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Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1912-05-09

SALE-At 1917 Madison st.
3 burner gasoline stove almost
new, = burner blue flame oil stove,
domestic sewing machine, kitchen
cabinet, refrigerators, ) gal. earth
ern ware water filter, wardrobe,
extension table. child's iron bed,
chairs and rockers, dresser and
] wash stand, iron bed, (S-day mis-
sion clock, 40 fl. garden hose and
rack good set harnessl
a ing city, everytti
W FOR SALE
buux
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1912-05-09
Notice to Creditors.

The State Of Texas:
County of Cameron:
To the creditors ii Reed Jewelry
& Optical Company:
You are hereby notified that the
Reed Jewelry & Optical company, of
the County of Cameron, on the 9TH
day Of April, A. D., 1912, executed
a deed Of assignment, conveying to
E. H. Reed all of its property for
the benefit of such of its creditors
as will consent to accept their pro-
portional share of its estate and dis
charge it from their respective
claims, and the said e. II. Reed hav-
ing failed to qualify within the time
prescribed by law, the County Judge
of Cameorn County, as the law re-
Quires, appointed the undersigned as
assignee in lieu of the said f. III.
Reed, and the undersigned has ac-
cepted said trust, and has duly quail
fled as required by law.
All creditors c%onsenting to said as
signment must, within four months
after the publication of this notice,
make known to the undersigned their
consent in writing, and within six
months from the date of this notice
file their claim, prescribed by law,
with the undersigned, who resides
at Brownsville, Texas, which is also
his p~ostofice address.
Witness my hand this 26th day of
April, A. d.. 1912.
HENRY J. KIRK,
~4-26-30t Assignee.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1912-05-09
CATTLE FOR FORT WORTH
]. R. Box to. Take Train Load from
Yturria.

About ten or fifteen cars of beef
cattle will be shipped by John r..
Box in a day or two from Yturria
station to Fort Worth, where they
will be sold. Mr.. Box and his
brother-in-law, Milford Burress, ex-
pect TO accompany the shipment to
Forth Worth.
Mr.. Box shipped nine car loads of
cattle to Fort Worth on April 29th.,
which were placed on the market
May 2. These animals averaged
500 pounds and sold at 50 per hun
dred. The market is still keeping
upand Mr.. Box expects 10 do quite
as well on the shipment he is now
about to take to Fort Worth.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1912-05-09

strawberries range around $3.50 per
crate. Blackberries and dewberries
are coming into the Houston market
rapidly. Reports indicate the black
berry crop is a bumper one and that
there will. be a tremendous move
ment through Houston. Blackber-
ries are retailing in Houston for Toe
per quart.
The first roasting ears of the sea-
son are in Houston. Potatoes are
increasing in receipts and when dig
ging begins near Wharton about
May 10, the market will be loaded.
In the cotton department the
weather Of the week was neither
very good or very bad. Consider
able rain fell but on the whole a
good amount Of farm work was done,
according to reports coming to the
Houston market from all sections of
the Texas coast belt. A great deal
of cotton is reported up and it is es-
timated that about 70 per cent of
the crop is planted, of which it is
considered about one-third Is up.
The rains will materially aid the
crop now coming up, but will ham
per further planting operations
until the soil is in condition to work.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1912-05-09
Houston Market Review.

Houston, Texas, May Sit was
the proverbial million dollar" rain
that fell over parts of South Texas
Saturday and Sunday. Crops needed
a wetting, especially the trucking
acreage. The hot weather Of the
past two weeks impaired a phenome-
nal growth and the rains of the
weekend will give the growth an
that will insure them
against the weakening influences Of
longer spells of dry weather.
Especially is the strawberry crop
benefited by the rainfall. Until the
rains strawberry receipts in Houston
were dwindling and for a time it
appeared that car lot shipments were
at an end. The dry weather caused
a dry crust to form over the surface
of the ground and many farmers
We're breaking this by blowing il
pfeparron for irrigation-
ralnSHobNiated this. Local prica
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1912-05-09
{ Fully equipped
(F. o. 3. Detroit)

