Galveston Tribune. (Galveston, Tex.), Vol. 29, No. 217, Ed. 1 Friday, August 6, 1909 Page: 6 of 16
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GAIVrSTON TRIBUNE: FRIDAY,
AUGUST 6,
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White Slavers of Chicago Are
Being Prosecuted With
Unusual Vigor,
Other Commonwealths Better
Known Because People Boast
of Them Unceasingly.
They Are Not “Bull” and
“Bears” But Have Some
Lively Sessions.
Rs Result Wages in Manufactur-
ing Plants Are Improving.
Crop Outlook Good.
See
Windows
the damage to the Paul Jones is
so serious as at first reported.
in
the
Have Made Man; Galveston Resi-
dents Enthusiastic.
TEXAS DEFICIENT
IN STATE PRIDE
may-
elects.
members,
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MACHINE TOOLS
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All Suits up to $40 in Fancy
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$18.90
HAPPY RESULTS
CONGRESSMEN ARE
GREAT “TRADERS”
I am a stickler
By Associated Press.
Juneau Alaska, Aug. 6.—Five of the
torpedo-boat destroyers that have been
in Alaskan waters have' arrived here
from Skagway.
The destroyer Paul Jones, which was
damaged by going on the rocks in Per-
il Straits Tuesday morning, did not
stop here but proceeded under her own
steam toward Seattle.
Officers with the flotilla stated that
not
g-ov-
and
any
Co.,
For sale by J. J. Schott.
$12.15
an enor-
systematic barter of girls ana
from rural districts and for-
He said:
Skin Blotches
Indicate skin sickness. Sometime’s it’s
a little colony of germs that are feast-
ing on your skin. Sometimes it is the
symptom or forerunner of a much more
serious skin trouble to come. In any
event if you value your looks, comfort
or future health, you should get rid of
the trouble at once no matter how
Blight it may seem. Don’t risk Eczema,
Erysipelas, Ringworm and <ther seri-
ous skin diseases by letting any indi-
cation of skin sicKness run on un-
treated, when Littell’s Liquid Sulphur
stops itching instantly and permanent-
ly relieves any and all forms of skin
disease, no matter what it may be.
Sample’ bottle sent postpaid to
address for 10c. Rhuma-Sulphur
St. Louis, Mo.
Look at the Prices;
NEW STATUTES
PROVING WORTH
the Quality You Know
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It’s the sale you’ve waited for, and it comes with
greater opportunities than in any previous year. Con-
sidering the popularity of E. S. Levy & Co’s, fault-
lessly tai ored suits and the timeliness of these great
reductions, we regard this the best value-giving sale
of the entire season. Nearly a thousand sterling
quality suits in the assortment—all 1909 models, ac-
curate in fit and absolutelv correct in style, with the
I patterns, shades and fabrics so attractive that it will
| not be difficult for you to choose a favorite.
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Special to The Tribune.
Chicago, Aug. 6.—Determined
forts against white slavery by
state’s attorney’s office and the
Illinois statutes are having electric ef-
fect on the resort keepers, cadets and
procurers in Chicago, reducing their
nefarious traffic in girls, the innocent
ones particularly, right at the usual
harvest season for them. The value of
the new statutes is demonstrated daily.
Most of the recruiting for disorderly
houses is' done during the summer.
Now their efforts are largely directed
to the excursion steamers, but^a dras-
tic federal law will be the basis for a
sensational raid soon in that direction.
Active efforts are planned for ex-
confldeutial. F.or 20 years she
L has been helping sick women in
this way, free of charge. Don’t
hesitate — write at once. ’
from female troubles which
caused a weakness
and broken down
condition of the
system. I read so
much of what Lydia
eg-
etable Compound
had done for other
suffering women I
felt sure it would
help me, and I must
say it did help me
wonderfully. My
pains all left me, I
The
Beer That’s
Liquid Food.
Galveston Brewing Co.
PHONE 710.
