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Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1916-12-02

more than odd in itself, because / have
been the one to carry my woes to
her. n must have heen between 4 and 5.
for l had counted a clock striking 4. and
Vet she was still dressed in her party eos
tune. Have You guessed what she had
been doingf Mr.. O'Mara. she had slipped
ont and had been waiting because she was
sure Ragtime would bolt and--and com
back home, dragging him by 4 stirrup.
Wasn't that a horrible thing to wait for
aloine in the dark"
With q little shudder the girl put her
hands over her ewes as il to shut ont the
picture.
"She wasn't hysterical, either. She was
Just ice and wringing wet and blue with
cold. Cool, proud, intolerant Miriam Bur-
rcll! Ard ! never dreamed Of her caring
for aryAody until hat minute! | sent her
to bed, and | think | hated Barry Dever-
eau for an hour or two. Why. Mr.. O'Mara.
I'd never believed that a girl could care
that much for any man."
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1916-12-02

Jubilee Of Colleqe Paper.

PROVIDENCE, II. L.. Dec. "A score
or more of Brown university tlumni who
were instrumental in the establishment Of
the Brown Daily Herald. or who have serv-
ed mt one time or another n it, editors.
returned to their alma mater today for a
reunion and dinner in celebration Of the
t~wenty-fifth anniversary Of the puhlica-
ton. During the quarter century Of its
existence ne Herald has not missed an
issue. and Brown It'll enjoys the di~tinc-
ton il mad when the paper was establish
ed-of being the smallest college IN the
world to Issue q daily paper devoted ex-
clusively 10 College news.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1916-12-02

take its tentacles off oleomargarine?' the
Waco Times-Ilerald inquiries. 1t is. Oleo-
margarine was taxed for the benefit Of the
Elgin butter combine, although the public
was told hat the purpose of the tax was
TO prevent the sale of synthetic butter.
But the public was deceived. "Processed'
butter that is neither as clean nor as
wholesome as oleomargarine, is regularly
passed on to the consumer in enormous
quantities at a high price, because ole
IS unjustly taxed and the Elgin combine
finds it easy to keep the market cornered
for that reason.-Beaumont Enterprise.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1916-12-02
SHORT STOPS

It's better to stay out than to get mar
ried and fall out.
Prolonged visits are apt to deal hospi-
tality a death blow.
Occasionally the human race is run over
the course Of true love.
Nearly every business proposition looks
like a winner on paper.
To avcnge our wrongs costs more than
10 protect our rights.
When arrested for vagrancy a beggar
naturally has a pinched look.
Isn't il queer how narrow minded those
people are who disagree with you.
One cant estimate a mans salary bv
the amount Of work he confesses to.
Even the temperance orator sometime.
has occasion 10 speak with baitcd bcrath.
Many n man who owes his success To his
wife doesn't owe her much At that.
A small hoy believes that every time he
earns a reward some other boy gets it.
You can't please everybody and no man
knows it better than a preacher in a small
town.
Too many men speak twice before they
think once.
And many a true word has heen spoken
by mistake.
And many a man never fails becaase he
never tried.
Sufferers who attempt to drown sarrow'
merely i~rritate il.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1916-12-02


The returns from the West are a sor-
rowful story to the ears Of Theodore
Roosevelt. The West has been his coun-
try, but he little understood it. He Jug
gled with the progressiyes at the last o
v%ention; he bowed his knee to the Crooks
who robbed him Of the nomination in
1912; he went in with them. locked arms
with them. because one Of them. revealed
to the sturdy people 50 long deceived by
him that he was common clay after all.
The republicans have used the expires
ident in this campaign: they banished him
to the West that he might not offend the
hyphenates and in the belief that the west
ern people did not know duplicity when
they saw il.
The colonel has had his rcbuke. He is
a discredited politician. The old birds of
the old guard took him to lunch before they
went to Chicago. He is the man who built
a great party only to pull it down. There
are honest hearts in the West. They leave
Colonel Roosevelt to Boies Penrose, Elihn
Root and Murray Crane, whose purpose he
serves in their extremity.-when he can
Columbia tate.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1916-12-02

It's the exception when the automobile
going at a reasonable speed gets into trou-
BILE. But it's when the driver starts to
burn up the road that things begin to hap
pen.
Burning up the road is responsible for
most motor-car accidents. Statistics are
not available, but it is a safe guess that
% per cent Of the tragedies happen to peo-
pie who are speeding. And after it is all
over, il Is too late 10 slow down.-Beau-
mont Journal.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1916-12-02

