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Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1912-09-26

The proposal to reform the calen-
dar is doubtless a sensible one. II
is greatly needed and it looks easy.
Let the first day Of January be a
sort of a month by itself-a sort of a
nobody's day. Then the calendar
will contain just three hundred and
sixty-four days and a new year. Di-
vide that by twelve and the result
will be thirty and one-third days.
Just let every third month have 81
days and there you are. The only
trouble about it is 20 work out a few
other minor details and get the peo-
pie to adopt it. 1t would prove a
great convenience after we got used
to 1t.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1912-09-26
A Land Without a Saloon.

Iceland. which Is only about half
the size Of Missouri, is without a
single jail or ~penitentiary or court,
and has one policeman. The system
of public schools is practically per-
feet and every child ten years old
can read.
There are seminaries and colleges.
newspapers and printing establish
ments. No liquor Is permitted to be
imported, 80 all are total abstainers.
There are about $4,000 people liv-
ing on the island. This is an ideal
country. to which many would wish
to be transported, in order to escape
the dreadful effects of the drink
curse.-Selected.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1912-09-26
COTToNsEED AND GOOD FIBER

The government of Egypt has un-
dertaken to furnish the cotton-plan-
tiers good seed. The cotton of Egypt
is inferior, on account of lack OF
good seed largely. The peasants have
been buying seed of dealers who nei-
Their knew good seed when they saw
it, nor cared and the planters were
short-sighted and short-pursed-like
farmer in some other places. But now
that the government has taken it up
on itself to furnish scientifically
grown and selected seed, we may eX-
pect Egyptian cotton to improve i'm
mensely in quality.
The time is here when American
Notton-growers may we'll follow the
African example and take up in an
organized and scientific way the mat
ter Of seed. Varieties Of the right
degree of earliness are required by
weevil conditions. A variety fur
nishing a long staple is needed to
take the place Of the long-staple sup
ply ruined by the on-marching pest.
Times Of planting are more import
ant now than formerly.
IL the weevil situation is handled
scientifically, it may not turn out to
be an evil situation at all.-Farm
and Fireside. ed
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1912-09-26

Senator Clapp has a way of sug-
costing interesting topics for his in
vestigating committee that should
greatly endear him to the campaign
committees of the republican and
bull moose parties. He now wishes
to ascertain what connection, if
any, existed between the failure Of
the 1909 congress to pass any wool
revision bill, and contributions made
by the interests involved to the cam
paign of that year. There may be
interesting developments in that di-
rection.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1912-09-26

Rio Grande Horticultural Society
Holds Next Meeting Sept. 80.

This is a reminder to all the MEM
bers Of the Rio Grande Horticultural
society to be sure to attend the meet
ing at Riviera, Texas on Monday,
September 80. Others who arc in
terested in horticultural work are
welcome to attend and new members
will be received into the society up
ION the payment OF the small fee of
one dollar.
1t seems to be a policy practically
adopted by this society to have at
least one meeting each month of the
year and in addition to the field ex-
animation, work and lectures to
award prizes for the best fruits,
flowers, nuts, etc., which are matur-
ing at the time of the meetings.
At this particular meeting a prize
of s. will be awarded to the mem
Der exhibiting the best one quart of
preserved figs, and another of So for
the best % fresh figs. Also there
will be special discussions on berry
growing.
A drive will be made to some of
the best growing fig orchards and
orange groves at Riviera, also a
drive to the orchard and nursery in
charge of J. H. Arbenz near Sarita.
Politicians have their conventions,
professional men have their insti-
|tutes, tradesmen their unions, and
just so it must be that agricultural
ist and horticulturalist must have
their sessions where the progressive
spirit brings the best talent together
for the good that they may do for
themselves and their fellowmen.
Although the lower coast and Rio
|Grande Valley of Texas are separated
from the rest of the world as to
climatic conditions which is the con-
trolling factor in its adaptations, all
of these adaptations are not fully
worked out, and by the cooperation
of all Of the many settlers and home
builders now here great things will
be accomplished. If some one dis
covers something of Importance, let
him tell 1t to his neighbor.
Not only this, but a day of rest
from the home, getting acquainted
with our neighbor, furnishes re-
-newed energy and broadens the
mind.
Riviera is one of the many new
places where settlement has been go
ing on very rapidly. located neal
Bafin's Bay to which place a motor
line is now being constructed from
Riviera. A boulevard parkway ex-
tends from Riviera along this new
railway for quite a distance, and a
great variety of fruit trees. shrubs,
etc, have been planted there for ex-
Fermentation. At Riviera Beach
ten acres have been planted as a
park, and a great deal of informa-
ton may be obtained from the re-
suits of these plantations for the use
Of the orticnlturaIists.
The ladies of the community will
provide a dinner for those attending
Monday. and everything win be done
to make the meeting both pleasant
and profitable.
All those who are interested. are
especially invited. !
MARCUS PHILLIPS. /
Local Member.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1912-09-26
THURSDAY, SEPT. 20, 1912.
UNS0UND OR INsINCERE

