Halletsville Herald. (Hallettsville, Tex.), Vol. 36, No. 7, Ed. 1 Thursday, April 18, 1907 Page: 1 of 8
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Vol. 36.
Halletsville, Lavaca County, Texas, April 18, 1907.
No. 7
GIBRALTAR AND ALGIERS.
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LETTER FROM S. J. THOMAS ON HIS
TRIP ABROAD.
CUBAN MINISTER £ U. S.
Recommends Pe-ru-na.
It was a pleasure to emerge I but heartbroken at the loss of
from the dark ages in which her cherished fort, brought ttie
Spain is still living into the light J full force of her great resources
of modern progressiveness Such
as prevails under British rule on
the fortified rock of Gibraltar;
atid to hear our mother tongue
once more from the lips of those
who can Hpeak it intelligibly.
Gibraltar is the strongest
natural fortress in the world—
a giant sentinel, stolid, imperious
aod terrible, at the gateway of
tbe great mid-continent sea.
From the Atlantic its outline is
an abrupt slope that does not
impress one as he approaches,
but a closer view, such as is pos-
* tible from the harbor inside the
bay, brings out the grim defiant
features and establishes the
splendid commanding position
it occupies. One is almost sur-
prised and is greatly relieved to
find that no insurance company
has vandalized its noble front
with advertising signs and that
it stands in all its virgin and
primitive grandeur uudefaced by
chisel or paint.
Gibraltar may be described as
a bold headland promontory jut-
ting into the sea, a huge rock
projected, as it were, L»y some
powerful force from the Sierra
Nevadas, in an attempt to dam
the communicating seas, with a
-low train of sympathetic sand
• connecting the dislodged boulder
with its mother mountain source.
It is a solid mass of limestone,
three miles in length,^even in
girth and three-quarters only at
its greatest breadth. Onthenorth
it is connected with ttie mainland
of Spain by a valley but little
higher than sea level, and there
is where the rock shows up to su-
perb advantage. Full 1,400 feet
the adamautine monster rears
his pompadoured bead and
sweepH the Mediterranean sea
and Spanish hills with never
sleeping eye. It isynot hard to
imagine this bold d/max an ossi-
fied emblem of thq great nation
that holds if, a decumbent lion
with uplifted hesid and sloping
posterior.
Around this fumone pile the
navies of tbe world have battled
for advantage/ and the floor of
the sea is strewn with the wrecks
of conflict. (Sibrultar took its
iiame from t/be word Gebal, the
Moorish term for mountain, and
Tarik, tho Moorish chief who
first occupied it as a strong hold
in 711 A. I>. From that date to
the present it has been taken and
surrendered fourteen times, the
Moors boldiug it together 72(5
years. It is related of Queen
, ' Isabella of Spain, she who pur-
chased America for a ring and a
,1 necklace, that she was so intense
. in her desire to recover Gibral-
: 1 tar from the Moors that she
\ seated ! herself on a certain rock
. in the vicinity no w called “Queen’s
Chair,”1 and asserted her deter-
V; initiation never to move until the
, (Spanish flag should float from
PVthe fortress. She would have
-w perished had not the Moorish
commander gallantly rundown
Jar)/his own flag for a few moments
-and supplanted it with the colors
1-ofSpaic, allowing the foolish
SQvereifj ;n to save her race.
Buttlie most, miserable of all
"the siepes that have tried the
merit ®f Gibraltar’s bulwarks
and thje mettle of its defenders,
K Wa* tl1
when
e lastone, that of 1771)
Spain, mortified and ail
to bear upou the citadel of Eng-
lish endurance. For four years
isolation was complete aud the
bombardment continuous, hut
in the end of the siege was a fail-
ure, the British won out and to
this day are in undisputed con-
trol. During that war the Eng-
lish dug a tunuel, technically
termed a gallery, in the solid
rock, to bring a flanking Are on
the enemy without exposing
themselves. Since then the gal-
lery has been extended and oth-
ers constructed until today there
are seven miles of them.
