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Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1913-09-02
BROWNSVILLE
GOLF CLUB WINS
DEFEATS MCALLEN TEAM on LAT
TER'S HOME GROUNDS BY SCORE
OF II TO WON ON THE In
POINT
MCALLEN CLUB GAVE VISITORS
MOST CORDIAL RECEPTION. EN-
TERTAINING THEM AT LUNCH
EON AND DINNER.

The Brownsville County Clubs golf
team returned Last night after again
winning Fl, m McAllen. this time on that
teams home grounds. An lShole match
was PLAYED. Brownsville winning with
q score Of IL to Z. The first point on the
out was won by McAllcn. but the Browns
Vile team mace the in point by 4 bet
ter score. thus winning the match.
Players who went from Brownsville
were. 4. p. Co'c, Il. r. Rentfro. w
:. West, r. g. Molcr. w B Clint
John Greg, w H. McDavitt, Augustin
Cclaya jr., Ill u. Hicks and DR. Kin
ard
The visitors were entertained al lun-
chc0n at the McAllcn hotel, and in the
evening q SumWuous dinner was tender
Cd them at the Knights of Tvthias hall.
The players returned 70 Brownsville BY
automobile late last night.
The McAllcn team has an excellent
golf ground. according to the Browns
Vile players and they al enjoyed the
game. thoroughly ~ well a. the cordial
reception given them.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1913-09-02
FIBRE PLANT
FOR VALLEY
PROMINENT SOUTH TEXANS AT
WASHINGTON TO INTEREST
AGRICULTURE DEPARTMENT IN
AGANE TENTILIS CULTURE.
FINE PALM GROVE on RABIES
RANCH AND BERMUDA EASTER
LILIES AT BROWNSVILLE OF
FER UNUSUAL POSSIBILITIES.
Especial STAFF Correspondents

Washington. ID. c., Sept 1. Interest
ing matters to Brownsville quite out
side the realm of politics, have been
transpiring during the past month. The
visit of Frank Rabbi. owner Of a large
tract Of land along the Rio Grande be
low Brownsville. of +. $. BrodiX. Of
San Antonio, controlling large tracts
at the mouth Of the Rio Grande. and Of
Harvey c. Stiles, the well known hor
ticultural expert. Of Raymondvillc Tex
az, during August. has been attended
with much success in important develop
mcnt work. They visited the depart
ments, particularly the department of
agriculture in the rosccution Of their
errand, and in this and kindred mat
ters they had the active cooperation Of
Senator Morris Sheppard. As always,
Senator Sheppard is alert TO any under
taing thakt 10 Ks 10 the benefit Of the
Lone Star State
The chief object Of the visit Of these
Texans was with reference to the dcvel
Opment Of the agave tcntiliS, fiber
plant Mr. Stiles believes there are
large possibilities for such a product In
Texas. He and his associates wished
TO confer with experts of the depart
mcnt # agriculture in that ycgardt
Secretary Of Agriculture Houston was
very wiling to do everything he could
for them. In the bureau Of plant indus
try to which they were referred, Mr..
Stiles was able to consult data. sub
stantiating the conclusions he has drawn
from years of study and investigation
in Southwest Texas, relating to fibre
plants and their products. Secretary
Houston also had opened to the visitors
the library and museum. which contain
cd samples and data in the division of
fibre investigation under the able dir
eCtion of I4yster III Dewey. th, bOtaD-
list in charge.
The visit to the department Of agricul-
tlre' confirmed Mr.. StileSfs obseI4vay
tionS that Of plants heretofore found
valuable for hard fibre produces a grade
Of fibre which makes il more valuable
even than heneqUcn and the plant is
proven perfectly hardy more than BOG
miles north Of where MeSsrs. Rabb. Bro.
dix, and Stiles propose to grow it and
establish the industry. The agave plants
are now being pr0pOgated and in a year
million OF them can be ready for set
ting
The section of Brownsville around
the Rio Grande. in Mr.. Stiles 'SopiniOn
is admirably adapted to the growth Of
this plant. 1t is the farlhcst south lOea
ton Of any mainland in the United
States and is frcer from cold than any
other section Its season Of growth il
the entire year, which is very impOr
ant feature from the production stand
point. 1t is the present purpose to plant
1000 Of agave.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1913-09-02
THE COTTON CROP
AGRICULTURAL DEPARTMENT RE
PORTS COTTON CROP GENER-
ALLY AS AVERAGING 6S.2 PER
CENT.
(BU associated Press. !,

