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Dallas,
Fort Worth,
Denison,
Kansas City,
St. Louis and
Chicago.
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MOTT & ARMSTRONG,
Attorneys at Law.
Pullman Ordinary Sleepers, Berth
rate less than One-Half Standard Fare,
Six Days of the Week.
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NOTE CONVENIENT SCHEDULE'.
^“7.30 P M TRAIN LAST OUT OF
HOUSTON FOR GALVESTON.
Ask for tickets via “Santa Fe.”
WM, A. MORROW, C. P. & T. A.
Phone 792. Office 307 Tremont St.
lllh GALVESTON TRIBUNE.
Tire? Trains Daily
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New Orleans Bo East
SOLID VESTIBULE TRAINS.
Meals at our Dining Stations Unsur-
passed, only 50c.
Sunday, Dec. 314
LEAVE GALVESTON,
7.00 A Maud 1.40 PM
RETURNING, LEAVE HOUSTON,
1.50 P M and 7.30 P M
Knows No Law.
OCULISTS AND ADR a STS.
PR W. H. BALDIN GER—21st and Mar-
ket. Practice limited to diseases cf Eye.
Ear. Nose and Throat.
I At. 112.45 a. m.
I £,v. I 9.00 a. m.
(The McMillan Company,-
of Dec. 2 I called atteii-
MRS. B. NEUROTH, s. e. cor. MMs and 19.
Fashionable Dressmaking. Terms rea-
sonable. References. Will sew by the day.
Ing morning in ample time for operations
In the early markets. _
I 7.35 p. Hl.
I 2.30 p. m.
Our freight service leaves Galveston at
10 o’clock a. in. and arrives in Beaumont
at 7.35 p. m. Through train from Galves-
ton to Kirbyville without change.
H. S. SPANGLER,
Genera! Manager.
6.40 a. m.
10.15 a. m.
309 Tremont .Street, Galveston.
JOHN W. CAMPBELL,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Room 3, Reymershoffer Building.
Byron Johnson. Marsene Johnson.
JOHNSON & JOHNSON,
ATTORNEYS AND COUNSELORS.
20th and Market. ’Phone 780.
TRIBUNE WANT ADS
CHEAPEST AND BEST.
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Found Plenty of Easy Texts Without
Touching Hard Ones.
W. E. Curtis in Chicago Record.-
During the discussion of the Briggs here-
sy case some years ago I sought an inter-
view with Mr. Moody on “higher criti-
cism.”
“I’m not up to that sort of thing,” he
said, with a twinkle in his eye. “You see
I never studied theology, and I’m precious
glad I didn’t. There are so many things
in the Bible that everybody can under-
stand that I’m going to preach about them
until they are exhausted, and then, if I
have any time left, I’ll take up the texts
I don’t under stand.”
“Aren’t you ever asked to discuss difft-
SITUATIONS WANTED.____
SITUATION .WANTED in a small family
. a.s cook and,'- '"hotiS’ekeeper. Address Box
456, Tribune.
SITUATION WANTED by German boy,
willing to work. Apply to WALDEMAR,
1208 31st st.
&ALVESTON TRIBUNE
(Member of the Associated Press.)
Official Organ of the City of Galveston.
Official Organ of Galveston County.
PUBLISHED EVERY WEEKDAY AFTERNOON AT THE
Tribune bldg., 2ist and iVlaixet Sts.
The S. C. Beckwith Special Agency sole
agents for forei/.i a.ivertrstnt.
' LEGAL^NOTICES.________
NO 3Q-19—The State of Texas to the Sheriff
or any Constable of Galveston County,
o'pr.p Lin p- *
I 'Lovenberg. administrator of the es-
tate of Gustave Hummeland, deceased,
having filed in our county court his final
account of the condition of the estate of
said deceased, together with an applica-
tion to be discharged from said adminis-
tration, you are hereby commanded, that,
by publication of this writ for 20 days in
a newspaper regularly published in tha
county of Galveston, you give due notice to
all persons interested in the administra-
tion of said estate to file thoir objections
thereto, if any they. have, on or before tha
next regular term of said county court,
commencing and to be h olden at the court
house of said county, in rhe city of Gal-
veston on the third Monday in January,
A D 1900. when said account and applica-
tion will be considered by said court.
Witness: GEO. H. LAW. JR,. Clerk of
the County Court of Galveston County.
Given under my hand and seal of
[Seal] said Court, at my office in tha
city of-Galveston, this 18th day ofc
December. Al D. 1899.
GEO. H. LAW, JR.,
Clerk County Court. Galveston Co.
By G. F. BURGESS, Deputy Clerk.
A true copy I certify.
HENRY THOMAS,
Sheriff Galveston County.
By JOHN A. KIRLICKS, Deputy Sher-
Eastern office - - Tribune building, New York
Western office — “The Rookery,’
SUBSCRIPTION RATES:
By mail - - per year, $5 AX); six months, $3.00
By carrier - per year, $6.00; per month, 50c.s
The Saturday edition, by mail, per year, jd.OO
(Strictly in advance.)
Entered at the Galveston Postoffice as
mail matter of the second class.
EjOIN’T FORGET!
HOLIDAY RATES
To AH Points in ths
Southeast and Mexico,
On Sale Dec. 20, 21 and 22. Good 30 days
for return.
Excursion Kates to
All Points in Texas,
Dec. 23, 24, 25, 26, 30, 31 and Jan. 1st. Good
to return Jan. 3d, 1900.
J. H. MILLER,
• "P Sr T A crpTi t
403 Tremont St. Phone 8^.
L. J. PARKS, General Passenger and
Ticket Agent, Houston, Tex.
MISCELLANEOUS WANTS.
WANTED—Show window about six (6) feet
in width, cheap for cash. Apply 312 20th
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WANTED—Horse for feed; will guarantee
good care. 713 Church.
WILL BUY Second Hand Furniture until
J in. 1st. R. H. CHANDLER. 2C25 Py3,
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LOST, STRAYED OR STOLEN from 37 th
and Broadway, one green parrot, yellow
bead. Reward for its return to MRS.
