Galveston Journal. (Galveston, Tex.), Vol. 4, No. 22, Ed. 1 Saturday, October 26, 1901 Page: 6 of 8
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LIVED LONG ON THE EARTW.
A Newspaper Fleet
Pay for Senators
Few Members of the United States Make Money
Peculiar Feature of the Spanish-American War
mentioning. The government provides diplomatic service the leading ambas-
l
Let
generally receive, financial assistance. >
us, at least, be thankful that this time
tidote for Age Poison
LOUBET’S ECONOMY,
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L
That Is the Sentiment of
Children of London's
Slums
62.
Paris Physician Believes
He Has Discovered An-
“No Footee Bind, No
Hsband Gotee," Say
the Women
$
Perpetual
Youth
There’s No Place
Like Home
Marriage in
China
' has not yet arrived, ano let us hope
: for the sake of the republic that it
tariff schedules and of internal reve- i are never consulted by their colleagues
! sadorial positions are bestowed upon
men whose entourage can be maintain-
which its members judge each other.
: There are millionaires in the senate
Unless he eleCts to live in absolute re-
tirement it is also incumbett upon him
to maintain some social position. Oc-
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31'
5,1
; will never come—Philadelphia Times.
§
A good deal of attention was attract-
ed to a canal boat that was tied up in
Newtown Creek, N. Y., the other day.
The reason was that the captain was
a woman. She is Mrs. Sarah Stanton
and her daughter, her son and a hired
man make up her crew. The boat is
the R. W. Potter of Whitehall, N. Y.
Mrs. Stanton is a woman of about 50.
Her husband died about five years ago
and she then took charge of the boat.
While she was preparing to discharge
the boat’s cargo of lumber last week
a couple of longshoremen went up to
her and said that they would do the
job for 40 cents a thousand feet. She
replied that they wanted too much and
’ that she would, take- charge .of unload-
ing it herself. She sent her daughter
down into the hold of the boat to pass
the lumber up to her son, who was on
the wharf, and he handed it to the
hired man, who did the piling. It did
senator is persistently approached by I measure a man by the size of his bank
ed by their private fortunes, and the
time does not seem to be far distant
when the senate of the United States
will be composed in a large degree of
rich men simply because a poor man
cannot afford to accept the position.
It is to the credit of the senate that
wealth is not yet the standard by
breathing soft nothings into raptur-
ous ears. Doubtless the girl would be
pleased to make the acquaintance of
her future lord and master, but this
must not even be thought of. For it
is the strictest etiquette that she must
not talk to men—even her own rela-
ives. Of course, in low life this rule
cannot altogether be carried out, but
in the “upper circles” of the flowery
land seclusion after betrothal is strict-
ly enforced. “Woman,” says the Chi-
nese adage, “is subject to three condi-
tions in life—at her father’s house she
is subject to her parents, on marriage
she submits to her husband and in wi-
dowhood she is under the guidance of
her sons.” Consequently when the
wedding guests have departed the lit-
tle-footed, lemon-hued bride begins to
realize that she is not only expected
to obey her pig-tailed husband in all
things, but her mother-in-law as well.
Even his sisters take rank before her.
She is the household drudge.—Chicago
News.
free stationery, and it returns some of
his traveling expenses. There is op-
portunity, of course, to make money
through speculation, and some sena-
tors avail themselves of it. One sena-
tor, who was a large holder of Wash-
ington real estate, increased its value
they manage to live upon it is a daily the greatest legislative body in the
“I wouldn’ take nuffin’ dat doesn’t
b’long to me,” said Mr. Erastus Pink-
ley. “I kin now unduhstan’,” rejoined
Miss Miami Brown, “how de repoht
got out dat you is a po’ provider an’
yoh fam’ly nebber has chicken fob
dinner.”—Washington Star.