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the traffic in enticed, bewildered and
deceived girls into other states than
the eight which this spring passed leg-
islation' through the 'efforts of the
Woman’s World committee on legisla-
tion. Encouraging strides, have been
made, but there are over thirty states
yet unprovided with the laws under
which prosecution can be had. Look-
ing backward, the bee-innings of the
campaign are extremely interesting,
considering to what proportions it has
now grown. A member of the com-
mittee, Rev. Ernest A. Bell, superin-
tendent of the midnight mission, and
secretary of the Illinois Vigilance As-
sociation, has related the discovery
that startled the authorities into in-
vestigations which digclosed
mous,
Total Abstinence League Concludes Its
Chicago Session.
By Associated Press.
Chicago, Aug. 6.The Catholic Total
Abstinence Union of America ad-
journed its sessions here last night
with the election of Rev. P. J. O’Cal-
laghan of St. Mary’s Church, Chicago,
as president; Rev. J. B. Moylan, Scran-
ton, Pa., as treasurer, and John T.
Shay, Boston, as secretary.
A monument will be erected near
Titusville, Pa., in honor of the man
who drilled the first oil well there
fifty years ago next August.
the iron and steel trade and the pla-
cing of orders by railroads. Thirdly,
the probable early settlement of the
tariff question.
Under the reasonable assumption
that the present improvement in the
call for machine tools is permanent,
the question of increasing the produc-
tion in the shops confronts the manu-
facturer. It is found to be difficult
to attract the men who have been let
out during the depression back to their
old positions. Naturally each shop
made an effort to maintain its organi-
zation and retained the best employes,
reducing the pay roll by disposing of
handy men and the inefficient and me-
This class of labor has been
find employment,
ness.
“I can tell you that,
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We wonder scores of Galveston citi-
zens grow/enthusistic. It is enough to
make anyone happy to find relief after
yers of suffering. Public statements
like the following are but truthful
representations of the daily work done
in Galveston by Doan’s Kidney Pills.
Mrs. Mary Delaney, 617 Twenty-sixth
St., Galveston, Texas, says: “I recom-
mend Doan’s Kidney Pills at this time
as highly .as I did over a year ago
they are, in my estimation, a good
remedy. I was a sufferer from kidney
disease for a number of years and noth-
ing I tried brought me relief. At times
I was so bad that I could not stoop. ZI
also had headaches, dizzy spells and a
never ceasing pain in my back. The
kidney secretions were unnatural and
their irregular passages caused me an-
noyance. I finally procured a box of
Doan’s Kidney Pills at Schott’s drug
store and after taking the contents I
was in better health than I had been !n
years."
For sale by all dealers. Price 50
cents. Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo,
New York, sole agents for the United
States.
Remember the
take no other.
of bucolic tinge, but the office build-
ing patois is “ags.”
“Give you a ge-od,” replies the sec-
retary addressed.
“Not for mine,” replies the N’Yawker.
He says it just like that so that no one
will suspect he came from New Jer-
sey. “Why, there are yahoos out in
Kansas and Missouri’ that’s climb five
barb wire fences to get one of those.”
As a matter of fact, it is probable that
the Missouri or Kansas members’ con-
stituents have been clamoring for the
book. But the western secretary also
knows that some influential firm who
needs a geodetic survey has written the
N’Yawker prodding him about his fail-
ure to keep his promise to send on a
geodetic survey.
“Haven’t much call for ‘ags,’ ” re-
plies the rural secretary in a tone as
casual and uninterested as possible.
“Fact is, we have a big stock on hand.”
The N’Yawker knows that isn’t true.
Nobody in congress has too many of
anything that constituents may get for
the askins'.
“I’ll tell you what I’ll do,” says the
westerner. “We get 900 ‘ags’ and only
45 ‘ge-ods.’ I’ll trade_ you one ‘ge-od’
for 20 ‘ags.’”
“Not for mine,” replies the N’Yawker.
“Let’s trade on the cah .basis. ‘Ags’
are worth eight cents and ‘ge-ods’ 40
cents each. I’ll give you one ‘ag’ for
five ‘ge-ods.’”
Each needs what the other has, so a
trade finally is arranged on some basis.
An odd thing about the trading is that
what the New York secretary said
about the money value of various fed-
eral commodities is true. Every pub-
lication has a cash basis and may be
sold to some member of congress,
through his secretary, of course, for
Wealthy members of congress
think nothing o.f investing from $500 to
$1000 a year in large number of gov-
ernment issues which may be of value
or interest to their constituents.
