The Cameron Herald. (Cameron, Tex.), Vol. 17, No. 22, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 1, 1898 Page: 1 of 8
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VOLUriE XVII. NO. 22.
CAHERON, TEXAS, THURSDAY, DECCflBER i, i8q8.
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Q-resitest s
EVER K3STOW3ST I3ST" UUCXLJ &.ZMI COTJ1TTY
Bad weather the first few days of November caused usi to
dollars, and we've got to catch up. Take advantage of the best op,
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Clothing.
MEN'S St ITS.
12 Nleu's all wool gray, extra quality,
was $10.00. now $8.SO.
7 Suits fancy worsted all wool, were
.$7.50, now $5.00.
10 Suits extra heavy casniere. all wool
and nicely tailor cut. price $6.90.
A few suits gray caamere, tlie $10.00
suits left, going still at $6.50.
10 Suits wool fdled black Clay worst-
ed. cui from $6.50 to $4.90.
9 Suits full Clay worsted, were $8.50,
now $5.50.
MEN'S PANTS.
Men's all wool pants 1.00.
Men's extra heavy casraere pants, 1.50
Men's extra quality well made, new
and stylish designs; iu this sale, 2.60
Soma we sold for 4.00, now 2.90
BOY'S PANTS.
Boy's pauts5 c ents
Boy's psuts 25 cents
" pants 50 aud 75 cents
suits 75 cents
"• suits 1.00
" suits 1.25
" suits 1.50
suits 2.00
" «ults 2 50, 3.00 and 3 50
OVERCOATS.
Boy's uvoreoats $1.00
•• "uftia good heavy cirt.. .ereoat,
in this uale 3.50
Yonth'«> extra tine Melton, size 11 to
IS), worth 0.00, in this sale 1 W>
Men's Mclutosh coats 1.50 to 5 (JO
" Overcoats '2 50
3.50 .
4,50 '
'• 5.00
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•• Extra flno Melton overcoat, full
lenmli, extra well made, an 8.50 value,
iu this sale, 6.90
A Melton dark brown aud blue,
nil size?, aud fits like a tailor-made
coat, a lo.OO value, at 8.00
Lady's Shoes.
button shoes, were
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nts' Furnishings,
Notions.
8 cakes tine toilet soap 10 cents
400 page tablets, 5 cents
Fine toilet soap, per do/, cakes. 25c
Child's full seamless ribbed hose,
worth 10 cents, at 6 1-4 cents
Lady's kid gloves, 1.00 value, at 75c
Misses gloves 10 cents
Ladv's wool gloves 15 cents
" gloves 26 cents
" " 40 to 50 cents
« hose 6c, 7 l-2e, 8 l-8e and 10c
Hair pins per paper, lc
Needles per paper, lc
Belding spool silk,200 yard spool, 7c
Clark's 200 yard spool silk, 5c
Lady's collars, 10c
Swan dowu, 5c
Tolcum, 15c
Whittemore's shoe polish (two
kinds), 20c and 25c
Whittemore's shoe polish, 15e kind
at 10c
It packages envelopes, 5c
Hats
hoy's cap, worth 25c, tor 15c
11 a 13 25, 35, 10 and 50 roiifs
Men's lints. 50. 7.r)itTid 90c, $ 1.00, •'Si 1.2/5
;i,ud $1.50.
J. B. Stntaoti hats in this sale, $3.00.
Rugs.
Seven Hugs, were $2.50. at $1,95
glove grain.
heel and
Lady's line
now 50e
Lady'* heavy oil grain aud
worth 1 00, at 75o
Lady's tine shoes, gpriug
heel, 1.00
Lady's hue shoes, lace heel and button
heel, 1.00
Lady's line shoes, worth 1.25, at 90c
«< " " « 1,60, at 1.36
O. L. Comforts at 1,00,1.26 and 1.50
Best lady's shoe ever sold at the price,
All shapes, lace aud button stock,'
cloth top, 1.60
Choice oi any inuy a inoe iu the hoM^
In this sale, 2.45 j*
Children's shoe, nice and light, 10c '
Young folks' shoe,kangaroo calf,heavy*
heavy but soft and a 1.85 value, inj
this sale, 1.00
Child's congress and calf lace, a 1.26
value, 8 to 12, at 85c; 12 to 2's, 95o
Child's heavy school shoe, 50c
Lady's Sample shoes, value 2.00 to 8,60<
going at 1.50.
