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Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1912-02-12

FOR SALE. Forty-four acres fine
irrigated land 4 Llano Grande. Tex
as In the heart Of Rio Grande Valley
irrigated section. Two and one half
miles from railroad. Title guaranteed
Price $4,000 per acre cash. This or
fer good until February 3rd. Address
p o. Box 702. Brownsville. Texas.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1912-02-12

A~NSDtTntFU FrtrN|
Washington. Feb. H. Presto anf
Taft will address the republican
clubs az the Lincoln day banquet at
New York tomorrow night.
His speech will be polii.ea. and IL
expected II ~ the moss Important
delivered ~ nim during His cam
paign.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1912-02-12
ROOM CAREFULLY SEALED.

An eerie tradition il recalled By
the death a few DAYS ago Of Squire
Thomas Green Of the Old Hal, Poul
lton-Lancelyn, Cheshire, England
whose family have been in possession
Iof the estate since a period prior Il
THE Norman conquest There is in
IPuiton Old Hall a mysterious
lloaked room which has never beer
opened except BY a representative Of
tine Green family. The hall and ito
lands have sometimes been lei, but
the Green family have always re
tanned possession Of this mysterious
room, which Is supposed TO contain
several relics and other family treas
ures- The last tenant would have
given an increased rent for it il he
could have had access to this room
or could have cleared away the mys
FERROUS contents, but the owners re
fused to give up possession, and g
the tenant left.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1912-02-12

Judge Webster * the corporation
court visited Harlingen Saturday.
~ Cans. a travelling man from pa
las, arrived In the city yesterday.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1912-02-12

Gertrude Is a very nice g1rI. I know.
bit she isn't calculated to understand
the noble qualities OF Johns character.
And he Is so generous he'll bury bis
disappointment and act AZ n ne wa
perfectly happy, But his mother viii
nee through Il all. poor boyl"
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1912-02-12

There they are now" said thu
brides mother. Poor Gertrudel She
looks 50 foolishly happy"
MY poor boy" murmursd Johns
mother. craning her neck. He does
aeem absurdly cheerful"
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1912-02-12

FOR RENT-Two nicely Furnish
ca rooms. Apply si2 -. Charles st.
2-f1-ff
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1912-02-12

j. ~ Landrum 0f san Benit0 was
here on business Saturday.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1912-02-12

TWO OR THREE unfinished
housekeeping rooms. l407 Elizabeth
DR.. Turner'S.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1912-02-12

Fo& RENT ~ Nicely furnished
III room; suitable for man and
Ie or two gentlemen. Apnlv corner
In and 81. Charles streets, across
y san Carlos Hotel I-3o-tf
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1912-02-12

The game that was to have been
played between the Chicago Gar
dens and the High school teams has
been postponed until next Sunda, /.
on account Of the failure 81 the Chi
ago Garden team W make its an
pearance. The High school team
was On the grounds yesterday and
when the opposing team failed to
appear. a pickup team was organic
ed among the spectators 20 oppose
them in q practice game. The High
school proceeded 70 put Il over them
70 the tune OF n to o IL eleven in-
nings. The line-ups were.
High School
Wamc Hallmark Y
q. Fedderof p.
NJ Hauser no.
y. Egly %.
;. Van 81.
A. Hin -.
c Hill, RI.
q. Andrea e..
r. Jefferds H.
Pickups.
A. Ollivader {.
q. Robert D.
j.. Salinez Ib.
Ky. Pablo 20.
VI. Gusman %
NJ. Egly -.
q. Barron RI.
A. P%utegnat n
A.. Sanora III.
e. iongoria. mpire.
Judge Webster * the corporation
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1912-02-12

PERSONALS
! ! ! \ : ! = : !

Jas. N. Holt returned Saturday
from a visit % s.. Louis. Pittsburg
and other Northern cities.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1912-02-12

FRESH CAR Of fine bananas just
arrived al freight depot. Fine
punches. 100 to $50 bananas. per
bunch. only $l00 Cali at ear.
Strictly fresh stock. Saturday and
Monday sales days. Valley Fruit
60. lO-2t
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1912-02-12

FOR RENT-Office rooms IN
Combe buildings. at very reduced
rentals. Apply at First National
Bank. a-IO-tf
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1912-02-12

u NJ. Mothershead 0f San Bcnito
was a business visitor In the city
Saturday.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1912-02-12
TWO BAKER d

