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The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1909-03-27
LOCAL ITEMS

Highest cash price paid for second
Morris furniture Co., opposite mar
ket. 1926
From and after this date the Ma
iectic Hotel will be conducted strict
ly on the European plan. Good
rooms, nicely furnished, at reasona-
Bile rates. 3-1S-tf
FOR SALE Household goods con-
sisting of kitchen granite ware and
ice chest, used only two months. Can
be seen at Elmer Furnas. cor. 18th,
and Monroe. S-26-2t
Is Improving.-News is received
by Mrs. J. S. Shoemaker that Mr..
Shoemaker, who went recently to
Oregon for the benefit of his health,
has improved very much since going
there.
You will have to hurry if you ex~
pect to suggest name for the night
train recently installed on the S. L.,
B. & NJ. Ry Remember that if
you are the lucky one you will get
cash prize of S25 All communica-
lions should be addressed to VIM.
Doherty. general traffic manager of
the St. L., B. & NJ. Ry.. Kingsville,
Texas. 1t
Bought Near Neutrality-suspicious. H.
Finnegan, who has been here from
Kingsville, Mo. the past three weeks
looking over the valley. left for home
la-
Finnegan purchased forty acres of
land near Harrington, which he has
made arrangements to have cleared
and will plant in sugar-cane the COM
ing season. Mr. Finnegan will come
to the valley to reside next fall.
Noted Mexican Revivalist Preacher
Here.-This evening at five o'clock
and tomorrow evening at seven serv-
ices VIII be held at the Presbyterian
church in Brownsville by the noted
Mexican reyivalist, Rev. A. Morales of
Mexico City. Mr.. Morales is known
as the Moody of Mexico" and his
work among the Mexicans is spoken
OF very highly. The services will be
conducted in Spanish.
Receives Sad NeWs.-Mrs. ]. J.
Cccke of this city has received the
sad news of the death of her uncle,
Dr.. Roger Atkinson, which occurred
at his home in San Marcos, Texas.
Dr. Atkinson was brother of Mrs
John a. Peasants of Cuero, Mrs
Cookies mother. and stood very high
lie was in his 61st year The be-
reaYed family have the sympathy of
hcsts of friends all over South Texas.
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experiment. with SANDY Soils.

The New Jersey experiment station
has carried on experiments for the
past four years in increasing the fer
tility of light. sandy soils Both the
legumes and commercial fertilizers
were used 10 build up the soil OF
the Iegumes crimson clover, cowpeas.
soy beans, vetch. red clover and al
falfa were used. These supplied to a
great extent the nitrogen deficiency
of the soil The lacking potash and
PHOSPHORUS were supplied by such
commercial fertilizers as muriate of
potash, ground bone, and acid phos-
phate The nitrogen, potash and phos-
phorous being thus supplied to the
sandy soil, it rapidly increased in
value At the beginning of the ex-
pertinent the average value of the
crops per acre in excess of the cost
of fertilizers was $40 At the close
of the experiments this value had in
creased TO $3.50, or nearly four times
as much.
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Notice.

Having this day sold my restaur-
ant. known as the Metropolitan Res
taurant, TO J. L. Crixell of this city,
l desire to thank the public for their
kind and liberal patronage during
my ownership of same. respectful
ly solicit of all my patrons that they
accord Mr. Crixell the same kind
and liberal treatment rendered me-
l also beg to advise that any accounts
outstanding against the Metropolitan
Restaurant up to March 22nd, 1909,
be presented to me as early as posi-
bic for settlement, as Mr.. Crixell's
account dates from the 23rd of
March.
j.. A. CLoETTA.
The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1909-03-27

FOR SALE OR LEASE-NationaI
Bar and Cafe. Apply or write w. B.
Bailey, Brownsville, Texas. h
C3-25-tf
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MeteOrogoIicaI Report.

Brownsville, Texas, March %, 1909
Barometer Z p. m. yesterday 1872
Barometer at Z a. m. today. 1854
Temperature at a. m. today 69.5
Maximum temp. yesterday $50
Minimum temp. this morning 69.S
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Notice.

| am now ready to pay ali Gamer
on county Warrants up to and includ-
ing the seventh f7th) class.
Interest on all Cameron County
interest bearing Warrants, due March
LIST, 1899. shall be paid, as well as
Warrants of the same class up to
and including No 201
EDGAR i. HICKS,
County Treasurer, Cameron Co., Tex
2-27-1m
The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1909-03-27

Having purchased the Metropoli-
tan Restaurant from j. A. Cloetta,
| take this means of soliciting the
public patronage and of assuring my
friends and the public generally that
said restaurant will be run upon
strictly modern and up-to-date prin-
ciples. Courteous treatment and care
full attention will be accorded the
public.
3-2T-10 J. l.. -CRIXELL.
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oFFICIAL FORECAST.