It was my privilege to walk
through a portion of this under-
ground network of communica-
tion. The rough jagged walls of
solid rock; the resounding echoes
of feet and voices; the damp,
dark and sinuous passageways;
every twenty or thirty feet, a
powerful dog of war, silent, se-
vere and threatening, with his
muzzled nose through the win-
dows of tlie rock; the very pres-
ence of the uniformed soldiers
in charge of our party: great
precipitious depths underneath;
the uplifted tremendous heights
above and the great guns visible
there; altogether conspired to
give an impression of powerful
latent military possibilities, of
terror of war; of Britain’s uu
stinted efforts to perpetuate her
prestige behind thegreatest navy
and army and the greatest forti-
fications of the world. Gibral-
tar is bristling with cannon
whose location is a military se-
cret and if the men behind the
guns are auy marksmen at all,
no fleet, in the world could run
the gauntlet of their batteries.
Between the rock and Spanish
soil is a strip of neutral ground
200 yards wide which by agree-
ment is not to he used by any
nation. Near this point are lo-j “
cated the cricket and tenniH fired the
grounds where the soldiers en-
gage in games, and a cemetery
holds in its solem vaults the
fruit of a dozen wars.
On the west, side of the hill 1 he
Senor Quesada, Cuban Minister to the United States.
Sonar Quesada, Cuban Minister to the I'nited Stales, is an orator born. In
an article in Tho Outlook for duly, 1SW, by Oeorge Kcnuau, who hoard Quesada
si>eak a( (lie Esteban Theater, Matanzas, Cuba, he said : “I have seen many aud-
iences under the spell of eloquent speech and in the grip of strong emotional ex-
citement; hut 1 have rarely witnessed such a scene as at the close of Quesada’s
eulogy upon the dead patriot, Marti.” In a letter to The Peruna Medicine Com-
pany, written from Washington, D. C., Senor Quesada says:
“Peruna I can recommend as a very good medi-
cine. It is an excellent strengthening tonic, and it
is also an efficacious cure for the almost universal
complaint of catarrh. ’’---Gonzalo De Quesada.
In hot countries as well as cold conn-; where as a standard remedy for catarrh
trlea catarrh is an omnipresent scourge, in all forms.
Catarrh ailliets the old and the young,
the rich and the poor, the lowly and
the famous.
Nearly everybody has catarrh at some
time in life. It is the general preval-
ence of catarrhal diseases that has
brought Peruna Into such fame through-
out the world.
Peruna has been used as a catarrh
remedy soloug thatit is regarded every-
M r. Theodore Lang,Dal ton,tla., form-
erly Commander of tlieO.A. R. of the
Slate of Maryland, writes:
‘‘It is a special pleasure to me to rec-
ommend Peruna to all who may lie af-
flicted with that most annoying and
dangerous disease, catarrh. I have
taken six bottles of Peruna, and I
confidently believe my cure is per-
manent.”
town of Gibraltar is located, tier
on tier, pell mell and promiscu-
()n its
oils among the rocks,
main street there is a constant
stream of men of many national-
ities—a rare opportunity for the
student of ethnology. Such a
cosmopolitan mixture of breeds
cannot be seen anywhere else in
world. Europe. Asia, Africa and
tbe isles of the sea jostle each
other in a confusion of costumes
and faces and a babble of-
tongues; tall, stately, slow-pac-
ing Moors from Morocco; red-
turbaned Turks from the Le-
vant; thick-lipped negroes from
Ethiopia; gesticulating, jabber-
ing Greeks; olive hued Span-
foreigners ;ire routed
out like a lot of sheep and at
that time the Spaniards nmv be
seen in droves going to their
homes at Linen, a town across
the neutral ground. Then the
gates of the city are locked and
there is no admission except on
special order.