] feel that the country is in
deed to be congratulated on the
nomination of Mr.. Taft. 3 = "
do not believe there could be
found in all the country a man
so well fitted to be predisent.
Not Lincoln himself
would be freer from the least
faint of demagogy, the least
tendency to arouse class hatred
of any kind.-Roosevelt in
r 1908.
Mr.. Taft was the accepted
representative of the bosses, of
the men who upheld the combi-
nation of crooked business,
which has been the chief source
not only our political but of
our social and industrial cor
ruption Roosevelt in 1912.
There is no question here of tho
right of a man to change his politi-
cal opinions, but there is a question
of the sincerity of the man who ut
tered the two SO widely divergent
opinions quoted above. 1t does not
concern us much to ascertain which
Of these two theories concerning
President Taft represent the homes
sentiment of the man who uttered
them. II is clear enough that they
both can not be sincere.
When the first fulsome laudation
Of Taft was uttered, the man who
spoke it, or wrote it, was then as
now mastered by great ambition. He
was president by election, and he
aspired to be president by agent. Il
had not been given to many presi-
dents to nominate their successors.
Yet that was what Roosevelt wished
to do-what, in fact, he did do. Yet
the mar selected for his deputy
out to have a will of his own.
Instead Of using the place for the
use, behoof and benefit of his great
chief, he used ii for his own advan-
tage. In view of the Colonel's man
ifest scheme to be president by
agent, we can not be at all sure he
was quite honest in his laudation Of
Taft.
Also in view Of his bitter exper-
fence with this obdurate and in
tractible understudy in the presl-
dency, W. can not be sure that his
present abuse of Taft represents hi
deliberat e judgment. One thing we
must conclude: the Colonel is a man
who is either unsound in the form
lng of his opinions or insincere in
'uttering them.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1912-09-26

Mr. Hilles will probably be called
before the senate committee inves-
tigating election expenses to explain
a little statement he made concern
ing the Colonel. Mr.. Hilles merely
said that the Colonel had spent near
ly a million dollars of harvester
trust money. 1t is easy to see that
he has talked too much or too little.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1912-09-26

President Elliot of Harvard says
Americans waste about eight billion
dollars a year. OF this amount two
billions go for intoxicants. and fif-
teen millions go for chewing gum.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1912-09-26

General Campo says he quit the
revolution because it had become
savage and corrupt. lie declared M
could not see widows and orphans
suffering and men dying for anything
but the principles for which the
revolution started.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1912-09-26

We commend TO the teachers 0
the public schools the articles O.
calendar revision and the reports of
the proceedings Of the hygienic con-
gress in yesterdays Herald. They
are worth reading from any stand
point.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1912-09-26

Foreign newspapers are greatly
disappointed in the presidential cam
paign In the United States this year
They appear TO think the finish is
going to be tame out of all reason
when compared with the beginning.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1912-09-26

The negroes who threatened to
burn a Florida town unless certain
criminals of their race were set free
will probably be disappointed in the
outcome of their e%pistolary efforts.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1912-09-26

A Russian living in Iowa has con-
fessed that he falsely confessed to
q murder for $4,000. The authori-
ties are a bit puzzled to know which
confession TO believe.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1912-09-26

The enterprising city of San Be-
MIRO continues to climb. A $4,000
sewer system soon to be built will
place her distinctly in the modern
city class.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1912-09-26

No wonder Eve was restless In
Eden. There wasn't a thing for her
to gossip about except snake tracks
under the apple tree.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1912-09-26
LATE MARKET REPORTS.
Cattle.