Many a men looks insigniflcant
when his wife is with him.
stranded constituents, who expect, and i account may control the senate.
nle taxation affect ng steel and iron. ■ and who simply follow where others
resembling ptomaine poison is another
novelty not less startling. Also that
disinfectants can help one to get these
bacteria out of the system is highly
debatable, seeing that man has been
trying for ages to eject far less insidi-
ous foes by means of drugs without
conspicuous success. The necessary
quantity of disinfectants for the pur-
pose would, indeed, help man to obtain
eternal life, but in another world.
very materially by steering legisla-
tion for street improvements in “its
direction, while every manipulation of j who occupy insignificant places who
tobacco, whisky and sugar, reveals
the close connection between the sen-
ate of the United States and Wall
street. But this acquisitiveness, to call
it by no harsher name, is after all,
confined to the few senators who are
noted for their commercial instincts.
The majority of senators do not
speculate. They content themselves
with their modest salary; and how
world. Of course, the time may come
when the sordid influences which
not take long to finish the job. Mrs.
Stanton stood on the deck of the boat
giving orders. Mrs. Stanton said af-
terward that it was impossible for her
to pay men 40 cents a thousand for
unloading as she receives only 90 cents
a thousand for transporting, and, after
the towing and dock expenses were
paid she would have very little left
for herself. This is the first time that
she and her boat have been seen in the
neighborhood of New York City, as she
has been carrying on other work in
the canals and streams up near her
home.—Detroit Free Press.
According to a Parisian correspond-
ent of the London Express, Professor
Gautier, a distinguished member of the
Institut de France, has advanced a
startling theory on the subject of
“Perpetual Youth.” In isolating the
bacteria of physical fatigue he has
found that it is a poison strongly re-
sembling ptomaine poison in nature.
From this Professor Gautier concludes
that fatigue can,by the use of disin-
fectants, be avoided like any other poi-
son, and consequently man. no longer
suffering from wear and tear, need not
weaken or age.
To live forever and never grow old
has always been considered unattain-
able except in an illegitimate fashion,
such as making a bargain with the
“evil one,” who always cheated the hu-
man party to the contract. To find
out now that it was only bacteria that
stood in the way is to realize how
human nature has erred from all time.
But this raises the suspicion that the
professor is also fallible, and a close
reading of the above, assuming that he
has been correctly reported, confirms
the suspicion. The “bacteria of physi-
cal fatigue” are something new in
physiology, and that they are a poison
Substantial Food the Kind the Freneb
President Likes.
Besides his salary of $150,000 a year,
the president of France has a civil
list of $126,000 a year and an allow-
ance of $60,000 a year for traveling ex-
penses. This allowance for traveling
expenses was voted to Marshal Mac-
Mahon to keep him from “running
wild” with the Bonapartists, but he
never touched a franc of it. It was
allowed to accumulate until M. Grevy
became president, when that worthy
drew the arrears and pocketed them.
The allowance for traveling expenses
is largely clear profit, tor the presi-
dent travels free, and all he disburses
when on a journey is given in the way
of tips. He is exceedingly generous
in regard to tips--as well he may.
In spite of his large income Presi-
dent Loubet exercises a rigid economy
at the Elysee. At ordinary luncheons
there is a handsome “set out” but the
fare is more substantial than luxur-
ious. The food left over from the
dinner of the night before is arranged
with all the skill of a “chef” to figure
on the luncheon table; the cold veg-
etables being served up as "salade
russe." The dinners vary in luxury,
according to what guests are to be
present. When only ordinary people
have been invited to partake of the
^residential hospitality the cost is
about $4 a plate. When a lot of really
“first chop” people are to be present
the cost is $6 a plate, and when a vis-
iting royalty is coming to dinner the
cost goes up as high as $8 a plate. The
dinners are supplied partly by a pastry
cook shop and partly by the kitchen
force of the palace. After dinner the
wife of one of the officers of the pres-
idential household slips out and holds
a consultation with the chef, at which
it is decided what is to go from the
dining room to the servants’ table and
what is to be fixed up for tomorrow’s
luncheon. Dishes supplied from the
pastry cook shop and not broken are
taken back at a reduced price. Yet
with all his economy it is said that
President Loubet does not save a cent
out of his pay and allowances. When-
ever he needs an extra allowance for
some special “function” it is cheerfully
granted him by the chamber of depu-
ties. The president gives two balls
each year, which cost him $15,000 eech.