PLITT, 37th and Broadway. No questions
asked. •
L. J. PARKS, General
Ticket Agent, Houston, ica.
S. F. B. MORSE, Passenger Traffic Man-
ager. Houston.
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PROFESSION /IL.
John Charles Harris. Edward F. Harris.
HARRIS & HARRIS.
ATTORNEYS AND COUNSELORS-AT-
: > .* LAW.
, , nxoi.Galveston.- Tex.
IjAW AND-ABSTRACT offices
of
MACO & CLEGG STEWART.
Southwest corner 22d and Mechanic.
Galveston. Texas.
W. T. Armstrong.
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SPECIAL NOTICE.
WE ARE PREPARED to supply gentle
family milch cows on short notice: let
us know what you want. THE A. P. NOR-
MAN LIVE STOCK CO. Phone 197.
GET YOUR DAILY LUNCH (best for the
price) at the KATY. 310 Tremont, from
10 a. m. to 2 p. m. With refreshment, lt>c.
PT 19 TO BE HOPED that you will be
happy throughout the 20th century. But
you can’t if your tooth aches. Let DR.
PERKINS apply “Nerve Qui-e-tus —it
will stop the pain, never to return. This
is positively guaranteed. _
LANDLORDS, Housekeepers, attention:
For your glazing, mattress making (on
your premises if desired), key fitting, fur-
niture repairing, varnishing, etc., call on
or address JACOB CASDIN, southeast 34-th
and H. Satisfaction guaranteed.
IT PAYS to buy Lumber from LEITH,
18 th and Market.
Dorothy Manners; a masterful creation
' comes grandly out and gloriously shows
her devotion. A wonderful girl is Miss
who deserves to live; a supposed flirt, as
true as steel; japparently shallow, but
deep as the sea; seemingly as weak as a [rooms; horse, buggy,
rope of sand, but really as strong as the I tesian, rain, add good
Atlantic cable: long live Dorothy Man- west^orner 38th and
ners I
■ Richard, by a most fabulous series of !
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S A NIT A £ ¥ C O N T R A C TIN 6.
HlEAnAjP.
Send for
P. J. FITZPATRICK,
the Sanitary Contractor,
Southwest corner 37th and N.
Phone 1342.
TRIBUNE W^-NT ADS
DO THE BUSINESS.
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Individual Comment Upon Events of the
Closing Week.
This has been a week of comparative
commercial idleness. It is stock-taking
and book-balancing time. It was just the
period needed for the markets to recover
and for conditions to resume the normal.
The reaction from last week’s excite-
ment has been all that was expected. The
losses in stocks have not been fully recov-
ered, but sanity has been restored and
confidence is the rule. Many securities
Lad been unduly inflated, and these per-
haps will not reach their former level for
a long time, if at all. But they will come
to the equilibrium of real value and that
is all that healthy commerce requires.
The week has re-established the position
)0f cotton, which is the commodity of
greatest concern to the south. Liverpool
has scored the highest price of the season
and apparently has come at last to recog-
nize the facts as they have been known
■on this side from the beginning of the
harvest.
It can not be too strongly impressed by
reiteration that this season has demon-
strated the ability of the south to control
her greatest product. By careful market-
ing she has reaped a steady increment of
values, and yet has not yielded to the
temptation to squeeze the spinners, which
she might have done with success, but
which is always a dangerous undertaking,
because it arouses a sentimental resist-
ance, and sentiment is quite as strong in
commerce as fact, for all thg materialist
philosophers aver to the contrary.
The south is not sharing .to the full the
industrial prosperity of the north and east
because it lacks industries in which the
trade revival has its supply, but the south
is many millions winner on the cotton
crop, and is in better condition for a. new
year’s business than at any time during
the last 20 years.
cult passages of scripture?” I inquired.
“Mercy, yes,” answered Mr. Moody, “al-
most every day, but I always answer peo-
ple just as I have answered you, and tell
them that there is satisfaction and con-
solation enough in the promises of the
Savior, all that anybody can want. The
single verse, “Come unto me, all ye that
labor and are heavy laden and I will give
you rest,’ contains all the theology and re-
ligion that, I need, or any other man or
woman,”
But a la.'W of Nature bows
to the necessity of keeping
the blood pure so that the
entire system shall be strong,
healthy and vigorous.
To take Hood’s Sarsaparilla, the great
blood purifier, is therefore a law of
health and it is a necessity in nearly
every household. It never disappoints.
TIr©€» Feeling — “ I had that tired, dull
feeling, dyspepsia, headaches and- sinking
spells, but Hood’s Sarsaparilla made me a
new man. I never was better than now,”
John Mack, Oskaloosa, Iowa.
Rosy Cheeks - “ I have good health
and rosy cheeks, thanks to Hood’s Sarsapa-
rilla. It builds me up and saves doctor’s
bills.” Mary A. Burke, 604 East Clair
Street, Indianapolis, Ind.
Hood’s Pills cure liver ills; the non-irritating and
•nly "cathartic' to~tal<e with Hood’s Sarsaparilla.
HE FOOLED THE SURGEONS.
All doctors told Renick Hamilton,
West Jefferson. O., after suffering
months from Rectal Fistula, he would die
unless a costly operation was performed;
but he cured himself with five boxes of
Bucklen’s Arnica Salve, the surest Pile
Cure on earth, and the best Salve in the
world. 25 cents a box,,.. Sold by J. J.
Schott, druggist __
“I am indebted to One' , Minute Cough
Cure for my health and life. • It cured me
of lung trouble following grippe.” Thou-
sands owe Greir lives to the prompt action
of this nr- er failing remedy. It cures
coughs, colds, croup, bronchitis, pneumon-
ia, grippe and throat and lung troubles.
Its early use prevents consumption. It is
the only harmless remedy that gives im-
mediate results. J. J. Schott.
