Brenham Daily Banner-Press (Brenham, Tex.), Vol. 30, No. 218, Ed. 1 Wednesday, December 10, 1913 Page: 3 of 8
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WKDNESDAV, DEC. 10, 1913.
BllENHAM DAIL1* BAJVNEIJ-PKEsS
PAGE 1HRM
BUCKHORN
SALOON
JULIUS URECH PRO?
I FEED THE HUNGRY
You can get a nice meal or short
orders at any time of the day.
Prices reasonable. Located iu
same building wi'.h Buck horn
Saloon.
OTTO TESCH
Anthony Transfer Company, J. W.
Sullivan, Prop.
Buss and baggage wagon; passen-
gers called for all trains. Trunks
hauled to and from station.
Phone No. 33 and No. 4
FOR SALE—A good fire proof safe,
inaide dimensions as fctilows: 21
inches high, 11 inches deep and 16
inches wide.. Can be seen at the
Banner office.
CORN MEAL
roller crushed monitor
Scoured Polished Separated
MEAL
35 Pounds 75c
17 Pounds 40c
1 I Pounds 25c
6 Pounds 1 5c
A full line or fine groceries
and feed stuffs.
Wm. SEIDEL
I Have Right Now in the
Height of the Shopping
Season
Many Things
For The
Christmas Tide
Gifts useful as well as
ornamental, includ*
ing Bath R o b es,
Sweaters, Mufflers,
Silk Hose,Gift Hand-
kerchiefs and other
things.
Cmk in and look them over
ALEX SIMON
HOW HID THE
BIRD KNOW THAT
Character makes the store—as
well as the man. Generous stocks
—strict attention to Service-^
Highest Quality—make this a
store of strongest character.
There's danger to life in using1
poor drugs.
Upon the reliability of the
druggist and his goods rests the
health—and lives perhaps—of
many people, so it is absolutely
necessary that your prescriptions
be filled by skilled men of expert
knowledge.
Skill, Experience. Accuracy, Es-
tablished Confidence—that confi-
ness depends.
dence upon which the drug busi-
Our store enjoys that confi-
dence gained by wide experience.
Bring your prescriptions to us--
They'll be filled correctly with
purest drugs.
Drop in sometimes for Sun-
dries—Cold creams and lotions
for chapped hands and faces!
F. W. SPREEN
BUY AND USE
esKXct^
RED CROSS CHRISTMAS
SEALS
One cent each.—Place on
the back of <i)\ mail. Christ-
mas Seals built the Memorial
Children's Hospital at Galves-
ton, for cases of bone tubercu-
losis. Christinas Seals are fi-
nancing the State-wide cam-
paign for County Hospitals,
the National Movement for
Federal Hospitals for consunp-
tive strange s in the Smthwent
and the other public health
work of the Texas Anti-Tuber-
culosis Assn. Deta'ied viforma-
tion given on request.
CHRISTMAS SEAL CAM-
PAIGN
Headquarters State Capitol,
Austin
MRS. O. B. COLQUITT,
General Chairman.
Mrs. C. B. Sheppard, Chairman
Brenham's progressive merchants
advertise their goods in Brenham's
progressive paper the Banner-Press,
and the results of these ads are
81 White Slave Traffic Aim Of Federal Law
Vice Districts Of Town And City Offers
Inducemets To Keep Business In Progress
New York. Dec. 10.—Unfortunate ' ate to her, who poses as a "savior,
Jly for the victims of the white slave U'"1 when the unfortunate girl, be
I . lieving the visitor to be real I v de-!
traffic, but luckily for the procurer, <
I sirous of helping her, opens her,
the public persists in its ignorance
heart and pours out the cup of her j
of, and indifference to, the gravest, Wy calamity s,u. lH attackc(| by j
most menacing problem with which j the keeper Cr procurer and merci- j
modern civilization must cope, j jess|y beaten. After such an inci- j
White slavery! How many people dent the unhappy victim gives up all;
know what it means, and how vast j hope and is afraid to talk for fear {
is the number of people who even j the visitor might be an accomplice i
doubt its existence? Speak to any j Thus is the girl brutalized, terrified j
person of average intelligence con- | beaten and kept in subjection.
cerning this social evil, and in most ' The cases are numerous which ;
cases, even if its presence be con-j prove these statements. In a recent I
sentenced to i
ages;" | o years in penitentiary) it appeared I
that 'prostitution can not be abol-J that the girl was stabbed from head j
ished," etc. They ignorantly con- i to foot because she refused to so- j
! . j
fuse prostitution with white slavery, j licit on the streets. She had been :
and overlook the fact that the for- ! seduced and tricked away from her1
mer does not feed upon nor exist by brother's home, with whom she !
reason of white slavery, while the lived, under a promise of marriage,-
latter feeds upon and exists only by then she was enticed to leave New
%7TD #
The Banner-Press publishf s
the news while it is news.
all
ceded, you will hear the opinion ad-|ca.se (defendant was
vancecf'' that "it existed for
abol-j that the girl
m T«in ! 4M
tn*rri
FAST SERVICE
North and South
Good Connection!
