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Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1912-04-23
TUESDAY, APRIL %, 1912.
THE S LESSON.

The awful disaster which carried
the greatest passenger steamship ever
built to the bottom of the sea, in
which over fifteen hundred persons
persisted, has awakened the world to
the fact that passenger steamers, as
a rule, provide life boats to accommo-
date only a comparatively small pro-
portion Of the number Of persons the
steamers may carry.
The Titanic, with a certificate
from the British board of trade per-
hitting her to carry a total of $500
persons, had life boats whose maxi
mum carrying capacity was $50, or
about ~ per cent of her carrying
capacity. With death facing every
soul on board, the life boats were
able to save only 713, or about
percent Of their supposed maximum
capacity. All of the remaining per-
sons on board had to be abandoned
to the waves, and their bodies lie
now some two miles under the waves
Of the Atlantic.
In view Or this appalling resuI.
Of che. wreck Of the Titanic, due to
%thcsHtter fnadeqUacy OF the provision
Or saving the lives of those on board.
it appears almost incomprehensibIe
that such a condition should be toll
eratde by the admiralty laws of any
country. When one thinks Of the
many thousands Of ocean travellers
who are trusting their lives TO ships
not even as well equipped for life
saying as was the Titanic, one al
most shudders.
It's believed that the Titanic
catastrophe viii result in the adop-
ton Of international agreement OF
some nature, which shall limit the
number of passengers which steam
ships carry to the capacity of their
life saving equipment.
Thus do we wait for bitter and
costly experience to teach Us our
duty. The needless sacrifice of life
on the Titanic may be the indirect
cause of saving other lives, but moth
ing can undo the fearful havoc
wrought by that ghostly iceberg o.:
the Newfoundland banks. And the
men and women who went down
with the giant steamer will rest be-
meath the waves until the last great
day when the sea shall give up her
dead.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1912-04-23
VISITING MINISTERS
WERE ENTERTAINED
Prominent MethodistS Who Attended
Conference at Mission Visited
Brownsville En- Route Home.

The members Of the Methodist an
nual conference, which met at Mis-
sion Saturday and Sunday, visited
Brownsville yesterday and were en-
tertained by the pastor and the mem
bers of the First Methodist church
Of this city with a banquet in the
Moctezuma hotel. The visitors ar
rived on the motor car yesterday
morning and left for their homes on
the $40 o'clock train yesterday aft
ernoor
The guests were The Rev. L. A.
Scarborough of Beeville, who is pre-
siding elder of this conference, DR..
Nathan Powell Of Dallas, j. ID. Dot
sey and w. II. Vernon of San Be
nito, c. G. Hill of McAllen, j. w.
Pittman and V. G. Thomas of Corpus
Christi, "A. G. Boyd, Beevilee, l.. A.
Alkire, Pettis, v. v. Boone, Kennedy,
w. A. Hart. Karnes City, A. w. VIII
son, Floresville, Rev. and Mrs. Camp
bell Goliad, r. l.. Pyle, Goliad, ].
d. Montgomery, Floresville and Rev.
Bailey of Karnes City.
The Methodist pastor, Rev. j. n.
Perry and a committee Of members
Of that church entertained the visi-
tors.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1912-04-23
LET US WELCOME CORPUS BUSI.
NESS MEN.

Tomorrow night sixty or more OF
the prominent business men of Cor
pus Christi will be visitors in
Brownsville. This is our %opportun-
ity to- let our Corpus Christi friends
see just what a good town Browns
vile is. Let us extend a cordial
welcome to the visitors and tender
them such entertainment as will i'm
press so favorably as to make them
witsh to come again.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1912-04-23
ONIONLESS IN 0NI0NLAND.

Surely his lot is sad who goes
onionless. in a land of onions. The
Hidalgo Advance says:
While Hidalgo county is second
to none as an onion producing sec
fion. and viii this season Snip hun
dreds Of car loads Of that savory
vegetable TO the northern markets.
yet. strange TO relate it is impossible
10 purchase a pound Of onions al The
present time at any Of the provision
stores Of the county. The shoe
makers children are generally bare
footed
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1912-04-23

The law requiring the closing or
the moving picture theatres on Sun
day night was not made for the bene-
fit of Matamoros, Of course, but it
very largely increases the number
going across the river from Browns
Vile to Matamoros on Sunday night.
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maids that, in order To induce Old
Brindle TO give plenty of milk, they
they should introduce music into the
cowpens. Waltz time, he told them,
will soothe the cows and cause them
to yield their lactiferous wealth more
freely.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1912-04-23

