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Entered at the Postoffice in Galveston as
Second-Class Mail Matter.
Nobody expected Senator Foraker to
keep still on the Brownsville affair.
He has a little scheme of his own to
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Perhaps the worst thing that can be
said about liquor is that it makes some
men imagine they can sing.
fore New Year’s day:
early next year.”
One bad feature of the terrible ex-
plosion at Bas Obispo is that it will
give the canal knockers another op-
portunity to get in the game again.
Unloads Cargo of Fruit, Reloads
and Clears for Mexico Within
Ten Hours.
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San Antonio Express.
Reports come to the effect that type-
writing is to be done by compressed
air. Well; there is a lot of compressed
air that vents itself by means of type-
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(Established 1880.)
¥oii’ M Watt la Kt I*»tes if New.
turned to me. “He means you’re very
innocent, because you don’t know what
IT’S FREE ADVICE.
Huntsville Post-Item.
“Better stay in Walker county” is
the advice some of our farmers are
receiving from friends who rushed
westward to grow rich by raising cot-
ton.
If that trouble down Venezuela way
should develop into a real scrap, Cas-
tro will probably stay in Europe
longer than he intended.
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Cut This Story Out an# Keeg It.
After dinner, while we were having
heavenly Turkish coffee in the foun-
tain court, who should come but Mr.
Doremus. It seemed to me a funny
time to call, but apparently the others
didn’t think it out of the way. He
wanted us to go to some theater on a
roof, and I should Jiave loved it, espe-
cially when Mi's. Ess Kay said you
didn’t get smudges on your nose as
you would if you sat on a roof in Lon-
don, a thing which I never heard of
anybody except cats doing. But she
was tired, ancT I suppose it would have
been ladylike for me to be, only 1 was
much too excited. So Mr. Doremus
stayed, and he and Mr. Parker talked
more slang in an hour than I think I
ever heard in my whole life, though I
have always considered Stan talented
in that way.
But Stan’s slang and Vic’s are quite
different from American slang. In
America you build up your whole con-
versation out of it, and it’s wonderful.
I longed for a notebook while those
two men were talking to put every-
thing down, and I felt if people were
often going to be as funny as that I
should need to go home soon to rest
my features.
When I go home I shall probably
have collected so much slang in my
pores that I shall talk about putting
on my “glad rags” when I’m going to
dress for dinner; my life will be my
“natural;” I shall call Stan’s motor
car the blue assassin or the homicide
wagon; I shall say my best frocks
are “mighty conducive;” I shall get
bored by poor Mr. Duckworth, our
newest curate, and tel! him he’s “the
limit;” I may even take to abbreviat-
ing my affirmatives and negatives by
saying “yep” and “nope” when I’m in
a hurry, but if I do fall into these
wayfi, I,tremble to think what natty be
the effect on mother.
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will show me society over on this side.
I have heard so much about Newport, "
don’t you know. I fancy it will be too
utterly deevy.’ ”
“What's deevy?” I demanded, with
scorn.
“Oh,' that’s
On account of a misunderstanding
among the union musicians)- the Rent-
frow stock company, allied to appear
at the Grand last night, the contract, by
the consent of both ths, manager of the
company and the opera house, was can-
celled. 'The house will therefore be dark
■ during the entire week.
From statements made by both sides
it appears that the good nature of all
parties concerned prevented any serious
breech, and the stock company rather
than cause any trouble is said to hava
given in and was willing, to lose the
week.
A representative of the Rentfrom
stock company —stated to a reported for
the Tribune this morning that the con-
tract entered into provided for its own
orchestra, which is composed of six mu-
sicians, all paid up members of the
union. Because, it is said, the company
did not have the seven men for which
the local contract calls for, the local
musicians demanded that its seven mem-
bers be installed in the pit with the
company’s six players, thus making
thirteen players in all.
Managers Weis of the Grand and Rent-
frow of the stock company wot desiring
to bring on trouble, und furthermore
finding it out of the question, to pay so
many musicians, agreed to close the
house, and that was all rfiere was to it.