East and West
ROCK BALLAST
Oil Burning Locomotives
Heavy Rails
f hrough Sleepers and Diners
For Further Information A»k the
Local Agent
virtue of the former. Luckily for
the white slaver, the average juries
—that is, the people at large, of j master
whom they are composed—do not
understand, have no idea of the hor-
rors of the traffic, and they have,
most lamentably, in many eases ac-
quitted the criminals because it ap-
peared that the girl—the complain-
ing witness—was not previously of
chaste character, illustrating how ig-
norant the public is of the purpose
of the federal white slave traffic act,
which is to punish any person living
off the earnings of prostitution, and
ork City for a neighboring town,
and when in the strange place her
brought men to the hotel
where they were stoppinir and,
threatened with the loss of her life,
she was conianded to sell her body
to them.
In another case, a girl of l.'i was
seduced by a procurer (they lived on
the same block) and later actually
sold for $10 to a "madam" of a
house in a Connecticut town, where
the child was an inmate until she
contracted a horrible disease, was
brought back to New York and giv-
that it makes no difference whether ! en to the custody of the Society for
the girl was or was not previously I the Prevention of Cruelty to
'chaste,' the act attaching a double dren.
Reach Anyone
Anywhere
Through The
Bell Telephone
Mr. Merchant, is your business growing? With
Bell Telephone Service there would be no limit
tit its scope and bigger possibilities.
Your field would not be just your neighborhood,
town or city but the business world.
REACH OUT, WIDEN Your Business Influence
and (iROW-
HAVE A BELL TELEPHONE
The Southwestern
Telegraph
and Telephone
Company
1
ill-fame as soon as they reach their corns to have lost none of its hold
destination. on popular favor, as this is the third
This method is very simple. The <on«'Cutive season that the pretty-
white slave agent visits the small j s'10w
towns of all parts of Europe, where
has amused innumerable
thousands
the condition of the masses
the
In the wake of other seasons, Ma
j penalty only in the case of where
the girl is under age, her chastity
| playing no part. People also believe
j that the victims are usually girls of
; vicious character, who have chosen
: the life of shame of their own voli-
The human (it'nds 'are strongly
organized and have their places of
most wretched, where starvation is a (lame Sherry is remembered for it*
common occurrence. Here he repre- efficient splendor, its unparralleled
sents himself as the agent of a large scenic equipment, its perfect ensem •
manufacturer, seeking help. Tempt- i hie, and the corps of unrivalled
ed by the fat wages promised, and, j principal singers. From first to last
C'hil- ignorant of the trap set for I Sherry is a laugh producer, and the
them, the innocent girls are only too I fun is hurried along by complica
glad to go with the "agent." But | tions arising out of a man's love for
their cries when finding
themselves ( a maid.
rendezvous, where business is trail-1 enshared in houses of ill-fame are in The pretty romance of the story
sacted, the victims being designated
a* "meal tickets" and "live stock,"
and bought and sold as mere cattle.
' tion; but how baseless this belief is Thus is womankind, the "gentler
the following will show: sex," dealt in like merchandise.
It is a fact which has been estab- It will be useful to divide the vic-
lished / through various investiga- tims of this traffic into classes, with
tions/ that there are scattered1 the causes that bring about the
PURE DRUGS
Help To Heal The Sick
TRISTRAM'S PHARMACY
will fill your Prescriptions using
none but the best and purest
drugs at reasonable prices.
A FINE LINE OF PERFUM-
ERY and TOILET PREPARA-
TIONS for LADIES OF GOOD
TASTE.
Get rid of your Bad Culd.
Sure cures for colds already
prepared.
Everything up-to-date in the
drug line at
TRISTRAM'S
PHARMACY
FRED HEINECKE, Prop.
thn^Sighout the United States—and,
1>T course, the entire civilized world
—vast numbers of men and women,
whose sole occupation is to entice,
lure and trick, by the vilest and wil-
iest means, young girls, and even
married women and mothers of chil-
dren, from their homes, either under
downfall of each such class, and
then show the methods employed by
the procurer in connection there-
with, as well as the methods used
by the. keeper to terrify and bring
them to a point where they fulfil the
biddings of the master submissively.
They may be divided, roughly, jn-
j promise of marriage (and some- to three classes:
j times gfoing through the marriage First. Victims
of the economic I
vain, their agony moves not the pro- j asserts itself at proper intervals,
curer, who is devoid of all sense of j just enough to sustain the piquancy
human feeling and stops not at the!of the French farce, and the en-
lowest conceivable crimes to attain j chanting melody of music that
his object—money! I thrills with the gaiety unrestrained,
- — of love, of hate, of all the passions
Special demonstration will !>e giv- ■ that man can know.
en at W. J. Cox's Hardware Store
on Thursday afternoon from 2 to <i
o'clock, when the Ladies Aid Society 1 Little Movement" brings
of the First Baptist Church will
serve luncheon prepared on the gas
ranges. On this day Mr. Cox ''as a
special sale on gas stoves and all' ,• i . •
, i„ • s , , , ■ j, ' gamut ot human emotion
aluminum ware, and has kindly put
on this sale to give the ladies a bet- bier tread."
