Galveston Tribune. (Galveston, Tex.), Vol. 32, No. 148, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 16, 1912 Page: 4 of 85
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GALVESTON TRIBUTE: THURSDAY. MAY 1fi, 1912.
GALVESTON TRIBUNE
(Established 1880.)
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Any erroneous reflections upon the stand-
ing, character or reputation of any person,
firm or corporation, which may appear in
the columns of The Tribune, will be gladly
corrected upon its being brought to the
attention of the management
A Pennsylvania man has invented
a. machine for sharpening lawn mow-
ers; it willl be sometime before this sup-
ersedes the prevelent practice of send-
ing the mower to the tool sharpen-
ing man.
It is commonly reported that the
newest fashions for women removes
Six inches from the width of her skirt
and adds it to the width of her hat.
The new cucumbers reaching market
must be of the. denatured sort for the
doctors have failed to report any in-
crease of stomach disorders.
The Texas brand of express messen-
ger is recommended for use in Missis-
sippi where the bandits yesterday se-
cured loot to the amount of $150,000.
If there is anything prettier than a
Galveston garden at this time of the
year, it must be two Galveston gar-
dens.
It is a well^ounded rumor thaAJJirea.
lousand automobiles in various parts
of the state are just snorting to roll
across that big causeway.
The swatting mania has become so
intense in Houston that the little pad-
dle is being used on the butter fly.
Don’t jump at a conclusion—the
home team does occasionally win a
game.
“Welcome to Our City,” is in train-
ing for a season of overwork begin-
ning about May 25.
When rogues fall out, it sometimes
happens that there are not enough hon-
est men about to collect the dues.
Paving the alleys is merely adding
a chapter to the Galveston’s immacu-
late streets.
SANCTUM SIFTINGS
NAVY THERE ANYWAY.
Dallas-Times Herald.
The navy department announces that
the christening exercises of the bat-
tleship Texas will not be boycotted.
Thanks, this announcement calls for
celebrations in every hamlet of Texas,
We couldn’t get along without the at-
tendance of George Von L. Meyer at
such a ceremony.
ISLAND CITY NOW SAFE.
Waco Times-Herald.
We quite agree with the New Or-
leans States in the statement that the
people of Galveston are to be congratu-
lated on what they have accomplished,
not only for the protection of human
life but for the commercial develop-
ment of their city.
SEES AN INTERMISSION.
Paris Advocate.
Anyway we forsee an intermission
between election from about Jan. 1,
1914 to March 1, 1915, when the presi-
dent will be - able to consider public
business.
IS THIS PILAUS ABLE f
Beaumont Enterprise.
Some of the shortage in hogs and
cattle that is cited in explanation of
the high cost of meat may be attrib-
uted to the rigid inspection to which
packing house products are subject.
The sick steers and hogs which the
It is with pardonable pride that the Tribune calls attention to
the splendid specimen of modern newspaper enterprise that today
marks a .milestone not only in the career of this publication, but
of the city in which it has the good fortune to be located. This
journal has not been given very largely to the publication of special
| editions, believing that with the application of energy and the ex-
| penditure of money every single issue of the paper would be some-
j thing special as newspapers go. This has been the animating spirit
! back of the Tribune, and that its expenditure of effort and money
I in the past has been justified is fully attested by the splendid
patronage that has been extended both by the reading public and
the business men of the city.
This paper has put forth no extraordinary effort thus far to
build up a clientele outside the radius of the real usefulness of the
Tribune as a newspaper. Its purpose has been to serve Galveston
and the coast country adjacent thereto, and to this task it has dili-
gently directed every appliance known to modern newspaper craft
and it has had substantial reasons for believing that in looking
after the interests of this large section of country it has met the
approval of those whom it has endeavored to serve. However,
while the Tribune has not particularly sought the favor of districts
further removed, there has come from near and far not only words
of approval, but substantial tokens of indorsement as well, and
these have been the more gratifying in that they have been
voluntary.
Today’s issue of the Tribune should prove convincing that
Galveston is very largely on the map of the United States. While
this port is proud of being now an essential part of the mightiest
state in the union it can not forget that here is also the gateway
for the great southwest—can not forget the fact because every day
it looms larger while the commercial and financial prophets of to-
day foretell for Galveston a future that falls on the ear like a
poet’s dream.
Today’s Tribune may be taken as an evidence of the esteem in
which this newspaper is held by the people among whom it is pub-
lished. If a man is known by the company he keeps, then the
Tribune must be judged by having for its associates the leading
merchants, bankers, professional men, together with those who com-
prise the sinews of the community, and with this goodly company
is willing to stand or fall. Not only have the efforts of the Tribune
to issue a paper in every way worthy the occasion been substan-
tially indorsed, but citizens have volunteered to aid in whatever
way it would be possible for them to co-operate in making this
issue the best ever sent forth from a Galveston newspaper office.