From a statement from a member of
the Grand orchestra, the representative
of the Tribune was told that thb union’s
■contract calls for seven men in the or-
chestra pit, and when a company fur-
nishing its own players.does not have ths
required number, they are free to play •
in fulfillment of said contract.
The matter is believed to have been
settled, and so far as the Rer.'.frow
stock company is concerned the organ-
ization withdraws and will leave this
■ afternoon for Houston, where it will play
the remainder of the season, opening
i next week.
Venezuelans do not appear to take
kindly to the Dutch theory that the
seizing of that boat was not an un-
friendly act.
So Adam was a loafer,, according to
»a woman justice of the peace at Ev-
Now we know why so many
people do not like to work,
like their famous forbear.
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alowed to re-enlist.
plain, however, that he does not ex-
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good. '
One resolution that will be made be-
“I will shop
It wil probably suf-
fer the same fate as the other resolu-
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In another instant he was in my lap.
to go out early, “while it was cool”
(we should all have been lying about
with wet handkerchiefs on our fore-
heads at home, and there would have
been special prayers in church if it
had ever been what New Yorkers seem
to think cool), the butler came in leading
by a leash a perfect angel of a dog, a
little French bull, with skin satiny as
a ripe chestnut, and eyes like rosettes
of brown velvet, with diamonds shin-
ing through them. He had on a spiky
silver collar, fringed on each edge with
white horsehair, and he came trotting
into the room with a high action of
his paws, dainty and proud, like a
horse that knows he’s on show, and
his tiny head was cocked on one side
as if he were asking us to please ad-
mire him and be his friends.
I supposed that the little fellow be-
longed to Mrs. Ess Kay, and that he
was being brought in to bid his mis-
tress good morning, but she said quite
sharply, “What dog is that?”
“He’s a parcel, ma’am,” said the but-
ler, “addressed to Lady Betty Bulke-
ley. He was left at the door by a mes-
senger boy, and the label’s on his col-
lar.” i
In another instant that little live,
warm bundle of brindled satin sewed
on to steel wires was in my lap, and
St did seem as if he knew that he was
mine. The queerest thing was that he
had no note with him. On the label-
just a luggage label tied to his collar—
was my name, in a strange but very
interesting looking hand, and these
words besides: “The dog is now found.
His name is Vivace.”
“Who has sent it to you, Betty?”
asked Mrs. Ess Kay, and I could see
by her eyes that she was very" curious.
• I had just answered, “I don’t know
from Adam,” when some words of my
own ^jumped into my head. I could
hear myself saying, “I must first find
the dog,” and then I knew that the
giver of Vivace wasn’t Adam. But
luckily I hadn’t thought before I spoke,
so it was no harm to let it rest at that,
and I just sat and played with my new
toy while Mrs. Ess Kay and her
brother jabbered about him excitedly.
“It must be Tom Doremus,” said she.
“He’s the only man I let you know
well enough on board to take such a
liberty.”
I thought of another man she hadn’t
wanted to let me know, but I rubbed
my chin on Vivace’s ear, which felt
like a wall flower, and kept quiet.
“Cheek of Doremus,” remarked Mr.
Parker. “He’s a josber from way
back. How does he know Lady Betty
likes dogs? I should send the little
brute off to the dogs’ home.”
“If Mrs. Stuyvesant-Knox makes me
do that, I shall have to go with him—
and stop with him, too,” said I. And
I almost hated Mr. Parker for a min-
ute in spite of the walking stick roses
and the snowstorm of gardenias up-
stairs.
“Of course, you shall keep the dog,
if you want to,” said Mrs. Ess Kay,
“unless we find out that he’s been sent
by some one undesirable, and then of
course the duchess would expect me to
see that you gave him back.”
“I feel somehow that we shall never
find out,” I said, and I hugged Vivace
so hard, without meaning to, that he
gave a tiny grunt. But he didn’t mind
a bit and licked my hand with a tongue
that was like a ^veet little sample of
pink plush.