All the world makes mistakes
sometimes. Be charitable towards
what you conceive to be mistakes on
the part Of others, because YOU may
be in need of the same charity your
self some day.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1912-04-23

Perhaps Teddy's object may be to
convince the world that the report
that he had caught the sleeping
sickness on his big hunt in Africa
was all nonsense. At any rate, it
must be admitted he apparently has
been very wide awake since he tossed
his hat in the ring.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1912-04-23

The Seattle burglar who drew the
line on pie probably did not want to
carry any extra weight in his effort
to get away.-Seattle Post-Intelli-
gencer. ~ iMf
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1912-04-23

Secretary Wilson says we
must boil our peanuts, as the
crop is wormy this year.-New
York Telegram.
The secretary ought to except the
Texas crop. Texas peanuts are not
likely to be wormy.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1912-04-23

SO bitter has the Colonel become
toward the President, we think the
New York World ought TO dine Col
onel Watterson for a week.-Hous-
ton Post.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1912-04-23

The Roosevelt boom is coming
back, and the Taft contingent is
growing nervous. The Western
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1912-04-23

Time has been when good people
might have said, might perhaps have
believed, that a disaster like this, if
it could have happened in their day,
had bern sent from heaven as a sort
Of notfee to vain and foolish man that
he had trespassed beyond the per-
missible limits of ship building. Per-
~sonally | should rather hesitate about
mixing heaven up in things of this
sort on no surer ground than my own
unassiSted powers of conjecture. |
should tremble to say that the
Creator had punished the innocent
for the guilty, the brave and the self
denying for The covetous and vain
glorious.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1912-04-23

Brownsville is getting her share
OF undesirable advertising lately. Ii
is about time the good people were
taking holg Of things down there
Harllngen Star.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1912-04-23

A Chicago man secured a divorce
because his wife was too affection
ate. II is simply impossible TO make
some people happy-Schenectady
Union-Star. t.Iv
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1912-04-23

The owners of that ship had done
a notable thing-as they fondly be-
lieved. They had created the might
lest fabric ever set afloat on Gods
great sea-: the mighties and the
swiftest. When it was launched the
world appluaded-as well it might.
For the world had done nothing bet
ter asa piece Of human handicraft.
Stroag, fwift, beautiful-unsinkable.
to the ocean and all the forces allied
with it. The awful end of this gal
liant experiment gives us a feeling of
pity for its promoters.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1912-04-23

Nevertheless the innocent
have died for the guilty in this, as in
many other instances, not because
God is angry perhaps, but because
the operation of his law is uniform.
Alas, there is no escape from the
old law that like causes must pro-
duce like effects. He who drives a
ship n "a scanoe r~ecklessly through
a berg-sown sea. does it at the peril
of his own life and at the peril of
the lives of those with him. The
laws of the universe are no respec-
ters Of persons. Not for the sake of
any speed record. nor for any vaunt
of unsuitable ships. nor for the sake
of any gallant company Of travellers,
will n jot or title of those laws be
abated.
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the courage can it be said that either
was distinctly racial. The thing
that rejoices my heart is the certain
ty that the prevailing sentiment. the
sentiment that dominated the COM
pany, was the feeling that somehow
ii is better to die than be d~ishonored.
They died-the strong for the
weak, the mighty for the helpless.
They did it quite as a matter of
course, it appears, as it it were an
unquestionable law Of this universe
that the woman and the child have
the right to the safest footing on the
highway of life. What reconcile
racial instincts, what obscure but
Irresistible laws of Nature, fortified
by what age-long traditions. lay be
hind the heroisms of that night we do
not know. No one there at that hour
theorized about it we may be sure.
They simply made the sacrifices
without stopping to analyze their
own motives.
/ take off my hat to the gentleman
of culture, wealth and refinement,
with all the great traditions and
ideals that come from culture, who
informed that he could not go in the
boat with his wife, calmly set about
helping the wives of other men into
the boa;s. | take off my hat to the
common seaman, with no class
traditions, who simply remembered
that he was British" and calmly
accepted death that women and chill
dren might live. Heroism recognizes
no social degrees.
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And the courage of the women;
the women who would not leave their
HUSBANDS; the women who only
parted from their loved one on the
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A Wisconsin nan visiting in Lon
don has been telling British milk
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| suppose that a heavy weight of
blame rests somewhere, and l sup
pose | shall be as indignant as an
other when the measure Of blame is
fairly set out and affixed to the right
people. My first impulse at this mo-
ment is to be sorry for the men who
are t blame. Sorry, because even now
before the facts are ascertained and
laid before the public, the facts are
known TO the responsible ones. Their
souls are weighted with the knowl-
edge of the truth yet to be published;
and the horror Of a great shame is in
their souls; and the shadow of an
awful condemnation is over them;
and the sense Of the f~inality Of things
done or neglected will gnaw forever
at their hearstrings. Therefore,
while | may not permit justice to be
Overshadowed by sentiment, yet l
find it possible to be sorry for the
men who are to blame for this I'M
speakable horror. | think his Satanic
majesty himself might take a few
moments off to pity them.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1912-04-23