Boy's arctic rubbers, 8 to 6, 50c
Men's arctic rubbers, 0 to 11, 75c
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Braided collar, full sweep, .r>|!e
Fur-trimmed, full sweep, 7.V
1.00
" 1.25
1.50
Plush cares, good leug11. 1.50
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WHOLE NUHBER 854.
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fall short hi our sales several hundred
•oslunity you ever had to buy goods cheap.
cents value,
collars and'
Itoy]*s white shirts 15e
Mei'i's white shirts)20c
Mer i'« extra good 4-ply linen bosom.
c<i)tlaraud eullbau'li-, reinforced 600
Mei,i' negligeo shirts, 25c value,
at 7 1-2 cents
Met fs negligee shirts, 50
at! .25 cents
Mei^i's good white shirts,
I ai id cud's, 75c and 1.00,
Fulf line duett Jk Coon shirts, collars
at |d cuffs.
Anv necktie iu the house in this
sa le for 25c
Meii 'a gloves as low as 10 cents.
Gau uiue buckskin, two qualities, 1.00
au d 1-26
Suspenders, ruober throughout, 5c
<2 10 cents.
E&tra good suspenders 20 aud 26c
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Millinery.
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•ang'.ng in price from 2.00- i 'oi.^tt•;
to .'i.OO—l«i In', here Hul'-j ti^ ~
Fi'ivxt u. niu .'.j-J
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Sti iples.
Yd i ifida heavy brown domestio So
400 j rds calico, reduccd from 4 l-2c
pe r Vd to 2 1-2
500 ; rards yard wide bleached, dotnss-
ti( , worth 5c st 8 l-2c '
600 yards extra good light colored
ch iviot, in this sale per yard 5c
(!oe il red flannel per vai-d, lOe
Men vv two-faced, 10c value, per yard,
7 1-2 '•eists
j A. C A Tick, 8 1-3 cevts.
A h rag jeans lor quality, all wool
I lil led, 25c
j AI-.' > cheaper grades, all prices.
1 lVj/perell 10-i bleached sheeting 15c.
li llatiiiel worth 5e; short pieces
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We want to elo,*e out all our
MILL1NEUY by tiio 20th of
December. We have just about
30 days to do it iu, aud we Lave
put the prices down.
Triaimed lady's hats from 75c to $6.00
All our Dewey sailors, were $1.50, in
tliis sale, $1.00,
B'ive pieces 6-iuch fancy ribbon, was
65c; goiug iu this sale for 44c.
Five pieces 4-luch, in this sale 35c.
Three pieces 4-incb polka dot riboons,
was 20c, In this sale 12 l-2c.
Three pieces 5-inch 2-faced satin gib-
bous, was 60c; in this sale, 40c.
rien's Shoes.
Men's olow shoes, 50c
Meu's oil grain coug,worth 1.26, at 96c
"Invader," heavy lace shoe, 86c
12 pair; 9 to 11, were 1.26, now 1.00
Men's globe or congress calf shoe, 76c
We claim the best values ever of-
fered iu our 1.50 shoe, all shapes, and
your money back if you flud a better
one. Tan and black, cloth top and
plain, wide aud narrow toes. In other
words, the greatest variety of men's
shoes to select from iu the county.
Men's Norwood, all shapes and ntyles,
in this sale, at 1.26.
T runks.
We have lots of Trunks—too many
—ami I hero is i oi one upon which
the price has not been cut—some
more find some lens, lint about an av-
erage of 2( per e.<
'li. reduction.
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f.—.if-
ameron, Texas.
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WE HAVE
Just Received
A COMPLETE LINE OF
Staple and Fancy
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Which we will sell as cheap as any
house in Cameron.
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WE BUY AND SELL FOR GASH ONLY-
Therefore, we can sell at a very small margin^
AND WILL NOT BE UNDERSOLD!
Please call on us at the
OLD ALLIANCE STOBE
And get our prices before you make your bill.
Satisfaction guaranteed in every case
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Yours for the trade,
W. 8. WHITES,
CAMERON. TEXAS-
Important Notice.
My pasture has been posted as ihe
law directs, and all persons are .here-
by warned not to hunt or fish inside
said enclosure. Failure to observe
this will subject intruders to snch
penalty as the law prescribes.
ll-24-4t Fritz Vooklsang.