I was suddenly so happy with my
surprise present that I forgave Ameri-
ca for having imaginative reporters
and wasn’t homesick for* the pony or
for Berengaria and her puppies or any-
thing.
Situation in Honduras is insecure,
say the dispatches. That is the usual
condition of the situation in that coun-
acres of tariff revision
NO JOY.
Beeville Picayune.
The turkey that lived over Thanks-
giving day has little to be thankful
for, for Christmas and New Year fol-
low very closely.
BE CAREFUL.
Cleburne Enterprise.
When you start to say something
bad about someone, just remember
that your acts may look just as fool-
ish to him.
ady Hetty
Aawt the W'ate
This Christmas shopping marathon
we hear about will develop into
sprint the first thing you know, and
there will be too many entries for the
track.
SUCH WISDOM!
Orange Leader.
A man has not lost all sense of rea-
son when he refuses to stop and argue
over sanitary conditions with a pole-
cat.
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have been it, all the same, for see here,.
In this dreadful Flashlight.” And she
handed me a newspaper, with one
page folded over and huge headings
dotted about at the top of paragraphs,
like the lines of big print that oculists
keep to make you try your eyesight.
In the middle column I saw my name,
but I couldn’t believe it was really
there, in an American paper. I began
to think I wasn’t awake yet, and that
this must be part of the dream I was
dreaming all yesterday.
“BONNY—BETTY—BULKELEY,” I
read out aloud. “A Duke’s Daughter
on the Dock. Call Her by Her Front
Name, Please. What Lady Betty
Thinks of Our Boys.”
There was more, but when I had got
go far, I simply gasped.
“How dare they?”
“There isn’t much they don’t dare,
except to go back without a ‘story,’ ”
said Mr. Parker, laughing. But I
didn’t laugh. I was too angry.
“If my brother were here, he’d kill
them,” I said. ’
“Then he hasn’t got a sense of hu-
mor,” replied Mr. Parker. “I don’t see
how a duke could have and be a duke
nowadays, but I guess I wouldn’t mind
swopping my ssnse of humor for a
dukedom, all the same. See here,
Lady Betty, you’ll get to like our
newspapers before you’ve been over
here a month. They sort of grow on
you. They’re as interesting as novels,
and almost as true to life.”
“This isn’t true to my life, anyway,”
I said, not knowing whether I wanted
most to laugh or cry. “Oh, Sally, Sally
Woodburn, will anybody believe I said
such things as these?”
“Give the Flashlight to me and let
me look,” she said. And when she’d
taken the paper, she began to read the
stuff that came under the big headings
out aloud in her pretty, soft voice:
“Yesterday was a blazer, but though
it was hot enough on the docks to
roast a coon when the Big Willie
steamed in that beautiful young visitor
to our shores. Lady Betty Bulkeley,
managed to look like the duke’s daugh-
ter and duke’s sister she is and, so
far as a mere man could tell, without
the help of patent hair curlers or oth-
er artificial aids to personal pulchri-
tude.
“A daughter of the gods, divinely
tall and most divinely fair, j
on a throne of ducal luggage .
queenly in an elegant white
waist built mostly of. holes and emi-
nently suited to her style of beauty
as well as the weather. She also had
on a picture hat. which was superflu-
ous. as she would have been a picture
without it, and below th^ waist she
was tailor made.”
“I think it’s most insulting!” I broke
in. “And I was made at home, all the
wav down.”
But Sally went on:* “I soon found
(writes the representative of the
Flashlight) that the sister of the Duke
of Stanforth, one of Britain’s eligibles,
preferred to be addressed by her front
name of Lady Betty. ‘I feel more at
home,’ said she. with a sweet voice,
but a pronounced English accent,
•when I am called Lady Betty. .And I
want to feel at home in America be-
cause 1 expect to he some time with
my friend. Mrs. Stuyvesant-Knox, who
Texans made a good showing at re-
cent gatherings in Washington. That
is what they went to Washington to
do.
“Oh, my dear boy!” exclaimed Mrs.