Tonight and Sunday generally
cloudy showers tonight or Sunday
and colder Sunday; moderate SOUTH
erly to westerly winds.
MeteorogoIicaI Report.
The following observations were
taken at the South Texas Garden for
the "a nourts ending at eight o'clock
f0dav.
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Herald Want Ads

For saIe-slIsceIlaneoas
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use Of crops that come later in the

use Of crops that come later in the
rotation.
It is a splendid thing for us, too,
that these leguminous plants are as
valuable for humus-makers as any,
and happen at the same time to be
also our very best and richest stock
food plants. So it would appear to
be the part of wisdom for our farm
ers to make the fullest use possible
of leguminous crops in their endeav-
or to reclaim worn SOILS
Importance of Deep Flowing.
Thorough, deep blowing is one of
the most potent factors in the upbuild-
ing of soils and making them produce
more abundantly. for by deep-break-
ing the vegetable matter is mixed with
the sands or clays to a greater depth,
giving to the soil far greater mois-
ture-holding capacity, allowing the bac-
terra introduced with the stable ma
nure to multiply very rapidly, thus
probably freeing large amounts of dor
mant plant food already in the soil,
and allowing the rains to penetrate
to a greater depth-to be brought
back later by capillary attraction for
use of the growing plants of
allowing the water to run off the sur
face of the land with rush, carrying
the better particles of the soil with
II
Who that has had experience with
them does not recognize the value OF
grass sods as soil builders and hold
ers? The tiny rootlets running here
and there in every direction like mil
lions of little muscles bind the soil
together, then, decaying. add their por-
ton to the humus contents of the soil.
But, with grass, as with the legumes,
the farmer must use live stock as the
parts of the plants growing above
ground afford the cheapest of all stock
food, viz: grazing, and the careful
practical farmer must certainly make
use of this means of adding to his in
come while enriching his soil. Grass
will ever be most popular as a soil
builder with our southern farmer when
once he has learned to appreciate its
value.
AS to Crop Rotation.
But what of crop rotation? Our sec
ton boasts of several strictly money
crops. and they will not and, of course
should not be abandoned: First, be
cause they bring vast revenue to our
farmers, and, second, because the
greatest of them COTTON is not an
especially hard crop on land from the
standpoint of a plant-food destroyer.
But it's damage to the soil comes
from its exhaustion of the humus the
soil may have contained, leaving 1t
when the crop is produced year after
year in bad mechanical condition, and
causing the plant food to be washed
away rather than be carried away by
the plants.
A proper rotation of crops in which
cotton or some other money crop ap-
pears only once every three or four
years-the land during the balance of
the time being devoted to the growing
OF legumes, cereals, grasses, etc.,
which crops are fed to frst-olass live
stock, the manure carefully saved and
returned to the fields-will remedy the
trouble and cause the money crop to
be a blessing to the farmer and not
a curse to the SOFIA. L. French in
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FOR SALE-In barrels or car load
lots fine native lime Apply % John
Closner, chaplin, Texas. C2-5-tf
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TOP PRICE FOR CABBAGE.
Car Shipped From McAllen Brings
$5SS.75.
To The Herald.

To The Herald:
McAllen, Texas, March pa car
of cabbage belonging TO Morton and
Hammond was shipped from McAllen
this week to Oklahoma City, bringing
s5SS75 This is the highest price
received so far this season on a single
car
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Nearly zee pounds of salt can be
evaporated from a ton of Dead Sea
Water
The Iuka vidette. (Iuka, Miss.) 1894-1912, 1909-08-19
The Auto Era
BY WILL BRADSHAW.

