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Chicago eagle., 1909-11-13

forty succeeding years, It must
have been q pretty good heater,
to have caught on that way,
otherwise, instead Of forty
years, such demand tor Il
wouldn't have lasted forty
days. II 10 hard to deprive q
good thing Of Z good name, and
It always had, and has to-day,
tho name Of being tho best
se-heating device ever In.
vented, whether for comfort
or for gorgeous ornamentation.
And among lingering homo memo
Tiss, how Il lingersl TO old settlers
and the Last two generations Of
people who, In childhood, played
In Ito warmth and were dazzled BY
its splsndor, its associations blend
with those Of the ancestral portraits
on the vail and win last while life
enduTes.
Chicago eagle., 1909-11-13

Of wooden sidewalks and frame
houses-of oil lamps and can
dles-of houses without gas
light and Of street cars with.
out cushions and without mod.
ern straps for passengers. The
winters were severe and good
heat had been q long-felt want,
when John M. Smyth Co., to
make everybody comfortable,
introduced the Favorite Base
burner, tho above picture rep-
resenting tho 6rst car load con.
signment to the old store on W. Madi.
son Street. The demand for Il became
Z fusore, like government land-grab-
bing. The mansions Of the present
loop district discarded their furnaces
for II, and It got to bs felt a. 4 priva-
tion for any dwelling 70 bs without one.
Cottages were enlarged and q ono room
addition made to log cabins to lot II In.
Chicago eagle., 1909-11-13

q Favorite along
tho avenues or
laboring through
quagmires an d
over n arrow
turnpikes to tho
outlying homes,
was one Of the
familiar street
see nos Of tho
period. And,
40 q like &C Q ne
has G ntinued
th PnN q fhA
Chicago eagle., 1909-11-13

Of furnishing over a mil
lion homes, one Of the
home comforts early pro-
Chicago eagle., 1909-11-13
nTheir Worlds Record Feat

(Continusd)
The continuous autumn
spectacle Of the old-style
Smyth wagons depositiug
Chicago eagle., 1909-11-13

vided by John
M. Smyth Co.
was that Of q
good house heat
or. Il was In
tho Chicago Of a
former age, when
conditions were
primitive-no
palaces, no gilt
tering boule-
Yards, no park
gardens, no tele-
phones-tho ago
The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1909-08-20
5h5I3Il11asS;
THE BROWNIES DISBAND.

Team Has Won LaureIs and Warm
Place in Brownsville Hearts for
Itself
The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1909-08-20
FRIDAY. AUGUST 20. 1903.
SYHPATHY WITH FORES-
TER PINCHOT

Beyond doubt, the sympathy of
the majority of Americans is with
Chief Forester Clifford Pinchot. One
of President Roosevelt's policies
which appealed to the people in gen
eral, regardless of political afilia-
tions, was that touching the conserva-
ton of the natural resources of the
country. The preservation of the
national forest reserves, in the hands
of Mr.. Pinchot, is believed to have
been most effectively promoted The
man, as well as his work. has gained
a hold upon the interest of the peo-
pie aud any effort to dislodge him or
10 injure or retard the work with
which he has become so closely iden-
titled probably would be unpopular.
It surely should be deprecated.
The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1909-08-20
The VICTORY
WAS DECISIVE
BROWNIES TOPPED OFF SEASON
IN FITTING STYLE.
Walked on With Victory in Final
Combat With Corpus Christi Sea-
Weeds. Score Big Enough to Count
For Two Games.