He lo gives garden parties, concerts
and theatrical matinees, but they are
arranged so as to cost little or noth*
Ing.
wonder. The demands upon the sena- :
torial purse are incessant. Every '
brown cheeks and bright eyes tell a
merry tale when they return. Then
you should hear the amusing stories
they tell, and you would see how they
cramped, warped and stunted little
minds have been opened up by a *
glimpse of the green wonderland they
know so pitifully little about. Never
mind what they say about it, it’s the
good the outing does them that, we are
after,”—London Mail.
In the United States senate are sev-
err?! wealthy men, but there are some
of the most influential members of
that body who depend upon their sal-
aries for support. To two-thirds of
the senators the annual salary of
$5,000 is q consideration not to be des-
pised. There are few perquisites to
eke out this comparatively meager
compensation-—none, in fact, worth
dash back to Key West, put the dis-
patches on the wire, and, returning
pick up the fleet as soon as possible.
This method involved glorious oppor-
tunities for “beats.” Not only this,
but there were often exciting races be-
tween the boats to get the wire at Key
West. The cables leaving from that
port, were always overcrowded during
the progress of the war. There was a
great amount of government matter to
be transmitted, and government dis-
patches invariably took precedence of
all others With the correspondents it
was “first come, first served,” and the
man who got in late, no matter how
important his dispatch, was not likely
to have it printed in his paper the next
day. There were occasions when rival
tugs came racing into Key West with
their steam gauges registering a dan-
gerous pressure, and some of the cor-
respondents serving as stokers and
feeding portions of the woodwork of
the vessel into the furnaces. There
were some exciting episodes among the
experiences of the men who carried
these dispatches. On some of the boats
oil in barrels was considered a neces-
sary part of the vessel’s outfit, and,
danger point or no danger point, it
was poured freely over the col burned
in the furnaces, the correspondents
preferring to take the chances of
blowing their boats up rather than risk
being “beaten” by some rival news-
gatherer. The boats were most of them
small, although Mr. W. R. Hearst,
finding that he could not get good
tugs, on two occasions chartered verit-
able ocean steamships and used them
as dispatch boats for the New York
Journal. Of course these ships had
little to fear from the weather in the
Gulf of Mexico, but the smaller craft
frequently encountered real danger in
crossing from points of action? to far-
distant cable stations. Many of the
tugs were without decent sleeping ac-
commodations and the hardships of the
newspaper men who manned them
were severe. Nor did the weather pre-
sent the only dangers which the dis-
patch boats encountered. I know ot
one case—that of the New York Sun
tug boat Simpson, at Guantanamo—
when the boat went ino the harbor for
news, and came out with anywhere
from twenty to thirty holes made by
Spanish bullets in her upper works.—
Pearson’s Magazine.