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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-06-25
EVENING CHIT
By RUTH

some Of your hurts you have cured
tne sharpest you still have sur
But what torments of grief vo,, end,,re6
from evils that never arrived!
There is a great deal of real troubie in
me me or every man and woman. Some
Ilmes IT seems to us as if we emerge from
one dfficulty merely to face another.
b bIs as tne oaby gets over measles, the
Dig prother falls and breaks his leg; Just
wnen the dark cloud of mothers illness
Is disappearing over the horizon, a new
the shape of fathers business losses
Ihere are times when all of us feel too
keenly the force of hat great sentence:
fly upward"
Surely. then, with all this real trouble
SO mandy, there is no need for US to make
any extra trouble for ourselves.
And yet as Emerson points out, most of
US PerPetually torment ourselves with the
evils that never arise.
The older 1 grow the more firmly I am
convinced that the very greatest factor of
happiness in all the world is mind control
lin other words, the ability not to tor
ment ourselves in this way.
Can you control your mind? When Won
find yourself dwelling on an unpleasant
topic, can you firmly remove your mind
from it and think of something else? If
you cannot, no matter how thoroughly
fortune favors you, no matter how many
of your wishes come true, how many of
you ships come sailing in: you will never
ARPJ" SOo A1NO IN
real troubles, you will always have
plenty of the imaginary kind.
1 think that every one of us ought to
study mind control, just as we study our
professions or the art of pleasing others
or the care of our bodies.
Try it some day. You want to go to
sleep and you find your mind is at work
on some business deal or some household
problem. Instead of giving in to 1t, and
tossing restlessly about with your mind
aflame with thought, until you fall asleep
from shear exhaustion, say to yourself:
stop right now" Then tax your mind
by the scruff of the neck" as Arnold Ben
nett has so cleverly said, drag 1t away
from that topic and put it on some other.
1t is not enough to simply a the mind
away from what 1t is feeding on; you
must give it something else or the mo-
ment you relax it will go back. And it
must be something interesting that you
offer, too. Rehearse some absorbing
story you have just read; recall some
agreeable conversation. If nothing elqc
will do. think of the most piquant piece
of gossip you have heard. Bad advice? /
don't know. I rather think that in this
case the end justifies the means.
The first time you try to do this, l warn
you YOU will find it very hard; just as the
first time you try to make a spoiled child
submit his will to yours, there is apt to
be a struggle. But the second time your
task will be easier and each time there
after.
There is something to each of us be-
sides brain and body, you know There
is also the will. Now the will ought to
be the supreme master of both mind and
body, Where it is not, there is anarchy,
and where there is anarchy, happiness Is
not. Is your will supreme?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-06-25
BUSINESS 10 PICK Or.

Henry Clews, the prominent New
York banker, continues to see most en-
~ccuraging signs for a return of most
prosperous conditions in this country
before many more months have passed.
III his current weekly financial review
he points out that politics ha now safely
passed one of the most critical stages.
Rampant radicalism has met with a
necessary setback. He thinks that the
sober sense of the American people is
beginning to impress itself upon the
politicians, and unless all signs are
false the country is tired of cratic
radicalism. While it wants progress
and reform, it is weary of useless poll
teal disturbance. And for these
reasons the business men will be able
to pay less attention to politics and
more and more to business. Much bust
ness has been deferred until the politi-
cal situation clarified. That having
occurred, Mr.. Clews looks for a gradual
and satisfactory renewal of trade &C
tivity. There can be no doubt but the
time is ripe for this renewal. as Mr..
Clews' review of the present conditions
in the country shows This review fol-
lows:
Railroad earnings are satisfactory,
thirty-hve roads reporting for the hrst
week in June showing a gain OF z per
cent over last year. Bank clear1ngs
showed a gain of 10 per cent for the
second week in June and this in spite
of limited speculation. Crop reports
are more encouraging, it being well
understood that the condition of the
leading crops has considerably I'M
proved since the government report on
lime 1. Our foreign trade continues in
very lattering condition, the total ex-
ports for HI eleven months of the fiscal
year amounting to 2,066, 0O0, 600, an In
crease of $3.50, 000, 900 over a year ago.
During the same period our imports
amounted to 81, 522, 000, 900, or Sill, 900, 900
more thai a year ago. This left a hand
some trade a in our favor, which
of course has been largely settled by
the unseen items in the account, Such
as freights, commissions, remittances,
etc. Naturally the volume of our
foreign trade has been much expanded
by high prices. Nevertheless, an inves-
tigation as to quantities shows that
gains have been general; the only ex-
ceptions worth noting being a moderate
decline il the quantity of corn and beef
exported. The effect of price huctua-
tons upon our exports was strikingly
shown in the case of cotton, which in
spite of an increase OF $500, 900 bales in
quantity sent abroad for the eleven
months showed a falling off of ST, $780,
900 in value, owing to lower prices.
One of the most encouraging ~eatures
in our foreign trade is the large growth
in the exports of manufactures, which
is certain to continue and may be de-
pended upon to fill the gap caused by
diminution in shipments of food pro-
ducts required at home to feed a rapid
ly growing population"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-06-25
says UNCLE CAV