The local baseball season was top
ped off in fitting style yesterday by a
decisive victory over the blatant Sea-
weeds from Corpus Christi. This
ties up the present series and leaves
the result somewhat unsatisfactory,
but the closeness of the first battle
and the expressive manner in which
the Brownies walked away with yes
terday's are sufficient to give the
honors to the home team The
Brownies simply were not to be de-
MED yesterday. Each man was full
of ginger and on his toes all the time
For one inning the Seaweeds' Col
grove looked formidable, but in
the second the Brownies Big John
Palm, with a merry swing of his big
stick, started the cannonading that
drove the old Lacquer to seek COM
fort beside the water key. An error,
two lusty clouts and a sacrifice sent
Palm and Wicks racing across the
rubber and squeezed everything but
the salt out of the Seaweeds right
there. In the third, the Brownies
went after the salt and extracted
some of the most saline playing that
has been exposed to Brownsville
audience this year Three fearsome
misplays and a slashing hit tailed
Palm and Bell and gave the local
boys enough runs to win two games
from Corpus
The visitors scored their lone run
in the fourth, when Pelligrini go,
around on a hit, a wild throw and
solid smash to left for two bags
by Merritt Thereafter, both teams
drew nothing but zeros, Corcrehan
and Sellman settling down and keep
ing the hits well scattered. While the
safeties were evenly divided between
the two teams, the Brownies man
aged to lump theirs, and except
in the fourth inning, Genes heady
twirling prevented Corpus from
punching hits.
With the exception of the one bad
inning, when Corpus was up in the
air, the fielding of both teams was
noteworthy. A one-handed stop by
Toles, a couple of good catches by
Merritt and Corcrehan's clean, steady
work around the box, deserve men
ton. Woessner and Cobolini took
everything that went their way
while Captain Griffith caught his
usual good game.
The score:
The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1909-08-20

Now, what have the brave Bluff
City and bold Billy Bowles TO say?
The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1909-08-20

The Brownies, who for the past
two months have striven so hard and
so faithfully to present to the people
of Brownsville the laurel wreath of
victory in the baseball field, are now
but part of the history of Browns
ville@but part that will live long in
the minds and hearts of all lovers of
the national game throughout the
fertile valley of the Lower Rio
Grande.
Last night the Brownies disbanded
until next year After a brilliant
and most successful season, their
final game for this year was yester-
days spectacular defeat of Corpus
Christi. 1t made a glorious ending
to their year
During the season, the Brownies
have played 81 games, winning 43 of
these, losing IA and playing one tie
game, making their percentage for
this season 754 The best amateur
teams in the Gulf Coast country have
been met by the Brownies. In al
most every instance the Brownies
have come forth from the combats
with flying colors.
Few Texas teams have made such
record. Never in the history of
amateur baseball in Texas has there
been a more gentlemanly or nicer
set of boys than those who composed
the Brownies Every member of the
team is a gentleman in every respect,
and during their stay here this sea-
son there has never been one COM
plant against any of them for mis-
behavior of any kind. To catcher
Griffith is due many thanks for his
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faithful service Behind the bal.


has caught every game played by the
team this season. excepting two. AS
captain of the team he has also shown
great efficiency. To pitchers Little
Buster" Brown, Gene Cocreham and
Canine for their tireless efforts, in
the box or in the field; to Juni Cobo-
lini, who has played such an excellent
first base;to bod Toles, who has not
only proven to be the best second
sacker in the business, but the best
base runner as we'll; to ''Billiken"
Zacha, who his won a warm place in
the hearts of all fandom by his loyal
efforts to help the Brownies on to
victory: to Mike Wicks, who has done
his share of the work at short; to
Carl Pace, who, Notwithstanding the
fact that, during the latter part of
the season, he was suffering from a
badly sprained ankle still played for
all he was worth to bring victory to
the Brownies banner; to Sam Bell,
he best center fielder that ever came
down the pike; to Big John" Palm,
not only for his splendid work in
the field, but also with the big stick;
to Manager D. H. Cummins, for his
ceaseless and tireless efforts through
out the season for the benefit of the
team; and last, but not least, to Dr.
S. H. Bell, Don Louis Cobolini, J. B.
Scott, John C. Fernandez, w. G.
Whitman, ]. C. DeBruin and other
faithful fans, who have worked so
enthusiastically to the end that
Brownsville might have the best ball
team in Texas, which she certainly
has; the heartiest thanks of all local
lovers of the sport are due.
In a few days most of the players
will return to their homes. Al
though some of them may spend the
winter here. Each and every one
of the boys has expressed desire
to be included in the ranks of the
Brownies again next year, and all
are loud in their praise of the kind
ness and hospitality received by
them from the people of Browns
vile.
The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1909-08-20
CORPUS CHRISTI.