The average cost of the 100 miles run
by the other 1913 cars was less than oo
cents. This contest was held in 100
cities, over all kinds of roads.
A Detroit Corporation has a Brush
that has covered more than Fl 900 miles
and they say it is still as good as new.
This Brush took the place of two horses
and a buggy. 1t paid for itself in addi-
tional work in ten months time.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1912-05-09

Mrs. Styles-Ist that a new silk
hat, Henry?
Mr.. Styles-YesS dear.
Mrs. Slow much was it?
Mr.. S-Why, it WAS SO, dear.
Mrs. S-What. Eight dollars, and
not a bird or a ribbon or a fea her
on it?-Yonkers Statesman.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1912-05-09

"Nein- Dat foam goes away so
berwick you can't have time to blow
It off, all ready yet."-Yonkers
Statesman.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1912-05-09

DR.. 5. H. Bell has gone to Kings
vile to attend a meeting of the di-
rectors Of the Industrial college for
Mexican youths. DR.. Bell was large
ly instrumental iii securing this
splendid institution for South Texas.
and takes a very active interest in
its development.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1912-05-09

1900 Gu yds Of dirt on Levee St, be-
tween 18th and 18th streets for
sale. Contract for excavation can
be had or dirt can be purchased.
If interested see me. NJ. Z. Tracy,
Architect. Office over Rutlcdge
Jewelry Store. silt.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1912-05-09

( FOR SALE.-From 100 to $50
acres Of land, with sweet surface
water, IA mile from Sebastian Sta
ton on main line Of st. Louis Brown
sville and Mexico r. r. Irrigation
canal will reach 1t shortly. Address
P. 0. Box 154 or call at SIC Adams
St. 12-3O-tf.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1912-05-09
WANTED-Clean rags, at the
Herald Office. If

FOR SALE-One large driving horse.
Apply Walker Bros-Hancock Co.
5-7-tf
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1912-05-09

FOR RENT-Five room cottage two
blocks from p~ostoffice. Water,
bath, electric lights and sewerage.
George S. Beard, San Carlos hotel.
4-24-tf
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1912-05-09
Too Unsubstantial.

Don't you like soda water,
Heinz??"
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1912-05-09
K X X X X X X X
PERSONALS I:

S. A. Robertson of a Benito was
a business visi or in the city yes
terday.
Tax Assessor George Champion
was in San Benito again ON bust
ness yesterday.
j. r. Copeland of the Nopalita
district vas attending to business
matters in town yesterday.
n. Dawson, one of the busy Nopa-
lita truck growers, was in town yes
terday. Part of Mr.. Davison's mis-
sion in town was to ship the first
crates Of Valley tomatoes for this
season.
Horace ID. Bond of Louisville,
KY, who is photographer for the
firm of King, Lee and Compton of
San Antonio, is in the city. He
made a trip up the Valley today to
get some local view.
Mrs. +. F. Rowson and the boys
have arrived from Houston, to Join
Mr.. RowsOn, who is making head
quarters here now. Mr.. Rowson and
family have apartments with Mr..
and Mrs. Mendenhall over the Cham
Der of Commerce.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1912-05-09
Value s2s, $780, 900

From the manner in which lint cotton has conquered its
rivals in the field of production and consumption, one would
think the victory complete, but the half has not been told. Cotton
seed, a quarter of a century ago considered a poisonous product
has demonstrated its merit as a food for man and beast. The
Federal Agricultural Department recognizes sixty commercial
uses for cottonseed and its ~by-products. Twenty-four per cent
of the. cottonseed crushed in the United States is harvested in
Texas.
The Texas Welfare Commission will investigate the produc-
tin and marketing of cottonseed and it's b~y-products. R. E. HUFF
oflWichita Falls is chairman 0 the subcommittee having the
subject in charge.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1912-08-09
Rival Medical Schools

According to the Mobile Register
The Age-Herald says that the medi-
chi department of the University of
Alabama is to be surreptitiously
seized and beneyolently assimilated.
L. also says The .ge-heralI said in
this connection, money talks"
As matter of record The Age
Herald never said that Birmingham
had any plan Of benevolent assimila
ton up its sleeve, and it quoted from
the Register the phrase, money
talks
Money is talking in Mobile, for
there is "a proposition pending to
treble the size of the city hospital, and
it is not talking in Birmingham unless
the proposed hospital bend issue car
be construed in that way.
The Registers manner of defending
Mobile is uncalled for. 1t is unjust
and it will assuredly do Mobile more
harm than good.
The trustees Of the university are
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1912-08-09
More Room for the County's Business

