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Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1912-04-05
A BROWNSVILLE PIE.

A. Brownsville, Texas pie has
caused a great deal of comment
among the friends of two gentlemen
of this city who recently spent a
few days in the Texas city. If all
stories are true, a portion of the pie
after being Struggled through the
Observation-Disclosures gateway
reached this city ~intact,i and the
gentleman purchasing the pie, it is
said, has been making his midday
lunch on this pie for the past two
days. The dimensions of the pie
are not given, it is known, however,
that it was one of those good old
fashioned apple pies that are seldom
seen in this country. According to
the story told, the pie must have
been a whopper, for it seems as
though there was considerable diff
Guilty in getting it across the Rio
Grande and at the same time evad-
ing the keen eyes of the custom Of
ficials on the Matamoros side of the
river.
The purchaser and sole owner of
the pie declares that the custom Of
ficials overlooked the pie ON account
Of previously having had their break
fast before the pie was making its
entry upon Mexican soil.
On reaching this city, the remain
ing portion of the apple cobbler was
put under lock and key, and al
though the purchaser and owner of
the pie is generally taken as a liberal
and ~big-hearted man, up to the pres
ent, he has barred all OF his friends
from partaking of this wholesome
luxury.-Mopterey News.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1912-04-05
The Original Dugat Orange.

Beeville, Tex. April 4-The warm
ing influence of the spring sun has
brought forth a fringe Of tiny green
sprouts upon the original Dugat
orange tree in this city, and the
parent tree of a variety of oranges
peculiarly adapted to the Southwest
ern Texas soils will again bloom for
another season.
The gnarled old veteran is now
but a mere she'll of its youthful lux
uriance. Well over a quarter of a
century in years, the unusual severity
of this winter and the destructive
freezes during February in the win
ter past tested the old trees vigor
to the utmost limit. But now it will
once again be an object of much local
pride and pointed out to every
northern tourist. By the side of the
veteran tree stands a hansome bear
ing Dugat orange, a Seeding off
spring of the parent tree.
The sprout from which the Dugat
orange sprung was one of a number
shipped in from California, by Major
Dugat, an old resident of Beeville.
The tree stands at the entrance to
the Dugat home, and has been ten
DERBY cared for by the family of the
original planter.
The Dugat orange early mani
tested its peculiar adaptability to
Southwest Texas. An investigation
long prosecuted by Major Dugat re
vealed nothing of the origin of the
species except that the Dugat orange
was one Of a shipment of sprouts i'm
ported into California from Japan.
Lacking a specific name, the orange
fifty received the name of its Texas
~discoverer and became the first Of
a widely known variety.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1912-04-05
DEATH OF VIM. C. R
Aged Citizen of Harrington Passed
Away-Was Buried Here.

Harrington Star.
VIM. G.. Gordon died at the home
Of his son, +. G. Gordon, here on
Monday morning. Deceased was 81
years old and has made his home here
in Harrington with his son for the
past two years. He was formerly a
resident of st. Landry Parish, La.
The remains were taken to
Brownsville, where funeral services
were conducted Monday afternoon
from the Episcopal church, Rev. VIM.
McDougall officiating. Interment in
the Brownsville cemetery.
Two sons survive him, Major w.
H. Gordon of Washington, ID. c.,
and E. E. Gordon Of this city.
Mrs. and Mrs. Z. E. Gordon at
tended the funeral.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1912-04-05
TRUCK SHIPPERS ARE
BUSY AT HARLINGEN

Lindsay E. Waters, jr., who for
the past eighteen months has been in
the employ of the St. L. B. & NJ. Ry.
in the purchasing department at
Houston and later in Superintendent
F~innegan's Office at Kingsville, has
accepted a position with the Rio
Grande & Coast association, at their
Office in Harlingen. Additions to the
Office force are becoming necessary
ID keep up with the rapidly increas-
ing volume Of business. This week
as many as fifteen cars have been
loaded and sold on the track in one
day. The association has reason to
be proud of the results they are get
ting for the farmers and the farmers
to be proud of their own as
sociation.-Harlingen Star.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1912-04-05
The Associated Press.

