingles? It's getting
to be a habit with him now and he
just can't help hitting out few each
game
Whenever you see Big John" Palm
shift his gum to the right jaw watch
out for a balloon ascension of the
ball When he steps to the bat the
fields of the other fellows go clean
out to the ''ruberhs" of the ball park.
'Dago' Pelligrino who played third
base for the Brownies the first of the
season, but is now filing that posi-
ton with Victoria, was presented
with a handsome watch charm for
reaching first base the greatest num-
Der of times of any of the Victoria
players during the recent series with
Bay City there.
Fatty" Griffith, the man who stays
behind home plate, has evidently
been notorious chicken thief during
his existence, Judging from the way
he is always catching fowls He is
also a good union man too, because
he is fierce on strikes.
South Texas Teams Standing.
The following is the standing of
he leading teams in Southwest Tex
Is for this season to date:
The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1909-06-18
Gregory, Bats &
Brooks and
Sam'l Spears,
Lawyers.
Lawyers.

We have formed a partnership I'M
der the foregoing name for the trans
action of our law business in the Low
er Rio Grande Valley. Offices will be
maintained at Brownsville and San
Benito. The business of Gregory,
Bats & Brooks at Austin, will be
maintained as heretofore.
T. W. GREGORY.
R. L. BATS,
V. L. BROOKS,
SAM'L. SPEARS.
Office N the Browne Building
Brownsville. Texas, May 1, 1909.
The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1909-06-18
SUMMER SCHEDULE ON
RIO GRANDE 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 D. IN. Leave 500 p. m.
Saturdays.
Leave 900 a. m. Arrive 1890 a. m.
Arrive 500 p. m. Leave 3 80 p. m.
Leave $50 p. m. Arrive 700 p. m.
Sundays.
Arrive $50 a. m. Leave 700 a. m.
Leave 900 a. m. Arrive 1890 a. m.
Arrive 500 p. m. Leave $3.50 p. m.
Leave $50 p. m. Arrive 6:45 p. m.
Mondays.
Arrive $50 a. m. Leave 700 a. III.
Leave 800 a. m. Arrive 1890 a. m.
Arrive $50 p. m. Leave 500 p. n.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-08-15

they found themselves feeling slightly better inn proved they away to the forests. where 1t was impossible to follow them
 Gradually, however, the value of the hospital was recognized and and more of them remained till discharged
 Part of the duty of the mission to travel over the country far possible, to secure data Ma tives had to be brbed to give information. and es- pecially allow themselves to be examined. But the mission succeeded during these travels in finding 25 who allowed themselves to be punctured for blood examination, of these ninety-one found in- fected With the disease.
 Investigations" stated the report published in Europe recently. tend to prove that the sleeping sickness the period in the evolution of dis ease caused by microbe in she blood. put it by an insect called the tsetse fly.
 First inocuation by the insect causes irrita- tion which passes few but is followed by a severe fever, weakness. headache, loss of flesh. cramps in all parts of the body, eye trouble and strangely enough, seeplessness. Red spots r.se to the skin which disappear pressure. The slightest motion in many cases especially in the of Europeans. becomes exceedingly painful Then mission or total departure the symptoms may feel safe from return until after seven years.
 "The slumber feature of the disease may not ap- pear immediately following or very soon after the
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-08-15

A TO DISEASE of recent years has been more NJ deadly or more mysterious than the sleeping < sickness" which during the last nine years
 been causing such terrible mortality among the natives of central Africa
 Out of 100000 persons dwelling upon the shores and islands of Lake Victoria Nyanza alone more thaa 100000 have out of existence by this terrible scourge
 It is estimated that the Sleeping Sickness" Com mission sent out by the British has some 20 900 cases now to dealt with, and treatment is going on in large camps capable of accommodating 1000 patients at time
 Colonel David Bruce who is in charge of the hos pital expedition in the Uganda terrtoryand who has invited Colonel to inspect the work at the camp-was the first point the finger of accusation at the hy Scientists agreed that the disease was caused by a small blood parasite trypanosom and it was found if trypanosoms were injected into the blood of a monkey 1t suffered from sleeping sickness"
 Spread of the germ and its entrance into human blood was charged the bothersome and pestferous tsetse fly the which had been known for years as fatal other animals. It was accused of carrying the deadly germs from one human suf- ferer to another from an infected animal to man. just as mosquitoes carry malaria and yellow fever
 It far evidence to the contrary Is concerned the newest and most interesting phase of the case that the disease may exist and spread even though tsetse flies may be hundreds of miles
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-08-15
cRocoDrLEs A PERIL

