Galveston Tribune. (Galveston, Tex.), Vol. 18, No. 307, Ed. 1 Monday, November 14, 1898 Page: 3 of 4
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All Bearing the Union
Label. 4®=
name up before public notice.
Cards, Placards, Dodgers, Etc. AU
STATIONERY!
Patil’s Ink and Mucilage!
Our Standard DInnL Dnnl/nl Surely do
Flat-Opening DiullK DuOKS ■ Open Flat!
Blank Ruling and Bookbinding of Every Description!
KNAPP BROS.,
Stationers, Printers and
Blank Book Manufacturers,
218 center st., Galveston, Texas.
§ The Voice of the great American Sov-
ereign will soon again be heard at
the Polls!
The Patriot who stands ready to offer
his candidacy for office to the good
people of this great commonwealth
will do well to understand that mere
3 fitness for the office he seeks will avail him little if
2 he does not \
| Press His Suit
by the good old time-honored methods of keeping his
CARELESSNESS HIS SAFEGUARD.
rooms.
BASE BALL MEETING.
W. C. T. U.
LEE IRON WORKS, C. B, Lee & Co,, Proprsq
__2__ . 7 . GALVESTON, TfflX
MANUFACTURERS OF ALL KINDS OF
MACHINERY, STEAM ENGINES AND BRASS AND IRON CASTINGS
Mill_Furnishings and Shafting a Specialty.
i Sold by Druggists,
er sent in plain wrapper,
by express, prepaid, for
$1.00, ot 3 bottles, §2.75.
Circular sent on request.
Wallis, Landes&Co
COTTON FACTORS
AND
Wholesale Grocers.
r in 1 to 5 days.
Guaranteed
not to stricture.
R. P. SARGENT S CO.,
^211& Strand.
Have for sale NEW AND SECOND-
HAND FIRE PROOF SAFES, BOILERS
ENGINES. FURNITURE. COUNTERS
CHAIRS, TABLES, SHOW CASES and
sundry other articles, which can be sold
cheap for cash.
Agents HALL’S FIRE AND BURGLAR
SAFES, VAULTS, etc.
To Reorganize the Texas League for th©
Season of 1899.
There will be a meeting at Houston "
Saturday morning, Dec. 10, 1898, at 10
o’clock, for the purpose of reorganizing
the Texas league for the season of 1899.
------------ ... .i[,
St. Paul, Minn., Nov. 14.—At the W. C.
T. U. convention today Mrs. Ellen Thacher
presented her report as superintendent of
the work among soldiers and sailors, in-
cluding a summary of the work in sol-
diers’ homes throughout the country. She
interspersed her summary with incidents
and illustrations of the work.
SHIP CHANDLERS,
MANUFACTURERS’ AGENTS
and COMMISSION MERCHANTS.
T. L. Cross Co.
have in stock a full assortment of goods
in their line, including BEEF and PORK,
which they are offering low to the trade
and to consumers.
2014 AND 2016 STRAND.
. Dr. McGork’s Invigorator, I
I The Great Vital Restorative. *
A positive cure for nervous debili-
ty, spermatorrhea, dizziness, de- I
1 spondency, failing memory, prosla- J
I torrhea, trembling, and nervous ’
diseases caused by youthful indis- ,
, cretions, excesses or the abuse of I
stimulants. It restores lost man- J
I hood, impaired vigor and exhaust-
ed vitality, stops unnatural losses, 1
strengthens and enlarges the or- i
gans, cures pimples, blotches and (
private diseases. Price $2 per bot-
tle or 6 for $10.00. 1
T. Mc60RK, M. D., Specialist, J
S. W. Cor. 27th and Market,
Galveston, Texas. 1
Adotie & Lobit,
Bankers
AND COMMISSION MERCHANTS,
Sight Drafts on London, Paris, Stockholm,
Bremen, Hamburg, Frankfort and Berlin.
pointed, somehow or another, when we
informed them by signs of our ignorance.
Instead, they laughed and looked at each
other merrily.. Each of the girls had a
big basketful "of swell things to eat, and
they invited us, by cordial signs, to share
the contents of the baskets with them.
I’m ashamed to reflect upon how much of
those girls’ nice food I ate. We got along
splendidly with the girls by means of
signs, ignorant as we were of the mute
alphabet. I couldn’t help but think ail
the •time'what a pity it was that two such
smart-looking young women should be
deprived of the power of hearing, much
less of speech. They seemed to take it
all very cheerfully, however, and they
appeared to have a good deal of fun be-
'■tween themselves, for often during the
afternoon I caught them exchanging
glances and,smiling, as if they were sort
of ‘holding out’ something on us. This
seemed a bit puzzling to me until the train
pulled into the depot in Chicago, on the re-
turn trip in. the evening. My friend and
myself were just about to bid the two
young women adieu by means of our own
little sign manual, when they both burst
into merry laughter. My pal and I stood
in the aisle like a pair of petrified men.
“ ‘You need not look so intensely sur-
prised,’ one of the girls then said, smiling,
in as musical a voice as you ever heard.
‘We saw that you took us for mutes when
you were presented to us—naturally
enough, too—and so we both decided spon-
taneously and simultaneously to be mutes
for an afternoon. We are simply friends
of some of the ladies among the mute
excursionists, and so we came along with
them. Now we’ve got to rejoin them.
Good-by,’ and they both laughingly took
their departure for another car to And
their women friends.”
Chicago Chronicle.
‘■‘The recent series of hold ups makes me
think of the time we came near losing
quite a sum of money,” says a business
man.
“It was while we were building the town
of Pullman/ and often the pay roll called
for $30,000. We paid the men every two
weeks, and as there was no express office
there then the money had to be carried in
cash to Pullman from this city. One day
it would be taken out there, and that night
it would be put in envelopes for each man,
and in the morning given to them. On
this particular day the detectives had dis-
covered a plot to waylay the man who
was to take out the money and get it. But
they did not get the information quite
quick enough, for as they reached, the
station they saw the train just pulling out.