Entered at the Postoffice at Browns
vile. Texas, as Second Class Mail
Matter.
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''One universal shrek there rushed
Louder than the loud ocean, like a
crash
OF echoing thunder; and then all
was hushed,
Save the wild wind and the re-
mOrseless dash
OF pillows; but at intervals there
gushed,
Accompanied with a c~onvulsive
splash,
A solitary shrek, the bubbling cry
Of some strong swimmer in his
agony
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1912-04-23

The thing that | dwell upon most
when ! think of this affair Of the
Titanic, the thing | love to think
about is the heroism that falls with
an almost superhuman splendor
across the blackness of that calamity.
| have always thought well Of men.
i shall think better of them hence
forth.
BE British. my lads" said the
captain. Then all symptoms of in
su bordination, all symptoms of ner-
vousness died out among the crew
and they remembered hat they were
British" SO they remained, till the
bitter sea choked their lives from
their gallant breasts.
:
| hold il a fine thing to be of good
Saxon lineage. yet | by no means be-
lieye that the Anglo-Saxon has a
monopoly either of courage or un-
~selfishness. Ii were absurd to be-
lieye that in all that ships company,
officers, sailors, passengers. other
races were not represented. There
IL no reason to believe that any race
or nation had cause to be ashamed Of
any lack OF courage by any Of its
people who happened to be there.
There were doubtless exhibitions of
base fear that night. and OF wild, IN
reasoning panic. 1t is perhaps true
that neither Of the cowardice nor
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HEROES AND HEROINES OF THE
TITANIC AN APPRECIATION.
Dope Artist.

One feels somehow impelled to
write about it, because it haunts one
like a nightmare. At the same time
there comes a feeling Of the hope
lessness Of writing about it or OF
talking about it to any purpose.
do not care to sermonize on the sub
ject, nor to wrest any moral lesson
from the story. | leave hat to the
people whose business ii is to ser
monte and to derive moral lessons
from great tragedies of this kind. |
do not say the people who do that sort
of thing will not be we'll employed.
| merely say that have not the
heart, 0 the ability nor ever the
Will to preach about it.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1912-04-23

The ship went down while the
band played Nearer my God to
Thee" Then at the supreme mo-
ment,
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assurance that there would be boats
enough for all; and the woman
whose unaccustomed hands toiled
bravely at the oars through the long,
cold hours of waiting-worthy in all
ways to be wives and mothers of
heroic races.
The Kenna record. (Kenna, Roosevelt County, N.M.) 190?-1924, 1912-11-22

letter nor got one in 20 years, and
guess I'm about as well of as most
folks. was going to ask her but for
got It."
Don't you ask her a word about
it," cautioned the wife as she came
down to him. Il guess Minnie's got
something on her mind, and it hain't
none of your business. l reckon she'll
tell me when she gets ready. Least
wise. hain't goin' to do any pump
ing"
Something on her mind, Ell? That's
funny Didn't know that girls ever
had anything on their minds except
new clothes. Is that why she come
visiting us all of a sudden?"
None o. your business! guess my
own sisters daughter can come and
see me any time she takes a notion,
and that without writing ahead.
What's on her mind, as nigh as can
make out, is about a young man. II
/ don't tell you you'll worry the shirt
of your back. Pa. you got to be as
poky as an old maid. You can't see
a pillar-case Topping on the clothes
line but what you want to know all
about it. Yes; it's about a young
man. They are engaged and they've
had falling out, and she's sorter run
away from him to find out II he really
cares for her"
And she's got scared about It and
has written him letter to tell where
she ISL" queried the husband.
Go on It's probably a letter to
her ma. though didn't see it nor ask
hope she didn't start for town. It's
going to storm for sure, and there
hain't but one house on the road
where she could and shelter Looh
down the road and see If you can see
her"
Cant see hide nor hair Of any
gisl," Eseogtsd unele Robert after 80
The Kenna record. (Kenna, Roosevelt County, N.M.) 190?-1924, 1912-11-22