So “trading” on the four floors of the
two congressional office buildings is
carried on on a “par” basis, which the
actual value of the commodity is taken
as a basis of value, or in “flurries” at
any price which the “shorts” are forced
to pay to cover their “deliveries.”
When “the member” orders his secre-
tary to get some commodity, he gets
it, whether he has to sacrifice several
times the value or not, for it means
that the “boss” in some assembly dis-
trict or the road overseer in some coun-
ty has put in an insistent demand for
the immediate forwarding of some-
thing which the government has Issued.
The jargon of Wall street is not ab-
sent. In the hurried trading which fol-
lows each of the four daily deliveries
of mail in the two buildings, the per-
son unused to the tongue might well
wonder at the uses to which English
may be put. In this trading vegetable i
seed become “verges,” flower seed
“flower,” maps of the United States
“U. S’es,” geological professional pa-
pers, “profs,” books on diseases and
cures for animals "horses” or “cat-
tles,” while there are scores of other
abbreviations which sound as Greek to
the uninitiated.
DICKERING FOR “EULOGIES.”
The saddest sight about Washington
is that of a secretary to a member of
congress trying to gather eulogies.
For Benefit of Women who
Suffer from Female Ills
Minneapolis, Minn.—-“I was a great
sufferer fr ‘
L s W much of what Lyc
® E. Pinkham’s V<
> F enable Compou:
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grew stronger, and within three months
I was a perfectly well woman.
“I want this letter made public to
show the benefit women may derive
from, Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable
Compound.”—Mrs. John G. Moldan,
2115 Second St., North, Minneapolis,
Minn.
Thousands of unsolicited and genu«
ine testimonials like the above prove
the efficiency of Lydia E. Pinkham’s
Vegetable Compound, which is made
exclusively from roots and herbs.
i Women who suffer from those dis.
tressing ills peculiar to their sex should
not lose sight of these facts or doubt
the ability of Lydia E. Pinkham’s
Vegetable Compound to restore their
health.
If you want special advice write
to Mrs. Pinkham, at Lynn, Mass.
She will treat your letter as s tri ctly
---2 F.or 20 years she
Paul Jones Gets Into Port
Damaged.
“How do you like the High
Grade beer you ordered for
trial, madam?”
“Well, Otto, its flavor is de-
licious, and it agrees with us
perfectly,, but I would like to
know undqr what conditions
it is made as regards cleanli-
women
eign countries.
“About six years ago a notorious
woman who kept a gilded resort on
South Clark street died, and the prop-
erty was leased for a rescue home.
The windows of the house were found
barred like the windows of a prison.
Many such windows can be seen in
the houses formerly used as lives in
custom-house court, now federal street.
“On Jan. 30, 1907, Mr. O. H. Richards
told me how he had rescued a girl
from a resort on Armour avenue, after
the woman who kept the place had
refused to surrender the girl to her
mother and stepfather, on the claim
that the girl owed twenty dollars for
clfothes. As there were three good
witnesses who could not be impeached,
I saw that this was a good case to
bring into court. The woman was ar-
raigned before Judge Newcomer at
Harrison street January 31, was con-
victed, fined and ‘Bertillioned.’ She
immediately abandoned her loathsome
business and is a good woman today.
The girl was soon afterward mar-
ried to the young man of her choice.
“Assistant United States District At-
torney Roe and Judge Newcomer had
to deal with many
done against girls,
Harrison street. It
proven in scores of cases that a
stant commerce in American and for-
eign girls was carried on in Chicago
and other cities. Many shipments of
girls from Paris to New York and
Chicago were constantly made by the
French white slave traders.”
The improvement in the demand for
machine tools is. bringing out some in-
teresting1 phases of the situation of
manufacturers in this line of industry,
says the Iron Trade Review. It is
now believed and quite generally con-
ceded that the improvement is perma-
net and that a return to normal con-
ditions is not far distant.