MRS WINSLOW’S SOOTHING SYRUP
has been u.-cd for over 50 pears by millions
of mothers for their Children while teeth-
ing, with perfect success.' It soothes the
child, softens the gums, allays all pain;
cures wind colic, and is the best remedy
for diarrhe oa. Sold by druggists in every
oart of the world. Be sure and ask for
“Mrs. Wir-'o-’’s Soothing Syrup,” and
take no other kind. 25c a bottle,
Hammond Typewriter for beautiful work.
REAL ESTATE. I
FOR SALE—Two and a half lots, corner :
included, fine land, with new two-story
house of six rooms, halls, bath room and
large attic, also servants’ house of 2
’ cow stables, etc.; ar-
good well Water, on south-
. west corner 38th and Q%. Owner is. alone .
I in this city and wants to go home to moth-
- er. Will sell on small cash payment and i
balance on six per cent. This is YOUR 1
opportunity.
That fine corner lot southwest corner N 1
and 32d, this week at a price you cannot
afford to miss. Easy terms.
Trade: A fine -new residence five min-
utes’ walk from court house; lot and half.
Will trade for half cash and balance in
city property. Value, $5500.
FOR RENT—Residences: H & 28; L & 25;
L & 21; H & 32; N% & 23; H, 36 & 37; P &
21. Cottages: 824 P. O.; 3110 N; O & 15; N
& 15; R & 28; N & 22; 3708 O; 3624 N; 1108 N.
Stores: L & 14; Mechanic & 20. Restau-
rant, 19th & A. C. O. HERVEY,
Real Estate and Rental Agent.
“GREEN SIGN.” .
FOR SALE—
My home at 3617 avenue M: lot 771/^xl471A
feet, high filled and handsomely improved.
! sILil yh Jfioifj FRED CHASE.
I HAVE GALVESTON CITY PROPERTY
to exchange for Jefferson County land.
J. R. CHEEK (Blue Sign), 514- Tremont.
FOR SALE—3% lots s. e. cor. P and 26th,
$2750.. The block of ground situated on
Rosenberg ave. bet. aves. P and P14, as a
whole or in quarter blocks. A chance to
make some money by buying this proper-
ty and retailing it in single lots.
FOR‘RENT—Two-story 8-room house on
J bet. 20th and 21st; 6-room cottage s. e.
cor. 22d and O%.; cottages and store on J
bet. 39th and 40th; desirable east front of-
fices and: rooms' 22d and Mechanic.
AUSTIN & CO., 307 22d st.
^OR RENT.
FOR RENT—A 3-room raised cottage and
halI>.-10Qft ave. O- Apply . 1613 0.
FOR RENT-Oiid.flo.or of two-story house,
5 rooms, modern conveniences, private
family? Central.' location; rent reasonable.
A. P.. GAUTIER?2115 Postoffice st. '
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FOR RENT—Four-room raised cottage;
good neighborhood ;35th and Winnie. Ap-
ply soutlieaist corner grocery.
FOR-RENT—A six-room house in good or-
der,-with large yard, on north side of G14,
setTOil lot 420 22d st.
FOR RENT—Ten-room two-story house,
convenient for rooming house; good loca-
tion^l922 Winnie^ _
FOR RENT—High raised 4-room cottage
With' hall-, S:, wJ,8th and Church. Apply
J. B. ROEMER; 310 Tremont st.
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FOR RENT—A NEA'i'. SPACIOUS AND
LIGHT OFFICE ROOM. INQUIRE
KNAPP BRO'S., 2111 STRAND.
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FOR RENT—That fine raised cottage
northeast corner 35th and S, 9 rooms and
8-foot hall, with' or without half a block
of ground and large stable. Inquire, on
premises.' \.
A FARM FOR R,ENT in Newton county,
Tekas, 'neat'.the Sgbine river; 75 acres to
cultivate; good for sugar cane, corn and
cotton; plenty of wood and water, well
fenced; 5-room dwelling, barn, etc. Will
lease for one or more years to good farm-
er, German preferred. Can give possession
at once. MARSENE JOHNSON, 20th and
Market, Galveston.
FOR RENT—Cottages, 22d find ave. P;
new raised 4 r. &b., city water, inc., $15;
corner, 6 r.; $20; raised, 6 r., 7th & H. $12.
HEBERT -AUSTIN. Attorney - at - Law,
; Levy.Building. Phone 1439.
FOR RENT—Two-storv house on 35th and
Postdffice. Apply to MR. MON GAN.
s FOR*RENT—A neat two-room cottage in
i rear of 1915 ave. P. Apply to 1915 ave. P.
FOR RENT—One 6-room and’ one 5-room
: raised cottage, each with bath, at 31st
and Q. Apply Tremont and Q grocery.
FOUND.
DR. PERKINS has been using Nerve Qul-
e-tus” in his practice for the past 10
years and. has anplied it in over two thou-
sand cases, but he has never made any
noise about it until lately; but it is such a
superior remedy for forever quieting the
pain of toothache that he has resolved to
let the world know of it and is taking
steps to introduce it to the dental frater-
nity everywhere, but he reserves exclusive
control of it in Galveston.
FOUND—That it pays to buy Lumber
from LEITH, 18th and Market.
ROOMS AND BOARD.
FOR RENT—Nicely furnished south room
to lady in private family, $25 per month,
or $12.50 for room and breakfast; all mod-
ern conveniences: references exchanged.
Address Box 467, Tribune.
WANTED—One or two boarders. 2317 ave-
nue I.
FOR RENT—Suitable rooms with or with-
out light housekeeping. Apply 1609 Tre-
mont.
FOR RENT—2‘ unfurnished south rooms,
next to southeast corner 34th and L.
FOR RENT—To a couple without children,
two connecting rooms, suitable for light
housekeeping; references required. 1505
Postoffice st. , __ .
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WANTED—A genteel colored boy to make
himself generally useful. Apply 1501 ave-
nue H.
WANTED—Good servant, white preferred.
Apply 2914 ave. K.
WANTED—DR. PERKINS wishes you not
only a happy New Year, but hopes you
will continue to be light-hearted and joy-
ous throughout the whole of the 20th cen-
tury. But how can you if your tooth i
aches? Get Q,R. PERKINS to “fix ’em.” .
