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The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1909-06-23
BULLETINS ON IRRIGATION.
Valuable Works Secured By L. II. G.
V. C. Club for Valley Farmers.

Secretary R. n. MagiIl of the Low
er Rio Grande Valley Commercial
has received the following reports
and bulletins on irrigation issued by
the U. S. Department of Agriculture.
They were sent at the request of Sec
rotary Magill with the compliments
of Samuel Fortier, chief of the Irriga-
ton Bureau.
Irrigation from Snake River, Idaho.
Investigations of Irrigation Prac-
tice in Oregon
Report of Irrigation Investigations
for 1901, Nos. l, 2, 8 and f.
Irrigation of Rice in the United
States.
Requirement of Water Rights in the
Arkansas Valley in Colorado.
Storage of Water Cache La Poudre
and Big Thompson Rivers
Annual Report of Irrigation and
Drainage Investigations. 1904, Nos. 3
and 6.
Irrigation in Montana.
Mechanical Tests of Pumping
Plants in California.
Small Reservoirs in Wyoming,
Montana and South Dakota.
Mechanical Tests of Pumps and
Pumping Plants used for Irrigation
and Drainage in Louisiana in 1908
and 1906.
Irrigation in the Yakima Valley,
Washington.
Evaporation Losses in Irrigation
and Water Requirements of Crops.
Distribution of Water in the Soil
in Furrow Irrigation.
Cost of Pumping from Wells for
Irrigation of Rice in Louisiana and
Arkansas
Progress Report on Irrigation Ex-
periments in Willamette Valley,
Oregon.
Irrigation in Wyoming.
Irrigation in Kansas.
Irrigation in South Dakota.
Irrigation in Oregon.
Irrigation in the Sacramento Val
ley, California
These works are a valuable acqui-
sition to the agricultural library of
the Commercial Club and should
prove helpful to our valley planters.
for the use of whom Secretary Magill
has obtained them.
The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1909-06-23
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 20, 1909.
THE ALL IMPORTANT SUB
LECT.

The all important subject fol
Brownsville today, in common with
all other centers of population, is
that of sanitation This topic may
grow tiresome to some newspaper
readers, but it is safe to say that no
amount of time taken in considering
sanitation or listening to instruc-
lions relating to it, or in putting
proper and necessary sanitary mea-
sures into effect, can be half so te-
dious and trying as spending days
and perhaps weeks in bed, or so ex-
pensive as the doctors and drug bills
which may result from neglect of
such precautions as the health Off
cials urge all citizens to take.
Brownsville perhaps more than any
other city on the Mexican border has
urgent need to exercise care in re-
gard to sanitation. AS the gateway
to Mexico and situated a compare
lively short distance from the tropics,
as she is, Brownsville may almost be
looked upon as the key to the health
situation of South Texas. This place
is not only responsible for the well
fare of its own residents, but it re-
sponsible also in large measure for
the protection of all Texas from the
invasion of any disease that may de-
veIop in the tropical coast country
of the countries lying south of this
place. That Brownsville has a clean
bill of health today, as State Health
Officer Brumby affirms, is to her cred
it Eternal vigilance is absolutely
necessary, however, to keep any town
in a healthfuI condition, and Browns
vile should neglect no measures that
will insure the continuance of the
favorable health conditions now pre-
vailing here. The city officials should
have the earnest cooperation of
every person living in the town in
their efforts to keep it in a clean and
sanitary condition
The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1909-06-23
HAPPY HARLINGEN

Harlingen, Texas, June 22.-Dr. T.
E. Farris, formerly of Skidmore, has
come to locate here, having formed
a partnership with Dr. Graham of
this place for the general practice of
medicine and surgery, etc.
The pay car On the st. L., B. & NJ,
Ry. stopped on its way through here
yesterday and as usual made quite a
number of our people happy.
Will Mari has put handsome
soda fountain in his drug store, the
first of its kind here 1t is already
proving quite popular.
The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1909-06-23
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The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1909-06-23

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The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1909-06-23
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REAL ESTATE AGENTS

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ty at bargains and prices to suit
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Give us bid on your work-Any
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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-11-27

THE NEW HOTEL.