The young man, not knowing that he was
being followed, was entirely at ease, and
threw the valise he carried down on the
floor and went across the car to talk to a
cousin, who was on the train. Of course
the valise was where he could see it, but
he took no further notice of it than to see
that it was there. The men who had
planned to get the money were completely
staggered and kept close watch on him. At
Sixteenth street the young man stepped to
the door to assist his cousin to the plat-
form, and went back to the car and sat
down and put his feet on the.valise for a
rest. The act of going to the door and
leaving the valise had completely finished
the doubt that the thieves had enter-
tained, and they came to the conclusion
tha» this was not the man or that they had
mistaken their time. So they left the train
at the next stop, and the money reached
the men all right. My friend has since
said that if he had known that some one
intended to rob him it would have made
him nervous and he would; have lost his
nerve and betrayed himself and lost the
money.” ,-/ /w/.x
w iBf a non-poisonous
^®?k Spermatorrhoea!
GWhites, unnatural dis-
Ig charges, or any inflamma-,
not to stricture. tion, irritation or ulcera-
Prevents contigion. tion of mucous mem.
jTHEEvANSCheMICAlCo. branes. Non-astringent.
LCIHGINMATl.O ~ - - - ■
Bk v< s- A-
Tlie Man of Moderate , Means,
“I suppose therp can be no doubt,” said
the man of moderate means, ‘‘that a man
can do better work on good food. By that
I mean the best of food, the things that
delight the taste and satisfy the stomach
and suffuse the whole being with joy, to
the exclusion of all care. But I imagine
that these things can be fed to advantage
only to the men who are ready and will-
ing to work and whose ouptut can be im-
proved thereby. They might be lost on
others, whom they would only lull to sleep
and who can be kept at work only by the
rasping stimulant of poverty.”—New
.York Sun.
TOO LATE TO CLASSIFY.
FOR RENT—6 nicely furnished
Apply 701 ave. L.
FOR SALE—DAIRY OUTFIT-SeparaL
or, Churn and Cans; also Horse and
Mule. Inquire 519 21st st.
LIBERAL ADVANCES made on bills la-
ding or Cotton in hand.
MINIMUM CHARGES and FAITHFUL
SERVICES GUARANTEED.
STENCILS, SHIPPING BLANKS AND
DAILY QUOTATIONS furnished on ap-
plication.
________Correspondence Solicited.
Vas is das? Stencils, Rubber Stamps,
Metal Checks. J. V. LOVE, 2205 Mechanic
street.
COST OF ELECTIONS.
The Railroads.
EVENING,
NOV.
14.
1898.
MONDAY
COTTON
ESTIMATE ON COURT HOUSE.
GALVESTON MARKET.
firm.
THE CAPTAIN’S SIDE OF IT.
Manix Alarket News.
HISSING A HERO.
• Jan .. 4 57
4 57a
4 57
4 52a
86,152
82%
83%
82
82
a
15%
41%
A RIFFIAN HORSEMAN.
126,328
5,000.00
was
F
Tone
S’les
' '633
an
521
4%
Re-
Ship-
MARINE MATTERS.
CRIMINAL COURT.
Movement of Vessels from 2 P. M. Satur-
a
Commissioners Wrestling With
Bills for Tuesday’s Work.
66%
31%n
Architect Sangulnet Presents a Sum-
mary-Ordinary Bills Will
Come Up Tomorrow.
This
sea-
Britain,
-e conti-
This day
last year.
4.71b
4.76-77
' 57
840,921
J CUI ,
45,887
34,989
15,439
13,112
. 48%
• 38%
. 89
24b
24%b
$7 77
8 87
$4 77
4 80
$4 85
4 87b
4
3
FREIGHT BLOCKADE RAISED.
Sacramento, Cali., Nov. 14.—The freight
blockade on the Central Pacific caused by
the fire in tunnel 13 near Truckee, has
been raised and trains are running as
usual.
■ $173,900.00
. 50,252.88
5J4
5%
Yester-
day.
3 5-16
3%
4%
4%
4%
5%
5%
Yester-
day.
2.59a
2.59- 60a
2.60b
2.61a
2.61- 62b
2.62- 63a
2.63b
2.63- 3db
39
2.60- 61b
2.59-60a,
2.59a
Yester-
day.
5.15-16
5.19-20
5.23-24
5.27-28
5.32-33
5.36-37
5.39-40
5.42-43
5.42-43
5.44-45
5.03-05
5.11-12
Yester-
day,
2 7-16
2%
2 13-16
3
3 3-16
3%
730
3,600
050
691
15%
42%
135
37%
95%
93%
36%
35%
69%
31%
ei%
42%
76%
3294
16%
68%
34%
49
38%
91
15%
40%
135
Mid.
today
3
4%
4 4?<
4 9-16 4 *9-1*6
4%
4M
4%
3%
4
2%
82,992
3,160
37
95%
9394
36%
34%
68%
31%
61
41%
76%
117
15,000
1,266
6,60u
600
798
......$123,647.12
...... 12,364.71
Today.
.'... .2.60a
.....2-.60-61a
.....2.61b
.....2.62a
.....2.62-63b
....2.63-3da
....3db
....3d-01b
and spots steady. Sales
ituhirh 14,100 wore Amoric
steady and closedTpoint
LIVERPOOL SPOTS.
.... 15%
.... 41—
....135
CIVIL DISTRICT.
In the civil district court before Judge
Stewart today the case of John English
again? ’ the Galveston, Harrisburg and
San Antonio Railway company came up
on a motion for a new trial. The motion
was overruled, to which English’s attor-
Galveston market for spot cotton closed
Today.
.3 5-16
.3%
.4%
.4%
• 4%
• 5%
• 5%
. 93%
• 93%
. 35%
. 35%
. 69
• 3P4
. 60%
• 42%
. 76%
481,293
116,150
22,110
10 • • « • •
74,951 138,260
855
620,408
15%
42%
134% 134%
37
93%
93%
35%
34%
68%
31%
60%
41%
76%
117
Gross amount due ..