State Prison Inspector Oates has re-
scinded his order of August 8 for the
transfer of prisoners from the Jeffer-
son county Jail to Gadsden. He thinks
the disadvantages of removal are
equal at least to the advantages. Sher-
if McAdory will make some changes
lettering the condition of the Jail, and
the prisoners are to be left at present
where they can see their friends and
families.
At the most this is a decision of a
temporary nature only. The Jail may
become insufferably overcrowded in
any future month. Not only is the
jail overfull, but so is the courthouse
and the county hospital.
AS business proposition this great
and rich county should put up build
ings that would be large enough to
meet all the demands of the county's
business until, say, 1850. Patchwork
is rarely. economic, and in this county
it certainly would not be.
As plain business proposition why
should not this great county do what
many counties in the country have
done, namely, put up buildings of suf-
ficient capacity? This would involve
an annual expenditure of little less
than $4,000 year as an interest
charge. Plenty of Jail room and
courthouse room and hospital room
are worth that much to county con-
tanning today fully 100000 inhabi-
tants.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1912-08-09
TOOK TEXT TOO LITERALLY

From the Kansas City Star
BE not forgetful TO entertain
strangers. for thereby some have en-
tertained angels unawares.
The foregoing quotation is from
chapter. xiii. verse 2. Book of He
brews. and IL is introduced solely be-
cause it constitutes vital part of this
story. Julia is 10 years old and she
goes to Sunday school. 1t appears that
on a recent occasion the Sunday school
teacher had considerable to say about
this matter of "entertaining angels I'M
awares" Anyway. it made a deep i'm
preston with Julia.
A few days after the lesson Julia S
mother left her in charge of the house
for a few hours. When the mother re-
turned she went to a particular cup in
the cupboard to extract therefrom one
half dollar. In this cup is kept the
family pin money. and Julia's mother
knew that she had put 80 cents there
before she had gone out. But the
half dollar was gone. There was an
expression of anxiety on Julia's face
and mother scented mischief.
Did you take that money! asked
the mother, somewhat severely.
Julia broke into tears. Il gave IL to a
man that came TO the back door,
sobbed the little girl
Gave 1t 10 a mani" exclaimed the
mother. What for?'
Il thought he might be God" tear
fully replied Julia
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1912-08-09

From the Newark News
Like most opiates, cocaine Is danger
Gus in its habit inducing qualities,
More than others is 1t debasing and
destructive. series of articles now
being published in this paper should
be widely read. The first dealt with
the plans of state health authorities
to ask the next legislature for a law
that will curtail the evil Another
told of the ways in which the drug is
disseminated Others will describe the
clutch cocaine gets on its users-a
clutch whose power is little dreamed
of by the average citizen. Cocaine is
| shown by police and hospital records
| Its value as a salutary ingredient of
prescriptions is more than counter
balanced by the i'll effects that result
from its use.
The police will tell the casual in
quirer that the coke fends" cause
more trouble than all the other
"dopes." as the drug users are referred
to, combined. Cocaine is more insidi-
Gus in its encroachment on a mans
pily Sltdl anu lithldi bCihS thdh any
other opiate. Its illusion of rest or
exhiliration, which ever way it affects
the user lasts only a short time Then
the craving becomes more intense and
the victims opposition becomes weak
err. His degeneration, at first slow, be-
comes more rapid, and in a few years
he is either in his grave. or in an
asylum, well on the way toward the
grave. Cocaine harms the body and
perverts the mind. Users of cocaine
are more susceptible to the suggestion
of crime than are persons otherwise
clear minded.
| Drug stores, patent medicine manu-
facturers and INSCRIPTIONS quack doc
tors are the chief offenders in dis
tributing the drug. Unfortunately,
there seems to be latent desire among
many for a narcotic of some kind.
Sometimes the habit is acquired
through curiosity, but more often 1t
is fastened on a person through crimi-
nally prepared dope" medicines. 1t
is for the elimination of this evil that
many sincere people are working The
subject is one of interest to every COM
munity and deserves careful attention.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1912-08-09
Like Human beings