Time was when the man with an
automobile was the most respected
and at the same time despised indi-
vidual in our community. Well do
we remember how this naughty crea-
ture would toot his horn in seeming
derision whenever he passed our mod
est domicile in his little one-cylin-
dered ice-wagon of the 1900 model
But eureka and then some. Our
time has come! We have lived to see
the longed-for day when every man,
woman and child in our glorious land,
who wishes, can take his place at the
wheel of his own machine!
With new and perfect automobiles
selling, according to the advertising
and reading sections of our best mag
azines, at the unheard-of price of $50,
and up; with secondhand machines,
guaranteed to be in perfect physical
condition listed at SIS, and up; with
autos given away with magazine sub
scriptions, and tobacco coupons, and
in guessing contests in drug store
windows, we must all agree there is
no further use for wearing any foot
wear heavier than boudoir slippers.
We have arrived at an age when
the poet can have his auto and ride
like a monarch of old through our
beautiful parks for the price of a SON.
net. Thrifty messenger boys have
been known to save their tips for
week and ride to their humble homes,
on Saturday night, at the wheel of
their own limousine. Poor shop-girls
vie with one another in owning the
car with the most attachments.
Housewives, to whom the thought of
an outing, before this era, was be-
yond their fondest dreams, can now,
by saving the rebate" tickets in
Uncle's Oats, get a four-cylinder 60
H. P. limousine or touring body, with
top, five lamps, prestolite tank, spare
wheel and a full equipment of tools.
1t truly is a happy era! The happi-
est. in fact, since the days of the Ro-
man circus. And yet, also like the
happy days of the Roman circus. it
has it's serious side. We, foolish NOR
tails, have gone on in our exhuberance
without thought of the effect. In
our joy at grasping the wheel and
The Iuka vidette. (Iuka, Miss.) 1894-1912, 1909-08-19
WHEAT IN MISSISSIPPI.

There seems to have been awakened
in the farmers of the state an earnest
and the raising of wheat; and,
if we may judge the interest by the
number of letters received asking for
specific information on this subject, there
will be greater acreage planted in
wheat this fall than ever before.
Probably the greatest obstacle in the
way of profitable wheat raising in Mis-
sissippi is the lack of good Touring mills,
the grinding being at present done by
the most primitive of grist-mills. If
the acreage in wheat is large enough,
and increased each year, there will be
a corresponding increase in the number
of first-class mills. With good up-to
date Touring mills in the state, there is
no doubt but that wheat can easily be
made very profitable crop for the farm
er to grow. We had to have cotton be
fore we got gins; we had to have pro
duce to haul before we got railroads
and we will have to raise wheat in suffi
cient quantities before we get Touring
mills. Produce the wheat and the mills
will surely come. Wheat is a good
crop for the farmer, because it fits SC
well into three-year rotation with cot
ton and corn. This rotation can be SC
planted as to improve the soil rapidly
The first year sow wheat in the fail
The Iuka vidette. (Iuka, Miss.) 1894-1912, 1909-08-19
A Primer of Sports
BY NORMAN CRoWELL.

Skating is a most fascinating exer-
ton. The amount of physical energy
expended by an ordinary man In an
evenings skate would build a ten by
twelve henhouse with shingle roof
and cupola No one has ever been
able to calculate the energy exuded
by a ten-year-old kid for the same
length of time.
One of the greatest games on ice is
crack the whip. This is hot stuff
Take IS big, husky low-brows and at
tach a poetical youth at one end as
the cracker. After a short, swift skate
the kid is popped 80 feet in the air
and comes down sprained in half a
dozen places.
Skinny stands next as torture mill.
Every hand selects large, knotty
club and fits it snugly to his hand. A
small chunk of wood or rubber is all
that is needed to bring on the carnage.
The object is to hammer the chunk
through the enemies goal against
their permission. In doing this it is
immaterial where you hit man-any
place will do, just so you hit him
good. Don't strike a man bigger than
you are-if he is looking. Some fell
lows have recoil that would surprise
you.
Girls skate, or slide. They do their
ankles up in splints to keep them
from bending both ways for Sunday.
They always pick out willing slave
to lean upon and breathe down his
collar while they learn. Then they
walk all over him from the knee
down. Some of the fiercest manual
labor ever discovered is in teaching a
heavy blonde schoolmaam to skate
You explain the theory of it to her and
she says she knows 1t all backwards
and forwards. Then, just as you
seize her delicate paw with an air of
easy confidence, she shrieks in your
nigh ear and goes down like a falling
chimney. You grab hold of her and
lift till black spots chase each other
across your range of vision. Getting
to her feet she manages TO kick you in
both shins and you nearly bite your
tongue off to keep from saying-a
word or two.
After year at hard labor you get
her so she can stand alone without
danger of throwing her arms around
you FOR the strangle hold. When she
is sizing up what the other girls are
wearing you forget her and lose your
self in the crowd.
A girl taking lessons In skating
will permanently cripple one man If
he doesn't get help. But after he is
crippled he won't have to teach an
other, so he doesn't care much.
Wet feet come arm in arm with
skating. You get these in several
ways-the most popular being by
The Iuka vidette. (Iuka, Miss.) 1894-1912, 1909-08-19
Egyptian Cat Preserved in Bronze.