The Associated Press, with its 500
newspapers and annual expenditure
of $4,000, 900, is a wonderful news
organization. There is nothing like
it, although there are imitators. The
Associated Press makes no profit. 1t
is not a stock company. 1t is the
only organization for the collection
and distribution of news, it is be-
lieved, which is conducted without
profit.
The Associated Press is purely a
mutual and cooperative corporation.
Its members being Joined together
solely for the purpose of receiving
and exchanging news, one with the
There is no such thing as a
franchise" merely a membership
and the Emporia Gazette, William
Allen Whites paper, has the same
vote as any other paper, large or
small, in the organization on every
conceivable motion with n excep-
ton, the choosing of the directors,
and even for this he has the same
vote as about 700 other papers.
The general managers and direc-
tors of this great body constitute
an organization of newspaper men
that is probably not excelled in the
world. They are understood to be
the very best men in their business.
They work faithfully without pay for
the best interests of the association.
With the exception of the general
manager and the treasurer none is
paid a salary. The others receive
merely a nominal per diem and rail-
road expenses when they meet.
These directors represent every
phase of politics and at their lunch
hour some of the most wonderful
shop" stories are told and stories
are related covering the drama, lit
erature, art and business.
The directors generally meet in
the morning, take an hour foI
luncheon and work again in the aft
ernoon until nearly six o'clock. Al
luncheon the tension is relieved
Politics is tabooed, except the for
eign politics, for the reason that the
board is composed of great newspaper
men who are republicans, democrats
and Independents and who represent
every phase of insurgency and con
servatism, but who do not step upoT
each others toes, except in a goot
natured way in the matter of politics
The Associated Press is positively
non-political; it has no platform, MOI
creed, except to serve the best inter
cts of lis members. A three days
session with the board Of director.
is an education in the newspaper
business.-TOpeka Journal.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1912-04-05
Death of Mrs. ]. SchWiertlich.

After a protracted illness, Mrs.
Johonna Schwiertlich passed away
at her home on the Rabb plantation,
about six miles from Brownsville,
Wednesday afternoon. The remains
were brought here for burial, the
funeral services being held at the
grave in the city cemetery about
1880 p. m, yesterday. The Baptist
minister, Rev. Emmett Cole, and
the Methodist minister, Rev. J.. NJ.
Perry, Jointly officiating. Mrs.
Schwiertlich is survived by her hus-
band. Joseph Schwiertlich, and sew
eral sons. who are at present attend
ing a northern school.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1912-04-05
April in the Air.

April's in the air again,
Who IAN pause for signing?
All the birds on steady wing,
Northward bound are flying,
Lilies waken with the dawn,
Roses with the rain,
All the world is caroling
April's here again.
April's in the air again,
All the lazy longing,
All the dreams of yesterday
Heavenward bound come thronging
Joy is in the summer now;
Laughter in the dew;
April's in the air again,
April love and you.
&c.
April's in the air again,
Send the laggards packing!
Spring and love and you, my dear,
What's the old world lacking?
Hear the misty mountains call,
Can they call in van?
Hand in hand the open road,
April's here again.
Exchange.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1912-04-05
FRIDAY, APRIL S, 1912.
BETTER THAN ROMANS, OF
COURSE.

'Butchered to make a Roman
was Byron's comment on
the famous statue of the Dying
Gladiator A whole epic poem could
not have told the story more fully.
How good we feel here, in this be-
loved land of the free and home of
the brave. We do not require any
gladitorial murders for our amuse-
ment. No. Yet we go out in large
numbers to encourage a man to COM
NIT suicide for our entertainment. We
like to go TO the show and see the
man go into the lions den. We like
to see the trapeze performer hang by
his toes from dizzy heights. We also
like to see the aviator play perilous
tricks in the air, knowing full well
that he runs a fine chance of being
killed. In any of these amusements
IL. tine performer is killed, he dies be-
cause we have been glad to pay
money to see him run the risk.
The Romans had the better of us
in this that the amusement cost the
spectator nothing.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1912-04-05

! The dear Old Mississippi river Is a
great stream from a geographical
point of view. She is also one of
those great American institutions Of
which we like to boast 70 foreigners.
But she surely raeds some apology
when she goes On the war path.
What she may have done to the poor
red man in prehistoric days may
have been a plenty. What she is
doing to the unhappy white
men along her banks right now is
something more than a plenty. 1t
was supposed that she had reached
the limits OF her destructive powers
in 1874. This year makes 1914 look
like a windy day on a horse pond. "
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1912-04-05

Brownsville fire losses in the past
four or five months would have paid
several times for the equipment nee
essa to protect the town effectively
from fire. A standpipe, which would
provide a permanent, always ready
pressure OF water sufficient to cope
with fires, could have been built for
less.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1912-04-05
Cases Dismissed.

