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GALVESTON TRIBUNE, WEDNESDAY, MAY 26, 1915.
With me and I’ll”—
“Hyuh, white boy!” A colored youth
of Penrod’s own age appeared in the
doorway of the cottage. “You let ’at
brothuh mine alone. He aln’ do noth-
in’ to you.”
“Well, why can’t he answer?”
“He can’t. He can’t talk no better’n
what he was talkin’. He tongue tie.”
, “Oh!” said Penrod, mollified; then,
obeying an impulse so universally
aroused in the human breast under
like circumstances that it has become
a quip, he turned to the afflicted one.
“Talk some more,” he begged eagerly.
“I hoe you ackoom aim gommo
mame," was the prompt response, in
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there!” exclaimed Penrod.
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The cumulative effect was enormous,
and could have but one possible result.
The normal boy is always at least one
half Barnum.
“Let’s get up a SHOW!”
Penrod and Sam both claimed to
have said it first, a question left un-
settled in the ecstasies of hurried prep-
aration. The bundle under Sam’s arm,
brought with no definite purpose,
proved to have been an inspiration. It
consisted of broad sheets of light yel-
low wrapping paper, discarded by
Sam’s mother in her spring house-
cleaning. There were half filled cans
and buckets of paint in the storeroom
adjoining the carriage house and pres-
ently the side wall of the stable flamed
information upon the passerby from a
great and spreading poster.
“Publicity,” primal requisite of all
theatrical and amphitheatrical enter-
prise thus provided, subsequent ar-
rangements proceeded with a fury of
energy which transformed the empty
hayloft. True, it is impossible to say
just what the hayloft was transform-
ed into, but history warrantably clings
to the statement that it was trans-
formed, Duke and Sherman were se- 1
Dr. Carrel. Penrod’s efforts, with the
aid of a pin, to effect a transference of
living organism were unsuccessful, but
he convinced himself forever that a
spider cannot walk with a beetle’s
legs. Della then enhanced zoological
interest by depositing upon the back
porch a large rat trap from the cellar,
the prison of four live rats awaiting
execution.
Penrod at once took possession, retir-
ing to the empty stable, where he in-
stalled the rats in a small wooden box
with a sheet of broken window glass,
held down by a brickbat, over the top.
Thus the symptoms of their agitation
when the box was shaken or hammer-
ed upon could be studied at leisure.
Altogether this Saturday was starting
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come him; he verman. snermanraead.
Verman, he de fifties’ one.”
“You goin’ to live here?”
"Umhugh. Done move in Pm way
outen on a fahm.”
He pointed to the north with his
right hand, and Penrod’s eyes opened
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brilliantly effective upon the dark
facial backgrounds of Herman and
Verman, while the countenances of
Sam and Penrod were each supplied
with the black mustache and imperial,
lacking which no professional show-
man can be esteemed conscientious.
It was regretfully decided in coun-
cil that no attempt be made to add
Queenie to the list of exhibits, her
brothers warmly declining to act as
ambassadors in that cause. They were
certain Queenie would not like the
idea, they said, and Herman pictur-
esquely described her activity on oc<
casions when she had been annoyed
by too much attention to her appear-
ance. However, Penrod’s disappoint-
Glycerine is needed in the manufac-
ture of high explosives, and the makers
of nitroglycerine are considering ways
and means of increasing the supply.
In normal times $10,000,000 worth of
glycerine is imported into the United
States from Europe. Carbolic acid also
is becoming scarce in America, having
risen from 7 cents a pound to $1.50.
American chemical engineers, with the
vast supplies of raw material at their
command, must remedy these condi-
tions. The United States should be an
exporter instead of an importer of
chemicals, and in any event should pro-
duce sufficient to meet its own needs.
business with each other, were
people better acquainted; to use
‘ "Gen-til-mun and lay-deeze, this
, closes our puformance. Pray pass out
quietly and with as little jostling as
possible. As soon as you are all out
there’s goin’ to be a new puformance,
and each and all are welcome at the
same and simple price of admission.
Pray pass out quietly and with as lit-
tle jostling as possible. Re-mem-bur
the price is only 1 cent, the tenth part
of a dime, or twenty pins, no bent ones
taken. Pray pass out quietly and with
s little jostling as possible. The Scho-
field & Williams military band will
play before each puformance, and each
and all are welcome for the same and
simple price of admission. Pray pass
oat quietly and with as little jostling
as possible.”
Forthwith the Schofield & Williams
military band began a second overture,
in which something vaguely like a
tune was at times distinguishable, and
all of the first audience returned, most
of them having occupied the interval
in hasty excursions for more pins, Miss
Rennsdale and governess, however,
again paying coin of the republic and
receiving deference and the best seats
splendialy.
After a time the student’s attention
was withdrawn from his specimens by
a peculiar smell, which, being follow-
ed up by a system of selective sniffing,
proved to be an emnatlon leaking into
the stable from the alley. He opened
the back door.