commonplace with many of the older
religions. 1t has permeated the phil
osophy of the east to so great an
extent that the devout Indian will not
willingly injure fly or worm, lest
cient Egypt cats were considered
sacred and were worshiped. One of
these Egyptian cats. preserved in
bronze, in the collection of the French
ambassador at Rome, forms one of the
illustrations in the volume and is re.
produced here.
The Iuka vidette. (Iuka, Miss.) 1894-1912, 1909-08-19

moved from the old hulk, and the
rooms amidships that used to open
into the engine room have been COM
bined into the assembly hall.
The after deck has been boarded
in and transformed into a reading
room. Tables and chairs, with many
books, magazines and newspapers,
give the place homelike appearance,
and here the sailors of the Seven
Seas, with human derelicts from many
lands, congregate in the afternoons
and evenings to find out what is go
ing on in the great world.
Really the Seamans Bethel is a
sort of institutional church. The after
part of the hold has been fitted up as
a gymnasium. Here also is bowl
ing alley; and in another corner are
bath tubs and a water heater. An
other part of the hold is fitted up
with hunks, where the sailor who
finds himself broke" between voy-
ages is made welcome to spend the
night-or as many nights as he
pleases.
Every Thursday and Sunday even
ing Gospel services are held, but no
collection ever is taken. The mission
Is maintained by the Seamen's Friend
society as a true charity, on the prin-
ciple that salvation is really free.
The Iuka vidette. (Iuka, Miss.) 1894-1912, 1909-08-19
Builders VS.. wreckers.


In the great work of developing the
best that there is in a municipality, dis
trict, State or nation, there are two
forces continually in conflict, striving to
overcome or counterfeit the influence and
achievements of the other. These are
the builder and the wrecker. One striv-
ing to build up and the other endeav
oring to tear down; one trying to create
and the other just as active in the eff
fort to destroy; one with a fixed and
steady purpose to improve, and the
other equally as determined to counter
act the effect of the work Of the first.
AS result of the success of the sec
ond, there comes a third that can best
be termed a scavenger; one that feeds
upon the wrecks made and the decay
that ensues. Finding no place with the
creator or builder, nor with the wrecker
until the result of his efforts has brought
decomposition suitable to his liking,
best described as a contemplate being
that exists upon the wreckage and rot.
ten debris produced by the second.
1t is a fact from which those who
would see the great State of Mississippi
come into her own that the second and
third in this triumvirate are few in
numbers, and almost entirely lacking in
decency and influence. The great army
of builders has recruited its ranks with
in the past few years until no State in
The Iuka vidette. (Iuka, Miss.) 1894-1912, 1909-08-19

been going on, erased from our mem
DRY the old longing for the Marathon
race? Has the Westonian spirit died
within us? 1t doesn't mean well for
us that it has! Compliant adults,
though pleasant as it may seem, can
never train down in tonneau. Wan
cashgirls and sales ladies. and stenog-
raphers, and typists will never bring
back the bloom of the forget-me-not
to their faded cheeks by reporting
each a. m. in an upholstered limous-
Inc. All! Sometimes l am sorry it
has ever happened. 1t hasn't begotten
safety for the multitudes! Or fra
ternity!
Our friend of the 1900 model now
fiaunts q 105 H. P. roadster. He
hates the man with four-cylinder;
who despises the two-cylinder man;
who loathes the one-cylinder man:
who prays for the early demise Of
the motor-cyclist. We walk.
Copyright, 1909. by w. G. Chapmanl
The Iuka vidette. (Iuka, Miss.) 1894-1912, 1909-08-19
Uncle William Tells of the Honest Boy
BY WILBUR D. NEsBIT.