Ess I£ay. “Not for anything. The
duchess would have a fl—I mean, she
would be horrified.”
But when I heard that Coney Island
was like a kind of glorified Margate
(which I’ve never been to, but only
heard about), with switchbacks and all
sorts of shows, I said that mother
would consider it a chapter in the lib-
eral education of a respectable British
tourist, and it was decided that we
should dine there. Mrs.. Ess Kay had
to do a lot of things before she could
go on to Newport, so we were to shop
all the morning, lunch at Sherry’s, rest
in the afternoon and spend the evening
at Coney Island. Next day we were to
go to West Point, where Mr. Parker is
stationed, and stay there all night for
a cadet ball.
Just as we had got this programme
settled, and were making up our minds
at Frontera, and that she would take
to the water again today.
At Mobile she will take on coal, then '
proceed to Port Arthur for cargo, to j
Mexican ports. Mir. Hawley said that
reports brought by the captain of the '■
Disa are that the harbor conditions
around Frontera have again become
normal and that the usual depth of
water prevails While the Livingstons
was there there had been a continu-
ous high northeast wind for thirteen
straight days. This had the same ef- . .
feet as is sometimes seen at Galves-
ton, and Frontera, not having the har-
bor that we have, the result can well
be imagined. As soon as she arrives
at Frontera the Livingstone will again
take up her regular sailings.
TRADE IS ENCOURAGING.
Mr. Hawley reported the banana
trade improving and that the demand
for Christmas consumption was fully
equal to the present supply. . The out-
look for the coming crop is most en-
couraging and the Mexican banana hag
already established itself firmly in the
markets of the United States. All of
this coming by the port of Galveston,
each ship leaving hundreds of dollars
in wages to hands for unloading the
vessel, and reloading into waiting re-
frigerator cars and with the bright
prospect of its being doubled within
the year, it is fast coming to be con-
sidered one of the important indus-
tries of the port of Texas..
tie sorrow and less regret. It is to be
deplored that these rich countries to
the south should be so unfortunate in
selected to guide their des-
tinies for nature has been lavish in
giying to them boundless riches of
flora and mineral, and if the land pro-
duced patriots as it does vegetation, in
South and Centra*! America would be
located the purse of the world instead
of at London, Faris or Berlin.
TOO TRUE.
Rio Grande News.
We are led to believe that the Eagle
Pass football team is not up to the
ayerage. Not a, casualty has been
ported yet.
While nothing of a more exciting
nature is clamoring for* the center of
the stage, there is quite a bit of inter-
est being manifested in the outcome of
the existing difference between Hol-
land and Venezuela. After President
Castro’s finger snap at the ultimatum
served upon him by the Dutch, open
hostilities were looked for immediate-
ly and the presence in the Caribbean of
two Dutch cruisers lent color to the
supposition, but it would appear that
the people of the Netherlands had ac-
quired no aceleration of aStion since the
good old days of which Washington
Irving tells us in his Knickerbocker
history, they must smoke their pipes
and think before taking action. How-
ever, it would appear that having
smoked and thought for 90 days they
had conluded it was up to them to make
the next move and consequently on last
Saturday they pounced down upon a
bit of a boat flying the Venezuelan
colors and sailed off with it in tow.
Very naturally Venezuela protests
“with energy” against this violation j?f
territorial rights, but it will be much
more in line of discretion for Castro’s
vicegerent to keep his navy off the seas
while the Holland cruisers are playing
y policemen along his coast. Certainly
the protest will be received with diplo-
matic soberness of countenance by the
powers to whom it shall be presented,
but it is a safe prediction that the pow-
ers will smoke over it a much longer
tim^ than the Dutch did over Mr. Cas-
tro’s refusal to be reasonable.
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tions of Europe are probably somewhat
more advanced in the gentle art of
diplomacy than most of the South
American republics and it is doubtless
safe to assert that Holland had already
satisfied herself as to the attitude of
both America and Europe before taking
the serious step she did in bringing
President Castro to reason.