Across the alley was a cottage which
a thrifty neighbor had built on the
rear line of his lot and rented to ne-
groes. and the fact that a negro family
was now in process of “moving in”
was manifested by the presence of a
thin mule and a ramshackle wagon,
the latter laden with the semblance of
a stove and a few other unpretentious
household articles.
A very small darky boy stood near
the mule. In his hand was a rusty
chain, and at the end of the chain the
delighted Penrod perceived the source
of the special smell he was tracing—a
large raccoon. Duke, who had shown
not the slightest interest in the rats,
set up s frantic barking and simulated
a ravening assault upon the strange
animal. It was only a bit of acting,
however, for Duke was an old dog.
had suffered much and desired no un-
necessary sorrow, wherefore he con-
fined his demonstrations to alarums
and excursions and presently sat down
at a distance and expressed himself by
intermittent threatenings in a- quaver-
ing falsetto.
“What’s that coon’s name?” asked
Penrod, intending no discourtesy.
“Aim gommo mame,” said the small
darky.
“What?”
“Aim gommo mame.”
“What?”
The small darky looked annoyed.
“Alm gommo mame, I hell you,” he
said impatiently.
Penrod conceived that insult was in-
tended.
“What’s the matter of you?” he de-
mantled, advancing. “You get fresh
prised discovery that this phrase was
in his vocabulary.
“At the slightest pre-text!” he repeat-
ed, and continued, suiting the action to
the word: “I will now hammer upon
the box, and each and all may see
these genuine full blooded Michigan
rats perform at the slightest pre-text!
There! (There’s all they do now, but I
and Sam are goin’ to train ’em lots
more before this afternoon.) Gen-til-
mun and lay-deeze, I will kindly now
call your at-tain-shon to Sherman, the
wild animal from Africa, costing the
lives of the wild trapper and many of
his companions. Next let me kindly
interodoos Herman and Verman. Their
father got mad and stuck his pitchfork
right inside of another man, exactly as
promised upon the advertisements out-
side the big tent, and got put in jail.
Look at them well, gen-til-mun and
lay-deeze. There is no extra charge,
and re-mem-hur you are each and all
now looking at two wild tattooed men
, which the father of is in iail. Point.
Argentine, Brazil and Chile Involved in
Pact.
Buenos Aires, May 26.—A peace
treaty between Argentina, Brazil and
Chile was signed here by the foreign
mininters of the three states con-
cerned. This is a result of the mis-
sion undertaken by Dr. Lauro Muller,
foreign minister of Brazil, several
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ment was alleviated by an inspiration
which came to him in a moment of
pondering upon the dachshund, and the
entire party went forth to add an en-
riching line to the poster.
They found a group of seven, includ-
ing two adults, already gathered in the
street to read and admire this work.
SCHoFiELD & WILLIAMS
BiG SHOW
ADMISSION 1 CENT oR 20 PINS
MUSEUM oF CURioSiTES
Now GoiNG oN
SHERMAN HERMAN & VERMAN
THiER FATHERS IN JAIL STAB-
ED a MAN WiTH A
PITCHFORK
SHERMAN THE WILD ANIMAL
CAPTURED IN AFRICA
HERMAN THE ONE FINGERED
TATOOD WILD MAN VERMAN THE
SAVAGE TATOOD WILD BoY
TALKS ONLY IN HiS NAITiVE LAN-
GUAGS. Do NoT FAIL TO SEE
DUKE THE INDIAN DOG ALSO
THE MICHIGAN TRAINED RATS
A heated argument took place be-
tween Sam and Penrod, the point at
issue being settled finally by the draw-
ing of straws, whereupon Penrod, with
pardonable self importance—in the
presence of an audience now increased
to nine—slowly painted the words in-
spired by the dachshund;
IMPoRTENT Do NoT MISS THE
South American dog part al-
ligator.
cured ro the rear wall at a considerable
distance from each other after an ex-
hibition of reluctance on the part of
Duke, during which he displayed a
nervous energy and agility almost
miraculous in so small and middle aged
a dog. Benches were improvised for
spectators; the rats were brought up;
finally the rafters, corncrib and hay
chute were ornamented with flags and
strips of bunting from Sam Williams’
attic, Sam returning from the excur-
sion wearing an old silk hat and ac-
companied (on account of a rope) by a
fine dachshund encountered on the |
highway. In the matter of personal
decoration paint was generously used;
an interpretation of the spiral, inclin-
ing to whites and greens, becoming
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Va
Herman. Each and all will have a
chance to see. Point to sumpthing
else, Herman. This is the only genuine
one fingered tattooed wild man. Last
on the program, gen-til-mun and lay-
deeze, we have Verman, the savage
tattooed wild boy, that can’t speak
only his native foreign languages.
Talk some. Verman.”
Verman obliged and made an instan-
taneous hit He was encored raptur-
ously again and again, and, thrilling
with the unique pleasure of being ap-
preciated and misunderstood at the
same time, would have talked all day
but too gladly. Sam Williams, how-
ever, with a true showman’s foresight
whispered to Penrod, who rang down
on the monologue.