Some years ago the world deeply interested in
 project to rid Africa of it's in order to stamp out sleeping sickness" believed that the tsetse fly ntma tely associated these ugly monsters of the lakes that the de- structon of reptile would disappearance of the fly.
 It was found that the disease commonest where crocodiies most frequent seemed absent from places where there crocodiles.
 This discovery attributed Robert Koch, the distinguished German scientist. who spent year in interior Africa studying sleeping sickness" He has not concluded his Investigations. and taking rest by lesurey tour of the world before returning to the scene of his latest labors.
 It is strange that the hide of the crocodile which is almost proof against bullet be pierced by the sharp bill of the tsetse fly. The ny between the scales of the reptile and sucks where the skin is thinnest "
 It has been stated that tsetse flies. under careful experimentation have been fed ordinary kinds of fly food, but have always died within four days unless given supply of fresh crocodile blood.
 The proposition to wipe the crocodile" con- ments French medical journal. does seriously commend itself to Frankly. do how 1t can be done Every tropical sportsman that crocodile is of the most difficult stroy. and naturalist is It's powers of reproduction enormous and its habits such as to make 1t extremely doubtful if It's destruction could effected"
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-08-15
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cessation of these symptoms but when it does come It generally a ending In from four to eight months.
 At first the trouble takes the shape of seeming laziness The patients walk is slow and dragging He quickly fatigued but yet his sleepy fits are only intermittent
 "He may still attend to various tasks. and cases are not uncommon servants in the homes of Euro peans who arrived a this stage of the malady. Examples abound where cooks have to sleep over their ranges sentines sleeping their posts. and paddlers tumbling in their canoes with drowsiness
 Succeeding this the patient takes to sitting in 8 corner He is indifferent all things but still take food. His drowsiness increases however. and the may be he will drop asleep the floor dur ing the repast, with his mouth full.
 Tn time grows alarmingly thin. This condition s further marked convusive trembling of the Then becomes a skeleton. often paralyzed. covered with wounds he dies in a state of coma Frequently Is carried away before that by pneumo- mia dysentery Nor is 1t uncommon for men to die of madness before other symptoms supervene.
 "The trypanosom is a microbe. Dead. fixed and colored under the microscope 1t is little spindle shaped object. moving among the red gobues of the has long tail which gives it great agility It moves twisting its body like gimlet by boring forward, whence the name from trypanos, borer. Tn size 1t is about four times that of red blood
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-08-15
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The whole atmosphere of the embankment reeks of British snobbery and American dollars, with various fainter and subtle odors from the continent There the "bobbies" struggle with elegant ana reckless traffic There coachmen. footmen and gor- geous and supercous hunkies bow and scrape to the peerage. And there the meanest of the 'Hoolsans have their home.
 There Is guile in this choice of habitat II IS excite pity in the rich and proud that the "Hooligans' Haunt their rags on the embankment TWO things call there: the hotels and the river The refuse the hotel tables will keep life in their bodies a little longer. The river offers them quick and easy death
 Nowhere else in the world" said slum officer of the Salvation Army, twill you find such abject misery nowhere else has humanity fallen to so low an ebb."
 During the day the police. for a reason that no one can fathom do disturb the sodden sumbers of the "Fooligans' the embankment If you could see them. you would not they slept. but, rather had sunk into a of coma which was almost death
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-08-15

from one located in the French Congo. under com nand of pr. Le Boeuf and Scientists Rouband Weiss and Muny. When their last report reached Europe not long ago. they seemed to be placing the entire blame the disease the door of the tsetse fly. They not result of Rockefeller Insi- tute investigation.
 Buildings at the camp furnished with every thing that science, foresight could suggest for the work in hand. The living rooms care fully guarded from the ingress of stinging poison insects. An important part of the work the construction of apartments intended for the animals be inoculated; park for monkeys destined to the end big cage for the generation of the tsetse fly, aquarium for animals including the crocodile. te SsF4ea ,.rb sss%
 Patients came and were brought to the camp from all parts of the Congo. All races trades resented. but boatpadders woodcutters, rubber-cut ters and fishermen in the majority. They. in particular, seemed subject to sleeping sickness" For the part they applied to the hospital for trifing trouble. they thought-a burn. bruse ailment of that kind But, when carefully examined numbers found infected with the germs of the deadly disease
 Not only were the natives hard to examine fully. but they less amenable to treatment Everything long them. Injections of anti pain, regarded vertable tortures Then. if
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-08-15
NEW LIGHT ON DISEASE