Once upon a time there was a little
boy who was very nice and obedient
to his mother, and never disobeyed
her. at all. But she was very sus-
picious. She was always telling him
not to smoke nor chew. and, although
he said repeatedly that he never, never
would, she doubted him a whole lot.
One day he came home in the mid
die of the afternoon and complained
that he was not feeling well.
Like as not you are coming down
with scarlet fever" his mamma de-
clared. Goodness knows, you play
around all day with children that we
don't know anything about or where
they live, and like as not they have
are In for long spell of sickness just
when l want to go to the lakes"
81 haven't seen any germs, mamma"
said the boy, nor played with chill
dren that has the germs. | just feel
sick in my head and my stomach and
and my insides generally"
Let me look at your throat" she
said.
The boy opened his mouth and his
mamma looked inside of his throat
and jumped back and held up her
hands and exclaimed:
"Oh, you dreadful boyi You have
been smoking! That's what makes
you so sick. 1t serves you right, and
I'll whip you as soon as you feel bet
ter, and so will your papa when he
comes home. Where did you get
the cigars?"
81 haven't been smoking cigars, or
chewing them, either" the boy an
swered, for he was an honest little
boy, who would tell the. truth if pos
sible.
Don't attempt to deceive me-" said
The Iuka vidette. (Iuka, Miss.) 1894-1912, 1909-08-19
Never Missed School in II Years.

The managers of the Sheerness
schools have had their attention called
to the remarkable attendance made
by the family of resident named
Hutchings. His daughter Bertha,
who is leaving school at the age of
IA, commenced attending at the
age of three years, and has never
missed an attendance nor been late
during the whole period of IL years
in which the schools have been opened
-4,753 times. Another daughter, Eth.
ell, was presented with gold medal
few years ago. as reward for seven
years perfect attendance, and there
are five other children of the family
who have medals for similar records
The council school managers have de-
cided to ask the Kent education
committee to make some official rec.
ognition of Bertha Hutchings re-
markable punctuality.--London Mail
The Iuka vidette. (Iuka, Miss.) 1894-1912, 1909-08-19
With the Worlds
Great HzxmOriSfS
Selections from the u,riffn9s of the BeSf Knosvn
OF M;rfb

Il didn't get any cigars" said the
boy, being very honest Il must have
eaten something that made me sick.
While | was out playing great big
mar came along and asked me the
way to the next town and | went
along with him to show him where
the depot is, and he was smoking
cigar, and he blew the smoke into
my face and on my clothes While
he was talking to me. He said he
was so glad that | showed him the
way to the depot that when he got
to the next town he would get
million dollars, and would remember
me-"
"You come right here" said his
mamma, and she whipped him and
made him stay in his own yard for
whole week.
But would you believe it?
At the end of the week big, nice
looking man came along and asked
if the boy lived there, and his mamma
said that he did, and the man said:
Madame, you have the noblest son
in the world. Here is a bushel OF
silver dollars for him, because he was
so polite and obliging to stranger in
a strange land. l am afraid that |
blew smoke into his face when he
had eaten something that disagreed
with him."
The nice little boy bought an auto
mobile for his mamma with the bushel
of silver dollars, because, he did not
hold any malice. But every time she
would ride in the auto she would cry
until her tears rusted the machinery.
because she was sorry over the way
she had doubted his word.
We should learn from this always
to believe boys when they explain
things, also that parents often give
their children the whippings they
should have had themselves when
that were children.
Copyright. 1909, by w. G. Chapman)
The Iuka vidette. (Iuka, Miss.) 1894-1912, 1909-08-19

his mamma. you have tobacco
smoke on your breath and in your
clothes, too. You smell like an old
pipe fiend!"
Just then the boy became dread
fully sick. indeed, and had to go out
of the room, for he was seasick be-
cause of something that had disagreed
with him. When he came back he
had to lie down on the floor, because
the walls of the room were going
around and around and the ceiling
was waving up and down.
The Iuka vidette. (Iuka, Miss.) 1894-1912, 1909-08-19
DISCUSSED OVER THE PRUNEs

selves, and they like to see their
wives well dressed. and to sit down
to good table. No wonder women
like them better than they do lean,
dyspeptic, nervous, cranky men, who
find fault, nag. and are stingy. Men
like this want lot of waiting on
and attention. they are generally 1eal-
GUS and selfish. Fat men hate fuss,
seem to understand that wives are as
fond of being spoiled and of having
good clothes and good dinners as other
The Iuka vidette. (Iuka, Miss.) 1894-1912, 1909-08-19

why is it. Miss Willing, that fat
men always have the prettiest wives?
/ seldom see jolly, fat man with an
ugly, cross looking wife. BY Jove,
those fellows just go in and win the
pretty women every time"
well, Mr.. Hammerslee, | can ac-
count for that. You see, husband
should be sort of bromide, should
have soothing effect. Fat men are
placid, calm, jolly and good providers.
They like the good things OF life them