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TOO PEACEFUL.
Devine News.
It has been six months, we suppose,
since the keys have turned on our town
calaboose.
Everybody knows several men he ex-
pects to whip when he grows up.
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GETTING READY.
Sherman Democrat.
Sherman is going to try for the next
meeting of the Texas Press association.
We will be ready to give the press
gang a great reception next year.
legislature, before
at the ballot box, and each
the decision has been for Bailey,
not high time to call
the man serve out his term in the sen-
ate to the best possible advantage of
Texas and the union?
Was this recent political campaign
such a wonderfully hot affair after all?
The vote was not amazing large.
With the start which has been given
the anti-race track gambling campaign
in Louisiana that state bids fair to set
a good example for New York in the
near future.
FRANKLY ADMITTED.
Rio Grande News.
enterprising
any one ever sincerely
it was a wise move to make this
THE GALVESTON WAY.
Anahuac Progress.
As was predicted in these columns
some time ago, Galveston voted $450,-
000 city bonds for improvement pur-
poses, again demonstrating the love of
its citizens for the old city. They were
needed and they were voted.
For once both the house and senate
have stepped lively. The resolution
appropriating funds for relief for tor-
nado sufferers in ' the south
through in a hurry.
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forthcoming. Elsie understood,
them to mean that she need not be
in such a purple hurry to disappear
into the darkness without the least ex-
planation. Thereupon she bade Suarez
back the canoe a little.
“I am sorry it is necessary to steal
away in this fashion,’’ she said, and
the coolness of her tone was highly
exasperating to a man who could no
more detain her than he could move
the Kansas unaided. “I have a plan
which requires only a bit of good for-
tune to render it practicable. I 'have
two assistants—Suarez, whose aid I
am compelling, and Joey, who is quite
eager. There is no use in risking any
more lives. If I do not return you may
be sure the worst has happened."
“But what is your plan?” roared
“It may be just sheer non-
Tell me what it is, an’ I swear,
by the nautical almanac I shall not
prevent you from carryin’ it out if it
has any reason behind it.”
“I am going to collect all the Indian
canoes,” was the amazing answer,
know it can be done from what Suarez
has said. Once we have the canoes in
midchannel we can set most of them
adrift and bring Captain Courtenay
and the others back to the ship in four
| qr five, which we will tow to Guanaco
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hill. And now goodby again!”
“One moment. Miss Maxwell," broke
in Gray’s quiet voice from the upper
deck. “You can’t engineer that scheme
with a one man crew and he sick and
unwilling. I am going with you. You
must take me aboard, wet or dry.”
“I am well armed and shall admit of
no interference," she cried.
“I promise to obey orders."
“If I wanted you, Mr. Gray, I should
have sought your help."
“It is one thing or the other, a wrig-
gle down a rope or a high diving act."
“You have no right to impose such
an alternative on me.”
“I hate it myself, and I can’t dfve
worth a cent. You will hear a beastly
flop when I strike the damp."
“Mr. Boyle, I call on you to hold
him.”
Boyle explained luridly that the
American was doing a balancing act
on the rail eight feet above his head.
Elsie, taking her eyes off Suarez for an
instant, discerned Gray’s figure sil-
houetted against the sky. She yielded
“There is a rope ladder fastened to
the lowest rail near where the canoe
was moored,” she said.
“Is there to be any catch-as-catch-can
business, Boyle?” demanded Gray.
All this is mighty unfair to
The prosperity boomers of St .Louis
are going at it just as if they had al-
ready won the victory. And it is cer-
tain that they have.
Who said the kaiser was not
real article? - He is introducing base-
ball in Germany.
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Chicago merchants are taking
upon themselves to tell the preachers
what to say regarding wealth. That is
going some, but nothing that happens
in Chicago should be considered with
alarm.
MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS
THE TRIBUNE receives the full day tele-
graph report of that great news organiza-
tion for exc^sive afternoon publication in
Galveston
Our enterprising merchants and
news gatherers have crowded out our
heavy editorial column - this, week,
which will be appreciated by many of
our readers.
It will be observed that last broker-
age house to fail was caught on the
bear side of the market. Had too big
a bet on the financial depression.