DAnvinR recently a report that absolute cure for sleepinE had been discovered by physi- clans of the Rockefeller Institute, New York Dr. B. J. Meltzer one of experts was quoted as throwing a new light upon the spread of the disease
 More than a year of experimentation has been given over trouble and exhaustive tests made with mice as subjects The result 1t is said, has been confirm the opinion of the German specialist pr. Ehrlich, with regard the origin of the disease
 The trypanosom, 1t seems, Is microscopic organ ism but notwithstanding its small size 1t possesses power of locomotion which enables 1t to travel from victim to victim with comparatively great facility And-here is where the tsetse fly comes back at his accusers-while only the fly that has picked up the germ from the blood of some infected animal or person can transmit 1t, the trypanosom has the germ intimately bound up in its own system It can do its fatal work without the aid of any insect sistant
 "It may be said" the scientist Is quoted as re- marking that thIs insect in itself is the sleeping sickness germ, and 1t is interesting to note that 1t is probably only disease germ in existence having the power of locomotion"
 The tsetse fly, however, cannot escape the accusa- carrying the germs from one infected person animal to another, although, in the light of the discoveries 1t should probably be regarded as accessory rather than the principal in the work of wholesale murder the major part being taken by the parasite which Is able get about without as- sistance.
 Frederic C. Selous, the famous African hunter. while bearing witness to the loss of animals due to ay bites seems skeptical regarding its danger to human beings. At least he he has been bitten repeatedly by flies and not yet developed sleeping sickness" This Is probably because of the attacking insects had to him from vic tim of the disease.
 Among the expeditions sent out by England, France and Germany to investigate and if possible. combat the disease. the most interesting have
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-08-15
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 The tsetse fly is about the size of the domestic ny. Its color is dark the body thin. thick proboscis projects horizontally before the head the wings the back, like the blades of scissors. which makes 1t appear longer than 1t really Is. This peculiarity also distinguishes 1t other flies that resemble it fin respects but far less harmful
 This insect breeds exclusively along wooded riv- and water courses thick with shrubbery vege- taton In search of food it may wander away thou of yards. It also be carried great distances the backs of men the bodies of animals. It ia very in places where wild animals come to drink and at the lords where and domestic ani- mals streams It appears only during the day. By night it rests.
 The tsetse feeds itself exclusively upon blood It gorge itself in period varying from thirty onds twenty minutes Normally 1t feeds only in forty-eight hours. though sometimes it seeks other meal after hours at shorter intervals It bites nercest and most often in warm heavy and stormy weather. .
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-08-15

n TO BIT of London fiction is complete without IN reference to the Thames embankment No sociologist writing of London, would consider
 his work finished without chapter the entertainments contrasts, it's lights and shadows. its delights and miseries.
 It is high stone wall. reaching from Blackfriars Bridge to Westminster Abbey set down to hold back the tides of the Thames Above it is a promenade, lined with benches with tram lines running paral-
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-08-15
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VT HAS been said that the Thames embanknent,
 London is the most prolific suicide incubator
 in the world. Dropping the edge of the
 wall into the swift-running water below, the unhappy "Hoohgans" who infest the place pass out of a miserable existence at the rate of two day.
 There are many "Hooligans" in London, but the "Hooligans" of the embankment a class apart-the lowest, meanest and most uncared for
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-08-15

Tel; and back of that broad. wide thoroughfare. favorite drive of motorists
 Huge hotels and the solemn structures of the London County Council look down upon the embank- ment narrow strip of park where bands play in the afternoon and evening When the season is in it is not possible to get even single room in the embankment hotels-the Cecil where the smart people from the provinces and the Savoy. much affected bo rich Americans
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-08-15

of all the tremendous army of the unemployed
 Pariahs they are, outcasts spurned by society, sleeping through the day on the embankment benches and ranging the alleys with the dogs by night, hunting food. They are the most miserable men and women in the great city. They have homes no friends, no means of sustaining life be- yond the crusts picked up in the streets and no hope for. the future. That is why they drop quietly into the Thames at the rate of two day.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-08-15
WANT TO GO TO PRISON