Sam, the cowman returned from London
with a scarf pin that contained a diamond
of no unusual size. II was fhe pride Of his
heart and the envy If his village compan-
ions.
He treated al inquiries from them as to
its value and lis authenticity with high
Scorn.
His employer after a week Of basking in
its radiance. asked Sam about history.
sSam,s he said "is It a real diamoniir
'Wen,s sAid Sam,s III X amt Eve hseu
done out Of half a/crown.,-Tit-n Bits.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1916-12-02
CHAPTER TX.
Not a Chance in the World"

~ course you've found Garry?" She
~ FASTENED to swing the conversation
to n less personal quarter. "ls he-will
you tell men about it, please?'
"No.' he stated, and there was some
thing luguhrious in the badness Of the
statement. ale found me. And it was
the biggest stroke Of luck that he did.
grow more and more lncky this morning.
Wouldn't you say sol"
"Bui you must have an inkling as to the
mans IDENTIFY" she cried. "Why, you've
got TO find that out before he does more
harm next time. Haven't you n suspicion
%even?"
sWhy. yesr he admitted. "Both Joe
and ! do believe we know who it waS, but
we aren't sure because we don't under
stand vet what that mans motive might
be. I'd tell you only ! don't like to ae-
cuse anybody until there t. cause for it.
But that's what brought me Town here this
morning-that and because ] wanted to
tell Miss Burrell that Garry j. safe and
will continue 10 he from now on. | hope.
Those were two Of my reasons for coming
at least. | had a more important one than
either, but
Barbara did not wait for him 10 tell her
what it was. She was staring at him in
unfeigned surprise.
"To tell MriamP" she echoed. 'Do you
You can't mean that YOU knew she cared
for Garryf"
"Didn't yous'
The girl shook her head.
"Neyer until just a little whole ago. I
do you know, in The last few days I've be-
gun to realize how much more you-other
p~eople-observe than ! DO. I've begun to
wonder if 7 haven't been very bhndly self
sufficient. For ! never dreamed Of sneh a
thing until something happened after left
you lat night Her voice faltered, but
her eyes cling resclutely to his "She
to me and asked me if I knew where
he had gone. She had seen him ride away.
too, Mr.. OvMara. And / learned II then
just from the terror in her face. But II
didn't know until later how much she car
ed.
ssShe came into my room this morning,
and that, a1fhoueh you can't know Il, was
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1916-12-02
"Our Country! In her intercourse with
foreign nations, may she always be right,
but our country, right or wrong. Stephen
Decatur.


Ia the limelight as one Of the active civ
ia organizations of Brownsville at this mo-
mena il, the Brownsville Rotary club. Re-
Gently the club has given emphasis TO its
claim of being made of live, progressive
and wide visioned people by taking the init
alive in two good undertakings. The first
IN mind j. that 81 providing a practical
Christmas charity Tor Prownsvillc's shoe
less kiddies. With the assistance Of the
clubs several hundred dollars were col
leeied tor buying shoes.
As a result az the second notable
"-tunt' of the club Brownsville j. to re-
ceiye 4 large amount Of valuable advertis-
meat IN free motion pictures that will be
cxhiinicd ~ northern and eastern cities un-
der the approval Of the state department Of
agricuhnr. Brownsville business men will
--t~~ssts H. their belief IN The power Of adj
,crtising to the extent of about $1,000 in
HIS Venture.
The juice Of the situation is the unani-
JnouA endorsement given by the Rotary club
members 10 advertising as a paving method
of reaching the trade. The men who com
pose this club believe that the hes; way to
sell something i to advertise il. Browns
Vile j. surrounded BY vast acres az fertile
ground that when sold to industrious farm
ers and fruit growers will ,urn this section
into one of enviablc wcalth-bnt il the
fact, j. not advertised this land will stand
a fair chance Of remaining m undeveloped
resource.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1916-12-02
The War In History


The Austrian~ captured Beerade, Serhia's
capital.
Strang Russian expediiionary force under
Grand Duke Nicholas advanced on
Teheran while another Russian army
prepared To invade Armenin.
General Jotfre made supreme commander
of all French armies with the excep-
tion of those IN the colonies.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1916-12-02
DECEMBER 2. 1915.