In the discussion now going on Incl
dent to the projecting of plans for the
erection of a hotel which will be ade-
quate to the needs and opportunities of
Topeka, one of the paramount matters
concerned is the selection of a site for
the structure. Probably most persons
who have given this proposed hotel a
particle of attention have taken it for
granted that it should and would be
built on the land which was occupied
by the Inflated Copeland. Certainly
there is no more ideal location in the
city than that piece of ground for &
hotel site. But the plot occupied by the
Copeland is not large enough, especially
in it's frontage on Kansas avenue, for
such a hotel as ought to be built here.
1t has a frontage of only three lots on
the avenue and while the depth of
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-11-27

propriety in my being seen with her
at the theater or at dinner even."
"Oh, yes, she's q good friend of
mine" said Mrs Ainsworth impatient
1y, "but that's no excuse for you TAX
ing such sudden liking to her"
Tears filled Mrs. Ainsworth's eyes.
But for once her husband was heart
less and pretended not to notice them.
Please, Robert" she pleaded. "tele-
phone to Florence that you've got a
business engagement and can't go to
the opera. If you don't I'm not 60
ing up to mothers at all. I'm not
going to have you talked about; love
you too muchi"
But do you think it's exactly
Miss Irving this way?"
Mrs. Ainsworth ignored this ques-
ton. She clasped her arms about her
husbands shoulders and looked up at
him appealfngly.
Robert" she said softly. eff you'll
break that engagement with Florence
Irving I'll promise to quit gadding
about with her all the time!''
1.-THE engagement is as good as
broken, dear" declared Robert. en-
folding his wife in his arms.
Robert, you are a thousand times
better chum than she isl whispered
Mrs. Ainsworth, brushing the tears
from her eyelashes.
"Wel1 as sure as fate. there are
more ways than one!" chuckled Rob-
ert Ainsworth to himself as he kissed
his wife again.-(Copyright, 1909, by
Associated Literary Press.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-11-27
HOPE FOR MERCHANT MARINE.

Foreigners marvel at our lofty
buildings, our railroads, our intense
energy; they are amazed at the
swiftness and confidence with which
we decide and complete enormous I'M
dertakings, on which they would
deliberate for years; but the greatest
wonder of all is the American flag on
the high seas" writes H. H Windsor
in December Popular Mechanics. I'm
foreign ports where tall masts fly a
galaxy of colors. speaking the
language Of many nations, the Stars
and Stripes are as scarce as buffaloes
in Iowa.
eff the North Pole came floating in
on an iceberg. it would excite more
surprise. Once there sailed out of
New England ports hundreds of
hurrying craft, searching out the ut
termost parts of the earth. They have
long since disappeared. A few re-
main engaged in coastwise traffic,
carrying CLAIMS and coal.
with thousands of miles of coast
line, and a possibility for every mile,
our great harbors are filled with for
eign Ships Boston, New York, Balti-
more, Charleston, Gulfport, New
Orleans, Galveston, San Francisco,
Puget Sound-loading and unloading
every day in the year; but the vessels
were built across seas. are owned
across seas. are earning money for
people across seas, and only come our
way when there isn't enough doing
their way.
Merchants in England, Germany
and France write merchants in South
America, and get their answer in five
weeks. The same service from the
United States requires two months.
During the entire year of 1908 only
ten merchant ships under our flag en-
tered that great, inviting gateway of
South America. Rio de Janeiro. while
England alone had 2.199.
1.-THE principle of subsidy may
seem extravagant to some, but it is
really no more so than the money
spent on our weather bureau and
scores of other things. All the lead
ing maritime nations have ard are
finding it profitable investment. and
their merchant marine grows: with
out it ours has withered away.
while Chile and japan find 1t
profitable to join in subsidy to main
tain an ocean pathway between their
shores, it would seem as if the United
States might now awake from it's Rip
Van Wrinkle sleep. and resurrect it's
shipyards. Ship subsidies are not to
benefit ship owners, though it makes
them possible: it is to benefit every
man, woman and child in the land.
1.-THE president has declared in
favor of ship subsidies
Let all the people shout Amen"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-11-27
QUAKER MEDTTATIONS.

[F'rom the Philadelphia Record.1
Many a man is whole-souled whose
shoes are not half-soled
1t doesn't require a magician to
make an automobile turn turtle.
1t is almost as easy to make fool
of yourself as to tell others not to.
Money burns a hole in mans pock-
ct and in a woman's-er-hosiery
Homely girls are generally clever,
but most girls prefer not to be clever
at the price.
1t isn't enough to hope for the best.
In these days of competition you must
fight for it.
Any fastidious diner will tell you that
a hair in the omelet is worth two in
the SOUP.
1t seems as though womcn's styles
change so often merely to keep the
mems noses down on the grindstone-
NellE''What makes you think he
wants the earth?" Belle-'He told me
he loved the very ground 1 walked on. y
"Our language should be condens-
ed" remarked the Wise Guy. Like
potted tongue, eh?' gigled the Simple
Mug.
Mrs. Buggins-"Isn't there cult
composed of people who eat only I'M
cooked food?' Mr.. Buggins-'I believe
So Mrs. Buggirs-''In revising the
tariff do you suppose the duty on raw
material was aimed at them"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-11-27