Nights chill along the embankment. even in summer and fogs rise from the river, When daylight appears the "Hoogans" return to the benches.
 They never bathe. never eat at table sleep fin bed The police never arrest them They to to prison. Occasionally they spend night in Casual" ward They never change take off their clothes. When their shoes out. they bind their feet with rags. They wrap their legs in old newspa- pers Their garments the castoffs which the old clothes has scorned.
 They work They have forgotten work It is doubtful If they even think. Their eyes dead their brains inert Only their bodies live suffer cold and hunger. They always hungry.
 And the river Is always before them.
 When they stand hunger and exposure longer. when flesh longer endure. they go. by one. the breast high wall and drop from river The swift tide. going out. either buries their bodies deep in the mud carries them to the 
 Police records show that the embankment su- cides average a day. Many not recorded Every now then earnest writer asks the newspapers What shall be done with the Hooli- gans' of the embankment?'
 The police that there is nothing to do. that the 'ooIigans" themselves solving the problem by committing suicide. But their number grows eontin- ually
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-08-15

Indeed. 1t so frequently happens that of them does not respond to the polceman's gruff command to move on. and the body is carted off to a place where It's rest will be forever undisurbed that such mean tragedies have ceased 10 interest the public.
 All day and through the first half of night the Hooligans' sleep ftfhlly men nwomen and children geher. foul with hh. hideous with disease grotesque in their rags, sprawng over the benches.
 The "Hooligans" of the embankment are not profess sional mendicants. They may have been once. but they have fallen below that They have not wits enough to beg.
 It is not wit but the live that leads them to the embankment And it Is instinct that them on, when the police at in the morning march the length of the embankment and drive them from the benches. to souching. limping but with in- credible swftness into the alleys back of the hotels and restaurants to the Strand.
 No epicurean feasts these. On late ramble a vis- itor recently "Hoolisan" devour a banana peel young woman gave her baby crust that hard with age and black with the dirt of the street. It mouthed and sucked the bread hungry.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-08-15
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k6 IRE you guilty or not guilty of H ruhoIesale marder@
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" T0n0EeSGte mM0cTs
 A "Not guilty," anss0ers the notorious tsetse fy.
 And t seems as # American science is to De the chief sUitness to the fact that this dreaded Afr;cGn insect has been long mS- Egned as alone causing the spread of tte fatal Sleeping sickness."
 No defense seemed, to she mind of the eldsr Weller, as pvomising as the 6hbi. 1t is ike aEbi that the tsstse fy noa offers spkfs arraigned in the face of aniversal condsmna- tion.
 He may De somewhere else when the deadly assdult is eommitted.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1909-04-09
6. .. =. HELPS UNCLE
SAMUEL OUT

+. .smalned for the Canadian Ia.
~ gallvad company 60 donate
~ t'aited States government
I 49, ase u their dock az pier !
4 ,As navy yard tenders that ply
'ssso Seattle and bremerton,
- Pacific Coast company which
y. ne aock. recently rented the
-. wharf 10 The G 2 r. for It's
..ee.ses and Victoria boats, and
J. ~ government boats had been
..sss At this dock Tor = number
Z sssss me- Of eharge the G. ? r.
ss,l.s hcalfaied about asking
-. sam 10 move hut traffic
- . swiftly that change seem.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1909-04-09

ca necessary and the government
officials we're asked 20 secure other
docking facilities
Up and down the water front they
trampod, but not a loyal American
could they find.
Yes. they all said. we've the
room but Il vii cost YOU SO much %
Finally Ia desperation tho officials
asked the Chamber Of Commerce for
aid. and as result came the an.
ncunccment that the G p r. dock
can I've used by the United States
government boats until January 1.
1910. with an excellent chance ot au
extension % time then.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1909-04-09
WILL OCCUPY new
ARMORY ON MONDAY

The new armtay building Of the
National Guard Will be occupied by
the local companies o. the guard
on Monday The structure is 20
Gated az Western Rv aud Virginia
a. The furniture and equipment
Ia being moved into the structure
this week In the future all the
supplies Tor the different companies
throughout the state will be stored
aud shipped from this city All the
rooms fur storing goods and ammu.
milton ara ftrspruof
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1909-04-09
HETTY GREEN IS
GETTING SPORTY

go at dinner la handsome gown.
more beautiful than any dress seon
In the fashionable dining room Tor
some time
ON November 81 next firtty Green
WIN hc u and AZ she has nov pass.
"a the limit % responsibility rot
by Mark Twain there 81 whisper
about town that she has made up
her mind Go have little FUN with
hcr money