The reasons upon which the perma-
nency of the present gradual improve-
ments are based are, first the crop
promise. According to the figures giv-
en by the United States agricultural
department as to the condition of the'
principal cereal crops on July 1, the
total cereal production of the leading
grains, wheat, corn, oats, rye and bar-
ley, will be the largest ever produced
in a single year in this country. These
figures assume that the present con-
dition shall be maintained or not ma-
terially lessened before the crops ma-
ture. Secondly, the general revival in
ery part of it. I never saw a
more spotless place. They’re
more careful about cleanliness
than you could possibly be in
your kitchen.” -<
“That’s saying a great deal,
Otto. I am a stickler on that
ppint.
“Yes, but they have greater
facilities, madam. Your kitch-
en utensils are washed once
by hand. The apparatus used
in brewing is washed over and
over again, in filtered water
by machinery.
“Your pies and puddings
are set out on the window
sill or a table to cool. This
High Grade beer is cooled in
filtered air, in a room shining
in its spic and spanness. The
same carefulness extends all
through the brewery.”
“If they are that careful I
am more than satisfied, Otto.
You may deliver a case of High
Grade here each week.”
The big white marble office buildings
in Washington which are the business
places for the senators and representa-
tives, lack tickers and a pit and the
other signs of exchanges in Wall
street, but it is probable that as much
“trading” is done in them as in the
buildings of like acreage in. New York’s
great financial district.
Whenever the government issues
publicans, maps or other goods
which portions are given members
congress, the several members ;
credited with their quotas and the
eminent relinquishes all right
They become the ab-
solute property of the member, and he
use them for any purpose he
. The government takes no cog-
nizance of geography, climate or loca-
tion in issuing the goods to
All get the same number of
that is issued.
The Kansas member
enough water in his district to
a tadpole gets as many
jections, maps, etc., of the hydrographic
or geodetic bureaus as the member
from New England with two to five
hundred miles of coast, while the mem-
ber from the Harlem districts in New
York city gets as many vegetable seeds
to distribute to the tenement and flat
dwellers as though his district lay in
Kansas or Missouri.
It follows that the member' who has
geodetic surveys and needs seeds is
anxious to meet the member who has
seeds and needs geodetic surveys. It
would be undignified, of course, for
members of congress ’to take part in
such trading. That Is where the mem-
bers’ secretaries get busy. It is a com-
mon occurrence for a young man to
stop at the door of the room'of some
member and shout:
“What’ll y’ give f’r eight ags?”
THE LANGUAGE OF TRADE.
Now “ags” is short for the annual
report of the department of agriculture.
Flippant secretaries attached to mem-
bers from “little, old N’Yawk” also call
them “hicks.” “yaps” and other names
cases of wrongs
in the court at
abundantly
con-
diocre.
forced to find employment, and
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many instances it is found that
men have secured better paying
sitions elsewhere and many have
the city in which they were originally
employed in machine shops.
State pride will afford a most inter-
esting subject for the investigation of
any one who might care to study a
unique phase of American life. The
tendency to boost is not born with the
child who first opens its eyes on Amer-
ican soil, in American environment, but
appears to be absorbed from the at-
mosphere, for it is frequently the case
where the naturalized son vies with
the native and oftimes rivals him in
giving expression to his convictions
in connection with hi& geographical
location.
A journey which carries one across
the territory lying within the metes
and bounds designated by the title of
state will develop any number of local
tending similar laws directly aimed at opinions, but where the commonweann
as a whole is in question the
ity of belief expressed must prove con-
vincing that if men make mistakes in
the selection of their abode it shall
never be guessed from the adjective
of praise used with prodigal liberality
in describing their home state.
The different degrees of emphasis
employed may be accepted as indica-
tive of the depth or intensity of state
pride animating the conversation into
which one naturally drifts when com-
ing in touch with these unpaid apos-
tles of state possibilities. In this re-
gard the difference in tenor and ve-
hemence between the language of the
average Texan and the Oklahoman is
strikingly evident Every true Texan
knows the state in which he lives
stands for superlative bigness geo-
graphically and agriculturally, believes
it to possess inestimable possibilities
in minerals and woods, is confident of
a future laden with gigantic achieve-
ments in every ramification of indus-
trial and commercial progress, but this
same Texas does not feel impelled to
indulge in anything more than a pres-
enatlon of facts, apparently. content
to let time develop the fullness of
what he knows to exist. Not so the
Oklahoman. He brays about the crops,
praises the enterprise of the people,
points out the marvelous enterprise
that has in. less than a generation made
a garden out of a wilderness, shows
you every existing evidence of prog-
ress and dilates upon future under-
takings with an eagerness born of an
abiding faith; and with every man a
booster and all at work, Oklahoma Is
increasing its population by leaps and
bounds, her cities are growing as if
by magic, and land values would stag-
ger the investigator, so rapidly have
they risen to higher figures.