“Nerve Qui-ejrtus” stops ail pain forever,
prevents paincwhen preparing tooth- for
filling, kills the nerve. Nothing like it
ever known before. DR. PERKINS only.
WOMAN for general housework. No. 1924
Church st.
WANTED—A good white couple willing to
-work and take an interest in what they :
have to do; man to attend tp horses, milk
cows and general yard work; woman to
Gjo’- v"sh and iron for family of four;
situated in Fort Bend county, about 20
miles from Hou - on. Bex 431, Tribune.,
HARK! the her1 id angels sing
Ivey’s Mattres. es are just the thing.
Peace on earth i nd mercy mild,
You’ll sleep on them just like a child.
R. IVEY, Uj holsterer. Phone 916.
WANTED—A young white girl as nurse.
1924 Church street.
DR PERKINS is making the best arti-
ficial teeth you ever saw for $8 to $10.
Plainer teeth on good fitting plates for
$5 90. Plates lined with aluminum or gold
if desired. “Nerve Qui-e-tus” is a great
remedy in painless dentistry. DR. PER- I
KINS only. I
NEW YEAR RESOLUTIONS.
My son, hear the instruction of thy :
father, and forsake not the law’ of thy ■
mother.—Proverbs 1, 8.
New Year resolutions are worth while, ’
even though they be broken the next day.
It is something to be good 24 hours, and it
is more to desire to be good. So long as
there is resolution there is conscience,
and no man is past hope if conscience is
not dead. It is the same with respect to
small vices and bad habits. It is better to
break them for a-season than to surrender
absolutely.
The Master had this idea in mind when
he said an offending brother should be
forgiven seventy times seven times. True,
he was speaking of the obligation to for-
give rather than encouraging sins to be
forgiven. But the injunction assumes as
a predicate that reformation will many
times fail of its effort.
The proverb of the text was not deliv-
ered with reference to New Year resolu-
tions, but it is a good basis for reforming.
The man who remembers the instruction
of his father and obeys the law of his
mother can not go astray’in the matter
of correct living. The instruction of the
fathers is the wisdom of experience, than
which there is no greater wisdom. The
law of the mothers is the law of prurity,
which is nearly all of morality. So the
text is an appropriate study for New Year
reformers.
. I have no patience with the man who is
a Democrat or a Republican because his
father was one, nor much with him who
is a Methodist or a Baptist because his
mother was. Politics and religion should
be based on convictions confirmed by in-
tellectual process, and he is of little use to
his party or his church who can not give
a reason for the faith that is in him. But
in the matter of personal conduct, wheth-
er of social relation or of business affairs
it is quite enough to follow the instruc-
tions of the righteous father.
Many , a youngster has rebelled against;
parental advice because he thought he
knew better, but as a general rule he re-
pents his folly and wishes he had followed
hi-s father’s counsel. They know a great
deal, these gray heads, and it is all the
more to the point of their counsel that
they can tell us by sorrowful experience
of the pitfalls that lie along the- way of
youth. And the wisest thing they tell us
is that sin is without profit of any sort,
that it leaves only stings and stains,
wounds that will not heal and scars that
will not grow over. Many a father is
wicked, but he is a sad sinner, indeed, if
he does not teach his son to shun the evils
which he ventured. And it is & foolish
son that will not take his father’s word
for the bitterness of transgression.
It is all very brave to dare temptation,
to sow wild oats and reform, but it is a
"very foolish bravery. Somehow we must
all try it in some degree, but wise is he
who is content to venture lightly, and as
he finds his father’s counsel verified in a
small experience to conclude that it is
true as applied to the whole category.
You may recall the confidential talks he
had with you at various stages of your
growing up, when as an elder brother he
teld you of his mistakes and warned you
to beware, when he pointed out the better
way of uprightness-and sobriety. Whether
it pertained, to ^omen or wine or gaming,
to business matters^or to social relations,
you remember he said he knew from expe-
rience or .from an abundant observation,
and as a man of affairs he had found it all
vanity and vexation.
The New Year is a good time for re-
hearsing those paternal lec hires, to see
how they have come true and how much
better off you wopld have been if vou had
followed them more closely. What a
blessed thing it would ,be if the sons of
good fathers were as good and the sons of
wicked fathers were better. On the gen-
eral average- they are, of course, else the
wcrld would be no better today than it
was at the start, but the law of averages
is not a proper basis of conduct. Individ-
ual attainment is the point. No man can
hope to escape condemnation because he
is a trifle less wicked than his fellow or
because there is a leaven of righteousness
in the race.
The law of mothers is a rule of conduct
i based on character and instinct, and it
. supplies all that the experience of fathers
may lack. The mother knows by intui-
tion. She has a superior moral and spirit-
ual perception which lays hold of truth
without having to dig it out of the mire.
She may not be able to furnish such plain
reasons for her conclusions, but they are
right because they are the precepts of
purity. The father’s commandments are
given because the are right; the mother’s
are right because they are hers.
Turn a man loose untutored upon the.
the world and he would lead a sorry life.
He would sound every depth and dare ev-
ery infamy in the spirit of the temptation
and to the full of the dissipation. Turn a
woman loose untutored upon the world
and she would suffer many hardships, but
she would turn intuitively from evil ways.
She might do many unfashionable things,
things which would subject her to slan-
der and insult, but they would be errors
of innocence, which would leave her un-
spotted.
“Mother knows,” the kindly but firm
protest again the impulses of childhood
waywardness, was confirmed every day
of the growing period, and “Mother knows”
might be profitably recalled every day
and hour of the adult years. It is won-
derful how much she does know, consid-
ering that her knowledge springs- from the
isolation of the home and not from con-
tact with the outside world.
The old people did not know much about
the progress and methods of these re-
markable times, but they knew the prin-
ciples of business and conduct which are
the same yesterday, today and forever.
They did not get so much comfort out of
life, but they got a great deal more out of
death than most people do in these swift
days.