A French expert says that the fam
ily is doomed within a half-century
through the automobile. Wonder what
Wealth rate he figures.
The Kenna record. (Kenna, Roosevelt County, N.M.) 190?-1924, 1912-11-22

The Fido mum is the latest armful
affected by feminine caprice. De-
ceased pets do not. however. enter IN.
to the composition of this elegant
trife.
The Kenna record. (Kenna, Roosevelt County, N.M.) 190?-1924, 1912-11-22

The largest stone statue in the
world is in Japan. It is forty-four feet
high, which probably accounts for the
TACT that 1t is still there.
The Kenna record. (Kenna, Roosevelt County, N.M.) 190?-1924, 1912-11-22

There will always be a difference
between unlaundered money and
tainted money, with plenty OF people
ready to grab either.
The Kenna record. (Kenna, Roosevelt County, N.M.) 190?-1924, 1912-11-22

A contribution of two cents was re-
reived by the Washington conscience
Iun. Bet the fellow who sent 1t looks
like 1t, too.
The Kenna record. (Kenna, Roosevelt County, N.M.) 190?-1924, 1912-11-22

A Colorado man had fifteen hives
lobbed of honey at one time. He
must be. cultivating the stingless va
liety Of bee.
The Kenna record. (Kenna, Roosevelt County, N.M.) 190?-1924, 1912-11-22

"Well, according to my ideas, it's
going to rain and snow and blow and
hail, and when the storm does break
she's going to be a buster You live
in the city and don't know anything
about the storms we have out here.
I've seen It when we didn't have a
train along for four straight days"
Il wanted to go to the postoflce to
mail letter"
ITS three miles there and back,
and II was you I'd put 1t of. Mebbe
somebody'll be passing that you can
send it by. Tomorrer's Thanksgiving,
you know, and we are going to have
the awfulest, biggest, incest dinner
anybody ever set down to. It's In
your honor, you know. There'll be a
turkey, a duck and a chicken; therell
be cranberry sass. pumpkin pies, cur
rant jell. sweet cider and apple dump.
Inns; therell be-"
Il think I'll just walk little ways,
anyhow" said the girl as she opened
the gate and passed down the highway
towards the village and the railroad
depot
And If you come home as wet as a
hen don't say didn't warn ye. It's
going to come. and it's going to be a
buster"
Half an hour later, a middle-aged
woman with motherly face and
voice came out on the steps and ask
ed:
Pa, do you reckon it's goin' to
storm?"
Sure as ducks"
Where's Minnie?"
"Oh, she's gone for a santer. give
her warning. What's she wantin' to
mail letter for? / hain't mailed a
The Kenna record. (Kenna, Roosevelt County, N.M.) 190?-1924, 1912-11-22

A Chicago bride ran away because
her husband would not buy her a new
feather for her hat. Trifies have be-
lore now overturned empires.
The Kenna record. (Kenna, Roosevelt County, N.M.) 190?-1924, 1912-11-22

A Boston doctor says the women OF
that town are not knockkneed. And
he talks like a man who knows where
II he speaks.
The Kenna record. (Kenna, Roosevelt County, N.M.) 190?-1924, 1912-11-22

Mathematics tell us the birthdays
we have been celebrating are frauds
But everybody over 30 knew that al
veady.
The Kenna record. (Kenna, Roosevelt County, N.M.) 190?-1924, 1912-11-22

A California Judge refused alimony
10 a woman who refuses to cook for
her spouse. II she's still cooking for
Linn, what need of alimony2
The Kenna record. (Kenna, Roosevelt County, N.M.) 190?-1924, 1912-11-22

Somebody is advertising an appara-
lus for cooking over gas jet, but he
Is no friend to the woman who has a
hall bedroom to let.
The Kenna record. (Kenna, Roosevelt County, N.M.) 190?-1924, 1912-11-22