Scarcely had the plans been drawn for an issue of the Tribune
that would present a fair exhibit of Galveston, the city of today,
and announcement published of the intention, than the original plans
were compelled to undergo enlargement, so great was the call for
advertising space, and this demand for additional space compelled
the postponement of the originally announced day of publication
to~'T5ifeU5e^ and even this has had little effect in
brooking the request for space. It was announced that this issue
of the Tribune would be circulated in every portion of the country
and the people manifested their faith in this statement by seeking
the publicity that this extraordinary edition would assure them.
This issue of the Tribune might truthfully be entitled “The
Galveston of Today,” for what its pages reveal is of the present, and
yet a regret must be expressed because only a fraction of what is
to be found here could be shown even in this superb edition. How-
ever, it is believed that enough has been written and pictured to
create the desire to learn of and to see more of the marvels that
have been wrought by a people whose capital consisted largely of
pluck, self-reliance and a belief that God helps those who help
themselves.
Concerning the impregnable seawall, the elevation of the city’s
grade, the commission form of government and the latest marvel
that has attracted the attention of the engineering world—the
causeway—the Tribune has endeavored to offer such descriptive
matter as would present an understandable picture of the great
deeds that have made Galveston a noted city among the cities of
America. Technicalities, as far as possible, have been eschewed
and the matter treated for the general reader rather than the stu-
dent. The Tribune does not forget that it is a newspaper and, be-
lieving that the time of its readers is of value to them, would
refrain from delving deeply in matters that concern more largely
the technical publications.
The Tribune, in the publication of this edition, invites the
attention of the balance of the country to Galveston’s two-mile
viaduct, in the completion of which this city surrenders its title to
being isolated from the balance of the-state by two miles of harbor,
and in the closer relationship with the balance of the state expects
to labor all the more faithfully for the commercial greatness of the
state of which she is now more than ever a part.
honest yoemenry used to be able to
palm off on the unsuspecting consumer
find their way to the discard instead of
to the dinner table these days.
HOW FISH WERE BITING.
San Antonio Express.
It is apparent that a certain visitor
in San Antonio did not go to Mexico
and make a few proclimations with an
intention of violating the neutrality
laws of the United States. He merely
ran up to Juarez to see if fish were
biting well at that point of the Rio
Grande.
UNIQUE TEST FOR DAM.
Quality of . Rock la Found by Appply-
lug Air to Hole*.
Quality of rock below the big dam
tcross the Mississippi river at Keokuk
is tested by drilling holes at thirty-
six-foot intervals, which are sunk
thirty-six feet in the rock. Air at 100
pounds to the square inch pressure
is applied at each bore hole and in the
adjacent holes are gauges which show
whether air has leaked into them from
the hole at which pressure is applied.
If there is evidence of flow the ex-
cavation is carried down until suffi-
ciently solid rock bottom is obtained..
IN THE GOOD OLD SUMMER TIME
THE MIGNONETTE TREE.
Few mignonette lovers appear to
realize that a plant of this so fragrant
flower may be preserved from year to
year until it becomes a little tree,
says the Philadelphia North American.
You take a strong plant from seeds
sown in the month of April, put it in
a pot all alone, and whenever and
wherever it attempts to show a blos-
som nip it off without remorse.
At the end of September or the be-
ginning of October cut off all the
bottom shoots to taake it look like a
tree; move it into a larger pot, and
put it in the greenhouse. Water it
regularly and keep it moderately
warm.
Treat it in this same way the fol-
9.
lotving year, cutting off all the lower
shoots and blossoms, and you will have
a mignonete tree that will last and
bloom for years.
A Tribute to Galveston
city,
row.
O A DEAR old southei
" I Where the oleanders
' On an island near the Mainland,
j O’er which ocean breezes blow,
Came a woman worn and weary,
Sadly buffeted by Fate,
And with Hand that shook and faltered
Knocked upon that city’s gate.
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T ONG the road that she had traveled,
Sore and blistered were her feet,
And she whispered, “O, good people,
I am hungry; give me meat.
I will work; indeed, I’m able,
’Tis not charity I ask,
But a chance to make my living,
And not mine to choose the task.”
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f'K AME the master of the city,
Open wide he, flung the gate.
“Enter freely, oh, my sister,
No one knocketh here too late;
Eat and rest, and on the morrow
We will see what can be done;
Just dismiss your care and sorrow,
Joy comes with the rising sun.”