To recall their instruction and re-read
their law at the beginning of the new year
.will fortify resolution. To heed and obey
will make living simpler and cheaper—for
there is economy as well as righteousness
in purity—and will give the new twelve-
month a seasoning of self respect and
strength of character which will make the
next year easier.
8.10 a.m. I Ly.
3.10 p. in. | Ar.
FOR SALE.
SATURDAyTmONDAY AND 'TUESDAY
I will sell my stock at such low figures
that every one . is able to buy. We will
taM stock Wednesday, and up to then you
can 'almost buy at your own figure. I have
a largp lot ^of- patterns left over. They
must go.. RIGEANDER’S MILLINERY,
2117 Postoffic®-.
FOR SALE—Cheap for cash, Parlor, Bed-
room and Dining Room Furniture. Apply
720 Broadway. Reason, owner leaving city.
FOR SALE—A big load Kindling Wood,
50c. A dray load of knots, $1. A full sup-
ply of sawed and split wood delivered from
5O.c 'to any amount free. 809 Broadway.
Phone 973—2 rings. Jones will haul your
trunk or baggage for 25c.
GROCERY STORE AND BAR-ROOM
Fixtures for 'Sale cheap. Southwest cor-
ner 34th and ave; H.
FOR SALE—Account removal, Cord Wood
$1.75 per half cord and up; sawed and
split, all kinds and quantity. Phone 883.
VOISIN BROS.. 30th and Church.
GASOLINE STOVES, Heaters and Cook
Stoves repaired and for sale. Also Sew-
ing Machines repaired, all parts of Stoves
or Sewing Machines at HICKMAN'S, 715
Tremont st.' Phone No. 1291.
FOR SALE—A full blood game rooster, $5.
Address O J. MANG-LIERS, Hitchcock,
Tex.
PHONOGRAPHS! GRAPHOPHONES!—
(from 5 dollars to 150 dollars) and sup-
plies; 1100 records of latest tones to select
from; everything on hand; old records and
old machines exchanged for new ones.
THE TEXAS PHONOGRAPH CO.. 504
Tremont street. Phone 1136-3 rings.
HORSE FOR SALE—In first class health,
suitable for carriage or every day usage.
Apply at 211 9th st.
FIRE AND
BURGLAR-PROOF
SAFE
FOR SALE CHEAP
at
2119 Strand.
G. L. BOHN, Tinner and Dealer in Cooking
and Heating S'oves, corner 18th and Mar-
ket. Phone, .1263.
FOR SALE-1-
Three Bedroom Suits, $10, $20, $25.
Oak Hall Rack, $6; Long Pier Mirror, $8.
Walnut; Folding Bed with large fine mir-
ror, . $18.
Small Go-Cart. $2.50: Fine Curly Pine
Safe. $10; 50-gallon Oil Tank, $2.
Walnut Dining Table, $3.
Chairs. Rockers, Tables, Cocoa Matting,
15c per yard.
Sundry other household goods at
2711 Avenue I.
BEST BREAD IN TEXAS—Phone 740. 2
.rings—MACK’S BAKERY. 16th and Me-
chanic. Full line of ornaments for wed-
'din.g and..bl^h(jay cakes.
FOR SALE—Four cisterns, good condition
—$9, $7, $8. $4. 1G19 Tremont.
BEAUMONT
A New Book by Mrs. Mary -J. Holmes
Some Remarks on “RicftARD Carvel,”1:
More About Race Problem Ar,ticlesc-
■“The Tracy Diamonds” is a .new. hovel
by Mrs. 'Sarah J. Holmes. Tt„ is a iStqry in
two parts, and is commonp.ja.ee enough in
the first part, but redeems itself -In the
second, and taken as a Is qiflTe ,a
readable book. The reader,.Is iii.t^rested
from the beginning, and abkortoingly so as^
the narrative proceeds. The -.herainc/.
Helen Tracy, is.“a rag and a boue ahdia: that were not born to dieX
hank of hair”—a coquette, a bfeSWtJT. a
something in the form of woman, but not
a woman, for there is ndoSuch thing as a
heart located anywhere in her anatomy.
She can cry, but her tears ar'e no inore
from a heart than are her smile?., . .. ux xliO v.xoxxx.x —-
It is a story of heredity, ..-The scene is. gods of the great in London,
laid in a small town in ■.'Slassaclf.usetts jrvHrvn a mr Nxri fV) li'OY. f
where people from BostofiSfilaS’ Ne^^ork^ i
who seek quiet rather.JHian .dissipation -
sometimes go for the summer. One of t'Ke-
objects of interest is;-;an old desert'efC'u
dwelling known as “the haunted house/’’
Here lived ancestors ofCSlkrk.^JJiitqn, .the 1
hero of the story, who -is-now the clerk
at the Prospect house, where-'the'.Trady i
family with their diamonds stopping, ,
His great grandmother Called JginaX-ived
in “the haunted house,” where her dius- '
band was murdered, for whicli-she was
hung. It is her ghost :th^7-jpcd&slonaily
visits the deserted halls cient
mansion. J". .
Mark Hilton, however, is to all appear-
ances, perfection. In the ca.pa^XtJ’ .oL wait-
ing boy at Prospect houseJsi'a.’bpy.' called
Jeff, who is the great grandson of Tina.’s
maid, who was suspected of cwnplfoity in
the murder, but who IWasJr-^as&dljLQT
want of evidence. UiltoiT.an'd,tti4s.'boy- are
attached to each other and became -com-
panions for life. Hilton, and Helen Tracy
elope. As the years pas'S'. Hlltah', -b.eCotgps
jealous and distrustful, Of Jij'S„.CQCm8tte of
a wife. . They quarrel. ..^he-r^ini^bim
of the gallows in his family history. Then
comes separation and afterwaX’d xliyj>rce.