THE two performing balloons at the
Orpheum this week surpass anything
in the way of educated monkeys that |
have ever SEEN" said an old citizen 81
went to see the monkey comedians at
the Jefferson theatre some years ago.
Those animals were chimpanzees and
were somewhat larger and more pow
erful than the balloons at the Orpheum,
but when it comes TO intelligence and
acting like humans the balloons are far
in the lead.
These balloons. | believe. belong to
the cynocephalus genus-cynocephalus
the dogs. Not only Will all children
be greatly interested in these educated
monkeys, but men and women, general
~ will be entertained. No matter how
many ZOOS one may have visited he
has never seen balloons in the class
with Emperor and Empress, the popu-
lar stars at the Orpheum this week.
"Of the two. Empress is the spright-
lier but Emperor seems to be quite a
wise old guy. Both walk upright, but
Emperor cannot hold out long without
taking a little rest on a chair. EN-
press on the other hand carries herself
as straight and walks as naturally as
any woman. She not only rides the
bicycle, but rides with grace and in
telligence. She, also, uses the roller
skates as an expert.
we are used TO hearing monkeys
spoken of as apes because they are inn
itators, but these two balloons evident
ly have mental processes. Brain work
is manifest in all their stunts.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1912-08-09
The HiIImnn HnsnItai

Although 1 have passed the Hill
man hospital almost daily since it was
erected some years ago. was inside
of the building for the first time this
week." said a we'll known citizen.
II called to see DR.. Hogan. the SUI
perintendent. and while there | took IA
good look through the building. | was
impressed with two things First. the
excellent treatment which the patients
receive and second, the distressingly
congested condition of the hospital
Birmingham has number of in
flrmaries-several of them modern and
high-class in every respect-but l had
no .dea that we had such a well-con-
Quoted charity hospital as the Hill
man. l am certain that if all the
voters of Jefferson county were ia
miliar with the Hillman management
and the pressing need of more ROOM
the vote Monday on the 100000 bond
proposition for this institution would
carry almost unanimously"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1912-08-09
Baseball in the South

The Montgomery Times complains
because the baseball team of that city
has a deficit of $500 which the bust
ness men propose to raise, and really
have raised in order to keep baseball
running in the capital city.
The talk of the Times against base
ball is misfit. If the Times knows
of any cleaner outdoor sport in the
hot season of the year, it should
mention it. This it has not done, and
this it presumably cannot do. 1t is
an orderly, well regulated amuse-
ment in the open air, free from all
gambling. 1t has no Objectionable
features when the umpires are fan
and just.
If Montgomery were equipped with
a first division team, it would proba-
bly, finish the season without de-
ficit. The better the team the better
the attendance, as a rule. The team
can be bettered by taking away at the
outset the limit placed on monthly
salaries.
The Times is wholly in error when
it says baseball is a fading quality in
the south. At least four teams in tbs
Southern league can be trusted to
make money whenever they have first
division teams, and this is perhaps
true of the four other teams. At any
rate the latter should test the plan
of putting first division team in the
field next year before they. accept the
Times advice
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1912-08-09
A cIod OF maynard marie.
Much Ado About Nothing.
Sound Business Conditions

This is a year of big crops and the
recent impetus to general trade has
been based on the fine crop outlook.
Trade conditions are unusually salts
factory, and now that the prominent
political parties have made known
clearly their leading issues the busi-
ness world is no longer confused.
The industrial and mercantile situa-
ton has been affected more or less by
national politics, but everything of a
political nature having been discount
ed, solid prosperity may be ex-
pected during the remainder of the
year.
Tie wonderful activity in the steel
market, the firm tone of the iron mar
ket, the overtaxing of railroads and
the briskness of the coal trade all
combine to make 1912 look like a
boom year. Notwithstanding the
backward condition of the cotton crop
in some states, the south is enjoying
a high degree of prosperity. All
through the east, and through the
north and the west one hears opti-
mistic talk. The pessimist is little in
evidence anywhere.
Here in the Birmingham district a
great deal of construction is under
way, but new development work on a
scale of great magnitude will be
started within the next few months.
This district will unquestionably make
record breaking strides within the
next year. Birmingham is growing
at faster rate than ever and in view
of innumerable cheerful facts it would
be strange, indeed, if the people in
this neck of the woods were not
happy.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1912-08-09
Protection Versus a Revenue Tariff