So long as 'the dispute is marked by
an absence of sanguinary encounters—
are as pleasantly managed as was the
capture of the coast guard ship—there
is very slight possibility of any of the
greater powers interfering, more than
this, there seems to prevail a general
sentiment to give the Netherland gov-
ernment free hand, even those coun-
tries which have tasted Castro’s inso-
lence and which have financial inter-
ests in Venezuela are disposed to let
Holland work out her problem undis-
It may be that after President
Castro has encountered a few more ex-
periences such as greeted him in
France he will begin to see things and
hasten to sue for the friendship of the
nations he has treated with such high
disdain.
The indifferent attitude of the people
of Venezuela toward existing conditions
ft
may be accepted as evidence that they
are not altogether or even slightly en-
thusiastic over the methods pursued by
their dictator-president and if, as has
been intimated, he will never return to
his native land, there will be very lit-
Arriving in port with cargo con-
sisting of 6,000 bunches of bananas
10,000 cocoanuts and 214 cases of dried
banana flour, unloading her cargo, see-
ing it all out of the city by train, re-
loading with export cargo and out of
port again all within the space of ten
hours, is a feat for any steamship to
be proud of.
This is the record established yes-
terday by the steamship Dlsa, under
charter to the Southern Steamship and
Importing Company, and while it was •
all accomplished without a hitch or a
jar, it, according to Mr. J. H. Haw-
ley, made the entire local firm get up
and hustle.
The Disa put into port shortly after
8 o’clock and tied up at pier 2 3. Await-
ing her was a long line of refrigera-
tor cars and no sooner had her lines
been made fast than several gangs of
trained longshoremen were over her
side and her cargo of bananas, seven-
ty-two hours out from their Mexican •
home, were being sorted and graded
and securely packed With straw into
the cars.
So rapidly and systematically did the
men work that by noon every one of
the 6,000 bunches had been unloaded, '
the 10,000 cocoanuts were packed and
in the cars and two hours later sev-<
eral freight trains had taken all across
the Bay bridge to be consumed in a
half dozen different states and to
make up a part of many 'Christmas
dinners.
The shipment of 214 boxes of ba-
nan flour is something new to this
port, and is consigned to Chicago,
where it goes for experimental pur-
poses in the way of foodstuffs. This
is becoming one of the important in-
dustries of Frontera, and is being
watched closely by Northern manufac-
turers.
Considered a valuable breadstu*!, the
government has enforced a duty of 2
cents per pound upon the same, but
the demand for products made irom it -
are increasing.
’The Disa, after unloading her cargo
of fruit, at once commenced to reload
with the waiting cargo of general,
merchandise intended for the Mexican
states tributary to the port' of Fron-
tera, and shortly after 6 o’clock her
captain had in his hands his clear-
ance papers and manifest.
WORD FROM THE LIVINGSTONE.
Mr. Hawley annotmeed last evening
that during the day he had received a
telegram from Capt. Olson, of ’She I;
steamship Livingstone, now- in dry
dock at Mobile. The telegram con-
veyed f'the encouraging news that the
Livingstone had not been injured in
the least by her experience in the blow ’ ■
“Ob,‘ that’s supposed to be what
smart Englishwomen say for divine.”
“I never heard of it,” I sneered,
“much less said it. I’m sure mother
would consider it quite profane.”
“Well, do be quiet, child, and listen
to what the Flashlight says you said.
‘What opinion have you formed of our
society women and clubmen on board
the Willie?’ was the next question.
“ T think your ladies are better
dressed than ours, and the gentlemen
are just lovely. They don’t sit around
and wait while we girls,amuse them;
_T , „ . they hustle to give us a good time, and
it is to be interviewed. But you must they know how to do it. I shouldn’t
wonder if I shoilld hate to go home
and associate with lords after being a
summer girl in Newport. I don’t see'
now why American girls go out of
their own country to marry.’ '
, “ ‘I suppose we shall be seemg your
brother, the duke, over here before
long?’