The only child, a girl, '.is. glyejr. Jp-'the
mother. The father disappears-and is sup-»
posed to be dead. Years- a?tefwa!E.d ,
Helen, now Mrs. PreseotV-’-a- WlGoW, is ,
traveling with her grewb'.Ta tighter .in
California. This daughter.has taken-t-he
name of her stepfather,--but is- MarktlTll-
ton’s child. Visiting the' yqsftmifex'd'W,
they find that whole
two robbers who hold up-stage coaches
and are a terror to travelers. < S/fr's.-Pr'es-
cott and her daughter, discover,.these rob-
bers to be Mark HiltoiTIaUfl..Jpff, under
assumed names, of cotjt.?e1;;:;‘H'eredity has
done its work. The two menifare reformed
by a pure love and. a great "sorrow, and" so
heredity is conquered. . Tj;,. '
There are several otl<jp?e.affairs, in
the book, but they are'of secondary im-
portance. .• ... .
There is no reason fSft'-CatMflg: tire ..story
“The Tracy Diamonds”; except that the
Tracy family belong ■ some very large
and costly diamonds which figure in the
elopement of Mark and Helen and also: in
the stage coach robbery in California a
quarter of a century later, which discloses
to Helen and her daughter, though not to
tha public, the Identity of the robbers.
The book is interesting and wholesome,
and is not by any means devoid of power.
(G. W. Dillingham Co., New York, $1,59).
I suppose I shall have; to acknowledge
: that I am a somewhat belated reader of
“Richard Carvel.” Yet I am not so, either,
, if that oft quoted advice of a certain
American sage is really wise: “Never read
; a book that isn’t a year old.”
“Richard Carvel” i«s a novel imposed
upon the reader as a memoir—a chronicle
le'ft to the Carvel family, after the man-
ner of’“When Knighthood Was in Flow-
er.” ’■ ■ -ixx v '.
While this ruse is perfectly transparent,
we like it, because it-gives to-fiction, the
more realistic form of fact, and is far
better than the deliberate reminder fre-
quently given the reader in “Vanity Fair”
and in “My Novel” that he is reading
what never occurred. We know this quite
as well as the author, but do not particu-
larly enjoy having him everlastingly tell-
ing us so; nor is it either good taste or
good art in him to do this.
So far as I can judge of-the style of the
chronicler of a century ago, the author
seems to have imitated it wellr and tb have
sustained himself in.;Jhis’ imita-tion
throughout. The occasionally recurring
“My Dears,” and the quaint spelling and
curious usages (such as “and” where now
we should- say “if”); the occasional re-
mark of the Maryland aristocrat about
“going home”—meaning England—and
many like things k.eep the reader con-
stantly realizing that jjie is reading the
chronicles of a grandfather which are
edited by a present dayvdescendant of the
hero. jU
The picture of life as it was lived by the
colonial aristocracy is < delightful, and
quite realistic. The reader sees the baron-
ial homes of these riefe blue blooded tories
and’ marvels at the luxury , of their dress,
equipages and tables.- Marvels not be-
cause it is new to him, -but because the
presence in these western woods, at that
time, of so much wealt.h and culture and
style, can never cease to be;a wonder.
The brewing storm-of*-war with the
mother country, the rise of the patriot
party, including the whig gentry,'is intro-
duced with fine' effect. And it is a time
that does indeed “try men’s souls” when
friends and members of the same family
come to the parting of' the ways, some
following the highway of the king, and
some striking out in a new direction, blaz-
ing out for themselves in the untrodden
wilderness a way to li-g^Tty.
This trial came in the Carvel family, for
Mr. Lionel Carvel, the-fine old gentleman
of Carvel hall, is a Tory of the tories,
while young Richard, his favorite and
heir, is an incorrigible patriot.
The hero is of th.a't type always admired
alike in history and in)r«bmance—absolute-
ly fearless, dashing, generous, honorable,
and a master of all manly arts—horse-
manship, swordsmanship-and the like.
The strongest and finei£ piece of work in
the book is the delineation of the charac-
ter of the heroine, Dorothy Manners, who
like Richard Carvel, lives in Annapolis,
and is his companion and sweetheart from
childhood. She is one- of those perfectly
charming- Contradictions and impossibil-
ities whom we meet some-times in real life.
She is radiantly beautiful: has as many
moods as the sea; is heartless today and
the tenderest and most considerate of cre-
tures tomorrow; plays with him whom she
really loves as a cat with a mouse (for-
give this commonplacb,'Jand worn out fig-
ure—there is no other.jjjat will do); laughs
at the idea of his as^Mn-g to her hand,
awkward provincial tFiaJ: lie .is; tells him
she is going to marry a.dtikc; and is taken
to London by her pusiHanflnous little flee
of a father for the purpe-se of realizing
that dream (very serious on his part);
never permits Richard Carvel to suspect
her love, and surrenders only when he is
in great misfortune ahcl distress; then she
The. week has chronicled absolutely
nothing of political interest. With con-
gress adjourned and the politician in the
bosom of his family, it has been impossi-
ble for. the evil one of political turmoil to
Stir up any strife.
The same dulness has marked all de-
partments of current affairs. The stream
has swept into an eddy and the boatmen
are quite content to rest a bit. Monday
the craft will slip out of the still waters
and move onward, let us hope, into deep
and safe channels, between fruitful banks
to peaceful seas.
adventures and accidents, comes to Lon- |
don, having been rescued from a pirate j
ship on which he was a prisoner, by a j
good ship commanded by Capt. John
Paul, who had a great weakness for fine
clothes, eyes the flash of which could
quench muntiny, who trod the deck as
born to rule a storm, and who afterwards
added Jones to his name, thus constituting
“one of the few, the immortal names
’2 L 1 1 2,_ K- ” Richard finds
London at the feet of Dorothy, and is
himself soon the talk of the metropolis.
There is something grotesquely funny in
the picture of a boy of 19 years and a girl
.still younger, both fresh from, the woods
of the western world, becoming the little
— j- „—„x t Richard’s
intimacy with Charles Fox, and his fa-
miliarity with the great folk in general is
very amusing when one stops to think,
which one isn’t obliged to do. In the in-
troduction of great historical persons as
familiar characters in his story, an au-
thor imposes a gigantic task upon himself,
which is nothing less than the sustaining
of these characters. Description may be
easy enough, but he must make them
talk, and to do this he must be they. Mr.