After being carried on the police
blotter for several days, the cases
against Camilo CARA and Abundio
Herrera, charged with i~ntoxication,
were dismissed on motion of the city
attorney yesterday morning.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1912-04-05

Prof. Lows idea that comic sup
plements cause bad manners is not
borne out by the manners Of com
munities where no newspapers with
comic supplements are found.-Hous-
ton Chronicle.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1912-04-05

Ii must be admitted that the Col
onel is right. Taft is no progressive.
At least, not in the same sense and
to the same general effect that the
Colonel Is.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1912-04-05

Our friend, Cecil Lyon, probably
switched the Texas delegation from
his vest pocket to his shoe when he
heard of the robbery Of Roosevelt
in New York.-Dallas Times Herald.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1912-04-05

with a $4,000 cottonseed oil mill
assured for the coming season,
Brownsville may look forward to
additional prosperity, which will add
greatly to her commercial import
ance.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1912-04-05

Laredo still maintains her proud
supremacy as the onion queen of
South Texas. According to the
Times there are over five thousand
acres of the sweet-scented bulb
growing in that vicinity this season.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1912-04-05

Sixteen to two is the ratio Of can
didates for congressmen-at-large in
Texas. II all these stay in the race,
and nj others are candidates, there
will be just fourteen "also rams
Texas Mesquite.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1912-04-05

Though african Game Trails
was published at $4, it can now be
had for $3.50. This looks like a
literary Observation-Disclosures Adver-
tiser.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1912-04-05

No business can succeed that Is not
backed with industry and brains: no
city grows without encouraging
boosters.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1912-04-05

The president proposes to swat
the Japan manifestation bugaboo to-
day. Here's hoping the swat may be
a Observation-Disclosures swat.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1912-04-05

The growth Of a town depends abb
solutely upon the cooperative efforts
of its citizenship.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1912-04-05

The Herald hopes that the siren
uous efforts of Rio Grande City to
secure railroad connections both up
and down the Valley may succeed.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1912-04-05

Humanitarian ideas, altruistic
schemes, and woman, lovely woman.
appear to be getting our Senator
Joseph Bailey all worked up.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1912-04-05

The commercial organization of a
city diffuses the concentrated efforts
of those men who have made a sue
cess Of their own vocation.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1912-04-05

A reactionary is a friend of mine
who didn't change sides when | did.
New York Sun.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1912-04-05

Governor Woodrow Wilson has
gone to New Jersey for a much
needed rest.-Boston Transcript.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1912-04-05

Will the Democratic free break
fast table include a third cup Of
coffee?=New York Eevening Mail.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1912-04-05

Optimistic cooperation of its cit
isenship will make any community.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1912-04-05

You will never find time for any
thing; if you want time you must
make it. Make enough every day to
do something for your city.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1912-04-05

The Colonel apparently is finding
that it was much easier to make a
president, than it is to unmake him.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1912-04-05

1t looks as if he would have to get
another hat-Chicago Inter Ocean.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1912-04-05

Cities do not happen; chance has
little to do with modern business
methods. Cities are but large cor
porations.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1912-04-05

The commercial organization is
the voice of the. people.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1912-04-05

Mr.. Pinchot declares Mr.. Taft Is
a reactionary. He certainly reacted
on Giff.-Chicago Tribune.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1912-04-05

Zone man" organizations can do
very little in town building. 1t takes
every man working as a unit to
build cities.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1912-04-05

President Yuan Shih-Kai of China
is wondering whether he can serve
out a first consecutive term.-New
York Evening Post.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1912-04-05

However great the demand for
Colonel Roosevelt may become, 1t
will never be greater than the sup
ply.-Washington Star.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1912-04-05

Behold how good and how pleas
ant it is for polar explorers to dwell
together in unity.-Kansas City
Times.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1912-04-05
- Terms .: Subscription

Entered at the Postoffice at Browns
vile. Texas. as Second Glass Mail
Matter.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1912-04-05
City Building.

What helps our city helps you.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1912-04-05

Looks like a foot race between de-
serters from La Toilette to Roosevelt
and from Roosevelt to Taft.-Pitts-
burg Post.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1912-04-05

Theodore could easily get big
headlines in the newspapers by stat
ing his position on the tariff.-Syra-
cuse Post-Standard.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1912-04-05

Mr.. Taft says there will be no
war with Mexico. Look at him now,
deliberately antagonizing the lingo
votei-Washington Post.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1912-04-05
To The Point.