Washington, ID. G., Sept. Cotton
crop condition Of 6S.2 per cent the de
parmcnt Of agriculture announced to
day.
agriculture announced today.
IS; South Carolina =; Georgia rs; Flor
ida 81; Alabama -; MissisSippi69; Lou
isiana 67; Texas "a; Arkansas II: Tenn
cssee SO; Missouri q; oklahoma p;
California 96.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1913-09-02
THAW LOSES POINT
CANADIAN COURT HOLDS HABE-
AS CORPUS PROCEEDINGS MUST
GO ON.
(Bu Associated PreSS.)

Shcrbrooks. Sept 2.-Ovcr the violent
objection of Thaw's counsel, Judge Hutch
inson today ruled that the habeaS cor
pus proceeding brought by New York
state TO obtain his release to the immi-
grafton officials should proceed
A representative of the Prime Minis
ter and the attorney general announced
that the attorney general had lntei~
vened. debating that Thaw must no
longer be held in Canadian jail.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1913-09-02
LIND COMING HOME.
BN ASSOcidtcd Press.

Washington, ID. c.. Sept. =
: While in communication with Pres
: idcnt Wilson at the summer capital
today, Secretary Bryan assured him
Z there is nothing in the Mexican sit
+ uation demanding his presence in
Z Washington.
He said unofficiallv that John
Lind is preparing to return home
s unless some move by liucrta changes
: his plans soon.
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Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1913-09-02
COLORAD OFESTIVAL OPENS

Colorado Springs, Colo; Sept. IA
parade y pioneers. Indians and cowboys
and a wild west exhibition, were fea
lures OF the opening program Of Shan
kive which began today. The festival
is an annual one to pcrpctratc the pic
tureSque DAYS before the Indians We're
driven off til ir lands by the white men.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1913-09-02
ADMITS HE MEDDLED
(Bv Associated Press. J

Washington, y. g.. Sept John
Kirby, former president Of the Nation
III Manufacturers Association today
frankly told the senate lobby committee
that he had worked to defeat congress
men whoes views he diSaaproved and had
worked for others and expected to con
tinue to take the same active interest
in election.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1913-09-02
CRIPPLED JUROR REPORTS
(By Associated Press J

San Francisco. Calf. Sept. Grip
pied by two broken toes received in an
automobile accident, Juror Adams hob
blcd into court OF crutches today 50 the
trial of Caminetti on the white slavery
charge could proceed.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1913-09-02
CROSSED STATE LINE
(SpccidI to The Hcrdld.)

Austin. Tex. Sept. ..-Governor Col
quit notified Lieutenant Governor May
es that he crossed the state line this
morning so that no official action would
he taken with the governor III the state.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1913-09-02
SALE POSTPONED
(Bu Associated Press.)

Weatherford, Sept 2-Thc injunction
secured BY the creditors today, caused the
postponement for sixty days Of the re-
ceiver's sale of the Chicagt, WcatherfOrd
and Brazos Valley Railroad.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1913-09-02
CENTRAL MARKETING
(Bu Associated PreSS.)

Salina Kansas, Sept. 1.-The estab-
EiShment of great central agency To
assist in the marketing Of all farm pro
ducts was recommended by the board Of
directors Of the local farmers uni. n in
annual convention today.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1913-09-02
YAQUIS MAKE DEMANDS
(By AsSOcidted PrcsS.l

Nogaics. Ariz., The YaquiS today de
manded of the Sonora insurgents the
return all lands taken from them by Por-
firio Diaz, with the alternative of quit
ting their former allies.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1913-09-02
ANIATOR'S DARING FEATS.
(BU AssOcidted PreSS.)

Versailles, France, Sept. .
Just to show his thrilling feat Of
turning somersault with IN aero
plane in the air Yesterday at .Juvisy
without accident. The French avia-
tor Pegoud today described a huge
aerial "S' flying fifty seconds with
his head downward.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1913-09-02
THE RABB PALM GROVE.