Churchill gives us quite a vivid picture of
Charles Fox’s appearance and dissipa-
tions, but when Charles talks it does not
. seem to the reader that it is Charles Fox.
It is a really dangerous thing for a novel-
1 ist to fill a drawing. room with Charles
Foxes, Horace Walpoles and Lord Norths,
because they are sure to get to talking,
and' then! Then,; he must be all of them;
and probably, very probably, he can t,
poor man. But the reading world-has
made no mistake in voting Richard Carvel
to be a delightful historical novel of a
high order. ' - -
New York.)
In The Tribune ------— -
bibn to the announcement made by the:
“Atlantic Monthly” of the forthcoming
articles by its former editor, Mr. Page, qn.
the race problem in the south. Referring
to the visit of Mr. Page to the south
preparatory to writing his said papers,;!
iexpressed a decided skepticism as to the
value of a mere visit as a preparation for
the discussion of 'this most difficult prob-
lem, and said that residence for some
length of time in the south was necessary.
A very courteous letter has come to The
Tribune from the editors of the Atlantic
Monthly recognizing* the real interest
' manifested by my comments, in the ar-
ticles announced, and seeking to correct
what seems to them a wrong impression,
which they do by saying that “Mr. Page
is.a southerner by birth, a native of North
Carolina, and by long inheritance has an
'instinctive knowledge of the conditions
and problems of the south.” They agree
ithat our “skepticism as to the. value of;a
flying visit as a basis for the discussion of
the race problem is quite justified.”
It gives me pleasure to correct any
wrong impression which I may have made.
I shall look forward with decided interest
to the promised articles, since I know
what I should have known before, pos-
sibly, that Mr. Page is a “southerner.”
A southern man who has lived in the
north possesses every advantage that en-
vironment and point of view can confer
for the discussion of the race problem.
The eminent literary ability of Mr. Page is
widely recognized. W. M. HARRIS.
--------------»----;---—
The modern And most effective cure for
constipation aftd all liver troubles—the
famous little fllills known as DeWitts
Little Early Risers. J. J. Schott.
M U N I C I P A L P U B C P I
PROCLAMATION OF THE MAYOR of
the City of Galveston, ordering an elec-
tion to determine whether or not certain
bonds- authorized by the charter of said
city shall be issued.
Mayor’s Office, Galveston, Tekas. Dec.
9, 1899.—By virtue of the authority vested
in me by law, and in pursuance of an or-
dinance passed by the. City Council of the .
City of Galveston on the 5th day of De-
cember, 1899, I, Walter C. Jones, Mayor |
of the City of Galveston, do hereby order
an election to be held in all of the wards
of said City of Galveston on Tuesday,
January 16th, 1906, for the purpose of de-
termining whether the bonds of the City
of Galveston to the amount of ninety thou-
sand dollars, authorized by its charter,
shall or shall not be issued. Forty thou-
sand dollars of said bonds are authorized
by Sec. 132a of the charter as amended by
the Legislature in 1887, and are payable
forty years after the date of their issue,
and bear interest at the rate of five per
cent per annum, payable semi-annually,
the net proceeds of which are to be used ]
exclusively for permanent street improve-
ments as provided in said section and the
ordinances in pursuance thereof. i
Fifty thousand dollars of said bonds are
authorized by Sec. 132e of the charter as
amended by the Legislature in 1897, and
said bonds are payable forty years after
the date of their issue, and bear interest at
the rate of five per cent per annum, pay-
able semi-annually, and the proceeds of
which are to be used as said charter re-
quires, to raise, fill, grade, repair, macad- ■
amize or otherwise improve any avenue,
street or alley in the corporate limits of
said city, and all of said bonds are re- :
quired to be sold for casn at not less than
par, and may be redeemed at any time
after the lapse of 20 years from their is-
suance.
Every qualified voter who is entitled to
vote for members of the Legislature of this
state, and who shall have resided within
the limits of said city six months, and
within the ward in which he is residing at
the time of offering to vote thirty days
next preceding the election, and who is a
property taxpayer of said city, shall be
entitled to vote at said election; and all
voters qualified as above described, and
who are property taxpayers of this city,
who desire to support the proposition to is-
sue said bonds, shall have printed upon
their ballots the words “For issuance, of
bonds,” and those oposed shall have print-
ed upon their ballots the words “Against
the issuance of bonds.”
All property tax payers of said city, as
shown by the latest complete assessment
rolls thereof, and who are qualified voters
therein, shall be entitled to vote; and a
Board of Inquiry, consisting of the Mayor,
the City Assessor and the City Collector,
shall sit daily in the City Hall from 10
o’clock a. m. to 4 o’clock p. m. for the pur-
pose of making additions to or corrections
of the list of property taxpayers who are
qualified voters, and all such taxpayers,
during the period of twenty-five days next
ensuing after the date of this notice, shall
have the right to apply to said board and
to have their .names entered on the list;
and the judges of the said election shall
have the right to examine any person of-
fering to vote whose name may not appear
on .said list, and if satisfied that he is a
property taxpayers and qualified voter in
said city, shall receive his vote; and a list
of all persons thus permitted to vote shall
be kept by the officers of the election and
returned together with the printed list
furnished by the board; and the manner of
holding said election and making returns
thereof shall be goverened by the laws of
the state regula.ting general elections.
The polls will be opened from 8 o clock a.
m. until 6 o’clock p. m. of said 16th day of
January, 1900, at the following places and
under the following presiding officers; that
is 'to say:
FIRST WARD: Embracing the terri-
tory north of avenue G and east of Thir-
teenth street. Polling place, First Ward
market house; presiding officer, C. u-.
Powers, jr.
SECOND WARD: Embracing the terri-
tory north of avenue G between Thirteenth
and Seventeenth streets. Polling place,
building on southwest, corner of Fifteenth
and Postoffice streets; presiding officer. L.
. C. Luth.
THIRD WARD: Embracing the terri-
tory north of Broadway, or avenue.J, and
■ between Seventeenth and Twenty-first
streets. Polling place, north end Third
Ward Market house; presiding officer,
Chris. Fox.