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"Hut, senorita”—
o’clock it would be daylight, so the
doctor was retiring early to his cabin
when he met Elsie, by chance, as it
seemed. She was self possessed, even
smiling, with a certain dour serenity.
“The day’s doings have tired me,”
she said. “I am off to bed. Will you
rap on my door soon after dawn?"
“Yes,” he replied, secretly marveling
at her air.
“I plead guilty to a-slight feeling of
nervousness,’’ she went on. “Is your
revolver loaded? Would you mind
lending It to me? I think I could sleep
more soundly if 1 had a reliable weap-
on tucked under my pillow.”
WHY THE SURPRISE?
Laredo Times.
Keep your eyes open, there is some-
thing big that is going to. be pulled
off in the near future, that will add
largely to Laredo’s importance as a
money making locality.
“No.
me.”
“You have my sympathy, friend, but
you can’t leave the ship. Now, Miss
Maxwell, come alongside. Boylrf is
going to be good. He doesn’t mean
half he says anyhow."
As the canoe slipped out of the dens&
gloom of the ship’s shadow the Argen-
tine squatted on his knees in the bows,
Gray placed himself amidships, and
Elsie sat aft, holding the revolver in
her right hand and the dog’s collar in
her left. The American groped for and
found a paddle, which he plied vigor-
ously.
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The- fight against
that has been waged for months and
■ has occupied columns of the best space
in nearly all of the city dailies of Texas
except the Tribune-,, is over at last, and
Mr. Bailey has been indorsed by the
Democratic voters of Texas at the bal-
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You will want to read 16 later it aot bow,
blazed from the blue eyes resting on
her for an instant. Mrs. Somerville
came, but she, too, was repulsed.
When Christobal made a? serious effort
to lead her away she threatened him
with the fierceness of a mother defend-
ing her child from evil.
But relief was vouchsafed In the
worst throes of her agony.
Boyle or Gray had never relaxed a
close vigil by her side. It was Gray
who made the thrilling discovery that
the canoes -were returning. As the
fleet crossed the bay it could be seen
that they were towing the lifeboat, but
never a sign of any prisoners could the
most careful scrutiny detect. The boat
was empty. It was easy to count ev-
ery man in the canoes as they passed
into Otter creek, and there were wound-
ed Indians on board many of them.
That was a significant, a tremendous,
fact. There had been hard fighting,
and the boat was captured, but some.
Who is there?”
“I, Mr. Boyle!” she answered.
“You, Miss Elsie? Where are you?”
“Here—not so far away!"
She was descending all the time.
She had cast loose the rope which fas-
tened the canoe alongside, and her dif-
ficulty was to hold the ladder and at
the same time by clinging to the mast
to prevent the canoe from slipping
away with the tide. The revolver she
gripped between her teeth by the butt.
Boyle, puzzled by the sound of her
voice, ran from the side of the bridge
down the stairs and across the deck.
He was a second too late to grasp the
top of the mast as it drifted out of
reach. He heard Elsie utter a low
voiced command in Spanish, and the
dip of a paddle told him tfcat the ca-
noe was in motion.
“For the Lord’s sake, what are you
doing?” he roared.
“I am going to save Captain Courte-
nay,” was the answer. “You cannot
stop me now. Please hoist plenty of
lights. If I succeed, look out for me
before daybreak. If I fail, goodby!"
a teapot has repeatedly reached this
office, and the result in this county
fully demonstrates that our people are
not Tn sympathy with small political
bickerings that can but result in low-
ering the standing of Texas abroad
end reduce the influence of the state’s
BIG BUT POSSIBLE.
Beaumont Enterprise.
When one looks at the vast expanse
of Texas it seems a big job, but the
time is coming when the state will be
gridironed from one end to the other
with good farm roads. - ...
Young Rockefeller will be a real
preacher yet. His Bible class declares
his latest effort is the very best he has
ever made.
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belief.
thrashed out three
her nature. She conducted herself
with a cunning that was wholly for-
eign to her character. Her first care
was to hoodwink her companions into
the belief that the strain of the day
had passed. She accepted a cup of tea
brought by Isobel, expressed her sor-
row if . by .word or look she had
given cause for offense and entered
eagerly into the pros and cons of the
debate which sprang up as to the best
course to pursue on the following day.