Most of US get the shoe of pity on
the wrong foot We feel sorry for
ourselves when we should feel sorry
for those who have to associate with
US. He who pities himself is doubly
in danger-he excuses himself from
effort and turns the and of his
neighbor against him.
There is no better definition for a
miserable life than this: Existence in
close contact with the victim Of self
commiseration. Few who entertain
this sentiment in regard to themselves
stop short of monomania. Their trou-
bles multiply with imagination and
those within earshot are condemned
cied woes. They radiate gloom asSthe
sun radiates light, and while clouds
may for a day obscure the sun, there
is nothing under heaven given among
men that is proof against the indigo
exhalations of the creature who pities
himself. Courage dies in his veins
and he saps grit from the fiber of his
friends. There is no joy for him, and
his morbid appeals for sympathy dry
up the gladness of his associates. He
tractor from the sum of human hap
piness.
Bottle your griefs. Woes multiply
with repetition. Troubles kept to
yourself are half conquered. You
have no right to put your burdens
upon others shoulders. The first
principle OF manhood is to take your
medicine and lake it cheerfulIy. Be
ware Of self-pity-'tis but another
name for ~self-excuse. The moment
you begin to excuse yourself you blunt
the spur h q drives you to duty. And
when you reach the point where your
alternatives are self-pfty or a lively
sense of duty that sense Of duty alone
can save. Last of all, remember
that in indulging in the dangerous lux
ury of Self-pity, YOU are miSpIacing
your commfseration. 1t is rightly due
those upon whom you lay the bur-
den of your woes-(Copyright, 1912,
bv w, E. WilliamS.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-06-25
EURoPE's BEST BELOW AMERICA

EUROPE'S BEST BELOW AMERICA.
In the ten years from 1900 to 1910 the
average yearly pay of all the men en-
ployed on the state railroads of the
kingdom of Prussia increased a little
more than 26 per cent. That sounds
well, doesn't it, for n Of the old
countries Of Europe? 1t is better, in
fact, then the showing which CORES
ponding tests would make in almost
any other part of that continent. Ger
many is the most prosperous of the
large countries of Europe and Prussia
is the strongest state of the German
empire as well as the biggest.
But there remains to be considered
where the gain of 26 per cent left the
pay of the men, carefully sifted, who
run the government-owned railroads of
Prussia. The rate of increase does not
tell much unless the actual wages are
known.
What happened was an advance
from an average of 1888 a veal to an
average of $427. The increase in ten
years was equivalent to an average of
$s9, or less than 50 a e It left the
earnings of railroad men in the largest
state Of the foremost nation OF the
continent equal to a little over So q
week.
Meanwhile Germany, like other coun-
tries, had experienced a sharp and gem
eral advance in the cost of living In
Germany, as in other parts of the
world, a given sum means much less
in supplying the necessaries OF life
than 1t did ten years ago..
It is plain that Europe's best is still
far short of American conditions for
men who live by their daily toll and
do the heavy work of modern life. I'm
migration from Europe will never cease
as long as such differences exist be-
tween the Old World and America.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-06-25
QUAKER