Associated res.
Kansas City, Mo. Sept. 25.-Cat-
tie steady to strong: export steers
$3.50 to 5000. Hogs, steady to
strong: heavies $3.50 to $3.50.
Sheep 10 to Is cents lower.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1912-09-26
Cotton.

Associated Press.
Eew Orleans, La, Sept. 25.-Cot-
on futures closed steady with a net
decline Of | to 4 points. Spots were
steady and lie up.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1912-09-26

A prevailing spirit Of friendliness
will create an impression on the
stranger and your city will not soon
be forgotten.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1912-09-26

Several German Ncities are using
street washing machines driven and
operated by storage batteries.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1912-09-26

Don't waste money on general adj
vertising-state something specific
and keep pounding at the public.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1912-09-26

kcolonci is now taking a whack
at the hlid South. HS began in
A~rkansas which is one OF the
solidest part OF the South.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1912-09-26
American League.

Washington at Philadelphia, rain
Boston 6, New York 0.
Chicago 80, st. Louis 5-12-sec-
)nd game seven innings.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1912-09-26
TIE MODEL

TIE MODEL LAUNDRY.
We have recently Installed IN u Cleaning and Pressing departnent n
Hoffman Steam Pressing Machine"
In pressing cloths with this machine. live dry team is brought. in d.
rect contact with the mi teral, the garment is pressed uniformly. set
and sterized 1t one operation. SOr ching is utterly impossible.
This process is more sanitary than the old method and the work is bet
ter. Our operators are skilful and our prices are slightly lowe .hsr -
merly.
Coat and pants, steamed and pressed $50.
Coat and pants, cleaned and pressed slice
Skirts. steamed and pressed $50. ND.
Other garments in proportion
TRY US PHudE Nc. i
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1912-09-26

Daily-Published every morning
except Sunday, by mail postpaid to
any point In the United States, Mex
leo or Cuba or delivered by carrier
to any part of the city. West
Brownsville. Texas, or Matamoros,
Mexico, one year $500; six months
$500; one month so cents.
Entered at the Postofice at Browns
vile Texas. as Second Class Mail
Matter.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1912-09-26

INK .MSs~E~s going to rY .
(6ose paper. Evefh this fails to
my excitement3 nto the cam
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1912-09-26
townsville Herald Publishing Co.

Oflcial Organ Of Cameron County
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1912-09-26

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The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1912-07-26
GENERAL GOMEZ ARRESTED
Plot Against Madero Is Nipped in the
Bud at San Antonio.

San Antonio, Texas.-Emilio Vas
qoez Gomez, minister of the interior
in the Diaz cabinet in Mexico, and for
a week provisional president of the
Orozco Revolutionary party, was ar
rested by United States secret serv-
ice officers.
simultaneously with the capture of
Gomez, Francisco Guzman, private
secretary of Gomez, and DR.. P. Rueaa
were taken into custody on the street,
and Francisco Perez and Felipe Mi
vannon, identified with the Gomez
revolutionary faction, were taken
from a Southern Pacific train which
they had boarded for Ell Paso.
For days the United States author
tiles have known of a new revolution
ary plot forming here. land to have its
base of operations in the states Of
Nuevo Leon and Coahuila, Mexico,
across the Texas border. Large quan-
titles Of arms and ammunition are
known to have been shipped through
here from ST. Louis, Kansas City and
New Orleans, some of it going to Ell
Paso, but the larger portion to Laredo,
Texas. From Laredo this war mate
rial gradually disappeared and is now
known to have been smuggled across
the Rio Grande river into Mexico.
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1912-07-26
AGREE ON PARCELS POST
Committee Decides on Modification of
Zone System.