1t looks as if he would have to get
another hat-Chicago Inter Ocean.
A reactionary is a friend of mine
who didn't change sides when I did.
New York Sun.
Governor Woodrow Wilson has
gone to New Jersey for a much
needed rest.-Boston Transcript.
Will the Democratic free break
fast table include a third cup of
coffee?-New York Eevening Mail.
Mr.. Pinchot declares Mr.. Taft is
a reactionary. He certainly reacted
on Giff.-Chicago Tribune.
Behold how good and how pleas
ant it is for polar explorers to dwell
together in unity.-Kansas City
Times.
Looks like a foot race between de-
serters from La Toilette to Roosevelt
and from Roosevelt to Taft.-Pitts-
burg Post.
Theodore could easily get big
headlines in the newspapers by stat
ing his position on the tariff .-Syra-
cuse Post-Standard.
However great the demand for
| Colonel Roosevelt may become, it
will never be greater than the sup
Decentralization Star.
President Yuan Shih-Kai of China
is wondering whether he can serve
out a first consecutive term.-New
York Evening Post.
Mr.. Taft says there will be no
war with Mexico. Look t him now
| deliberately antagonizing the lingo
vote,-Washington Post.
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1912-01-04
TIME AND PINS

x ~ x ** x
into the office of the boss, laid
ID, stopped, picked up pin and
moved toward the door.
He had carefully placed the pin
there an hour before.
"Jimmy~ roared the boss.
"Yessir!' said Jimmy, with a
galvanic start,
Don't let me ever see you stop
to pick up pin again.
Jimmy stared at the boss in
open m gu h e d establishment.
Truth to tell, he thought the boss
was crazy. For had not his father
told him, time and time again,
the story of the boy who picked
up pin and became a bank presi-
dent or something of that sort?
lie belief that the boss himself had
low the boss was telling him that.
began Jimmy, hesitatingly.
oss, but don't you ever think it
er forever, son. In this day we
OK up pins. Time is worth more
tx, can't afford it. In picking up
Id mine-and put yourself in the
you know that the carpenter of
he nails he accidentally drops is
No? Well, he is. Remember it.
pins in this office again. Let the
but he hopes to get it after while,
BOSS.
his head and AYERS that the world
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1912-01-04

DR.. Wiley. The indisputable fact
is that when you eat a big fat
oyster, you run many chances of
eating bacilli from some city's
sewage.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1912-04-28
DECIDE WHERE, HOW AND WHEN TO co s
BY CONSUL TING THIS SECTION TODAY
Anywhere the
With Something About Steamship Companies the Many
Places of Interest Every Cornor the World

and luxurious a steamer has never
before passed Gibraltar.
In organizing this pleasure cruise
the Hamburg American Line profits
from an experience of about twenty
FIVE years in directing cruises to all
parts of the world. The tourists travel
completely care-free. Every detail
looking to their complete comfort Is
anticipated. On such cruise the
traveller may be said to carry his no.
tel with him. The luxurious steamer
serves as 4 base Of operation for ex-
cIrsions to many lands.
The precipitous island OF MADEIRA,
the first stepping place. with its
wealth OF tropical colors. has been
compared to a brilliant drop curtain
hung before the marvellous theatre OF
the Mediterranean. Here day ID
spent In climbing the steep mountains,
and visiting the famous water falls
and quaint VILLAGES. The extreme
steepness OF the roads renders all
wheeled vehicles Impossible. and the
tourist ventures abroad in picturesque
curtained sledges drawn by oxen. OF
coasts down the steep hills over the
hare ground.
The stirring history Of the great
fortress. Its natural beauty. and the
picturesque mixture OF races gather
ed here. combine to render 0ibralter
one OF the great show places Of Eu-
rope. Tourists are permitted to in.
spect several OF the great battlefields.
some OF which are placed more than
1850 feet above the sea. and to ex-
plore a section Of the miles Of raj
ieries which have been followed from
the rock. From the top of the great
promontory, the view OF both Eu-
rope and Africa is most impressive.
For centuries Gibralter. or the Pillar
Of Hercules, az It was called. marked
tho end OF the known world. ~
Every anticipation OF Oriental color
is realized on the approach TO the
Algerian capital The ancient city
OF dazzling white houses rises tier
upon tier above the harbor to the
he,ghth OF the great fortress or Cas-
bah. The grouping OF Oriental houses
with modern French buildings the
narrow streets crowded with. Ara
bians, Turks. Moors. Bedouins and
Europeans. present an inimllanie pic.
ture About Nice. Monte Carlo and
the Corniche Road are gathered the
Europe. Throughout the winter
months a brilliant society is attracted
here from ali parts Of the world
Every demand of the pleasure-seek-
Ing public. theatres. winter gardena
and casinos. has been anticipated
During the call Of the "Katsertn Au-
vuete Victoria" tho climate II delight
ful ana the beauties Of tropical were.
tation are 1t their height.
Much that II Characteristic OF ltaly
ancient and modern. may be enjoyed
In ana about Genoa. Today the great.
EFT Italian seaport. Genoa. preoervel
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