Every one agreed that nothing could
be done that night. If the pillar of
smoke were visible at sunrise and
Walker could possibly manage to fire
the boilbrs, Boyle suggested that some
sailors in the jolly boat should sound a
channel along which the vessel itself
might steam slowly toward Guanaco
hill. That in itself would be a move of
considerable value. If they could lessen
the distance between the shore and the
ship, each yard thus gained would help
the- prisoners and impose a stronger
barrier against the Alaculofs,' who
would probably be daunted when they
found that the vessel’s mobility was
restored.
This proposal was deemed so excel-
lent that they all dined in vastly bet-
ter spirits than any of them anticipat-
ed. Christobal, puzzled out of his sci-
entific senses by Elsie’s change of
manner, kept a close eye on her. He
was amazed to see her eat a better
meal than she had eaten for days, and
she was normally a quite healthy
young person, with a reasonably good
appetite.
Boyle and Gray took the first watch,
ffom S o’clock to midnight. Christobal
and Walker shaved the next one. By 4
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"For heaven's sake, say the lifeboat is
visible again • ”
if not all, of the crew must have joined
their comrades in the sanctuary of the
haunted cave. The accuracy of this
deduction was proved by the presence
of the smoke column on the hill. In-
deed, the opinion was generally held
that its spiral clouds were denser than
at any previous hour, thus showing
that the defenders were endeavoring to
make known their continued existence.
Elsie awoke from her trance, but in
returning to life she was transformed
into a stern, resourceful, commanding
woman. None suspected the mighty
force which worked this resolution in
If the New Yorker who put a $2.50
gold piece in the penny-in-the-slot
machine for a one cent stapin never
missed it it’s a shame to tell
uproar
whether Mr. Bailey
delegate to the national convention, it
is very evident from the decision of the
people that they did not share in that
contest has been
times now; in the
and
Here’s a grave one: Do people who
talk all the time get nervous break-
down or is it nervous breakdown that
makes them talk all the time?
to rise under the pressure of Elsie’s
finger on the trigger. The man’s hair
rose even more rapidly. His nerve
was broken. He turned along the cor-
ridor in front of her, not knowing the
instant a bullet might crash into his
head. The girl followed so closely
that she almost touched his heels. The
dog would have trotted in front, but
she recalled him.
When Suarez reached the port rail
of the promenade deck Elsie breathed:
“Climb quickly and go down into
the canoe by the rope ladder you will
find there.”
“The canoe!” gasped he.
“Quick! One, two”—
Up went Suarez over the rail. He
found the topmost rungs of the lad-
der. As he descended the revolver fol-
lowed his eyes. When his head was
level with the deck the order came:
“Take the dog and go down!”
“I cannot, senorita."
“You must try. You are going down,
dead or alive.”
He did try. Joey scuffled a little,
but Suarez caught him by the neck
and made shift to descend. Elsie was
already on the swaying ladder when
Boylt’s voice rang out sharply from
the spar, deck:
“Below there!
A whiff of suspicion crossed Christo-
bal’s mind, but he brushed it aside as
unworthy. At 5 o’clock that day he
certainly would not have granted her
request. But now, since the new hope
had sprung up that Courtenay was
alive, it was absurd to doubt her mo-
tives.
So it came to pass that Diego Suarez,
lying asleep in his bunk, awoke with
a start to find a shrouded figure bend-
ing over him.
“Is that you, Senor Suarez?” asked a
voice, which he recognized instantly as
belonging to the Senorita Maxwell.
“Yes,” said he drowsily.
“Have you the witch doctor’s clothes
you wore when you came on board the
ship?”
“Yes, senorita.”
A hand, slight, but strong, grasped
him by the shoulder. He felt the rim
of a revolver barrel pressed against his
forehead.
“Get up then! Dress quickly in those
clothes and come out on deck. By the
side of your bunk you will find tins of
black and white paint to smear your
face and -hands. At the slightest re-
fusal on your part to do as I bid you—
if you utter a cry or make a noise to
attract attention—I shall kill you with-
out another word.”