Less 10 per cent ........
2,452
7,711
4,750
19,446
35,442
113.081
69,193-
174,540
389,268 strong;^Texas steers,-$2,75@4.00; westerns,
423,888
121,969
131,091
3,492
680,440
57,129
17,807
15
folk, 7984; New York, 2462; Boston,
1663; Philadelphia, 1528; other ports, 4500;
total, 81,081; same day last week, 91,474;
same day last year, 83,377.
GALVESTON TO KANSAS CITY.
Manufacturers’ Record.
Relative to the report that the Galves-
ton, La Porte and Houston railroad may
be extended further norfh by its present
owners, Mr. L. J. Smith of Kansas City,
Mo., informs the Manufacturers’ Record
that this statement is true. The sale of
the railroad has been confirmed to him-
self and associates. He further states
that no terminus for the extension has
as yet been decided upon; but it is under-
stood that the road is to form the Galves-
ton end of the system, which will eventu-
ally terminate at Kansas .City-
MANIX
COMMISSION CO.,
....Dealers in....
Cotton,
Stocks,
Coffee,
6rain and
Provisions.
, JXL.r JX.
; G., C.
____eat; La
cars corn; G. and
Markets.
Port
Liverpool4//..
Galveston ...
NewOrleans.
Mobile.......
(Savannah...
Charleston ,.
Wilmington.
Norfolk......
Baltimore...
NewYork....
Boston ......
Augusta.....
Memphis.....
6t. Louis.....
Houston.....
ii
f
Augusta...
Memphis..
St. Louis..
Houston ...
_ Today.
(January ......... ....5.22-23
February .................5.26-27
EMarch .....................5.39-31
April .......................5.34-35
May ................. 5.38-39
June .......................5.42-43
ftuly ........................5.45-46
August ....................5.49-50
(September ................5.49-50
October ............. 5.51-52
November .................5.12-14
December .................5.18-19
NEW ORLEANS FUTURES.
_ Yester-
day.
4.81-82
4.86-87
4.92-93
4.97-98
5.02-04
5.08-09
Steady..
Firm....
Firm....
Steady..
Quiet ...
Steady..
Quiet ...
Firm....
Nominal
Steady..
...... Dull.....
‘hiladelphia Steady..
Steady..
Steady..
Steady..
Firm_____
280,985
92,034
108,274
The choice of a birthplace is of less im-
portance than the choice of parents.
Open.
Nov ..66%n
Dec . .66%—
May .66%—
Nov ,.31%n 31%n'~U31%n
TA z-i n 9Q1/ <W>1 / «■»-» rr / _
'J-/S oi'/gu
33% ' 33%
.Oats.
24b
'24%
One Way to Win Him Back.
Mrs. Triggs—I’m afraid my husband Ib
drifting away from me. What would you
do to retain his love?
Mrs. Paxton (who has had experience)
—Give that sore eyed poodle dog of yours
away and learn how to get up a square
meal once in awhile, ~ Cleveland Leader.
From-otherpts .....
Gross recpts..22,996
Exports—
We will mail The Tribune to our cus-
tomers giving the full market quotations, as
furnished us by our New York, New Or-
leans and Chicago Correspondents over
our Private Direct Wires.
Long Distance Telephone 784.
2105 Strand, Galveston, Texas.
day to 2 p. m. Today.
ARRIVED.
Ss Bendi, Goldworthy, from Barry.
Ss Roma, Storm, from Rio de Janeiro.
Ss Nueces, Risk, from New York.
CLEARED, ,
Ss . Cotohele, Wren, for Marseilles via
Norfolk.
Ss Lammermoor, Lascalles, fof Rotter-
dam via Newport News.
Ss Hazeldene, Sutherland, for Marseilles
via New Orleans and Norfolk.
SAILED.
Ss Ormazon, Walker, for Bremen via
Norfolk.
Ss Europa, Williams, for Liverpool via
Newport News.
SPANISH TRANSPORT ASHORE.
Havana, Nov. 14.—'The Spanish transport
LeGaspie went ashore at 1 o’clock this
morning at Punta Boca Gavilanes, near
Cienfuegos, province of Santa Clara. She
is totally wrecked. All the crew were
saved.
Satan invariably smiles when a woman
falls in love with the wrong man.
3%
2%
sy2
2%
f4
Bad weather through the cotton belt
boosted prices today. Liverpool was a
point up on futures. Spots were higher
in several of the American markets and
futures were from 5 to '7 points up. The
•market has been so uniformly dull and
the fluctuations recently have been within
such a narrow range that today’s advance
was looked upon as quite a spurt.
3%@
2%@
3 @
2V2@
3 @
3%@
2%@
4 ©
3 @
3%@
2%@
For France......
For other foreign
For coastwise ...
In compresses
depots ...........
This day.
For Great Britain.... 37,564
------ .... 34.080
.... 35,722
..... 4,207
dnd
.... 198,318
Architect M. R. Sangu-inet presented the
15th estimate on work p^ormed on the
new court house by thflfTgxas construc-
tion company. The estimate was for
$6922.79. With this estimatefwas his bill for
1% per cent of this estimate—$103.84. Mr.
Sanguinet had prepared an itemized state-
ment of the cost of work, done and to be
done on the new court house. From this
statement it appears tha,t tijie net cost of
finishing the building will be $50,252.88.
There has already been paid $104,359.62.
Added to this should be the amount of the
15th estimate—$6922.79—making a total of
$111,282.41.
The summary of the ’ statement made
by the architect is as follows:
Total amount contract ............$168,900.00
Approximate amount-.-, of extra
work...................^>.>4....
, Jni
Total contract and extram. - •
Less net cost to finish ..........
ney excepted and gave notice of appeal.
In this case the plaintiff brought suit for
$15,000 against the road for personal in-
juries and a jury last week rendered a
verdict for the defendant.