Protection Versus a Revenue Tariff
There is not so much difference
after all between the Taft republicans
and the Roosevelt progressives, espe-
cially in relation to the tariff and the
trusts, the two absorbing issues of
this campaign.
When Mr.. Taft demands federal
charters for the corporations, notably
the industrial corporations, he simply
anticipates federal supervision and
regulation. The Roosevelt progress
sives do not demand more than this,
although they demand national regu-
lation of interstate corporations and
the establishment of a federal COM
mission to supervise them. The bull
moose people are simply little more
definite and explicit. The two fac
lions or parties substantially agree
in relation to the trusts. All inter-
state corporations, they say, are to
be supervised by the federal govern
ment
Both are avowed protectionists, and
both want tariff boards. In his
speeches Candidate Roosevelt says
the benefits of protection shall be
distributed among the wage earners
in protected industries. This is but
piece of demagogism. 1t is not
practicable or feasible. The tariff
barons now import the cheapest for
eign labor they can secure. The pro-
tected wage Garner is delusion.
Both the Taft party and the Roose-
welt party say, however, that they
stand for protection, and these declar-
ations will turn to Wilson and Mar
shall all who believe in the justice of
carefully regulated tariff for rev.
enue only. Governor Wilson and Ma
jority Leader Underwood stand to-
gether on this subject. Neither wants
protective tariff per Sc, although a
revenue tariff necessarily affords all
the protection that American indus
tries at this late day need.
The issue comes just right. The
battle between protection for protec-
tons sake--protection of manufac-
turers' profits included and rev.
enue tariff must be fought out, and
now is the time to do it. Governor
Wilson stands for a tariff intended
to meet the costs Of government,
while all forms and shades of repub-
licanism support, for campaign funds
and other reasons, duties that unmer-
cifully rob the consumer.
The glory Of this campaign lies in
this fight between revenue tariff
and protection, and let us hope it will
be the final fight between the two
antagonistic policies.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1912-08-09
Hotel Accommodations

with the completion of the Tutwiler
and the Roden. Birmingham Will be
up to most cities of approximately its
size in the matter of hotel accommo-
dations," said a member of the Cham
Der of Commerce.
Including the two hostelries of the
miilion-dollar class Birmingham will
have 10 hotels with about 1900 rooms.
which in time of convention might
accommodate with little crowding
between 1000 and 5000 persons Added
to the hotels the large pubic boarding
houses and several small hotels, Bir-
mingham couN easily take care OF TO-
GOO visitors. But before Birmingham
can expect to secure one of the big con-
ventions we must have an auditorium
with a seating capacity of 10000
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1912-08-09
TAKING A STRANGE CENSUS

By James Oliver Curwood in Leslie's.
many Eskimos and other human beings
lived along the barren coast of Hudson S
bay, between Fort Churchill and Chester
field inlet. 1t was only one small end OF
the gigantic task of making an official
government census OF all human life in
the 100000 square miles of wilderness and
polar barren between Hudsons bay and
the Great Bear ON the east and west. ard
tie fifty-eighth degree and the Arctic
ocean on the north and south. The work
was begun more than two years ago. but
It isn't completed yet, except in the 10000
square miles along the west shore of the
great bay.
There have been few undertakings more
filled with the elements of romance and
adventure of hardship and the pic
turesque. than this taking OF a census in
country of savagery and desolation
where human life is enumerated at just
about the rate of one man, woman OF
CHILD to every so square miles. In 1t have
played their parts the old Hudson's Bay
company's factor. the Royal Northwest
mounted police. adventurous traders and
explorers, dogs and sledges. canoes and
snowshoes; to say nothing of that other
still mere picturesque part of the game. >
the people whom the government is seek
ing. Kogmollocks, Nunatalmutes, Crees
Cnippewayans, half breeds, French and
Indians of dozen different tribal names
are now down in black and white in wha!
Is without doubt the worlds most inter
esting and unusual census.