these lots is all that could be desired, a
piece of ground of this oblong shape is
not the best suited for a modern hotel.
1t is an admitted fact among the
leading architects of the country that
the best results cannot be obtained n
a hotel which necessity compels to be
constructed on piece of land which IS
much longer than it is broad more
nearly square plot of ground is needed
If the interior of the hotel is to be cut
most up advantageously into large din
ing rooms. Hobbies, parlors and the
other essentials for an up-to-date and
serviceable hosiery. OF course, such a
plot of land might be secured through
the requirement of a couple of lots con-
tinguous on the south of the old Cope
land site. Then there would be no
question about the desirability of this
location for the hotel. But suppose
these lots could not be secured, what
then? Surely no one would urge the
erection of a modern hotel on a piece
of land so shaped that the best thing in
the line of hostelries could not be built
on it. Far better would it be to have
no new hotel at all than any makeshift
for the kind that is desired
And so the site for the proposed hotel
Is anything but definitely settled and
this important fact should be borne In
mind in the discussion of the subject
Then, too, it has been the experiences
in other places where hotels have been
built under similar financial backing to
that which has been suggested for the
hotel here, that subscribers to the fund.
have almost Of a right, an important
voice in the selection of the site for
the building. In some instances loca-
ton for such a hotel has not been de-
cided upon until the money needed for
its construction is in sight. This mat
ter of site is a particularly important
feature of the project, and those inter-
ested should give it most careful con-
sideration.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-11-27
HUNOR or THE Day

Clerk-Mrs. Van Aster complains that
her photographs don't look like her;
ographer-Complains! She ought to
be grateful.-New York Herald.
What did father say when you asked
him for rne?''
He didn't say anything. He fell on
my neck and wept. '-Tit-Bits.
D. DIDO you believe in first aid to
NJ. D.-Certainly.- It makes the case
more complicated for the physician when
he arriveS.-Life.
officer (to recruit who has missed every
shot)-Good heavens, man, where are your
shots going?
Recruit ,(tearfully),I don't know. sir:
they left here all right!-Punch.
do you think your nerve is sufficiently
steady to fit you for an airship naviga-
"Well. I've been out in a, canoe with a
nervous fat girl.'-Cleveland Plain Dealer
The blacksmith had just inherited for
STILL" he said, I'm not going to fold
my hands and do nothing. What do you
Take your hands to a good manicure.
for the first thing" advised his lawyer
Chicago Tribune
Millionaire (to attorny)-It is my desire
to leave all of my property to the 9ni'ed
and be sure lot of relatives won't get it
after I'm gone?
Attorney2Turn all your holdings into
United States bonds and notes, and burn
them on your deathbed-Judge.
..Y-e-s." hesitated Mr.. Justwed, 'these
biscuits are pretty good. but don't you
think there ought to be just little
more
.sYour mother made them" interrupted
Mrs J. quickly. -
of them?'' ended Mr.. J., with a
flash Of OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES Leader
ct was so sorry said Mrs. Oldcastle.
ito hear of your mothers illness. Typhoid
fever is such a hard disease for old pee
YES replied her hostess, as she adj
justed her $1,000 tiara. Ma did have ~
awful hard time, but she's adolescent
now. thank goodness."-Chicago Record
Herald.
Professor Cat chemistry examination)-
Under what combination is gold released
most quickly?
Student-Marriage, sir.-Harper's Week.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-11-27
GLOBE SIGHTS.
fFrom the Atchison Globe. ]