lead. On the other hand, men who
possess brains are consequential fac-
tors in determining legislation, al-
though in material wealth they may
i be as poor as church mice. A man
: cannot rise to eminence in the senate
, by wealth alone. Herein, it seems to
' me. is much basis for felicitation. Un-
i til this condition changes the senate
■ will continue to be what it is today,
Within a few days after the destruc-
tion of the Maine, correspondents from
all parts of the country were rushed
to the scene of -the disaster. The news-
reading public demanded every possi-
ble item of information regarding the
affair, the grave import of which was
immediately -appreciated. But the
Spanish officials soon instituted a cen-
sorship so rigorous that very little In-
formation percolated through the cable
from Havana. To cope with the situa-
tion the New York Journal devised the
plan of having its dispatches sent by
boat from the Cuban coast to Key
West, where they were put upon the
wires and sent direct to the newspaper
offices. The other papers were not slow
to adopt this plan, and soon a large
fleet of tugs, yachts, and small steam-
ers were plying between the island
and United States territory. This was
the beginning of the first fleet of news-
gathering vessels ever assembled. At
the height of the war the New York
Journal had a fleet of eight sea-going
craft in commission, and the cost alone
of maintaining these vessels amounted
to more than $2,500 per day. The other
New York papers had fleets approach-
ing this in size, and the number of
craft engaged in the work of news-
gathering at one time amounted to
nearly one hundred. The work of fol-
lowing the movements of the squad-
rons under command of acting Rear
. Admiral Sampson and Commodore
Schley, and of attempting to locate the
whereabouts of the fleet sent across
the Atlantic by the Spanish govern-
ment, afforded plenty of occupation for
all these press boats and for the scores
of correspondents that they carried.
Manifestly the only way to be absolute-
ly certain of obtaining all the news
was to keep track not only of the large
fleets, but also of the detached vessels
which were sent along the coast for
patrol duty, and the newspaper boats
had to mke daily trips to Key' West
in order o put their dispatches upon
the cable. To patol a coast line as
gret as that of Cuba (the island is
over one hundred miles long), and to
know every event of importance taking
place within its limits, was an ex-
tremely' difficult matter. The plan
adopted by most of the press represen-
tatives was to follow up the fleet, keep-
ing the flagship in sight until a bom-
bardment or some other event of news
importance took place; then to make a
Evidence that Men Existed Before Date
Fixed by Accepted Authority.
Fortunately there is no chance for a
religious controversy over recent dis-
coveries that seem to upset the accept-
ed chronology of the Bible. That
chronology is admittedly' of human
origin and therefore liable to be falli-
ble. Professor Flinders Petrie, in a
lecture recently delivered in London,
presented some rather startling theo-
"ies as to the antiquity of the human
race that will doubwless give rise to
more or less dispute. The professor’s
proofs as to his theories are said to
be incontrovertible. He contends that
there is an unbroken chain of his-
toric record going back to 5,000 B. C.,
besides objects of art and industry' that
carry history back 2.000 years further,
thus making the indubitable record
of human history cover 9,000 years.
Yet dates 7,000 B. C. do not take us
back to the beginning. There are
traces, he says, of a civilization that
came to Egypt from some other coun-
try. The earliest graves have figures
of a race of bushmen of a type like
that discovered in France and Malta,
suggesting that one race formerly ex-
tended from northern Africa into Eu-
"ope. Beyond these bushmen there are
figures of women captured from still
earlier races—probably of the palaeo-
lithie age. Of this latter age there
are many' evidences in the elevated
plateau east of the Nile, where, in a
region at present whollv uninhabita-
ble, are found the remains of many
settlements. The existence of a popu-
lation here indicates that there was a
time when the climate of Egypt was
totally different from what it is to-
day'—when a rainfall fertilized lands
how deserts. Such a climate could
hardly have existed unless the desert
of Sahara was then under water. A
rise of the Saharan area, coinciding
with a sinking of the present bed of
the Mediterranean, would explain the
indisputable fact that the fauna, flora
and racial affinities of northern Africa
are with Europe rather than with the
parts of Africa south of the Sahara.
Egypt supplies us, according to Pro-
fessor Petrie, with physical evidences
of the antiquity of man in the shape
of 9,000 years’ continuous remains, but
other countries, notably Mesopotamia,
furnish similar indications. The
“finds" made by recent explorers in
the sites of the old cities in the valley
of the Euphrates seem to prove the
existence of an empire extending from
the Persian gulf to the Mediteranean
at a period when Egypt itself was in
its infancy—Chicago Chronicle.
casionally a senator will come to
Washington with the idea he can be
something or somebody upon $5,000 a
year. It does not take many months
to show him the futility of the effort.