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yff ONTHS she tarried in the city;
I w 1 Did her work and took her pay;
Walked among the oleanders,
Listened to the ocean spray.
Then, renewed in health and spirit,
What seemed heavy, now made light,
Once again took up her burden,
Passed from out the city’s sight.
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A ND the dear old southern city,
Nestling under summer skies,
^ ^ May have long forgot the woman
’Mong its many closer ties.
But she’ll ne’er forget that city,
And upon its gate can see:
“As unto the least ye did it,
So ye did it unto Me.”
—By “One of the Least of These.”
BRIEF BITS OF WIT
A Spirited Decision.
When Piffleton of the Tudgefurrow
Hornet walked to the wickets in a
recent match he was arrayed in a new
blazer, which resembled a rainbow
mixed up with a firework display, says
Tit-Bits. Having ostentatiously hand-
ed the garment to the bibulous look-
ing umpire, he settled down to bu^K^,
ness. During the first three overs ht,
survived two appeals for leg-before,
one for obstructing the field and an-
other for a run out. At last came a
oonfident chorus, "How’s that?” for a
palpable catch at the wicket.
"Not out," hiccuped the umpire.
Then, in a voice suspiciously thick, he
aded: "Its all right, Mir. Piffleton;
don’t get nervous. If they bowl ye
it’ll be a no ball. I ain’t emptied the
flask yet that yer left in yer pocket."
Not a Cry-Baby.
He was a sturdy little lad bordering
on three years of age, and, although
he Was bawling at the top of his voice
after two older youngsters, who were
running away from him, he still was
an attractive sight as he stood with
his feet planted wide apart and tears,
running down his face, says the New-
ark Call.
“What’s the matter, Buddy?” asked
a passerby, "wouldn’t they let you
play with them?”
He stopped yelling a moment and
looked at his questioner. “I don’t
care about that,” he said, “but they
called me a cry-baby.” Whereupon
ho resumed his yelling.
It Don’t Pay.
For different people the immortal
stories of the world have different
messages, says the St Louis Globe-
Democrat. For instance, Professor
Charles Zueblin of the Chicago Uni-
versity said at a recent dinner that in
his native town of Pendleton some of
the mothers used to cut the children’s
hair.
They did it with shears and a bowL
The operation was often painful, and
the result was never elegant.
In Sunday school a Pendleton teacHtr
told her pupils the tragic story of
Samson and Delilah. Then she turned
to a small boy, hopeful that he had
extracted some lesson from it. He
had, indeed, taken it home.
"Joe," she said, "what do you learn
from the Samson story?”
"It don’t pay,” piped Joe,
"to have a woman cut a fellers
A Suggestion.
feelingly, k
A certain retired coal dealer of
Pittsburg is, in the good old phrase,
as tight as wax, but has a passion to
be considered a "spender” and good
liver, never neglecting an opportunity
to refer to his "wine cellar,” etc., says
the Brooklyn Life. A short while ago
he snared a well known clubman and
had him at his house for dinner. A
bottle of sherry was produced with
considerable ostentation, and the
glasses filled. The host held his to
the light, then drank, and smacked
his lips.
"What do you think of that, hey?”,
he suggested.
“Why—er—very good,” the guest
commented, setting his glass upon the
table. "But I say, old man,” he added
in a confidential tone, "I know a
place where you can get wine even
cheaper than this!"
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RECIPE FOR A HAPPY LIFE.
Three ounces are necessary, first of
Patience,
Then, of Repose and Peace; of Co^4
science
A pound entire is needful; s.
Of Pastimes of all sorts, too,
Should there be gathered as much as
the hand can hold;
Of Pleasant Memory and of Hope three
good drachmas
There must be at least. But they
should moistened be
With a liquor made from True Pleas-
ures which rejoice the heart.
Then of Love’s Magic Drops, a few—
But use them sparingly, for they may
bring a flame
Which naught but tears can drown.
Grind the \yhole and mix therewith of
merriment an ounce
To even. Yet all this may not bring
happiness
Except in your orisons you lift your
voice
To him who holds the gift cf health.
—Margaret of Navarre.
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STRANGE COINCIDENCE.
Meaning of Titanic Found by a Whole-
sale Grocer.
In Larousse’s French dictionary the
meaning of the word Titanic is given
as an achievement of great magnitude,
but which will ultimately result In
terrible disaster. This was discovered
by Fred Camors, prominently known
in wholesale grocery circles, when the
awful maritime accident happened. He
regarded this as a coincidence.
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