If you want the beat whiskey on
he market, call on J. W. Brewer and
^ .pet Harner's beit^ 11-24-tf,
Patronize Jim Hefley'* transfer
line. Orders left at the livery stable
of L. J. Hefley & Sons, or at his resi-
dence, will receive prompt attention.
Remember, too, that he will have your
garden nicely plowed and on short
notice and at a raaonable price.
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Look out tor Bryant A Bond's Bed
Front Hardware and Furniture.
Old furniture made new at Bryani
& Bond's. 11-25.
Crop of the Slave.
(K. G. St-liter, In Karm null Uiinch,}
The credit system mid the crop
mortgage shut out the farmer from
tlio opportunity to achieve inde-
pendence, because they concentrate
his attention on a siugle crop, aud
that unremuuerative. Let the reader
look around aud observe how small ia
the number of farms which export
more than they import. Cotton at 4
cents cannot buy what is needed to
grow it. The purchasing power
of au acre of cotton is not suf-
ficient to equip the brawn and muscle
necessary to cultivate aud gather it.
That all-important fact ought to be
emblazoned on every school black-
board in the country. Surely if the
people could realize its import they
would not put their time aud labor iu
pawn without hope of recompense.
Does it sigu'fy nothing that the tax
rolls of some of the moBt populous
counties in Texas are beginning to
show decreases instead ot increases in
values, year after year? This is not
the decay of age. It is the penalty we
are paying for industrial folly.
The test of a country's progress is
the average condition of those who
perform its manaal labor. In ancient
Home there were examples of luxuri-
ous living at which our modern mill-
ionaires stand aghast; but a large pro-
portion of its population were miser,
able slaves, whose existence was bar-
ren of everything that distinguished
the life of man from that of the brute.
All progress derives its momentum
from the effort to level men up. The
first queston, then, to be asked of any
industry 1b what it does for labor. If it
rewards service with a comfortable
livelihood it has a Just claim to perpe-
tuity. If it not oniy does this but pro-
motes social interconrs and broadens
intellectual development, its usefulness
is by no means enhanced. The most
serious indictment that can be brought
against the cotton industry as it exists
iu Texas \a that U subsists upon a «> •
tem odious wherever civilization has
streaked the conceptions of barbarism
wit h the principles of humanity—fe-
male and child labor—and that it im-
poses upon theae helpless laborera con-
ditijns of life that tend to heat and to
hold them down/yj^ her than to lift
them up, and tl£0 thereby meuace
through them fr ^general welfare ot
the State. This ' i truth, is a seri-
our one, and it ,iio for the people
of Texas to begiia' /.> think about it. I
have heretofore! '^.ert"d iu those pa-
pers that the Mo ® can peon gets more
out of life, from every standpoint—
more to eat, mono to wear, aud more
relaxation—than! the tenant cotton
farmer of Texas. That statement was
made advisedly, laud after an inquiry
iuto conditions i;n Mexico that has ex-
tended over a period of twelve years.
The peon has '.the advantage of au
equable climate,jbut ours is not severe.
The members of his family are more
gaudily, if not more extravagantly
dreseed, on grda occasions than the
wife aud daughters of tho tenant far-
mer. The gr ;atc9t difference iu the
matter of dress is one of fashion, with
tho advantage of frills aud furbelows
and colors on tho side of the Mexican.
The comparison o* ^!«ts is also a ques-
tion of taste aud fasbioii. it is bacon
and corn bread against frijoles, tama-
ies, chili, etc. As for myself, I would
prefer the tamale bill ol fare, though
this may be the result of excessive in-
dulgence in corn bread and bacon. Let
those who are disposed to scout at
this comparison read the following:
City of Mexico, Mexico, )
November 8,1898. J
Mr. E. G. Center, 203 Main Streeet.
Dallas, Texas: Dear Sir—Answering
your favor of the 1st addressed to Mr.
Murdock, in which you make inqurles
as to the condition of farm laborers,
etc., I would say that during the cot-
ton picking season the cotton pickers
are paid $1. The average wages paid
on the haciendas devoted to corn,
wheat, etc., are about 25 to 86 cents a
day. Also it is customary rn these
large farms to give the laborer a cer-
tain piece of land free, which they
work on their own account. Ou many
of the large farms corn is raised on
Bhares; Wi fact, I think about 60 per
cent of the corn raised in this republic
is raised on shares. The arrangements
are approximately as follows.