Washngton.-Th full details Of
the parcels post provision have final
ly been agreed upon by the senate
committee on postoffice and post
roads, settling this long and heated
controversy over this subject.
The compromise agreement is based
on the zone system. The plan is
departure from the established sys-
TEN of uniform rate of postage re-
gardless Of distance travelled, for the
rate is increased as the distance the
package must be transported is in
creased The highest rate on domes-
tic parcels, however, will not exceed
the International postal rate of II
cents a pound or S1.92 for 11-pound
package which is the limit.
First, length so miles, rate 5 cents
for the first pound, 8 cents for each
additional pound; second, length $50
miles, rate cents and cents; third,
length 300 miles, rate and cents;
fourth, length 600 miles, rate s and
6 cents: fifth, length 1000 miles, rate
9 and 7 cents; sixth, length 1,400
miles, rate 10 and 8 cents; seventh,
length 1900 miles, rate II and 10
cents. eighth, length over 1900 miles,
rate 12 cents per pound straight. Max
imum packages, II pounds.
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1912-07-26
Einht Pictures Under Ban.

Washngton.-Prize fight moving
pictures became a thing of the past
in the United States when the house
passed senate bill prohibiting the
transportation of such moving pic
ture films between the various states
and territories or from foreign coun-
tries. Heavy fines for violation of the
proposed law are fixed by the bill.
Southern members of congress were
especially interested in the proposed
law because of the race feeling stir
red up by the exhibition of the JEFF
fries johnson moving pictures
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1912-07-26
The Brute.

Mrs. Holden Weeks, the suffragist,
said to reporter at the end of ono
of her suffragist addresses: There is
too much brute tyranny in the world
today. A woman, one spring morning
at breakfast, murmured to her hus.
band: Dear, the summer is approach
ing. Have you forgotten that summer
trip to Brittany you promised to takH
me on-that trip to picturesque Con.
carneau, with its innumerable blue
sardine nets drying in the Breton
sum- The husband, looking up from
his paper with scowl, thundered:
Yes, I've forgotten it. Haven't you%
The poor lady's eyes filled with tears.
and she stammered: Yes, II have
forgotten, now that you remind me- "
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1912-07-26
BOARD OF TRADE
BEGINS CAMPAIGN
BY Adding One Hundred and
Thirty-Five New Men,
hers.

Last week the News told of the ap-
pOintment by the board of trade of a
special committee Oh membership and
the purpose OF that committee TO devote
the following Monday 10 a canvass for
new members.
The special committee organized for
the work by dividing the city into dis.
trictS and separating the committee into
two distinct working forces, each force
TO canvass in one section OF the city as
divided by the committee. Each sec
tion OF the committee was directed by a
captain chosen from among themselves,
and these captains were privileged to
draft workers from the membership of
the board. Monday was set apart as the
day for the work.
H. Finley Tucker was captain of one
team and Chas. Burt was captain of the
other. They had as assistants large
part of the members of the board, and
that all went TO work with will there
can be no room for eoubt.
AT O'Clock Monday night the teams
met al the rooms OF the Athletic Club
uH River street. A committee was ap-
pointed 10 .@:'7sS the returns of which
ISoluSht iiOMGlk ~ bANlS WAS EndlI-
man, and after the count was male the
following returns were announced:
Tucker team, 6S; Burt team, 81. Ii
was pretty close work and the honorS
were as near even as possible and not
match. 1t was plain also that some
work had been done, and the crowd
cheered. A total of 135 new members
in one day!
The canvass was followed by jolIifi.
cation. There were some speeches OF
congratuation, and some inspiring
music by the Chattaway. Parralt. Flynn
Orchestra. Then there was punch and
other refreshments, and then the cigars
were passed. And while the smoke as
cended there was more talking TO the
point and it was finally decided not TO
lei such an active committee go out OF
buSineSS-at least not just yet awhile.
The following is list of the new
enrolled last Monday night:
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1912-07-26
81 PERSONS Are
SLAIN BY REBELS
Train Crowded With Passen-
gers Attacked Near The
City of Mexico.
BOMBS AND BULLETS USED
Besides Those Killed, Many Wounded,
The Wrecked Train Fired by
the Rebels.