DIR. Karl Buenz, head of the Hamburg
American line in New York, and three
employees convicted of conspiracy in
obtaining false clearance papers for
ships taking supplies to German war
ships at sea.
Large ltalinn force lanled ut Avlona.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1916-12-02

w the occasion ~ their thirtieth wedding
anniversary. Mrs. Roosevelt formerly was
Miss Edith Kermit Carow If this city.
They were married December >, 1856, in
st. Georges Church, London.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1916-12-02

Checks should be made payable to The
Brownsville Herald Publishing 90. Business
standardization should be addressed To the
company. and items, letters, etc, intended for
publication should be addressed to Editor, The
Herald. Brownsville. Texas. Letters intended
for publication. should be signed with the full
name If the writer. The name will not be
printed If ~, desired. but il will be evidence Of
good faith On the part Of the writer.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1916-12-02

OYSTER ,AY. n. ". Dee. 2.--Former
President ~ Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt
were the 7 pients of many messages Of
greeting froil relatives and friends today
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1916-12-02

\ Bfit;sls patent has been granted for a
'1eat6er substitute made Of canvas impreg-
1ated with a paste made If rcSin. Iinseed
oa, ySzniSh, mix ctrd and siaked fme.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1916-12-02
'It's yuss Wonderful the Way scETs.Ts
Makes An Ccrns Co Quick"

'1fs lust Wonderful the Way 'CETS.rrs
Makes An Corns Go Quick"
ever known because you don't have
10 fool n putter around with your
corns. harness them up with ban
dagcs or try TO dig them out.
-GETS-IT" IN n liquid. You put on
a few drops In n few seconds. II
dries. It's painless. Put your stock
ing or right over IL. Put on your
regular shoes. You won't linn or
have a corr twist In your face. The
corn. calius or wnrt. will loosen from
your toe-ofr ~ comes Glory haiielu-
tah' "GETS-lT" is the biggest SELL
ing corn remedy IN the world. When
Won trv IN. YOU know why.
"CTTS-rT' ~ sold ana recon-
mended by druggists everywhere. CSC
N bottle. or sent on receipt OF price
by r. Lawrence & Co. Chicago. III.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1916-12-02

Sold In Brownsville and recommended a.
the Worlds best known remedy by W.. a.
Whitman.
The Detroit times., 1916-09-21
You Can't Blame God for Conditions the Church Today Billy Tells Heare

isn't IL true that God will be bet
ter TO YOU II you are four-square? Try
IL and see what the Lord will do for
you.
We would get along better with
God IL we'd take our bearings more
often.
THAT is true In their case, and II
is in ours. All these things hap
pened for our instruction. The way
to find out what God will do is TO
look back and see what God has
done, No man can consider what
God has done without feeling safe
to trust Him for what He is going
10 do
you say II looks dark. Well. the
fact that we have had sunshine is
proof that we will have it, Think of
how all the black clouds have been
swept away! That ought 20 give us
confidence. and we will have plenty
OF good weather in the future.
Take time TO count your bles.
sings. You will be astonished to se6
how they will grow in your hands,
We would all be better able TO meet
the troubles II we would remember
what God has done, II we would
take time 20 look back, II would be
sure to end in our looking up.
AT the beginning of the year mer-
chants look back Thoy take an in.
ventory. They want to know what
they have been doing. They want Ia
The Detroit times., 1916-09-21
DETROIT FOLK
JOIN THE HUGHES
COLLEGE LEAGUE

The following Detroiters have en-
rolled with the Hughes National Col
lcgc league. with headquarters at
No. 5ll Fifth.ave.;
Samuel Weiss. Harry Goldberg. Ed
ward a. sumner, Robert w. STANDARD
Jr Barnard g Luce. stephen VI.
Wirts, i. j Haynes, Howard Bon
bright Edwin j Haywood. George
y Huntington Howell :. England, c.
10. Chapman. Joseph \. Cook, Charles
a. PARCELS. Arthur II Ingersoll. Mark
W Allen, Leon NJ. Brusstar, John r..
Scales. r. l.. sutherland. Grange
Whitney. Kenneth L. Moore. the Rcv.
Wills \ Moore. Thro. + Shotwell.
Pierce NJ Wood. VI q. Reltaire, VIM.
- Mnxun, r. IS Hiestand. Alexan-
der Is. Gage. J. +. Williams. Chas. y.
Aaron, VIM r Gage. Frederick w.
Robbins. Horace p Beidon. Howard
~ Ice. Edison II Smith. +. r Bonte-
cou. Seymour : Rutherford. oliver
Phelps George L. Mccain. Chas. n.
Johnson Chas. penby ". y Torrey,
bert u Hobby. c. J.; Christis. Arthur
cncc VI Barber, Robert VI Chamber
lain. RAYMOND II Drake. IT W. Cro-
lcrs j r. Norris, G. n Murphy, Al
fred Dickinson. Ogle T Warren John
! Jennings. Neil r., Reid. John n.
Curric. O. VI Booth. Herbert G. Ham
iitog. Robert ; , payies ls Ta T
Snyder. y Frazer whitehead. Currier
n. Marshall 4 W Mellowes NJ J.
Bcand j. I. Emerson. Guy l. Con-
nor. r r Hcyerman. Malcolm Nc
I<lrnon. Frank II. sauer. Chas ".
King. John W Slovet VIM. r. Davis
Lem W Bowen. l. n Bissell. virgil
oldbcrz. Kenneth " Holpin a II w
oua. George VI Randall " .. Lenh-
nor. bradford J. Reynolds, u, VI.
schultz
The Detroit times., 1916-09-21
w. X. Burns, of NUNS
ing, Through With
Booze Crowd
CONVERTED BY
LIVING IN SOUTH
Experience In Ala
bama Changes Views
On Liquor