CFrom the Atch1SOn Globe.1
If you believe in prayer, don't pray
to be delivered from your enemies;
pray that you may never hear what
your friends say about you behind
your back.
Nine out of ten people who visit
country town, visit it with the hope of
making a profit; nine out'of ten people
money.
This is the kind of a world we live
IN: If someone tells you a story on
ourself you can Immediately cap it
with one on him: Unfortunately, we
are ALL talked about.
An Atchison young man, who never
had q rope tied to him, and doesn't
Enow what it means, is getting ready
to find some one sitting up. for him
when he gets home late at night The
engagement will be announced next
month.
No girl should allow a young man
to call on her oftener than three times
= week, even though she is engaged to
CT pie if they have it too often. A
mans heart is cut out on the same
plan as his stomach, only smaller.
81 am going to see Mrs Jinks," said
G woman recently, that 1 may hear
Ter tell all about the smartness of her
MRS. Jinks a few hours later. ut was
Mrs. Gale, and all she talked about
was the brightness of her Mary Jane"
1t seems there are also reformers in
.5hadeland. what I would like to see
enacted" blew from the lips of a
Shade, sitting on an overturned tomb
stone the other night, lis a law for
bidding the marriage of a cemetery
widow within an indecent length of
time. The laws won't let a divorced
person remarry within six months:
why not also protect the memory of
we men in Shadeland ?' Here his in
9ignation became so great it blew him
away.
An old man who has money is treat
ed much more kindly than an old man
who is poor. The attention a rich old
nan receives may be the result of
selhshness, but kindness is Kindness.
Mnether inspired by selfishness or love.
Every man should remember. there
fore, to lay away something for his
cid age. It is the old men who are
poor who hang around their kin, and
who are scowled at, and insulted. Don't
forget that poverty in youth is very lit
lie inconvenience, but great burden
IN old age.
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name in vain. Exodus Xxx Z.
OF all the great ten commandments
as they were delivered by Moses to the
children of Israel, and around which
have been buiIded the moral laws Of all
the civilized nations of today, none are
held, apparently, In such disrespect
these days as the one which is used for
the text Of this little discourse. Bias
phemy is to be found and heard on al
most every hand and the volume of it
INDUCED in appears to be on the in
crease all the time.
This seems to be particularly true
among the younger generations of men.
Likely, most of them started in with
the use of impiously irreverent words
for no better reason than to appear
smart" In this, though, as in all ur-
seemly and unrighteous things habit
is formed which grows and grows until
1t is well nigh a second nature. The re-
suit is that, among many of the young
men of today, and older ones too,-an1
their numbers are outrageously large
there is constant taking of the name
of God in vain. Much of it is done, no
doubt. in a thoughtless fashion and
without any premeditated intention of
offering an indignity to the Supreme
Being, but it's effect is just as baneful
as if there were disposition to actual
ly speak evil of God.
Absolutely nothing is accomplished
by it. Woefully mistaken, is the idea
for any one to think that force is given
to any argument or statement by its
punctuation, at every breath, with a
curse or an oath. AS a matter of fact,
the use of them has directly opposite
effect, if those who practice them only
knew it. The man who cannot think OF
anything to express his feelings with
except an oath is confessing his igno-
rance. Indeed. any man Of ordinary
intelligence would have no difficulty at
all, If he only used his wits, in formu-
lating expressions with the commonest
Of words in the language which could
give more force to his ideas and his
arguments-and his condemnation of
others If he really has occasion to make
any-than can be obtained by adding
the simplest or the most extravag CANT of
oaths to anything he may say either by
way Of Introductory remarks or con-
illusions.
Most people of intelligence and re-
spectability realize this and they hold
in almost absolute contempt the in
dividuals who are prone to curse with
a glib tongue. There is nothing quite
SO harsh in sound as an oath, nor is
anything uttered which is generally
quite so meaningless and Intellectual,
except to stamp the users of them as
being among those who place a
premium On ignorance and folly.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-11-27
AYHAWKER JOTy

Is this, from the Atchison Globe, to
bee onsidered as compliment or a
slam: "Stubbs. Of Kansas, is Nearly
as Good an Advertiser and Politician
as Theodore Roosevelt; and Teddy IS
the Best Ever"
Charlie BlakesIey suggests that Mr.
Gould could save considerable expendi-
ture for new steel by making the Cen
trail Branch a monorail line. Sure
end he could save more in his steel bill
if he turned it into an airship line.
Muskrats and mink are thick along
the creeks this year. The trappers
are catching a great many and are
getting 81 cents each for muskrat
skins and SO cents for mink one
trapper made $14 last week with his
traps.-Netawaka Talk.
The Wichita Beacon calls attention
to the fact that there is no law to
prohibit a dog from chasing a jack
rabbit, either alone or in punches.
This surely has been an oversight on
the part of some Kansas legislature,
for it has been thought that there
was a law in Kansas for every pos
sible contingency that might arise.
Mr.. Lyons of Barber county accuses
Mr.. Lamb with clipping with Mrs.
Lyons. The Ottawa Herald calls on
it's readers to make their own jokes.
'Any man who engages in a. part
nership with John Barleycorn," says
the editor or the MOUND CITY Demo-
crat, may feel assured that his part
ner will in time absorb all the assets"
The muskrats built few houses this
year, and what were constructed are
small The ducks remained in the
north country a month longer than
usual, and not half of them have
come south yet. The corn husks are
wide open. The squirrels have not
laid away winter supplies. The bees
loafed all summer, and their hives are
empty If the winter coming proves
to be a hard one, the birds and the
bees and the animals and the people
will be up against it.-Lawrence
Gazat