In the matter of Wm. B. Lockhart
against R. S. Rowland et al., judgment
was rendered against defendant Rowland
for $331.76, with foreclosure of lien. De-
fendant gave notice of appeal.
Tbe Feat of Threading a Needle on Horse-
back While Going at a Gallop.
“The greatest feat of horsemanship I
ever saw performed was by a» Riffian ir-
regular cavalryman,” said Captain J. E.
Rathbone of Los Angeles. “I have seen
Cossacks snatch a baby from its mother’s
arms at full gallop, toss it into the air,
catch it and repeat the performance. I once
saw an Indian rider in the far west spring
from his pony’s bare back while the ani-
mal was moving at full gallop, pick up an
arrow and remount instantly in a standing
posture. I have seen other performances
all over the world, but for a neat, clever,
clean cut feat tips Riffian exceeded them
all, I think.
“Several of us had been at Gibraltar
and found oursaves at the town of Mlilia,
on the Riffian coast. We were entertained
by the Spanish commander, who did the
honors finely. One morning we rode out-
side the town and reached a level stretch
of sand, where there were a number of
Riffian horsemen. They were fine looking
fellows, with gleaming faces of bronze,
white teeth and attired in snow white
burnopses. They were mounted on small
animals, slight, but quick and wiry, of the
thoroughbred Arab barb type.
“We were amused some time by their
charges and evolutions. They would
throw their swords and matchlocks in the
air, catching them by the hilts and stocks
infallibly. Finally it was announced that
something of unusual interest would be
accomplished. One of the men produced
a needle and a piece of thread, possibly 2
or 3 feet in length. They were both hand-
ed around for inspection. I suppose the
needle was a cambric one, and the thread
50 or 60 fine. When we had duly inspected
both, one of the men signified he would
thread the needle. He galloped his horse
down the sand about 400 yards or so. He
finally wheeled his horse and remained
stationary, facing us. The one who held
the needle and thread waved them in his
hand and rode toward the other. When he
had covered about two-thirds of the dis-
tance, he halted and waved his hand to
the farther one. Immediately the latter
spurred his horse into a gallop and came
toward us at full speed. As he passed the
other he took the needlo and thread from
his companion, bent over for a moment
and pulled up when he reached our party,
holding the threaded needle triumphantly
over his head:”—Exchange.
FEDERAL COURT.
This is ;the last day of the present ses-
sion - ' court for this term, and judge
Brya expects to leave for his home in
Sherman tonight. Before closing he en-
tered an order instructing Clerk Dai£ to
adjourn -the court from day to day till
Saturday, the 19th inst.
■Sam Hing, a Chinaman charged with
being unlawfully in the United States,
was allowed 20 days to file bill of excep-
tions and allowance of appeal.
Gifford Smyth, I. Chiiiski and J. H. Mick-
elborough, all petitioners in bankruptcy,
were discharged.
ing. day.
123% 122
Tobacco .......139% 139% 138% 138% 139%
People’s Gas ..106% 106% 105% 105% 107%
. 82% 83% 82 82 82%
.119% 119% 118% 119% 119%
.107% 108% 107% 107% 107%
.113% 113% 112% 113% 113%
1KTL 1KSZ 1CS/ 1EZKL
Last
sea-
day. week. son. son.
Net receipts..22,996 38,205 1,035,796 840,864
tn—— „ -----....... 94
38,205 1,035,890
Great Britain.38,316 53,026
,-rv,----- 19,459 19 459
...... 10,507
34.359 5
CONSOLIDATED STATEMENT.
Nov ..$4 77
Ded .. 4 85 _ _
December wheat: Puts 66%; calls 67%.
May corn: Puts 33% bid; calls 33%.
Curb: December wheat 66% bid.
GRAIN PORT RECEIPTS TODAY.
Chicago: Wheat, 470 cars, 23 cars graded
contract; corn, 468 cars, 264 cars graded
contract; oats, 320 cars, 362 cars graded
contract.
Minneapolis: Whqat 183 cars.
St. Louis: Wheat, 115,000 bush.; corn,
185,000 bush.; oats, 57,000 bush.
Duluth: Wheat, 773 cars.
Kansas City: Wheat, 377 cars: corn, 37
cars; oats, 12 cars.
COFFER CLOSE.
January, 5.45@50c;; February, 5.55@60c;
March, 5.65@70c; May. 5.80@85c; December,
5.35@40c. wsc'
Tone steady. Sales 9000 sacks.
4 45
Lard.
$4 77 $4 77
4 87— 4 80
Puts 66%; calls 67%.
uum. ruts o3% bid; calls 33%.
Curb: December wheat 66% bid.
A T NT 1-1 Z-V -r-r,m/NTN A TT
93%
93%
35
35
68%
31%
60%
42%
76%
117%
168% 168% 168
32% 32% 33
16% 16% 16%
68% 68% 68%
34% 34% 34%
48% 49 48%
38% 38% 37%
88% 91 87
4%
4^
4 15-16 4 15-16
5 5-16
5 5-16 5 5-16
5 9-16
5 1-16 5
4 15-16 4 15-16 i
4 15-16 4 15-16
"■ 4%__
DAILY INTERIOR MOVEMENT.
Re- Ship-
celpts. meats. Stock
... 2,515
... (3,004
... 8.518
...13,196
... 37,233
Low ordinary.....
Ordinary ...........
Good ordinary .....
Low middling .....
■Middling ...........
Good middling ....
Middling fair ......
Sales 1266 bales.
GALVESTON COTTON RECEIPTS.
By G., C. and S. F., 4893 bales; I. and G.
N., 3752; G„ H. and H,. 4447; M., K. and T„
2540; G., La P. and H., 1403; barge Alice,
988; barge Abbie, 1125; barge Boots, 1232;
.barge Jackson, 1581; barge Calcasieu, 1028;
sloop Idlewild, 7. Total, 22,996.