ter opportunity to secure contest ,,
votes on all purchases made. Every Heading th<- capable aggregation
housewife appreciates the c.onven- , ,,|' musical celebrities is Sydney De
ience and pleasure of a gas stove .
and attractive aluminum vessels. | "'•v' 0 1,1 favorite character
Fhe ladies cordially invite all their I of Theophilus Sherry should be long
The bewitching strain of "Every
to mind
' j the edict of the sage. "Than spark
ing music, no sentiment can run the
with nim-
friends to call during these houi
| and partake of a steaming hot lun
ceremony) or better employment. j system; that is, the poor and the j cheon. 217 *21 Adv. the
and
AT 1. H. QUEUE'S
GROCERY
Large Halves
Shelled Pecans
and Almonds
At a Low Price
New Walnuts and Filberts
ind lots if Pecans
Call Early
J. H. QUEBE
WE SELL FOR LESS
When in the strange city these vie- lowly, daughters of the working I
tims are placed in houses ot ill- class, who make up the bulk of the !
fame, where they are kept prisoners i white slaves.
with doors and windows locked, Second. Victims of the money-
their street clothes taken from them,J making mania.
given a wrapper and house slippers I Third. The vicious who cannot re-
instead, and forced, sometimes at I s'st the temptation to have "swell"
the point of a revolver, to sell their clothes and fine jewelry
virtue for coin, which is divided be-1 Victims from the first class are
tween the procurer and the keeper.! recruited very easily, their downfall
These victims do not know of the!being caused by sheer economic need
! merry life of the usual prostitutej and wretched poverty. The
i that
I Way.
and they are often beaten when theyi range from about $:{ to §8 :i week.
| show any resistance or attempt to Their struggle to keep body and
| escape, or when not "treating the jsou' together is terrible. Jane Ad-
| 'customers' properly." In a recent' darns, of Chicago, tells of a depart-
! case (defendant was sentenced to 10 ,ment "tore girl, who, for a period of
years in the penitentiary at Atlan-I12 months, struggled to save enough
ta, Ga.) the girl, complaining wit- '° buy a pair of shoes, but in vain,
ness, testified that within about four I ur,t-il finally she was trapped by a
; weeks, during which time she was procurer, who bought her all the
wages
pleasantly remembered. Among
support are Lillian Coleman,
Clarence Lydston, Grace Duval,
.lack Pollard, Edna Robinson, Wal
lace McDonald, Georgia Knowlton
and Alex Wallace. The chorus of
singing and dancing corypheos is al
ways a bright feature with Madame
Sherry, besides its superb orchestra
under the notable baton of John A.
Madame Sherry, the brightest and. Raynes. Popular prices will pre
most tuneful musical comedy of, vail for this attraction.
many seasons will be with us Wed- — -
nesday, December 17, at the Grand
MADAME SHERRY
IS COMING HERE
NEXT WEDNESDAY
* met on the "Gay White j of these poor girls, who work in far- Opera House. The "Madam*
Theirs is the life of the slave torics, shops or department stores, j famous for its charming'
FREE For the next ten days
world ; Free. A water color with ea.-h doz-
I en Cabinet Photos or larger.
Adv.217-tf Winkelmann's Studio.
melody, I
\r
jkept a prisoner at a house in Brook-
lyn, she had earned about $450, all
shoes and fine clothes she wanted.
She was getting $5 a week. Four
LET US FIGURE YOUR BILLS
Can Save Yon Money
All Kinds of Building Material, Lime
Cement, Brick, Shingles, Corrugated Iron
V
r.
of which, save $6, which she con- dollars was paid for board and lodg-
cealed, was taken from her by her 'nK- Sixty cents was spent for car
master.. With the money she had ^are weekly. Forty cents were thus
thus kept from the fiend she bought! 'e^ PaJ' f°r dresses, shoes, hats,
a pair of shoes. When this fact was i 'aundry and the various other indis-
discovered he "gave her a beating" j pensible necessaries of a young girl!
(the language of the witness) say-!'8 an>' wonder that when the pro-
ing she could have got a pair for a '"urer came to her, offering to buy
dollar and a half. ."whatever her heart desired," she
They are not allowed freedom of; a victim to his apparent gene-
movement and are so terrified1 r°sity ?
j agains divulging any information or by far the greatest majority
] relating their teles of woe that on of this clasS of white slaves are of
i visiting these houses one finds that foreign birth, or immigrant class.
| the girls are afraid to talk for fear Some of them are lured to come to
of these men. this country under promise of em-
The keeper, in order to test the P'oyment, or, not infrequently, mar-
mind of his slave, sends his associ- riage, and are placed in houses of'
J. F\
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LUMBER STOCK COMPLETE
Our Lumber stock is large and coruplete. I>et us figure with you;
we will meet any and all prices.
Building material of all kinds—Cement, Brick, Lime, Shingles.
Corrugated Iron. —» i/fc.-lt
CHAPPELL HILL LUMBER COMPANY
HENRY A. WOOD, Proprietor
DRUGGIST
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