The soft voice had a steely ring in it
which persuaded the man from Argen-
tina that he had better obey. In less
than fiye minutes he emerged from the
doorway. The corridor in which his
cabin was situated led into the salon.
Elsie awaited him. A lamp, dimly light-
ing the gangway, revealed her face.
Suarez thought he had to deal with a
mad woman. The dog standing by her
side sniffed at him gingerly, but a
muttered “Be quiet, Joey!" prevented
any outburst, every fox terrier being a
born conspirator. f
“What do you wish me to do, seno-
rita?” began Suarez, thinking to pla-
cate her until he could obtain assist-
ance.
“You must obey me in silence,” she
whispered tensely. “You must not even
speak. One syllable aloud on deck will
mean death. Walk in front of me up
the main companion and go straight to
the ship’s side.”
“But, senorita”—
The hammer of the revolver began-
Some dispatches say that Taffs boom
is losing strength. He did not seem
sufficiently worried to postpone
trip to Panama, however.
CHAPTER XVIII.
OYLE was very angry. It was
a situation which demanded
earnest words, and they were
forthcoming.
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The Japanese are beginning to resent the Chinese boycott now being enforced against them.
nearly
every city in the state except Dallas
voted as did those of Galveston, and
the small majority against Bailey in
Dallas was offset many times over by
the big vote given him in Fort Worth.
The brunt of the newspaper fight for
Bailey was carried on by the Houston
Post in South. Texas and in North
Texas by the Fort Worth Record, pre-
sided over by Clarence Ousley, who
was Bailey’s campaign manager. If
• there be any glory or advantage going
to the leaders of the Bailey forces, Mr.
Ousley and the two papers mentioned
are certainly entitled to a goodly share
and will undoubtedly receive it.
made a stiff fight and won outi
With the exception of a few copies
of outside papers that stray down this
way, the people of this county were
assailed from but one side on the Bai-
ley question. They did not have the
Bailey side constantly pushed at them
by the press, but they voted that way
In overwhelming numbers. They took
what was served up to them daily as
It came and the result would indicate
that they found it wanting and rea-
soned the matter oui for themselves in
Bailey’s favor and voted accordingly.
Th,a Tribune has watched the Bailey
This same
As is well understood and thoroughly
appreciated throughout this commun-
ity, the Tribune has refrained from
forcing the Bailey issue upon its read-
ers to the extent of many columns
daily that could be occupied with mat-
it»r*of much greater interest $,nd more
benefit to the public. Abundant evi-
dence from the people of Galveston of
their hearty approval of the Tribune’s
treatment of this political tempest in
Once more it has been demonstrated
that counting ballots before they are
polled is like the proverbial venture in
poultry raising.
Cut this story our and keog It.
. The /Spaniard ebeduraged her to de-
bate this point—anything was better
than the dumb pain of thought—but
their talk ceased abruptly when a mut-
tered exclamation from Gray sent
Walker flying to the chart house. Forth-
with the trumpet shriek of the siren
sent its wild boom across the silent
waters. Elsie needed no explanation of
this tumult. Otter creek was not so
far distant that canoes quitting its
shelter could not be seen with the nak-
ed eye. She counted sixteen putting
forth in a cluster, and they all made
for the adventurous lifeboat.
“That is exactly what our captain
expected," Christobal was ready to as-
sure her. “He was certain he would
reach the head of the bay before the
Indians awoke to the meaning of his
scheme. By this time, unless his plan
fails, the' men on shore should have
joined him, no matter what number
of savages may seek to oppose their
passage to thfe boat. The only doubt-
ful question is, Will he be able to beat
off the rascals who are now cutting
his line of retreat?”
“Huh,” growled Boyle,
per’s out of sight now.
small creek or somethin’ of the sort.
Hope he heard the horn. Let her rip!”
he added in a loud shout over his
shoulder, and again the siren flung a
warning to the foot of the mountain
range.
It was evident that tbe wonderful
eyesight of the Indians practically
equaled the range of the telescope.
The men in the canoes were aware of
the lifeboat's disappearance, and their
wet paddles flashed in the sun as they
tore across the three miles of open
water which separated the southern
promontory from the inner shore of
the island. Creeping nearer Boyle, El-
sie whispered:
“For heaven’s sake, say the lifeboat
is visible again!”