In fact, it is impossible for a senator
i to save anything from his salary, un-
; less he hides in a back street, burying
i himself like a hermit, neither enter-
i taining or being entertained. In the
one or two clerks to attend to the
senators’ correspondence, which is
always heavy; it allows a minimum of
The Old Gentieman’s Wife.
The old gentleman had returned to
the home of his boyhood for the first
time in ten years or more, and, as on
the last occasion he had written “and
wife” after his name on the hotel reg-
ister. Of course the keeper of the ho-
tel was glad to see him and grasped
him warmly by the hand. ‘Ain't grown
a day older than when you was here
last,” he said. “No?” said the old gen-
tleman, half inquiringly. “Not a day.”
returned the tavern-keeper, emphatic-
ally. “You wife seems to have changed
more'n you.” "Yes?" “Oh, yes; least-
ways she does to me. Looks thinner
than when you was here last.” ‘In-
deed?' "Yes. She ain’t near so
fleshy as she was, accordin’ to my rec-
ollection. Seems like she’s taller, -too.
an her hair don’t look just the same
to me, an’ art'--” “And,” put in the
old gentleman, softly, “she’s not the,
same wife, you know.”—Boston Jour-
sal.
HIs Royal Highness.
A good story is told of England’s
heir apparent, who recently made the
grand imperial tour. He was riding on
a London ’bus incog, not many months
ago, and, being of an inquiring turn
of mind, asked the driver, beside whom
he sat, his reason for exclaiming,
whenever he whipped up one of the
horses, “Come up. your royal high-
ness, will you?” “Why do you call
him royal highness?” asked the duke.
“Well, sir,” he replied civilly, “ ’cause
he’s so ’orty and lazy, and good for
nothing! See?” His royal highness
did not pursue the subject, but after-
ward told the story to his friends with
great glee, and so it got into print.-
Detroit Free Press.
The children of London’s slums
think there is no place like home, be
it ever so squalid and poverty-stricken.
“They miss the flaming naphtha lamps,
the winkle barrows, the hokey-pokey
man and all the other things that have
been their lifelong companions,” said
Father Stanton of St. Alban's, Hol-
born, yesterday, when asked by the
Daily Mail representative how the
children of the slums take to their
summer outings in the country.
“Then, too, they are afraid of the I
dark at night, and are lost in the day- i
time in the country,” continued the }
kindly faced, great-hearted friend of
thousands of street arabs and gutter
gamins. They have all sorts of rea-
sons for preferring the city to the
country, and some of them are perfect-
ly inexplicable. One little boy wrote
to me after his outing last year and
said he didn’t like the country because
while there a wasp had stung him.
“Another youngster took a day at
Brighton with me in preference to two
weeks in the country, and could give
no reason for his choice.” It never
entered the modest mind of this favo-
rite of the slum children why it was.
“They like going out in vans best of
all,” the father went on, “and then
they eat green fruit and thoroughly "
enjoy themselves. But though they
like the hubbub of the city best, and
are really glad to get back to it, their
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19 Woman Runs a Canal Boat
The Chinese recognize no other
sphere in life for women than mar-
riage. so to this end a girl’s life from
her earliest years is consecrated.
Hence the true reason of footbinding.
“No footie bind, no husband getee” is
the native explanation of the custom.
No sacrifice is considered too great to
secure the all-important husband. In
China you can generally pick out the
“unappropriated blessings” by the
knot of hair they wear on the side
of the head and the locks on either
cheek. When a lady becomes engaged
these are pinned up by the “hairpin
of women,” as a- Chinese writer calls
t it. The method Chinese ladies have
of doing the back hair is often very
elaborate, as will be noticed in the
coiffures of a Foochow or a Hinghua
woman. In China marriages are made
at the marriage agent’s. The Celes-
tial Adonis, when he would go wooing
is. above all things, business like. He
would, be amazed at the suggestion
that he should waste long hours
Her Son and Daughter Assist in
Manning the Craft ~e ~e ~
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