The rock abounds in caves,
the largest of which 1,000 feet
above the sea, has a hall 220 feet
long, 00 feet wide and 70 feet
high, supported by stalactite
pillars. This cave presents a
most beautiful effect when light
ed up. It contains a fathomless
gulf which recently became the
tomb of a couple of English offi-
’(Sers who fell into it. It is be-
lieved by many thut through a
subterranean passage at the
bottom of this abyss, the npes
which now infest the rock pass-
ed originally from Africa. These
birds; gabardmed Jews; red coat- , aP “s firH respected bv the sol
ed British soldiers and line look- 'hers and roarn over the moun-
tain with impunity and absolute
ing Americans, The city con-
sists entirely of military officials’
residences, their quarters and
barracks, and the homes of those
necessary for supplying and
serving the garrison. Of the
total population of 2.7,000,
0,000 are soldiers. No one is
allowed to establish a residence
or business there except to sup-
ply the wants of the garrison,
and must have a government
permit. At 0 o’clock every af-
ternoon when the signal gun Is
immunity, as they have done
from time immemorial.
From Gibraltar, Trafalgar
Bay is plainly visible, for it is
only a few miles distance. This
was the site it will be remember-
ed, of the battle between Admiral
Nelson’s fleet and Napoleon's
navy, resulting in a victory for
the English and in Nelson s
the churches for the trims. The
constant blare of trumpets, the
marching of troops, the gallop
ing of officers, the frowning
engines of distraction, and oth-
ers still, that we know are ready
for use, concealed behind harriers
and bastions, the men-of-wur in
the harbor, the sentries, the
walls, everything proclaims the
military character of the place.
Gibraltar is strong, but when to
its natural impregnability is
added the military skill and dog-
ged endurance of the British sol-
dier, it becomes as it Iiuh become,
a synonym of all the superlat-
ives of stability.
And yet it is doubtful if Gibral-
tar will ever be more to England
than a place to sink her money
and to harbor and coal Jier
ships. It is the opinion of ex-
perts that war vessels could pass
through the strait unharmed un-
der tire from the fort, by hug-
ging the African coast, und if it
be useless for this purpose there [
is no excuse for its maintenance
except as a matter of pride.
At midnight we lifted anchor
and silently stole past the sen-
tries, unnoticed by the ivatch
dogs of tin* mountain embras-
ures. or aught else so far as we
could tell, save the revolving!
signal light that threw its search-
ing rays fall and fair upon us
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Capital - - - $60,000
Surplus 7 - - 11,000
mple Facilities.
C ourteous Treatment to AIL
fe Solicit Your Banking Bualness.
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death. Atnight no lights on the j The great lion lav still with its
seaward side of the mountain | shaggy head t urned alert and
are allowed, but the illuminut ion I menacing toward ttie unhappy
of the town on the land ward side, j people who were his last enemies,
when seen from aslitp in the hay, j The shadow of the world’s best
is almost equal to that of Eun- j expression of strength and sta-
chnl^ Madeira The British gov- I bility fell athwart the Mediter-
ernment has line dry docks and ; ranean far out, and the moon
while we were there a huge war- ; traced its outlines in the water,
ship was high and dry in i he 1 as it has done since t he morning
hands of machinists and paint-j stars sang toget her and Gibral-
ers. The visitor is always shown tar was born in the labor of a
^he beautiful Alameda park, but world.
as he is not at Gibraltar hunting ! For thirty hours we traversed
flowers he feels almost insulted ! the trackless thoroughfare that
when shrubbery is mentioned 1 bus borne the commerce of every
ry is
There is also a Moorish enthed
ral 1,200 years old, but the vis-
itor is likewise averse to mixing
religion and war, and passes up
agp of man, and Ua« been the
scene of conflicts of galleys,
tnreiqes aou of ironclads that
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Respect fully.
H. J. HEYE
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OF ALL KINDS
W e strive to please and therefore our patrons can he
assured that in coming to this market they will lx* furnish-
ed nothing but the very choicest cuts. Come once and
you will be a regular customer.
JOHN ROTHSCHIVIITT, proprietor
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JEWELER
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Vendor's Lion Notes Bought.
Real Estate for Sale.
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Beaumier, W. R. Halletsville Herald. (Hallettsville, Tex.), Vol. 36, No. 7, Ed. 1 Thursday, April 18, 1907, newspaper, April 18, 1907; Hallettsville, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1015620/m1/1/: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Friench Simpson Memorial Library.