GALVESTON STATEMENT.
mu
This This
Open- High-Low- Clos- Yes-
ing. est. erf
..125— 125— 120
Met.............169
Fed. Steel .....33%
Reading ....... 16%
B. R. T.......... 68%
M, K. T. pref.. 34%
B. & O.....
S. R. pref.
71. Central ______ _„zo
People’s Gas ex. dividend 1%-per cent.
TIPS ON STOCKS.
New York, N. Y., Nov. 14.—While money
is hardening abroad, consols are very
strong, up 1-16. Americans are fully up to
our parity on good business. Bonds are
strong. The situation is as good as can
well be, and, barring accidents, we look
for decidedly better prices. The coalers,
in which there is an immense short inter-
est, should be bought for a turn. L. and
N. is good for 65, while the Flower stocks,
B. R. T. and S. F. will sell higher. George
Gould will give some support to his spe-
cialties. At least he tells his friends they
may buy some W. U., that even Manhat-
tan has discounted all that is bad in the
situation. We think that W. U. is good
for 96 or 97. The Manhattan quarterly re-
port will be out this week and has already
been heralded: it will made a good show-
ing, but it is to be remembered that Man-
hattan is down 15 points. We would not
sell the stock.____________
It seems that heroes are not all accorded
the same praise and honor. A. London pa-
per comments on the Spartan indifference
to the suffering of Piper Findlater, and
relates the following incident: Seated in
the Empire music hall, In Glasgow, I no-
ticed the piper was hissed by some of the
audience. Being a visitor from the other
side of the Atlantic, seeking for informa-
tion, I turned to my next neighbor, a re-
markably stolid looking specimen of the
genus Scot, and said to him: “Why do
they hiss him?” He replied':’ “Because
they don’t want him.” “But,” said I, “he
is a hero, is he not?” “What did he ever
do?” was the rejoinder. “Why,” I ex-
claimed, “he was shot through both legs
and then sat down.” “Could na help itw
he answered. “But,” I urged, in extenua-
tion of the hero idea, “he went on playing
the pipes.” “Second nature,” said he. I
started in blank astonishment at this view
of the whole affair, when my friend, ob-
serving my look, said: “I’ll just tell ye.
The man did nothing unusual. Take the
first 10 Highland pipers you meet with.
Start them playing; shoot them through
both legs; down they’ll sit and keep on
playing.” Thus did a practical Scot shiver
in a few words the glamor surrounding
the hero of Dargai. Hitherto, we on the
other side had thought it grand to think
of a man shot through the legs sitting
down and keeping up the tune. I now see
to the Scotch mind, at any rate, it was but
a natural sequence of events. But the
hissing was caused by the dislike of
hero appearing upon the stage.
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5 1-16 5
4 A
“I suppose this is what you call the ob-
sequies,” said Commissioner Stevenson
when he, Commissioner Barnes, Commis-
sioner Vidor and Commissioner Johnson
sat at the big table in the rear of the
county clerk’s office and opened the ses-
sion, of the commissioners’ court shortly
after 12 o’clock today. County Judge Mor-
gan M. Mann was absent. He has other
business to attend to. He is in the east to
get married. The four commissioners who
held court today were defeated in the
election last Tuesday.
Mr. Vidor was chosen chairman of the
meeting. He suggested that a motion be
made to authorize County Treasurer
Waters to pay off all of the county’s elec-
tion expenses and that one warrant be
drawn for the gross amount. Otherwise,
he said, it would be necessary to make out
probably 500 warrants.
Mr. Johnson said he supposed a tabu-
lated statement of the expense list would
be prepared and that the commissioners
could go over this statement item by item
before the issuance of warrants.
The other commissioners said that was
the way it would be done.
Clerk Burgess explained that under the
law the court could not pay more than $15
rent of polling place for each election.
There had been two elections—one special
and one general. The law also limited the
compensation of the judges and clerks. In
the first, or special constitutional amend-
ment election, there had been no bill from
a judge or clerk: for more than $2—the
statutory amount for 12 hours’ work—ex-
cept in one case, that of the Eighth ward.
In regard to rent the bill from the owner
of the premises in which the Ninth ward
poll was taken was for $15 for the first
election and $25 for the second, the owner
claiming that at the second election there
had been two buildings used.
Mr. Vidor said he didn’t see how they
were going to get over the law.
The bills of each precinct were then
rqad. 'The rent was limited in each in-
stance to $15 per election and the pay of
judges and clerks was kept within the
legal limits. Some of the bills were excess-
ive and were cut.
It is estimated that the total cost of the
elections will approximate $2000 for the 15
precincts within the city limits.
France ..
Continent
Channel ...........
Total foreign..57,775
New York .... 3,160
Other U.S.pts......
North by rail............
Tati c’stwise.. 3,160 3,160
Local consump .....
Ttl expts, etc..60,935
Says the Public Is to Blame for the Loss
of Some Ships.
New York Sun.
“There’s another side to this question of
the criminal carelessness of the command-
er, which we hear so much talk about
whenever a liner is lost.” said the captain
of a big ocean steamship the other day.
“It’s not the captain who is really to
blame in one case out of 10, even when he
is running his ship at full speed through a
fog. It’s the public that’s to blame, and
I’ll tell you how it is.
“To begin with, everybody knows the
rivalry between the different lines. Every-
body knows what a difference there is, in
the estimation of the public, between the
rival boats of the same grade which start
at the same time, and come ’in 24 hours
apart. The man who has traveled by the
boat that comes in last is going to say to
himself that next time he will go on the
So-and-So, which must be a better boat,
for didn’t she come in a day ahead of the
one he came on? The captain of boat No.
1 is a hero for the time being, and the
company he works for smiles on him. That
he has run all the way at full speed,
through heavy seas and fogs, and has
taken all kinds of risks, he knows, but he
doesn’t say anything about that, and the
company doesn’t, either. They have beat-
en the other line, and that is enough. The
captain of boat No. 2, which came in a. day
behind the other, knows just what is in
store for him before he' reports at the
office of his company. This is about what
he hears:
“ ‘Why, how is this, Mr. Blank? You
came in 24 hours behind the So-and-So?