The Kansas brand of state pride rests
•on achievements now written in his-
tory. The ^Kansan is pleased to tell
you how the people of his state have
made two blades of grass grow where
but one grew before, only he will sub-
stitute alfalfa and corn or wheat for
grass; he will tell you that every har-
vest time Kansas calls for thousands
of men from the other states to aid in
gathering her crops; he will tell of the
farmers who have grown wealthy by
cultivating the rich lands of the state;
will speak of Kansas as having done
her share in the making of a mighty
nations, and expects his hearers
Chorus an “amen” to his epic.
The Coloradoan, if you meet a true
son of the state, centers the major
portion of his boasting on Denver, rec-
ognizing that his task affords him no
limitless expanse over which to roam.
Denver, then, may be accepted as the
type of the Colorado spirit; her wealtn
is discoursed upon; the public spirit
of her citizens, her mile high climate
(a summer tocsin), her enterprise, her
future, none of these are overlooked
and many variations to the song are
sung, but the hearer is never permit-
ted to escape until he has these themes
presented to him in such a manner as
will linger long In his mind.
Now an unprejudiced comparison of
assets upon which state pride may be
based would show Texas to possess at-
tractiveness in almost every way far
beyonud Oklahoma or Kansas or Col-
orado, but almost the only champions
of the state with her boundless possi-
bilities are the newspapers which vol-
untarily proclaim her resources, her
advantages, her prospects, the people
supplying but a faint choruu to the
resolute claims put forth by the —
in behalf of Texas. Colorado nas at-
tracted hundreds of thousands of peo-
ple annually with her superb scenery,
for four months the centennial state is
a pulsating beehive of tourist activity,
then she goes into winter quarters un-
til the summer >• again plays the part
of emigration agent in har behalf.
Texas may not possess mountains ad
infinitum, but the scenery from Austin
to San Antonio and westward io Hl
Paso is mountainous enough to war-
rant a little brag, but that little is
When a member of congress dies the
speaker or vice president goes to the
ball game, or any other place far re-
moved from congress, puts a substitute
in his chair and other members from
the deceased’s state pour oratorical
flowers on the late honorable’s mem-
ory. In due course of time the ello-
gies are printed in one volume. Per-
sons out in Oregon might not know
that such a person as the deceased ever
existed. But he has had staunch friends
in the state which honored him and
every one of them is eager to get one
of the books; All the secretary has to
do is to tap gently on every one of the
40 odd doors in the house office build-
ing and ask most humbly if there can
be spared for him two or three or more
copies of the eulogy of “his member’s"
colleague.
Inasmuch, as the secretaries who are
asked probably never heard of the lata
lamented, it may be thought that in
such a sad event they would willingly
hand over their entire quota. But the
chances are that they have become so
imbued with the spirit of trading that
the colleague of the departed member
may have five copies of the eulogy for
40 “ags,” qr 10 “ge-ods” or an impos-
sible number of “veges,” but never for
nothing. So the secretary plods on,
hat in hand, until he has obtained a
sufficient number of eulogies to fill the
wants of “his member’s” constituency.
never heard. Oklahoma has no more
productive soil than North Texas, and
when a comparison is made of garden
products the newest state is not with-
in seeing distance with the Texas
coast region. It may be that we are
too busy supplying the demands
the Northerm and Eastern consumers
to stop long enough to tell the world
At all events the
world is ignorant of the fact, and Tex-
as is that much the loser.
To brag is one thing, but to brag
with the goods ready for delivery is
another story, and the latter is the one
Texas is fully capable of making
known. ■ Let’s tell the people what we
have.
madam. j
works in the Galveston
brewery and he has
showed me through ev-
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