Anohcr matter which interested Mr..
Stiles on his visit t. Washington is
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The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1913-11-06
COUNTRY NEWS LETTERS
SOME INTERESTING HAPPENINGS
VARIOUS SECTIONS.
News Items Gathered All Around the
County and Elsewhere.
Ehrhardt EtchingS.

Ehrhardt, Nov. 3.-Cane grinding
is on hand, and the farmers will be
busy for a week or two, making
syrup for next year. The young
folks usually gather to the sugar
boilings, as they usually call them,
and have a big, sweet time. Every
now and then the young folks have
a candy pulling.
A negro living on a Mr.. Pelham's
plantation, near the old DR.. Carter
place, was shot and killed last week
one night. Was done at night in the
house. Two or three of his children
was hit at the same time, but not
fatally. The darkey that was killed
was named Mid Mingo. A Cant ne
gro did the shooting. Report has it
that Cant fired eight shots into the
house. Cant IS in the Walterboro
Jail now, awaiting his sentence.
Came very near being two fires in
town recently. Friday night of last
week a bed and some lint cotton
burned in a darkey house of Mr..
Henry Ehrhardt. Was found in time
and put out before the house caught
Sunday afternoon the ware room of
the Farmers Mercantile Co. caught
on fire, but was also discovered in
time and put out.
Mr.. Karesh went in his auto to
Branchville Sunday morning to meet
Mrs. Karesh and two children. Came
home Sunday afternoon.
The workmen will commence the
two brick buildings this morning for
S. w. Copeland and ]. D. Dannelly.
Hope to soon have them in shape to
occupy.
Quite a crowd are getting ready
to attend the fair in Walterboro,
from the 4th to Sth of November.
Walterboro folks are planning for
big time, more attractions and the
like to please the people who take
it in.
Messrs. Ada and Glennie Smith
went on Saturday to Yemassee.
They will return Monday.
The barn on the old mill Isaac
Carter plantation was burned last
night with contents. Messrs. Jno. J.
and H. J. HERS had the plantation
rented from the Carter heirs. The
loss was about $3.50; no insurance.
Heavy loss on both HERS and Car
ters. JEE.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1913-11-06
SHOWS GRAVE HE DUG FOR MAN.
Massachusetts, Farmer Said to Have
Confessed Killing Neighbor.

Milford, Mass, Oct. 31.-By the
fickering light of lanterns Daniel j.
Cooper, a farmer tonight led a party
of officers into a swamp nine miles
from here and pointed out the grave
he said he had dug to hide the body
of his neighbor, Alfred Bradish,
whom the police say he confessed he
killed with revolver several days
ago.
In his alleged confession, which
came after an all-day examination by
the police, Cooper is quoted as say
ing he shadowed Bradish from his
farm house and without word came
up behind him and fired Then he hid
the body until the next morning.
when he dragged it to the swamp.
The cause of the shooting, the
police say, is a mystery. They de-
clare that Cooper insists he had no
reason for killing his neighbor, and
denies jealousy was the motive.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1913-11-06
ATTACKED IN HIS YARD.
Unidentified Negro Tries to Kill
Farmer Near Inman.

Spartanburg, Nov. 2.-Word was
received here of mysterious attack
made on Guerry Sherbert, a farmer
living near Inmsn, by an unidentifi-
ed negro, whose motive is supposed
to have been robbery.
Mr.. Sherbert had attended a meet
in at Centre Point church and had
just returned home and was taking
his horse out of the harness when
he had the encounter. The assail-
ant slipped up by stealth and be-
fore Mr.. Sherbert was aware of his
approach made a wicked lunge with
a knife or razor. Mr.. Sherbert back
ed off and reached to his hip pocket
for his revolver. The negro, who
was silent, pressed him closely,
slashing at him.
Mr.. Sherbert attempted to shoot
the negro, but the latter grasped
his arm and threw it up into the air
as the pistol went off. The negro
then started to run and was fifteen
or twenty feet away before Mr.. Sher-
bert fired again. In the darkness
the negro escaped.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1913-11-06
CONFEDERATE GENERALS.
What Occupation They Engaged in
After the War.