Earned Brownsville l. Two
base hits, Merritt, J. Kelly. Sacri-
fee hits. Kelly, Cobolini. First
base on error-Brownsvil 4. Corpus
Christi 1. Left on Browns
Vile 8, Corpus Christi 6. Struck
out-by Cocreham 4. Base on balls
by Cocreham 3. by Colgrove 2.
Double Pelligrini, Wicks and
Woessner, Sellman and Woessner
Umpire-Baaar.
The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1909-08-20

The Shah of Persia tried to commit
suicide, but failed. o, Shah!
The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1909-08-20

The fact that E. H. Hartman is
returning from Europe still in bad
health may affect the immediate tut
ure of South Texas, and especially OF
the Lower Rio Grande Valley, as well
as that of the neighboring Mexican
state of Tamaulipas. Hartman well
will undoubtedly undertake the ex-
sion of his great railroad system
to and through this valley into Mexl-
CO. Hartman i'll may give up the IN
dertaking.
The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1909-08-20

Ed H. Green. Texas railway
magnate and son of the astute Mrs.
Hetty of New York and New Jer-
sew. and an ambition to eleave the
overhead in an awaiting machine
and has ordered one of the Wright
brothers, airships. There are doubt
less many others who would like to
indulge a similar ambition, but they
lack the ICON que, as our Next
can friends call it-as well as the
rich mother.
The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1909-08-20

Wasn't it great? Four to one.
The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1909-08-20

The hottest day on record in many
parts of the country proved, in a way,
the truth of the old saying, Its an
ill WIND" etc. 1t killed the destruc-
tive boil weevil over a large area of
the cotton region and brought good
to the planters, who on account OF
the heat wave, will reap much lars-
err crop than anticipated.
The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1909-08-20
The Joker
something Allied 1t.

A colored man complained to the
store keeper that ham which ne
had purchased there was not good
''The ham is all right, Zeph," in
sisted the storekeeper.
mo, it amt. boss" insisted the
negro. Dat ham am shore bad!'
"How can that be, continued the
storekeeper, when it was cured
onl ylast week."
The colored man scratched his
head reflectively and finally sug-
gested
well, sab. then it must have had
relapse. Judge.
The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1909-08-20

For variety, give us the many
different phases presented by old
Mother Earth in different parts OF
her round body all at the same time.
While people in some parts of the
northern hemisphere have been dy-
ing of the heat the past few days.
the heaviest snow storms~in many
Years were occurring in Southern
Africa. While Wall Street STOCK
dealers were deserving their swelt-
ering Offices to seek "coolth" at con-
ven;ent beach resorts, the members
of the stock exchange of Johannes
burg were suspending business to
go out into the streets and have a
Jolly SNOWFALL battle.
The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1909-08-20

once more Walter Wellman IS
of in his dirigible balloon on
voyage through the air to the north
pole-if he can find it With such
intrepid spirits as Peary and Well
man so persistently bent upon dis
covering the exact point on the globe
where northern ATTITUDES reach
tbair maximum and where longi-
tpde vanishes, that interesting 10
cation should surely be discovered
and made to yield up its supposed
mysteries to the modern geographer.
The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1909-08-20

Texas prances up towards the
mead of the progress column with
total tax value this year of 81
300,19T,561, an increase of 1926
975, ISL. The lower Rio Grande
Valley, including the lower sec
tons Of Cameron and Hidalgo
counties, have contributed over $4,-
400, 600 to swell this increase.
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TERNfs oF SUBSCRIPTION.

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mail postpaid to any point in the
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The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1909-08-20
Human Nature

THE vain man worries for fear the
boss may not be able to fill his place
while he's away on vacation. The
modest man worries for fear the
boss may fill it permanently.
whats the moral?'
ooh, the moral is that we all wor-
Chronicle.
Charlevoix county herald., 1909-03-27
SEA SERPENT PuRsUEs LAUNCH.
Fishermen's Boat Finally EIudes Crea.
ture Forty Feet Long.

Long Beach, Cal.-Five men who
went fishing the other day in launch
say they had an encounter with a sea
serpent at the Grouper banks, IS
miles off shore. Guy Griffith and
James Harvey were in the party.
1.-THE monster was about forty feet
long," said Griffith, and about fifteen
feet back from the head it had a big
dorsal fiji. The head was as biz as a
barrel and brown in color with eyes
as big as my fist and it moved fro,2
side to side. The tail was like that Of
a porpoise. We first sighted the thing
100 feet away.
The head was then out of the wa
ter and | started 10 shoot at il, but
feared 1t might become angry and
wreck us, SO | told one of the boys to
start the engine and we glided away
but the monster came after us. Wa
gave the engine all she could stand
and got away from the creature"
Charlevoix county herald., 1909-03-27
RATHER PAY THAN SERVE.
Citizen Soldiers Unique Idea of tho
Duties Of Sentry.