FOURTH 'WARD: Embracing the terri-
tory north of Broadway, or avenue J, and
between Twenty-first and Twenty-fifth
streets. Polling place, northwest corner
Postoffice and Twenty-four-.h streets; pre-
siding officer, Henry ;R«yhauflt.i ,-.
FIFTH WARD: Embracing the terri-
tory north of Broadway, or avenue J, and
between Twenty-fifth and Twenty-ninth
streets. Polling place, No. 3 engine house,
Church street, between Twenty-fifth and
Twenty-sixth streets; presiding officer,
Dave W. Schram.
SIXTH WARD: Embracing the terri-
tory north of Broadway, or avenue J, be-
tween Twenty-ninth street and the western
boundary of the city. Polling place, No. 6
engine house, Broadway, between Thirty-
seventh and Thirty-eighth streets; presid-
ing officer, Daniel McBride.
SEVENTH WARD: Embracing the ter-
ritory south of Broadway, or avenue J, be-
tween Twenty-ninth street and the west-
ern boundary of the city. Polling place,
school house on southeast corner avenue J
and Thirty-eighth street; presiding officer,
Guy C. Harris.
EIGHTH WARD: Embracing the terri-
tory south of Broadway, or avenue J, be-
tween Twenty-fifth and Twenty-ninth
streets. Polling place, northeast corner
avenue L and Twenty-eighth street; pre-
siding officer, Victor Baulard.
NINTH WARD: Embracing the terri-
tory south of Broadway, or avenue J, be-
tween Twenty-first and Twenty-fifth
streets. Polling place, sofithwest corner
avenue K and Twenty-third street; presid-
ing officer, C. G. FORDTRAN.
TENTH WARD: Embracing the terri-
tory south of Broadway, or avenue J, be-
tween Seventeeth and Twenty-first streets.
Polling place, schobl house on southeast
corner avenue K and Twentieth street;
presiding officer, August Bautsch.
ELEVENTH WARD: Embracing the
territory south of avenue G, between*Thir-
teenth and Seventeenth streets. Polling
place, No. 5 engine house, avenue K be-
tween Sixteenth and Seventeenth streets;
presiding officer; George M. Abbott.
TWELFTH WARD: Embracing the ter-
ritory south of avenue G and east of Thir-
teenth street. Polling place, northwest
corner Tenth and avenue L; presiding of-
ficer, Edgar J. Berry.
The presiding officers of each ward shall
on or before the clay of election select from
among the qualified voters of the ward two
judges and two clerks, who, with the pre-
siding officer, shall be the managers of tne
election. The managers shall take the
same oath and have the same power and
authority as managers of general state
elections. The ballots shall be counted as
required by law, and the returns together
with the ballots and lists shall be returned
sealed to the City Clerk within three days
after the election. . .
Only official ballots Will be received by
the managers of the election, which win
be furnished the voters at the polling
T)1:81COS ' "
WALTER C. JONES, Mayor.
Attest:
GEO. Q. McCRACKEN, City Clerk.
LEGAL NOTJCES^ ____
NO?2999Wrhe State of Texas to the Sheriff’
or any Constable of Galveston County,
23',eetin:g‘ i
B. R. A. Scott, administrator of the esT
tate of Louisa M, Palms, deceased, having
filed in our County Court his final and sup-
plemental account of the condition of nie
estate of said deceased, together with an
application to be discharged from saia ad-
ministration. you are hereby . commanded,
that, by publication of this writ for twenty,
days'in a newspaper regularly published
in the county of Galveston, you give dtie
: notice to all persons interested m tne ad-
ministration of said estate to file their o.o-
: jections thereto, if any they have, on or
before the next regular term of said Coun-
ty Court, commencing and to be hoiden at
the court house of said county, in the city
of Galveston, on the third Monday m Jan-
uary A D. 1969. when said account and
application will be considered by said
court.
Witness: GEO. H. LAW. JR.. Clerk of
the County Court of Galveston County.
Given under .my hand and seal of
' [Seal] said court, at my office in the city
of Galveston, this 11th day of De-
cember, A. D. 1899.
GEO. H. LAW. JR.,
Clerk County Court Galveston County.
By G. F. BURGESS, Deputy Clerk.
A true«opy I certify.
HENRY THOMAS.
Sheriff Galveston County.
By W. H. CASKIE. Deputy Sheriff.
The'"embattled forces in south Africa,
■while not relaxing their vigilance, have
been imbued with something of the peace
spirit of the season and have practically
rested on their arms. England has recov-
ered her confidence and reinforced her
courage with the reinforcement of her
armies. “Bobs” is on the sea with 20,000
fresh soldiers in his wake, and shortly
after the new year dawns the new com-
mander will be in the field.
Swapping horses in midstream is an
adage which does not apply here. Military
Strategy is a thing not taught in books or
maneuvers. It is born in a man, and the
only way to discover-it is to give it a
chance to display itself in action. When
it proves wanting there is nothing for a
nation to do but to change commanders
and to keep on changing until a military
genius able to cope with the situation is
found. It is hard on the men displaced,
but it is the fortune of war and the cruel-
ty of national success.
Belinda was the smallest cat
That ever you did see.
One day Belinda met a rat
Quite twice as big as she.
Now, what are you to do
When a rat’s as big as you?
Belinda said: “I’m not afraid
Of any rat alive.
I’d swallow any rat that’s made,
Or two, or four, or five.”
Now, how could she do that—
■Such a very little cat?
The rat replied: “I never knew
A cat as brave as I.
But as for such a cat as you,
I'll make you into pie.”
Did you ever see a rat )
Dine off a pussy-cat?
Belinda said: “Superior cats
Think fighting only fun.
Just call a lot of other rats;
I’ll eat them, every one.”
Now, don’t you think that that
Was a most courageous eat?
The other rats joined in the fight.
Big, little, short and tall,
Gray, brown, and brindled, black and
white—
Belinda ate them all!
D’ you wonder how I know?
Belinda told me so!
—Eric Parker, in January St. Nicholas.
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