MUNISiNG Mich. Sept CIV.
r. Burns. ex-mayor OF Mmising, and
for two sessions one Of the wet
leaders in the state legislature. has
divorced himself from his former
allegiance with the liquor interests
and is out for statewide prohibition
The former state lesisIator about
face is due, he says. 10 the observa-
tons he has made in the past sew
eral years of conditions IN Alabama,
which is dry.
Mr. Burns, whose home Is In
Munising. owns a telephone system
in ST Clair county, Alabama, where
he spend the winters.
Heretofore, | have always been
a wet and honestly So he said,
but during my several winters resi-
dence in Alabama, have been thoro-
ly converted. want to be
classed now rs prohibition
fanatic
LAS a member OF the legislature
from the Alger-Schoolcraft district,
my vote and my influence were al
ways with the wet inter ests, but |
have since discovered that ! made a
great error In judgment in support
Ing the liquor cause.
From observations which | have
made in the south, have become
convinced that prohibition has
brought the southern states great
economic and moral benefits. In the
light OF what | have learned | think
would be an unworthy citizen II |
failed TO acknowledge my past error
in my view OF the question.
"All this talk 10 the effect that
prohibition does not prohibit have
proved TO my own satisfaction TO be
sheer nonsense During my trip, by
auto, thru Alabama. Georgia and
South Carolina all prohibition
states-I frequently tried TO pur.
The Detroit times., 1916-09-21

people who cannot produce the sleep.
er God never has 10 go into re
pairs
'Ye have not passed this way
MISUNDERSTANDING, | take H.. that
everything ~ now 20 be new differ
ent from anything they had previous
~ known.
THE people believe IT, and soon
there was great commotion in the
camp. There was the busy hum OF
preparation. People worked with "a
will. They talked with glowing faces
OF the mighty God OF Jacob and what
He was going TO do.
They were looking for greater
things-far greater than ever. Yet
they had seen great things.
Most of them were children when
they came out OF Egypt They had
seen the destroying angel come
through the land and Stay the first.
born In every home where the blood
was not on the doorpost They had
seen mama rained from heaven
every morning for 40 years.
They had seen the mighty hand
OF God roll back the waters OF the
Red sea. They had seen the waters
rush out OF the rock as the rod Of
Moses struck il. They had seen the
rod Of Aaron blossom and bear al
monds in a night.
They had seen the cloud OF quails
come up and feed them until they
loathcd the meat They had seen the
dying spring into life with one look
al the braZen serpent. They had
seen the ground open and swallow up
the stitf.necked rebellious They had
seen the pillar OF fire lead them by
night and the cloud by day. But
now there were greater things,
There would be more and greater
REVEALS II the people and the preach.
or expected something The man
with a little faith deserves a little
God The man with mountainous
ing faith gets earthquake results
III our faith is puny, so we are
never able to make more than a
gimblet hole in the dome above u.s.
We will never hear the sound of a
going in the tops Of the mulberry
trees nor "A sound of abundance of
rain
NO dcpositor will ever know very
much about the stability OF a bank II
he only checks out ten cents at a
time If We all expected more from
God. there would be fewer disap-
pointmcnts, The measure with which
The Detroit times., 1916-09-21