“ ‘His grace may come to retch me
back,’ replied her ladyship. ‘He has
never been to America, but it is one of
the desires of his life to come, and
your American beauties had better look
out, for he is. a gay young bachelor,
and I shouldn’t be surprised if he took
a fancy to carry home a duchesA Mrs.
Stuyvesant-Knox will entertain him
also, and maybe he will paint some ©f
America red.’”
“That’s all about you, I see,” Sally
finished up. “The rest is about Cousin
Katherine and me. It says we’ve come
back with a touch of the Piccadilly ac-
?ent, and it criticises my nose and the
way Cousin Katherine puts on her hat.
It describes this house all wrong and
says the Newport cottage ‘knocks
spots’ out of Mrs. Van der Windt’s cot-
tage. . It also mentions Cousiii Potter,
and calls him ‘one of our army dudes.’
But we don’t mind, and,you mustn’t.
Everybody reads, the Flashlight for
the sake of the shocks, but nobody be-
lieves its flashes.”
“Still, you must have said something'
to the man,” remarked Mrs. Ess Kay.
“I only paid ‘No. but’—or ‘Yes,
but’”— I insisted.,, “Truly and truly
nothing else. And oh, there was a Bat,
too, who tified to talk to me.”
“Great Scott, the Evening Bat!”
chortled Mr. Parker. “Look out for
something rich tonight.”
“Can’t he be stopped?” I asked.
“Might as well, try to stop Niagara
with a tin can. 'i’he less you said the
more the Bat will say. But it doesn’t
matter. Nobody’ll care. Reporters are
paid by the yard for imagination; in-
formation’s gone out, though I do hear
y®u use it still .on your side.”
I was 0ust going to defend informa-
tion (British) at the expense of imagi-
nation (American), when I remembered
that the “army dude”—which sounds
rather like something you might buy
at the stores—had sent me up an enor-
mous bouquet of violets as big as a
breakfast plate, and that I’d forgotten
to thank him. I did so at once, but
it seemed that I had blundered.
“Violets?” he echoed. “Must have
been some ether fellow. I sent you
gardenias.”
“Oh, then the cards got mixed,” I
^aid. “I thought the gardenias were
from Mr. Doremus. How kind of you
both. I was so surprised to receive
such lovely flowers.”
“Our American buds are surprised
when they don’t get them. They would
think it a cold day when they didn’t
have a slight morning haul of flowers—
must be out of season ones or»they’re
no use—new novels or candy. What
do men over on your side of the wa-
ter do to convince you girls that they
think you’re as beautiful as you really
are?”
I thought for a minute, and then I
said that perhaps we weren’t as hard
to convince as American girls. I don’t
know whether this was a proper an-
swer or not, but, anyway, Mr. Parker
laughed, and then began to plan what
> ■>/ X?—-—.——
“ HY, Betty, you never told
me y°u were inter-
viewed on the dock.”
These were the first
words Mrs. Ess Kay
said to me as I walked
in to breakfast, a little late because of
a wrestle I had had with a different
and even more exciting kind of bath.
“I wasn’t,” said I, on the defensive,
ffibugh I couldn’t be perfectly sure
what connection, if any, interviewing
had with the customs. “You told me
not to declare anything, and I didn’t.”
Mr. Parker, looking as if he had
been melted, poured into his clothes
and then cooled off with iced water,
burst out laughing.
“You’re a daisy, Lady Betty,” said
he.
“Is it invidious to be a daisy?” X
asked.
“I guess I must look in the diction-
ary for ‘invidious,’ but a daisy’s £
flower that has budded in the green
fields of England, where there aren’t
any newspaper reporters or other
strange bugs.”
“Potter!” exclaimed Mrs. Ess Kay,
“don’t tease her, and when you’ve been
in the green fields of England you’ll
say insects, not—er—what you did say,
if you don’t want ladies to faint all
around you on the floor.” Then she
President Roosevelt says that the
negro troops who will tell the truth
about Brownsville and prove that they
didn’t know about the shooting in az-
take part there should
He makes
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