[From the Philadelphia Record.1
If Opportunity doesn't knock, our
friends will.
The fellow who sings his own praises
generally sings falsetto.
1t takes a dentist to pull n mans tooth,
but anybody can pull his leg.
Any man can wake up some morning
and find some other fellow famous.
It is almost as hard to teach an old dog
new tricks as it is to find the new tricks.
Some men are always complaining that
they nave no work, or that they have too
much.
No, Maude dear; in order to borrow
trouble it isn't necessary to p~atronize the
loan sharks.
The happiest man in the world is the
one who doesn't want what he knows lie
can't get.
Many a man puts himself on the back
because of the great things he is going
to do some day.
That women are changeable is demon
strated by the ease with which some NEIL
get rid OF one and get another.
Muggins-'-Do you believe women are
more observing than men?" Buggins-
We'll, my wife met a friend on the street
today for two minutes, and 1t took her
two hours to describe what the other
woman had on"
You are charged with being a shop
LITTER" Numbered the Magistrate. WHAT
have you to say for yourself?" Alas
walled the fair prisoner, Il fearit is due
to the influences of heredity. My father
used to run an elevator in q department
store"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-06-25
GLOBE SIGHTS
By THE ATCH1soN GLOBE.

Most of the modern martyrs want to
get paid for 1t.
Most men consider mooching matches
an in~alienable right.
A local freight Is usually faster than
walking; it only seems slower.
1t is hard for a man to understand why
a boy is in suc a hurry to grow VI.
When in doubt, just wait. A hung up
fish hook will loosen itself if let alone
Vindication may be all right occasion
ally, but one shouldn't make 1t his Career.
Speaking of color schemes. there is
usually a good deal of red ink in yellow
journalism.
Usually when a man admits a fault. it
isn't a very large one, or is 100 large to
conceal.
What a lot of enthusiasm is wasted
throwing hats in the air; besides, 1t isn't
helpful to the hats.
An old-fashioned woman's notion Of
hard luck is for her daughter to fall in
love with a ball player.
Orators k to speak of every woman
being a queen, and they deal in several
other varieties of ancient fiction.
The trouble with the school of expert
ence Is that the graduates are so old by
the time commencement day arrives.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-06-25
AYHAWKER OTy

A girl hasn't much faith in prayer,
insists the Mcpherson Republican, If
she continues to have freckles.
If you have nothing to cultivate,
cultivate good roads and good words.
advises the Norton Champion.
1t is thought by the Horton Head
light-Commercial hat those rare
days in June have evidently been post
poned a month or So"
Insistence is made by the Leaven-
worth Labor Chronicle and Resubmis-
do nothing and do it right"
Watch Wichita Wish, suggests the
Leon News as it notes hat the sheriff
of Sedgwick county has been ordered
to empty in the sewer some $4,000
bottles of beer.
Mr.. Toots Vint was a visitor at
Douglass the other day. He lives in
Hutchinson, where, it is presumed, he
is a prominent member of the village
band.
A real Lady may be sheriff of Dick
inson county. At least, Mr. George
Lady has announced his candidacy for
the Democratic nomination for that
office.
Editor Cline of the Conway Springs
Star sports a new automobile, notes
the Douglass Tribune. and it adds:
Most country editors will Sprout white
wings long before they are able to
sport new tomobile
A business man of our town, re-
ports the Amcricus Greeting, who goe
to Emporia frequently is authority for
and young ladies of that town wear
clothing SO thin that he is compelled
to wear goggles to keep from having
his modesty shocked.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-06-25
1iteratnre a Iottery.

TT will be remembered how, in his
early days, DR.: Johnson, on occasion,
walked the streets of London all night
| because he could not afford a bed,
while Goldsmith knew the necessity or
pawnin the clothes off his back Col
eridge, even at a time when he had at
tanned celebrity as a scholar, poet, ana
essayist was in the saddest state of
restitution. Dryden lived in poverty
and distress. Steele waged a ceaseless
war against bailiffs. Keats slipped
of life under the impression his name
was writ in water" and Otway per-
ished of starvation.
Far from genius being a help to the
literary or poetic creator in any ma
terial sense, at least during the early
stages of his career, it IS a hindrance.
MANKIND understands mediocrity, to1er-
ates talent, but mistrusts genius. This
reflection enables us to explain why
anu cturers of Shilling shockers,"
and delineators and frenzied eroticism,
obtain instant anz widespread populari-
ty for their productions, while a Fran
chs Thompson sells matches in the
streets of London, and a Joh Davidson
performs the last desperate act of re-
n~unciation.
For one man who succeeds in litera-
ture, a thousand fall" declared Mr..
Authors who have passed through
what is called 1.-THE mill" could, 10
doubt, throw corroborative evidence on
the statement, even though p~ersever-
ance, physical endurance, and, per-
chance, good fortune may have COM
bined to pull them through the purga-
tory wherein they once groaned in an
guish, and to have in some degree
toned down it's memory But what of
those miserable wretches who never
struggle out of it. but founder hope
lessly to the end?
Literature, like marriage. is some
thing of a lottery. and its prizes do not
always fall to those most worthy of
them. Whenswe hear of successful an
thors who have reached positions of
competence, and even of af~fluence, we
are apt to overlook the thousands of
hack writer's whose lives are spent IN
one continuous struggle against priva-
ton. All alike, however, the vict lrs
and the vanquished, the winners AMI
the failures, might do worse than pause
awhile to cogitate over a remark If
which Robert Buchanan once delivered
himself when asked h he had to say
upon the subject Of his profession. "Ts
it worth it?" were his words.-London
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-06-25