If the hacienda receives one-third of
the crop it is customary tor the laborer
to furnish his own oxen and teed, and
for the hacienda to pay one-half for
^arresting and receive th« corn in th«
field. It' the hacienda receives one-
half as its share. The hacienda usu-
tially furnishes tho seed and part of
the oxou used in cultivating, and also
received tho corn in the field and pays
one-half the cost of harvesting. These
j terms vary in different localities aud
| according to the fertility of, the soil
i aud other conditions. If, for instance,
the laud is rich, and tho crop is large,
the hacienda recoives a greater pro-
portion than where the soil is poor
and tho crop less.
The cotton crop, however, is rarely
raised on shares.
I estimate that Mexican money
a year will about pay for the clothing
of an average Mexican peon. Tho
fact of the climate beingso mild makes
light and cheap clothing a necessity.
Au ordinary palm hat can bo bought
for from ten to fifteen cents, and two
of them will last a year. The sandals
used, which will last about two months,
co t 25 cents.
While labor for farms Is abundant it
is almost impossible to get laborers
for railway construction. I have been
faintly impressed with this fact, as
one of my duties is to supply peons
for the Mexican Central railway, and
although we pay from 50 cents to $1
per day for common labor, we are at
tho present time probably two thous-
and men short, and find it impossible
to procure men. Men who receive $1
per day leave ns to go to work on the
farms at 25 cents. There is no more
Independent class of labor in the world
than the Mexican peon, as his neces-
sities are few. There is no part of the
year when crops are not being har>
vested, consequently bis services are
continually In demand, so that iustead
of labor looking out for a boss the
boss is going around with bis bat in
his hand begging the ragged peon to
please be kind enough to do him the
favor to go work for him.
The principal diet of the Mexican
peon consists of corn and beans, with
a generous supply of meat. The prin-
cipal meats used here are beef and
pork, although at certain seasons of
tho year a good deal ol goat meat is
on the market. They also consume a
great many vegetables, as vegetables
can be raised the entire year.
I am not at all acquainted with the
tenant farmer in Texas, but I doubt if
he is as independent or as muoh sought
after as the Mexican peon at the pres-
ent writing. Yours truly,
A. V. Templi,
Industrial Agent.
The important facts stated above
are that peou labor iu Mexico finds
employment all tho year rounu; that
it provides for all its wauls without
excesfeive labor, and that it possesses
comforts iu the way of diet atwl ap-
parel equal if uot superior to those en-
joyed by our own cotton laborers. It
should be added also that the women
aud children of peon families do not
perform a tithe of the service render-
ed iu the cotton fields of Texas by
women and children.
Duriug the late presidential cam-
paign I ascertained that the diflerence
betweeu peon aud American wages
was not as great as the difference be-
tween peon aud American labor; that
a specific service costs as much, if not
more in Mexico, than in this country.
The letter from Mr. Temple empha-
sizes this fact. The peons prefer to
work on the farms at one-half the
wage rate of the railroads because
they are required by the latter to work
under a foreman, and to perform what
to them appears to be rigorous ser-
vice. The truth of the matter is that
the peon, who works not half the
time and lives on the fat of the land
in Mexico, could not keep body and
soul together in Texas with the same
labor performed in the cotton field.
Yet we require women and children
to do 60 per cent of this work, and re-
munerate them with a maintenanoo
below that of the Mexlesn peon.
NOTICE.
The undersigned, whose residence
and postoffice address Is Cameron,
Milam coonty, Texas, hereby gives
notice that he was appointed adminis-
trator of the estate of li. Alford by
the couuty court of Milam county,
Texas, on this 20th day of October,
1398, and all persons ho'dlng claims
agaiust said estate are roquired to
p.-esent the same within the time pre-
scribed by law. Witness my hand
tl'iv Nov. 12 T. S. H nde?jon,
Administrator of the estate of It. Al-
ford, Deceased. 11-17-41.
Get the best whiskey on the mar*
ket by buying the celebrated L W.
Harper brand from J. W. Brewer. At
tbe old Milam Connty bank building,
11-24-tf.
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McAnally, Oscar F. The Cameron Herald. (Cameron, Tex.), Vol. 17, No. 22, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 1, 1898, newspaper, December 1, 1898; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth233504/m1/1/: accessed April 25, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting The Dolph Briscoe Center for American History.