Australians still tell stories of the
G. L. VS., although the war is a far
m,mory. One, a member of the Stock
Exchange, was left one wet and miser-
able night to guard a wagonload OF
goods.
He shivered In the unsheltered place
for some hours bordering many things,
and then a bright thought struck him
Just as the colonel came around on
his tour Of inspection.
Colonel" he asked, how much Is
this wagon worth?"
IL don't know" was the answer.
Much or little. We can't afford to lose
It."
well. but colonel" persisted the
amateur soldier. you might give me q
rough idea Of the value"
About a200," said the Colonel
testify.
Very WELL" was the answer. Il
will come down to the camp and give
you a check for the amount. Then I'll
turn In. wouldn't catch my death Of
cold for twice that much"
What the colonel said 10 not 70
corded.--Melbourne Times.
Charlevoix county herald., 1909-03-27
BABY HORRIBLY BURNED
BY Boiling Grease-skin All Came OF
One Side of Face and Head
Thought Her Disfigured for Life.
Used Cuticura: No Scar Left.

my baby was sitting beside the
fender and we were preparing the
breakfast when the frying-pan full OF
boiling grease was upset and it went all
over one side of her face and head.
Some one wiped the scald with
towel. pulling the entire skin off. We
took her to a doctor. He tended her
a week and gave me some stuff to put
on. But it all festered and thought
the baby was disfigured for life.
used about three boxes Of Cuticura
Ointment and it was wonderful how
it healed. In about five weeks it was
better and there wasn't a mark to tell
where the scald had been. Her skin
Is just like velvet. Mrs. Hare, /,
Henry St., South Shields, Durham,
England, March %, 1908"
Potter Drug & Chem. Corp, Sole Props, Boston.
Charlevoix county herald., 1909-03-27
-e$s-
Copyright. by Daily Story Pub. Coz

The city had had an attack of
morality and all gaming houses and
bookmaking offices were closed up as
closes the clam. Cities have these
spasms as a man has the collie. The
one stops gambling and the other
eschews cucumbers-for a while.
A certain firm of bookmakers did
not resign themselves to the fiat of
the law. They procured a copy of the
edict and scrutinized it as they were
wont to examine the program for the
days races. They discovered in the
statute an aperture through which
they could drive the metaphorical
horse and wagon. The law forbade
bookmaking save on race courses
where races were being run. Straight
way they leased for song disused
half-mile track near the city, ran two
plugs over it every day for purse Of
five dollars and made books on every
race from Sheepshead Bay to the Pa
cific coast. If the law frowned that's
all it could do.
The peaceful little village wherein
WAC Tic law COhlSt OCIoiiS
formed. Farmers studied dope sheets
as they guided the pillow and talked
knowingly of mud-larks and cinches.
Everybody became a sporting man
and among them David Cobb, the vii
lage carpenter.
Cobb was sore smilten with the bet
ting disease. 1t would have puzzled
him to try to name the boundaries of
his state, but he knew the pedigree of
pretty much all the horses running
and once and while he won bet.
A felicitous run of luck which Mr..
Cobb had been enjoying suddenly
changed and fortune-ever a capri
cious jade, turned her back on him. He
couldn't win a bet and one August day
found himself penniless. He sat
gloomily on a trestle in front of the
blacksmith's shop listlessly reading
the entries for the day Mr.. Quinn, a
disqualified jockey from one of the big
Charlevoix county herald., 1909-03-27
He Started for Civilization as Fast as
His Legs Would Carry Him.
It would increase his appetite until he
could eat a boiled owl with relish.