What was the matter?’
“ ‘Well, you see,’ says the captain, ‘we
had storms part of the way, and when we
got to the Banks we struck a fog so thick
you couldn’t see you? hand before your
face, and we had to run at half speed all
day.”
“ ‘Ahem,’ one of the owners will say.
‘Ahem! It’s a bad thing, Mr. Blank, for
us to be beaten 24 hours by the So-and-
So.’
“Capt. Blank says no more, but feels
that he has been reproved, and he remem-
bers it on the next trip. The sea may be
running ‘mountains high’ and the fog may
be so thick you can’t see the funnel from
the bridge, but he is bound to get in on
time this trip, and he does. The owners
of the line smile on him. So he knows
what he is required to do, and goes on
making record trips. It is the public, you
see, which the company has got to please
if it is to exist, and the captain has to
please the company! Some day he does
this once too often. He collides with an-
other ship in a fog, may be, or runs on the
rocks. Perhaps the natural love of life or
the thought of a helpless family keeps him
from deliberately going to the bottom with'
the ship, but he knows that his career is
at an end. 'The board sits on the case,
and if there is any evidence to show that
the accident was due to the carelessness
of the commander in .running at full speed
in thick weather, or whatever the case
may be, he is reprimanded andFhis cer-
tificate suspended for some months at
least. When at last he gets the certificate
back it has a hole punched in it.
“Now let us suppose that he has been a
faithful servant of the company for a good
while, and they like him, and decide to
transfer him to another ship and give him
a chance for existence. This new ship has
to be insured, of course, before she goes
to sea. The underwriters make their ex-
amination, and in the course of their in-
quiries there comes up the question as to
who is the captain of the ship. When
they hear the name they will probably
say, ‘Why/let us see! Isn’t he the man
who .sunk’the So-and-So? Yes? Oh, we
can’t take any risks on a ship commanded
by Capt. Blank. Put another commander
in his place and it will be all right.’
“.The company is, therefore, obliged to
dismiss Capt. Blank. Then he starts out
to find another situation. His certificate,
you remember, has a hole in it. He goes
to see the owners of another line. As soon
as they hear his name they say:
“ ‘Oh, yes. Didn’t you command the So-
and-So?’
“ ‘Yes, I commanded that boat.’
“ ‘Humph! Very sorry, captain, but we
haven’t anything just now. If we should
have anything we will let you know.’
“This scene is repeated at one steam-
ship office after another on both sides of
the water.”
The captain leaned his elbows on the
table. “Do you wonder,” he said, after a
pause, “that generally when a liner is lost
at .sea her commander isn’t among the
saved? But mark my words/’ he added,
rising, “in almost every disaster, when
the cry of negligence is loudest, it’s the
public that’s to blame and not the captain,
who only does what he is obliged to do.”
DEAF AND DUMD PICNIC.
A Quiet Lot of Fun, Which Produced
Odd Effect on the Reporter.
Washington Star.
‘Tine of the queerest assignments that
was ever dished out to me when I was re-
porting in Chicago,” said one of the cor-
respondents from the city by the unsalted
sea, “was the ‘covering’ of a picnic of deaf
and dumb people. There was, and is yet,
a big organization/ got together for social
pleasures, of these afflicted people in Chi-
cago, and it was this organization that
gave the picnic out at Elliott’s grove, a
wooded patch about 15 miles outside of
Chicago.
“It surely was remarkable to note the
fun every member of that crowd of mutes
seemed to;be having when the grove was
reached and the picnic proper began. You
could hear the wind stirring the leaves of
the trees all the time, and yet there were
nearly 800 people having all kinds of fun
Tight beneath the trees. The silence was
extraordinary, considering the number of
people you saw moving around. The young
fellows put up swings and swung the girls,
and, although the girls, of course, didn’t
let out a cheep, much less a scream, as
they Went a-sailing in the air, .they cer-
tainly looked as if they enjoyed the swing-
ing sensation as much as girls jvith voices
and the capacity to giggle and scream.
“The queerest thing to see, however, was
the dancing. There was a big dancing pa-
vilion in the grove, and nearly all of the
young people danced. The master of cere-
monies stood on a platform and waved his
arms, in waltz, or two step, or whatever
time the danced called for, and the dancers
kept renjarkably good time. They watched
the man doing the arm waving carefully
out of the tails of their eyes as they floated
around. The master of ceremonies was a
rattling good pantomimist, and he’d ‘call
off’ the various figures of square dances
by going through, at the .beginning of each
figure, the various movements thereof—
just enough of it to refresh’ the memories
of the dancers.
“Along toward noon, when we two re-
porters began to get lonesome for a lunch
room—there were no eatables for sale on
the grounds, all of the mutes bringing
their lunches in baskets—one of the com-
mitteemen introduced us to a couple o’
mighty nice-looking girls. Neither of us
knew the first move of the deaf and dumb
alphabet, but the girls didn’t look disap-
NEW ARKANSAS LINE.
St. Louis, Mo., Nov. 14.—A special to the
Post-Dispatch from Little Rock, Ark.,
says: “J. H. McCarthy of Little Rock and
Ben Johnston of St. Elmo, UL. were today
awarded the contract of building the Choc-
taw and Memphis railroad extension from
Little Rock to Wis-ter junction, 164 miles
long. The contract, price is $2,000,000. The
Choctaw and Memphis road recently ac-
quired possession of the Little Rock and
Memphis, and the extension to Wist©r
junction means a direct competing line far
Arkansas.” '
FINANCIAL.
London: Bank rate, 4 per cent; street
rate, 3% per cent; rate of silver, 2715-16;
consols for money, 110%; consols for ac-
count, 110 7-16.
New York: Sterling exchange, bankers’
60s, $4.82@82%; commercial, $4.81%@81%;
reichmarks, commercial 60s, 94; francs,
bankers’ 60s, 5.23% less 1-16; commercial,
5.25 less 1-16.