Mexico City.-Eighty-four persons
are dead and many more wounded as
result of an attack by Zapatistas on
a passenger train between here and
Cuernavaca, Moreles. The relief train
brought back only eleven passengers.
A military escort of fifty men, under
the command of a captain and two
Ieutenants was aboard.
At kilometer 81, short distance be-
yond the station of Parras, on the
edge of the Federal district mine ex-
ploded, overturning the engine. At
that instant 500 revolutionists opened
fire on the second class car, in which
the escort was travelling. The soldiers
left the car and fought in the open.
All of them, including the officers,
were killed, with the exception of five
badly wounded and two who escaped
injury.
Thirty passengers in the second
class coach were killed, and many
more wounded. In the first class
coach no one was killed.
After sacking the express and bag
gage cars, the rebels poured oil on
the cars, and, putting the bodies of
the dead in them, set fire to the train.
When the relief train arrived there
was nothing but debris and a few
passengers and wounded to tell the
tale.
The train between Matamoras and
Puebla, in the state of Puebla, was
fired upon, and windows in the cars
shattered, but so far as is known no
one was injured.
Capt. Rosendo Nunez, in charge of
the escort on the ill-fated train, is
said to have fought heroically. After
nearly every man of his command had
been either killed or wounded and he
himself had received three wounds,
he continued to fire from a platform
of a coach until fourth bullet pierre
ed his heart.
Among the first to fall was the TO-
yearold daughter of Captain Nunez,
who was accompanying her father on
the fatal trip. She was sitting near a
window and the first volley from the
attacking band literally riddled the
child with bullets
I'VE had no chance" said one of
the soldiers. From the time the train
stopped until after it ended, there was
a veritable rain of bullets. At least
500 rifles were in the first volley and
the car in which we were travelling
was the target. Most of the bullets
came through the roof The second
lieutenant, who was within six feet |
Of me, had IS bullets through his body |
and never knew what struck him.
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1912-07-26
BLEACHED GRAIN
CANNOT Be SOLD
inspectors and Sheriffs are
Instructed to Seize Such
Wherever Found.

Tallahassee.-The office of com.
missioner of agriculture and that of
state chemist of the pure food de.
partment, has issued the following
circular, No. 6, with reference to prac-
uce OF grain dealers in bleaching the
gram for the purpose of Disgusting
lts damaged and impure condition.
Ihe bleaching of damaged, mildew-
ed, weather or soil stained grain, par
tlcularly oats and barley, by the use
OF sulphur fumes Sulphur dioxide) by
winch process such damaged, mildew-
ed and stained grains are caused to
appear sound and of better quality or
grade, is clearly in violation of the
commercial feed stuff law, which pro-
hibits:
The adulteraton of any feeding
stuff with foreign, mineral or other
substances of little or no feeding
value or with substances injurious to
the health Of domestic animals"
And also in violation of the pure
food and drug law.
"First'-In that "a substance has
been mixed or packed with it so as to
reduce or lower, or injuriously affect
its quality or strength" "-(added sui
phur dioxide and water).
"Fourth"-In that it has been coat.
ed or stained in a manner whereby
damage or inferiority is concealed.
Notice is hereby given to all deal
ers, jobbers and consumers that all
grains bleached with sulphur fumes
(sulphur di-oXide) cannot be legally
sold in the state of Florida, and that
such adulterated bleached grains will
be subject to seizure and destruction
as the law provides.
Regulation 15-(d) is modified to
conform to this order.
inspectors and sheriffs are direct
ed 10 attach such adulterated bleach
ed grain, wherever found, sending
the samples with full report of
all facts, regarding the Offering for
sale of such bleached grain, to this
office.