IL would increase his appetite until he
could eat boiled owl with relish.
Some days ago the lumberman was
hired TO mark out some trees on the
shore of Mud pond, to be used for tele-
phone poles, and he went over pre-
pared to build a hut and spend several
days at the work. Everything pro
crossed favorably at first, but on the
evening of the third day feeling of
intense fatigue overcame the man, and
his head began to ache. Following the
old custom of curing himself and slim
ulating his appetite Aiken sat down
by the camp fire and began to cape.
At the same moment he stretched his
arms and legs. The effect was magic
al. The ache began to depart, q sense
of relaxation pervaded his anatomy.
and he yearned for something to eat.
Still, bit of the ache fingered, so
the woodsman decided to try one more
tremendous yawn. Opening his mouth
to its fullest extent he heaved great
sigh and heard a crack. The noise,
which was accompanied by a singing
pain startled him, and he tried to shut
his mouth, but he could not, and in
his fright he clapped his hand to his
face. 1t required no knowledge of an
atomy to show Aiken that he had dis
located his jaw, and that the case was
beyond his skill. Pain, worse than any
headache he had ever suffered, racked
him, and when he realized that he was
10 miles from the nearest doctor he
was well scared.
There was only one thing to be done.
and that was TO start for civilization
as fast as his legs would carry him.
So, without loss OF time, Aiken began
the journey through the forests, light
ing his way with lantern and easing
his jaws occasionally by bathing them
in snow water. Not only did his Jaws
swell, but his entire face as well, and
the longer he travelled the more ar
IDENTIFY he swore that he would never
again take the rest cure by means of
gaping.
The pain was SO intense that Aiken
was frequently forced to sit down on
rocks, but before daylight he reached
physician. 1t was no easy job for the
doctor to snap the jaws back in place,
but he accomplished the task. Eating
is now difficult for Aiken.
Charlevoix county herald., 1909-03-27

tracks and now betting room tout,
came languidly across the road and
accOsted him.
Dave" said he, 81 have it,"
So great was Mr. Cobb's depression
that he made no inquiry as to what
MI. Quinn possessed.
Here's a letter from a man who
and they never fall down. Here it is:
Lucky Dog will win the second handi-
cap race at the Bay Wednesday. Get
on it, Now, Dave. here's our chance
to make good stake for the season"
What's the use of talkin'?" asked
Mr.. Cobb, dis gustedly. What's a tip
TO man who's got nary cent to bet
on it?"
Cant you raise ten dollars?" in
quired Mr.. Quinn, interestedly.
Il can't beg. borrow nor steal dol
lar let alone ten. And there's no job
o work / can get
Busted, eh?" and Mr. Quinn walked
off seeking another capitalist.
For some reason the name Lucky
Dog kept dining itself into Mr..
Cobbs ears all day and all the next
day. He felt prescience that the
horse would win albeit that his re.
searches disclosed that he had only
run once in the far west.
Two O'Clock on the eventful Wednes-
day on which the tip was expected
to materialize found Mr.. Cobb abed
He had not arisen for he reasoned
with logic that a man who could not
raise the insignificant sum of dollar
may as well lie in bed as stand on his
feet. Another point was that Mrs
Cobb had proclaimed with acerbity In
the morning that, as the breakfast
and dinner would result from her i'm.
dividual earnings he would not be ex.
pected to participate in the repasts.
Mr.. Cobb lay prone and CRASHED his
teeth when he thought OF the busy
scene in the betting room nearly OPP
posite to his house Already the odds
were up against Lucky Dog. If he
should win Mr.. Cobb felt sure he
would foam at the mouth like a mad
man. No one could stand such a
buffet from fortune as that
A man with truculent face came
down the dusty highway and Mrs.
Cobb glimpsing him ran upstairs. She
opened the Bible lying on the bureau
and taking something from between
its leaves turned TO her husband.
THE collector Is coming for the
rent" she said. IF / had not taken
ten dollars from your winnings one
night and made ten more myself by
Charlevoix county herald., 1909-03-27
The 1runk of the Elephant.

The long trunk of the elephant Is
very, very wonderful. The neck o.
four-footed animals is usually long, to
enable them to reach their food with
out difficulty; but the elephant has
a short neck to enable him more east
ly to support the weight of his huge
head and heavy tusks. The long trunl
helps him to get his food, and the
trunk is to an elephant what a Ions
neck is to other animals.
Charlevoix county herald., 1909-03-27
WALKED SEVERAL MILES
With HIS MOUTH AGArE
WOODSMAN WITH YAWNlNG HAB.
1T DISLOCATED JAWS WHEN
FAR FROM AID.

the name of Bob Aiken has taken an
oath never TO cape again, at least
when far from home and friends, for a
few days ago n fit of gar brought
him more real trouble than he had
known for year
Ever since he was child Aiken
has held to the opinion that stretch
ing ones mouth afforded as much re-
Taxation as stretching ones arms and
legs, and now and then when he felt
particularly tired he adopted this
method of resting himself. He always
declared that long cape would drive
away a headache quicker than any
medicine he knew of, and furthermore