fire, another burglars, another rail-
way trains, another measles.
Conduct a an depends
on man, things besides those abstract
qualities known as ~'cowardice'. and
courage A man is apt to act calmly
when his surroundings, at h time
the peril presents itself, T customary
and familiar, when his nerves happen
to be sound. or when he has time to
mediate on his action and weigh
carefully its consequences.
'It is we'll known that men are or
derby In peril when they have a set
task to perform. We once asked a
fireman who had borne himself with
great yalor in danger if he wasn't
afraid. L didn't have time he said.
L was busy gettin' the people out
Captain Smith of the Titanic was in
the same case. He had his absorbing
work to do and it gave him no leisure
to think of his fate. So we have seen
old men whose death was almost as
imminent as his, apparently, continue
needless of it till the end through
their interest in the affairs of the
world.
Again a man may be persuaded to
shame or glory, as the case may be-,
by the example of his neighbor. One
person afflicted by binding fear may
turn a hundred men into a panic
stricken mob or he a convert them
into a throng of heroes through their
very horror of his conduct. And
man who has established his moral
equilibrium quickly can instantly con-
vey fortitude to the others. Courage
and cowardice both like company"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-06-25
VARIOUS KINDS OF FEAR.

In an editorial founded on the IT,
tanic disaster, F. P. Dunno writes as
follows in the July American Maya
zine:
Probably the first thought of every
reasonable man in reading the dreary
details of the disaster to the Titanic
was: What would I have done in the
same circumstances Probably his
second bore the hope in all humility
that If such circumstances should
arise for him he would behave with
out too much of the awkwardness of
panic. Only a fool would hazard a
prediction of his adj in the face
of a peril SO unexpected and attended
by the terrors OF midnight and the
sea- 1t is no discredit to the human
race to say that cowardice is a gift
from the devil which has been impair
TALLY distributed among mankind.
Every man who thinks at all is
afraid of death. He may be more
afraid of something else, of loss of
honor, health or money, of going to a
dentist. or, like the man in Pfckwick,
OF life without buttered mullins. but
he chooses death only as a bad alter
native for a worse. If he is not afraid
of one thing you may be sure he is
afraid of another. A man will go up
to the clouds in a balloon who wo dld-
at go down into twenty feet of water
in a submarine. A steeplejack may
be afraid of dogs and a lion tanner
OF riding in an elevator. We know a
mar who has made a great put
ton for GOODNESS under fire in battle,
who gibbers with fear whenever he
has the stomachache. One man fears
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-06-25
HUNOR or THE II

What Could He Want?-"wafter. brine
me a lemonade. And never mind aboI,1
the lemon and the sugar; I have fbsne
In my pocket."-Pel Mele.
Rebuked-"What dirty hands Won bava
said his teacher. What v1orfS
you say II 1 came to school that wsv5s
II wouldn't say ~nothin'," replied Jobn1te
I'd be too polte."-Delineator.
Teacher-Now, children. p
fathers maumals or Invertebrates ShIs
Uimidly after a painful ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
miss. they're all Republicans in this waSS
Baltimore American. "@fo-
The, Nice Boy-H-have YOU foroo4.ou
that cent you borrowed of me? THE Hssa
Case-Yesi Haven't you? The MIC ReA0o
Yves. Now that you r-remind me Of IL
The Kind Lady-Poor mani Have
no frfends2 The you
nia'am! bought 'em all sometime me Une,
ful for Christmas.-Puck. USE
Wareham Long-Wot's a ea-
anyway? Tuffold Knutt-He,s eGloe.
kiIls a German Your bIamsead