One of our readers asked The News
Leader not long ago to tell him what
became of our Confederate generals
after the war. To answer that ques-
tion we made q search of the bio
graphs of our Confederate generals,
lieutenant generals and admirals who
survived the war and we were our
selves surprised at the result.
Losing as they did practically ,ev-
erything in the war, most of those
brave men who had led thousands to
battle were forced to toll for daily
bread. Two of them, gallant, noble
spirits, were reduced to such straits
that they had to till the soil with
their own hands. Three others en-
gagged in private business where the
return was small; one was able to re-
tire to his farm. General Bragg, who
at one time was virtual commander
of all the Confederate armies, earned
Q living as a civil engineer; General
Early was president of the Louisiana
lottery and practiced law; Admiral
Semmes was an editor and college
professor; Richard Taylor, son of
President Zack Taylor, engaged in
literary work.
But the majority of our command
ers gave themselves to public service
after the war. Of the "a whose rec
ords we have examined, five were col
lege presidents-The Great Com
mander himself, D. H. Hill, Stephen
D. Lee, A. P. Stewart and Admiral
Buchanan. Nobler service they could
not have wrought, more magnifi-
cent field of endeavor they could not
have chosen, for the road of south
ern redemption lay from Appomattox
to Lexington!
Six others were in public life for at
least a part of the time after the
war, and of these one at least was
enabled to serve his country as effect
lively in peace as when he led his
dashing troopers against Sheridan's s
cavalry at Trevillians.' This, it is
scarcely necessary to say, was the
princely Wade Hampton.
Three others became the heads of
great corporations, Kirby Smith being
head of q telegraph system, Beaure-
gard operating two railroads, Forrest
managing a great system.
Surely it is an honorable record
and one worthy of the greatest mill
tary staff nation ever boasted.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1913-11-06
KILLS SELF IN HOME.
John Shirley, Well Known Chester
Planter, Commits Suicide.

Chester, Nov. 3.-John Shirley,
aged A years, shot himself in the
head this morning at o'clock at his
home near Cornwell and died in
stantly. He used a shotgun, placing
the barrel almost at his head, and
pulled the trigger tearing the upper
half of his head off.
He was a prosperous and indus
trious planter and was we'll thought
of by his neighbors.
The deed appears to have had its
inception in fear. Being peaceable
and law-abiding citizen, he was sum-
moned Saturday to appear in general
sessions court here to-day in case as
a witness. This appears to have set
him wild. All last night he walked
the floor and his wife was uneasy
about him. This morning early she
heard a terrific report of a gun at
the side door and quickly opening it
found her husband lying dead.
In addition to his wife, Mr.. Shir-
ley is survived by several children
and his father, Richard Shirley, of
this city.
Coroner J. Henry GLADDEN. left for
the scene of the suicide early this
morning, where he will empanel a
jury and hold an inquest.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1913-11-06
In THE PALMETTO STATE
SOME OCCURRENCES OF VARIOUS
KINDS IN SOUTH CAROLINA.
State News Boiled Down for Quick
Reading-Paragraphs About
Men and Happenings.

w. B. Hensley, white youth of H.,
is in Anderson jail charged with
stealing a watch and diamond ring.
l.. J. Browning, Of Union, has an
nounced that he will run for govern
or next year. He was formerly a
member of the legislature and chair
man of the ways and means commit
tee.
Claude B. Hogan, young butcher
of Sumter, was arrested on Wednes-
day on the charge Of stealing or re-
ceiving stolen cow and butchering
it. He says he bought it from a ne
gro who claimed to own it.
Nose and Susan Ballard, colored,
are held for trial by the Sumter coun-
ty coroner on the charge of beating
Anna Ballard, an adopted child, to
death. They tied her up and beat her
brutally while she was sick.
James Munro, a prominent lawyer
of Union, aged 65 years, died in a
Columbia hospital on Tuesday as a
result of a fall on the pavement at
the Columbia union station two
weeks ago. In the fall his skull was
broken.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1913-11-06
SWALLOWS BICHLORIDE TABLET
Columbia Man Takes Slow Poison by
Mistake.