New Orleans: Sterling exchange, com-
mercial 60s, $4.80%@81; francs, commercial
60s, 5.26%; New Yorjusight, bankers’, par;
commercial, $1 discount.
Galveston exchange: Sterling 60s, buy-
ing $4.80, selling $4.85; New York sight,
buying % per cent discount, selling par;
New Orleans sight, buying % discount,
selling % premium.
live Stock market.
Local quotations:
Beeves—
Choice, per lb, gross...........
Common, per lb, gross........
Cows—
Choice, per Ib, gross...........
Common, per lb, gross..........
Yearlings—
Choice, per lb, gross............
Common, per lb, gross........
Calves—
Choice, per lb, gross............
Common, per lb, gross.........
Sheep-
Choice, per lb, gross............
Common, per lb, gross.........
Hogs—
Cornfed, per lb, gross..........
Mastfed, per lb. gross..........
• CHICAGO.
Chicago, Ill., Nov. ,14.—Hogs: Receipts,
38,000; market steady to 5 cents lower.
Cattle: Receipts, 14,500; market steady to
BORED BY A CLAY PELLET.
■ .-ffic •jnn.p "»•
A Hole Quickly Made In a Sheet of Iron
an Inch Thick.
A curious illustration of the power of
light matter to perforate harder substances
when driven at a high velocity is men-
tioned as having taken place in the Royal
arsenal at Woolwich, England, lately. In
the course of experiments on firing gas in
mines, conducted by Captain Cooper Key,
R. A., under the home office, a special gun
is employed to do duty for a bore hole with
a charge of high explosive, and pressed
cylinders of gray dry clay, 3 inches long
and 1 7-8 inches in diameter, are used to
represent tamping. These shots are made
to act in various mixtures of air, coal
dust, gas, etc., and to stop the course of
plug, etc. Eventual!}' a east iron target
plate an inch thick was placed 25 feet in
front at an angle of 45 degrees, in order*
to break up everything into dust and
throw it. upward.
After three or four shots with this ar-
rangement the clay plug, weighing 7%
ounces, perforated the inch iron plate,
and the hole thus made has steadily ex- ■
tended-since. The familiar tallow candle
passing through a door must hide its head
before a 7 % ounce plug of clay perforating
an iron plate an inch thick at an angle of
45 degrees. Doubtless the velocity must
be tremendous. It is pointed out that the
velocity for a hard cylinder of this weight
and size to cut through one inch of
wrought iron at 45 degrees would be over
1,800 foot seconds. With cast iron and
clay and the three or four repeated blows
everything Is so greatly altered that there
is little more to be said than that the ef-
fect is remarkable and unexpected.—Lon-
don Engineer.
Sugar ..
Tobacco
ponnl o’ c<
Gem Electric .. 82%
B. Q.......
R. I........
St. Paul ..
Atchison. ...
Atch. pref.
N. W...........
Pacific ’Mail”” 37%
Man.........
W. U.......
M. Pacific .
U. Pacific ..
U. P. pref .
T. C. I.......
L. & N......
N. Pacific .
N. P. pref..
N. Y. Central..117% 117%
' "" 169
33%
16%
69
35
49
38%
91
Today.
(January ...................4.86-87
February ...... 4.91-92
(March .....................4.97-98
April ....................,..5.02-03
May ........................5.08-09
Pune ................ 5.13-14
guly ........................5.17-19
November ................4.76b
December .................4.79-80
f COMPARATIVE SPOT MARKETS
The following are the closing quotations
lor cotton on the spot today at the leading
markets, together with the closing of mld-
gjing yesterday, with today’s sales:
Mid.
yes’y
3
4%
4 11-16 4'11-16
James Lewis of Friendswood appeared
before the court to report in regard to the
Friendswood road and the bridge over
Cowart’s creek. The creek is a branch of
Clear creek. He said the approaches to
the bridge had been lowered two or three
feet because of short lengths of piling,
and he asked that Mr. Sias make an esti-
mate on the work.
The court so instructed. 55
A bill of $751.10 on the sheriff’s quarterly
account was approved. 1
Mr. Vidor was authorized ’to sign war-
rants in the absence of Judge Mann.
The regular monthly bills will be taken
up tomorrow when the returns of the spe-
cial election will be canvassed.
Adjourned.
Net amount due ............ $111,282.41
Less amount paid .................. 104,359.62
Net amount 15th estimate ........ 6,922.79
Mr. Sanguinet was asked if he was sat-
isfied $50,252.88 would cover the net cost of
finishing the work.
He said he was perfectly sure that
enough to complete the building.
Mr. Barnes moved that Mr. Sanguinet’s
15th estimate be approved and that a war-
rant for the amount of the estimate—
$6922.79—be issued in favor of the Texas
construction company. Carried.
Mr. Sanguinet stated that there was a
great deal of dissatisfaction shown by the
sub-contractors on the court house work
on account of the amount of work he had
ben allowing them. Some of them put in
claims for amounts that were not justi-
fied. They figured too high. He said he
was taking all the precaution a man pos-
sibly could take to look after the county’s
interests. As an instance, he related how
one contractor wanted $4000, whereas he
(Sanguinet) only allowed $1000. Some of
the contractors wanted to be credited for
material that was at the depot and had
not been taken to the court house site.
Clerk Burgess said he had a few “kicks”
to read. He brought forth two documents.
One was from Supervisor Toothaker call-
ing the attention of the court to the fact
that the conduit for the electrical work at
the court house was not being laid accord-
ing to contract. The other was a notice
sent by Mr. Sanguinet to the Texas con-
struction company regarding the same
thing.
Mr. Sanguinet, addressing the court,
said he would allow no estimate whatever
on this work until was done according to
contract.
Commissioner Johnson remarked that it
would be very well to hand down to the
succeeding commissioners’ court the de-
tailed statement of Architect’ Sanguinet,
together with all the other matter apper-
taining to the work that had just come to
their attention. The other commissioners
agreed with him.