They are going to make dollar bills
smaller. The grocery man attended
to that little detail some time ago.
The Kenna record. (Kenna, Roosevelt County, N.M.) 190?-1924, 1912-11-22

Partisan beauties are to be yellow
of face instead of pink and white. One
moment, please, while we change com
plexions.
The Kenna record. (Kenna, Roosevelt County, N.M.) 190?-1924, 1912-11-22

AS a suggestion to a means of pre-
venting so many drownings in the
United States navy, It might be q
rood idoa to teach the sailors how 70
Twin
The Kenna record. (Kenna, Roosevelt County, N.M.) 190?-1924, 1912-11-22

A German specialist claims that tel
sphones make the modern man crazy
Until he spoke, 1t was generally be-
viewed the operators were responsible
The Kenna record. (Kenna, Roosevelt County, N.M.) 190?-1924, 1912-11-22

A New York man had his name
changed from Arestad to Nightingale.
He certainly selected bird of a name.
The Kenna record. (Kenna, Roosevelt County, N.M.) 190?-1924, 1912-11-22

Los Angeles complains Of a school
book famine, but the small boys OF
that city are bearing up braVely.
The Kenna record. (Kenna, Roosevelt County, N.M.) 190?-1924, 1912-11-22

Poison ivy is full of lovely color In
the autumn, but no one should carry
1t home because of it's loneliness.
The Kenna record. (Kenna, Roosevelt County, N.M.) 190?-1924, 1912-11-22

The woman conductor on Philadel-
HAS street cars is called a cashier
by courtesy. This is, however, no
liam on conductors in general
The Kenna record. (Kenna, Roosevelt County, N.M.) 190?-1924, 1912-11-22

If the plan to employ policewomen
for Chicago is carried out we may ex-
pect the crooks to go to carrying MICE
The Kenna record. (Kenna, Roosevelt County, N.M.) 190?-1924, 1912-11-22

The latest thing in dances is the
horse trot." And probably the next
thing to 1t is the nightmare.
The Kenna record. (Kenna, Roosevelt County, N.M.) 190?-1924, 1912-11-22

Please note that the burglar whom
somebody smashed in the face with a
pie got away with it.
The Kenna record. (Kenna, Roosevelt County, N.M.) 190?-1924, 1912-11-22
cause for conaratuIatIon.

my new cook broke her word to
me to come early"
well, II her word TO you Is all she
breaks In the house you are getting
Oh easy"
The Kenna record. (Kenna, Roosevelt County, N.M.) 190?-1924, 1912-11-22

A woman gets a hat to At her face.
The At that the man gets is proper
tional to the size of the bill.
The Kenna record. (Kenna, Roosevelt County, N.M.) 190?-1924, 1912-11-22

Some experts declare that the hob
Bile skirt makes our women knock
kneed We are from Missouri
The Kenna record. (Kenna, Roosevelt County, N.M.) 190?-1924, 1912-11-22

The limit of criticism is reached
when one woman says Of another:
why, she doesn't even make her own
bed"
The Kenna record. (Kenna, Roosevelt County, N.M.) 190?-1924, 1912-11-22

Uncle Sam is short 100000 girls,
That number is needed to match the
male population.
The Kenna record. (Kenna, Roosevelt County, N.M.) 190?-1924, 1912-11-22

A New York man was fined for
twearing when tickled by a young
womans hat feathers. Wrong word.
He evidently wasn't tickIed.
The Kenna record. (Kenna, Roosevelt County, N.M.) 190?-1924, 1912-11-22

The peace serum does not seem to
have taken in Europe.
The Kenna record. (Kenna, Roosevelt County, N.M.) 190?-1924, 1912-11-22
hy ADELE MENpEL.

OW much easier 1t is for
the hostess of today to pre-
pare for a Thanksgiving
dinner than it was for the
hostess of a hundred years
ago! Then 1t meant not
The Kenna record. (Kenna, Roosevelt County, N.M.) 190?-1924, 1912-11-22

Nothing withstands the cold breezes
like young girls white shoes.
The Kenna record. (Kenna, Roosevelt County, N.M.) 190?-1924, 1912-11-22
% 81 d o
A REAL THANKSGIVING
BY DONALD ALLEN.

F was a girl wouldn't go
walking too far" said old
Uncle Robert as a girl OF
20 passed him on her way
down to the gate of the
farmhouse.
"And why not?" she ask
ed as she almost came to a
pause.