Columbia, November 3.-Herbert
G. Anderson, president and treas
urer of the South Eastern Audit
Company, is lying at local hospital
tonight in a dying condition as the
result of swallowing a bichloride of
mercury tablet, supposedly by mis-
take. He was operated on, but phy-
sicians fear that he will not survive
the night.
Mr.. Anderson came in from Sumter
on Sunday night and registered at a
local hotel. A friend going to his
room this morning discovered him in
great agony and in apparently crit
ical condition. He was rushed to a
local hospital, where physicians used
every means in trying to give him
relief. It developed that Sunday
night he took a bichloride of mer-
curry tablet and it got in it's poison
Gus results for nearly ten hours be-
fore he was discovered and relief
given him.
Coming here two years ago from
St. Louis, Mr.. Anderson organized
the audit company, of which he is
president and treasurer. He is a
widower with two children, little
Misses Lucille and Adelaide Ander-
son. People in different parts of the
country have fingered for days after
swallowing the deadly bichloride Of
mercury tablets, and their expert
ences as they watched certain death
creeping upon them have filled col
umns in newspapers.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1913-11-06
THE ART OF LIVING.
Why Many People Never Manage to
Learn 1t.

Many people never learn the art
of living because they never see the
relative Importance of duties, oppor-
.unities and interests, and never dis
criminate between the things on
which they ought to throw the full
weight of their energy and those
which they ought to touch lightly in
passing, says The Outlook.
The results of seeing things out of
perspective and of losing the sense
of relative values are not always
tragic, but they are always wasteful
of time and strength, and they de-
stroy the symmetry of living. At a
time when many interests appeal to
men or women it is easy to dissipate
ones vitality and waste ones influ-
ence. 1t is so easy to know little
of everything that many people
know nothing thoroughly. They be-
come electics in religion and their
spiritual energy evaporates in a
vague interests in the gossip, so to
speak, of half a dozen faiths; they
read the text books of all the arts
and end by losing whatever capacity
for pleasure in beauty they had when
they became "globe trotters" in the
galleries, museums and studios; they
hear lectures on philosophy and get
a smattering of the dialect of
thought without learning how to
think; they join hundred chari-
ties, and never give themselves; they
are eager for all the reforms, but
have no time to give real support to
any of them. They accept every
thing that comes their way; they re-
ject nothing, and life in their hands
takes on neither unity nor beauty
They respond to every call, and no
sooner start ins ore direction than
they are diverted into another path
and never reach the end of any road.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1913-11-06
Fairfax FancieS.

Fairfax, November 3.-The ladies
of the Baptist missionary society OBJ
served Halloween in very amusing
way at school hall Thursday evening.
There was ghost parade, and Mrs.
S. Sanders led them in two very
weird, ghost-like songs, then they re-
tired down stairs to see the side
shows" arranged so we'll by Mrs.
Jennings and Miss Dele Loadholt.
The Fat Lady," the Tall Lady,
RED Devil etc., while their for
tunes were told in another room.
Mrs. VIM. Simpson and Mrs. N. B.
Loadholt presided over the refresh
ment tables. A nice sum was re-
allied.
The circus has come and gone.
The small boys are still giggling.
Mrs. Julia Harter visited relatives
at Hickory Grove recently.
The teachers are busy in spare
time practicing ''The .Deestrick
Skule,'' to be produced in few days,
we hope, to large audience.
Mrs. BENZ. Buckner was called to
Augusta by telegraph to attend her
brothers funeral, the late Mr.. Geo.
Morgan. Many friends sympathize
with Mrs. Buckner in her sad be-
reayement.
Boyce Boynton, of Ulmer, visited
relatives here recently.
DR.. Ira Youmans and sister have
returned from a pleasant trip to
Lawtonville.
Miss Annie Owens, of Brunson, who
lived here for several years, is visit
ing friends here.
Misses nellie Loadholt, Flora Ken
ney, Mrs. S. L. Sanders, F. Moorer,
Ed. Harter, and G. D. Sanders visited
Allendale Sunday.
Mrs. Thos. Warren, of Allendale,
visited US last week.
There are several new business
enterprises on tapis, which we will
speak of next week.
The building boom continues. The
residence OF w. E. Harter will soon
be one of the handsomest on Laurens
Avenue, the Lutheran parsonage is
much improved, while Gordon
Kearse's new house is going up, and
several others.
We are sorry to record the ex-
treme illness of Lee Bessinger, who
is home from the University of S. c.,
to be nursed back to health.