The statement of the architect together
with the “kicks” were formally received
and filed.
Totals ......
Net receipts of cotton at all United
States ports thus far this week were
136,781 bales; same time last week, 159 376•
game time this week last- year, 140,877: thus — -- - —
far this season, 3,270,756; same time last and S. F., 18 cars corn, 68 cars wheat;
Season, 3,037,629; increase, 233,127. 13
Exports this week; To Gre&t E
36,861 bales; to France, 21,266; to the
Bent, 57,568.
Stock this day.......; yesterday, 1,076,938
bales; this day last year, 845,684.
NET RECEIPTS AT ALL U. S. PORTS.
The following were the net receipts of
Setton today at all United States^ports:
Galveston, 22,996 bales; New Orleans,
17,217; Mobile, 5213; Savannah, 8506;
Charleston, 5590; Wilmington, 3422; Nor-
235,755
Liverpool, Nov. 14.—Business was good
and spots steady. Sales 15,000 bales, of
tvhich 14,100 were American. Futures ruled
steady and closed 1 point up.
lE^asy to Take x
Ehasy to Operate
Are features peculiar to Hood’s Pills. Small in
Size, tasteless, efficient, thorough. As one man
Hood’s
Baid: “ You never know you
have taken a pill till it is all Z B ■
Over.” 25c. C. I. Hood & Co., 11 | C
Proprietors, Lowell, Mass. ■ ■ ■ ■ v
the only pills to take with Hood’s Sarsaparilla.
Judge Cavin Hopes to Finish Within
Weew.
The criminal district court resumed op-
erations this morning, having stood ad-'
journed all the week. Out of a venue of
31 the following 12 men were selected as
a petit jury for the day: J.^. Thompson.
J. Neis, R. Cohen, R. Unger, J. W. Ben-
son, Lee Cannon. R. Kruger, J. H. Sel-
kirk, B. Ganter, P. Lawson, E. Meyer and
J. McFadden. The docket was then taken
up and some cases nol pressed and others
re-set. The case of the state against Rob-
ert Nelson, colored, charged with assault
with intent to murder, was heard, and- the
jury is now out. The docket is rather
light this time and Judge Cavin and At-
torney Gillespie hope to get through in
about a week.
Dec ..32%—
May .33%—
Dec ..23%
May .24%
Dec ..$7 82 $7 82
Jan .. 8 87 8 87
,. Today.
Ordinary ..................2 7-16
G-ood ordinary ...........2%
Low middling ............2 13-16
■Middling .... .......3
(Good middling ...........3 3-I6
Middling fair .............3%
Sales 15,000 bales; yesterday, 8000.
LIVERPOOL FUTURES.
January-February
February-March ..
iMarch-April .......
April-May .........
(May-Jurie ..........
June-July ..........
July-August .........
'August-September .............
September-October .....3.01b
November ................2.61-62b
November-December ...2.60-61a
December-January .....2.60a
NEW YORK FUTURES.
878
756,269
COTTON ON SHIPBOARD.
For Liverpool: Ss Europa, 4900 bales; ss
Langham, 1093; ss Aston Hall, 2957; ss
Methley Hall, 2998; ss Deptford, 953; ss
Deramore, 4809; ss Heathville, 3715; ss Mex-
ican, 5329; ss Holywell, 1988; ss Gena, 3798;
iss Paulina, 156. For Manchester: Ss Ital-
. iana, 2142; ss Anselm,a -de Larrinaga, 2726.
Total, -37,564.
For Havre: Ss Ching Wo, 11,265 bales; ss
Bendi, 4857; ss Vulcan, 9936; ss Isle of Kent,
3352; ss Ludgate, 1800; ss Brinkburn, 2867.
Total, 34,080.
For Bremen: Ss Fulwell, 352 bales; ss
Cumeria, 6439; ss Birchfield, 4506; ss Or-
mazan, 7292; ss Ariosto, 6538; ss Eric, 1690.
For Rotterdam: Ss Dargai, 595; ss Araya,
474. For Antwerp: Ss Richmond Castle,
925 bales; ss Rose Castle, 1600; ss Moon-
stone, 1381; ss Bishopsgate, 500. For
Genoa: Ss Barbara, 1137. For Copenhagen:
ISs Kentucky, 1912. For Hamburg: Ss Sar-
donyx, 381. Total, 35,722.
For New York: Mallory line, 190 bales;
Lone Star line, 4017, Total, 4207.
Total on shipboard, 111,573 bales.
GALVESTON STOCK.
i Total stock ......... 309,891
’ _ LIVERPOOL MARKETS,
nnn.l Mmr 11 td-.-. , ___
15,000 bales,
$3.50@4.50.
■ GALVESTON GRAIN RECEIPTS.
By I. and G. N., 11 cars wheat, 5 cars
corn; G., H. and H., 7 cars wheat; M., K.
and T.,_9 cars wheat, 25 cars corn;
KJ. J-’., XO VCL1 » CUI 11,
Porte, 16 cars wheat, 13 c________
I., 19 cars wheat. Total, 191 cars.
Close. Yestdy.
66y2n 65%n
66%a— 65%b
66%
31%n
33%— 33%b
23%
24%-
$7 85b
8 92b
.KIDS. •
Dec ..$4 42— $4 42— $4 42— $4 42— $4 50
To VI A a trrr a At a ETOr, A tin
GRAIN AND PROVISIONS.
Wheat.
High. Low.
66%n 66% n
67 66%
66% 66%b
Qprn.
32% 31%a— 31%a— 32'
A 7
,OatL.
23%
.,.24%-
Pork.
$7 77
8 85
Ribs.
STOCKS.
est. est.
“ONE YEAR BORROWS ANOTHER YEAR’S FOOL.”
YOU DIDN’T USE
SAPOLIO
LAST YEAR. PERHAPS YOU WILL NOT THIS YEAR
THE GALVESTON TRIBUNE.
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