He held up a hand to enforce silence.
A deep hush fell on the ship.
“Listen!” ho muttered, so low that
Elsie alone caught the words. “Can
you hear firin’?”
She thought she could distinguish an
irregular patter of dull reports, and
the behavior of the Indians showed
that additional excitement was toward.
Many of them stood up and waved
their arms, p«ssihly as a signal to their
allies-on shore. The canoes raced mad-
ly. Where speed was vital the rough
hewn native craft were far swifter
than the solidly built lifeboat, with its
broad beam and deep draft.
And that was all. Though they
strained their eyes and spokerwith
bated breath, never a sight of boat or
canoes was obtainable for hours after
the latter were swallowed up by the
trees which shrouded the creek at the
foot of Guanaco hill.
Isobel Baring, moved by genuine pity
for her distraught friend, tried to in-
duce her to leave the deck, but she
shrank away terrified by the fire which
fight carefully and is satisfied that the.
people of this community acted wisely
and will stand with this ppaer in
demand in the true interest of the peo-
ple that the fight upon Senator Bailey
be dropped now and the attention
the press and the people be devoted
more pleasant and profitable things.
Seaboard Air
May 15.
By Associated Press.
Norfolk, Va„ May 5.—T. F. Whittle-
sey has resigned as general manager of
the Seaboard Air Line railway, ef-
fective May 15. W. A. Garrett, former
president and now chief executive of-
ficial of the Seaboard, will in addition
to his present duties, assume those of
general manager.
L. Sevier will continue
manager of the system.
he over his shoulder when the lighl
craft was well clear of the ship.
“You understand Spanish, I think?”
“Yes.”
“Please tell Suajez to cease pad-
dling and listen. Don’t move. I can
trust you, but I may have to shoot
him.”
“Best hand me that popgun, Miss
Maxwell. The gentleman in front
seems to have a wholesome respect for
you already. Anything you say goes
where he is concerned. I am taking
your word for it his name is Suarez,
but he looks and smells more like an
Indian.”
“I forced him to dress in his dis-
carded clothes. He may be able now
to scare any of the savages we come
across. But why should I give you
my weapon, Mr. Gray?”
“Because I can hit most things I
aim at, whereas you are more likely
to bore a hole through me as a pre-
liminary. Moreover, you have the dog
with you, and even the wisest dog may
bark at the wrong moment. You must
have both hands at liberty to choke his
enthusiasm."
“Do you pledge your word to go on
with my scheme?”
“That is what I am here for.”
“Take the revolver, then.”
“Sure it’s loaded?”
“Quite sure. I have fifteen extra
cartridges; but, as I have practiced re-
filling it in the dark, give it to me if
you have occasion to empty It.”
“You seem to have thought this thing
out pretty fully.”
“I intend to succeed. Now, please, I
must explain what I want Suarez to
do.”
Speaking in Spanish, slow and clear,
while the canoe drifted steadily up the
bay with the rising tide, Elsie unfold-
ed her project. Behind the guardian
cliff of Otter creek a ridge of rocks
created a small natural harbor. It
was the custom of the Alaculofs when
the weather was calm and they meant
to use their craft at daybreak to an-
chor most of their vessels in this shel-
tered breakwater. At other times ths.
canoes were drawn ashore, but she rea-
soned that such a precaution would
not be taken during the present excite-
ment.
representatives at the capital.
The Democratic
A remarkable craft is described by
Paul Tyner in the Technical World
Magazine for May. The following ex-
tract from the illustrated article will
interest boatmen:
That the hydrocurve boat has over
and over, in its test runs, obtained
double the speed of the ordinary cir®
cular hull form of the same dimensions,
draft and tonnage, without increase of
motive power, demonstrates the cor-
rectness of the principle it embodied
and proves its entire feasibility in ac-
tual navigation. Moving the water in
one direction only, displacing it from
its surface downward instead of plow-
ing through the water and displacing
it to either side of the boat, a saving
of close to 70 per cent in power is
cured—a full unit of efficiency from
the flow and pressure of water being
obtained, as compared to about one-
third of a unit heretofore utilized by
boats and ships under sail or steam.
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