why they had been tramping forty
years and never reaching the prom
lsed land!
IF they had all been as level-head-
ed as Moses, Caleb and Joshua their
Journey would have ended In 30
days and here they had been gen
Grafton In reaching the place where
they now stood.
And ID was all because they had
not tried to get anywhere!
THE man God sent never fails.
THE man who has no purpose In
life goes about tired because he does
his climbing in treadmill. He Is
always a zigzagger. And for every
inch Of Roadway, he goes a mile!
Without definite aim, he will
never travel in an airline The bee
goes straight only when flying 10 its
hive. The man who turns the world
upside down does IL because that is
his sole business In life.
Man With One Idea Succeeds.
THE man who undertakes to do
thousand things will never amount
To hill OF beans The man who d.
vides his time and skill and energy
TO doing one thing will stand before
kings
God was not 10 blame then for
mans faults any more than he is
now. any more than God is to blame
for the condition OF the church to
day.
Paul said, This one thing TO do
Keep your eye on that man, He will
move every mountain and pull up
every tree that is in his pathway.
Nothing can chill his ardor nor cool
his courage He keeps on going and
growing, no matter what interferes.
THE Christian life needs TO be en-
tered upon as thoroly and definitely
as the sun-browned pilgrims went
into Canaan. Let man get his
start in that way and he will not
throw away his Bible when he strikes
hard place.
The men who had wandered aim
lessly are at last brought TO the place
where they expected great things
from the God who had brought them
out OF Egypt The officers who had
gone throughout the camp plain
spoken and direct I'm what they said
We're made To understand that the
God who had spoken amidst the
thunders OF Sinai had not exhausted
himself, and that He would astonish
them with a great display of His
wonderful power.
The Detroit times., 1916-09-21
LABOR URGED TO
TAKE DRY SIDE
Resolution introduced Before
Michigan FEEDER
alton

SAGINAW, Mich, Sept 21.-A
resolution advocating the indorse-
mcnt Of statewide prohibition, was
the first to be introduced at the
convention of the Michigan Fedora
ton of Labor which opened mere
Wednesday afternoon.
G. W. Finch, who introduced the
resolution. also asked the state fed
Grafton to urge the American fed
Grafton to investigate the shortage
of white paper which is affecting
employment conditions in the print
ing trades.
The resolutions will be acted upon
in the regular order Of business.
The Detroit times., 1916-09-21

see what they have on hand To begins
business with the new year. BY ro4>
viewing the past they prepare fer;
the future
Before you take a new step. e.
sure You have not stumbled too muc1:
in the old ones, What a merchan6.
does in a cold, practical business
way, we would get on better with.
God--make more progress--if W.
would take our bearing oftener.
"'Ye have not passed this woy'
heretofore
els God with us where we stAndf'
Has He brought US to the place
where we stand? Can we count al
His help in what we are doingy
Think OF this when you are about'
TO go home--when about to enter "
place where no child OF God should
be found dead-when about 10 DO.
something that viii not stand the
test of the golden rule-when You
are about 20 crowd some unfortuu>
ate to the wall-when you are about
TO say something about another that
you know is lie.
Can you pray for God to help you
To do what you are doing. with the
assurance that He will help you do
It? II that is true. then nothing on
earth can block our way, any more
than the rushing. unbridged river
Jordan could keep the sons Of Jacob
out OF the Godglven promised land"
The Detroit times., 1916-09-21

What queer way he led the
prayer meetlng!'
Gods Man Never Falls.
81 imagine the people duarreling
and finding fault with Joshua.
What in the world is Joshua try
ing To do now? Going out against a
walled city, Who ever heard Of such
taken us on such a wild-goose chase
! don't believe in going 10 war this
way, | like to see things done de
Gently and in order! Just because he
has got up there he wants TO show
off. He thinks he IL bigger man
than Moses Who ever heard OF
taking priests into battle? Moses
forgot more than Joshua ever knew,
whose rams horns he lacked
81 suppose nobody ought 10 be
guilty OF originality even when II
comes 10 knocking down the police
and pushing over ushers or breaking
windows.
"All have Witnessed Just such
scenes when an effort is made to-
ward revival Of religion.
oOIlf say pl' ht pitaNhcS wv
much hell
some may say he doesn't preach
enough hell Well. believe me, I'll
give YOU enough hell before I'm
through. All the hell's in the Bible
Others say. He doesn't preach
enough
Some say, He is sensational
Others say, %. he Is vulgar
some say. We have too much
music'
but the man that God sends never
fails.
Had the walls OF Jericho been n
mile thick and ten miles high Joshua
would have gone against them with
the same holiness. He was not de-
pending on mis- soldiers, nor the
priests, nor the weather. nor the
rams horns. nor himself. nor his
feeling, but the word Of the living
Cod
"'rhe wilderness worn veterans are
now about 10 take the step that
would make them great nation
people with a God-chosen destiny
people under the Almightys espe-
cial care.
Before they set foot in that raging
river they had 10 DO more hard think
ing than they bad ever done. In the
years agone they had done lots Of
foolish things impulsiyely. That is