The California anti-alien land legis-
lation is still a thorn fh the side of the
Japanese. Other states have enacted
anti-alien land legislation just as dras-
tic as that of California, but the Japs
are interested only in the California
situation; chiefly because California of-
fers some very desirable territory for
Japanese colonization, and is in direct
touch with the land of Nippon by wa-
ter. Japan allows Americans no right
of ownership in real estate. The Japan-
ese overlook this little point, and can
see only the fact that other foreigners
are allowed to acquire holdings in this
country while Japanese are hot. It
would seem then, all things considered,
a matter of wisdom for the United
States to establish as a part of its or-
ganic law, the rule of allowing only
such foreigners to hold land in America
that grant reciprocal rights to Ameri-
cans in their own country.
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his goods. His excuse for not enjoying
a larger share of the trade is that
transportation facilities between his
country and the United States are not
conducive to more business, and he is
probably right; but this does not lessen
his responsibility for endeavoring to
get to a remunerative market, nor
should he expect the business men of
the United States to assume the entire
burden of opening up a larger inter-
course.
There will be other problems for the
conference in Washington to solve, and
it is believed that many of them will
reach a solution as the result of the
frank interchange of opinions and be-
liefs that shall be expressed there. Any
way, the conference will be helpful in
bringing a number of the prominent
men of the continent together, and out
of this neighborliness may grow, indi-
rectly, perhaps, what we hope to see
and believe should exist: a closer trade
intercourse between the American
people.
“You get fresh with me and I’ll”—
which a slight ostentation was mani-
fest Unmistakable tokens of vanity
had appeared upon the small, swart
countenance.
"What’s he mean?” asked Penrod,
enchanted.
"He say he tole you ’at coon aln’ got
no name.”
“What’s your name?”
“I’m name Herman.”
“What’s his name?” Penrod pointed
to the tongue tied boy.
“Verman. Was three us boys in ow
fam’ly. Ol’est one name Sherman.
‘N ‘en come me; I'm Hermap, ‘N ‘en
“You haven’t got any finger!”
“I mum map,” said Verman, with
egregious pride.
“He done ’at,” interpreted Herman,
chuckling. "Yessuh, done chop ’er
spang off long ’go. He’s a playin’ wif
a ax. an’ I lay my finguh on de do’ sill,
an’ I say, ‘Verman, chop ’er off!’ So
Verman he chop ’er right spang off up
to de roots! Yessuh.”
"What for?”
“Jes’ fo’ nothin’.”
“He hoe me boo,” remarked Verman.
“Yessuh, I tole him to,” said Her-
man, “an’ he chop ’er off, an’ ey ain’t
alry oth’ one evuh grow on wheres de
ole one use to grow. Nosuh!”
“But what’d you tell him to do it
for?”
“Nothin’. I jes’ said it ’at way—an’
he jes’ chop ’er off!”
Both brothers looked pleased and
proud. Penrod’s profound interest was
flatteringly visible, a tribute to their
unusualness.
“Hem bow goy,” suggested Verman
eagerly.
“Aw ri’,” said Herman. “Ow sistuh
Queenie, she a growed up woman; she
got a goituh.”
“Got a what?”
“Goituh. Sweilin’ on her neck—grea’
big sweilin’. She heppin’ mammy
move in now. You look in de front
room winduh wheres she sweepin’;
you kin see it on her.”
Penrod looked in the window and
was rewarded by a fine view of Queen-
Ie’s goiter. He had never before seen
one, and only the lure of further con-
versation on the part of Verman
brought him from the window.
“Verman say tell you ’bout pappy,”
FOLLY OF IGNORANCE.
San Antonio Express.
"The smug self-satisfaction Of most
American towns as to their healthful-
ness is the reckless folly of ignorance.”
Thus wrote the secretary of the As-
sociation of Life Insurance Presidents
in one of his reports—a report that of
1,500,000 people who die in the United
States every year, 630,000 perish from
preventable diseases.
This is the expert opinion in expla-
nation of such a record:
It is due in part to the gross care-
lessness or nonfeasance of public au-
thority and partly to the woeful lack
of a proper spirit among the people
themselves.
Magsworth as her jurymen did, though
they sat in a courtroom 200 miles
away, and he had it in mind—so frank
he was—to ask Roderick Magsworth
Bitts, Jr., if the murderess happened
to be a relative.
The present encounter, being merely
one of apathetic greeting, did not af-
ford the opportunity. Penrod took off
his cap, and Roderick, seated between
his mother and one of his grownup
sisters, nodded sluggishly, but neither
Mrs. Magsworth Bitts nor* her daugh-
ter acknowledged the salutation of the
boy in the yard. They disapproved of
him as a person of little consequence,
and that little bad. Snubbed, Penrod
thoughtfully restored his cap to his
head. A boy can be cut as effectually
as a man, and this one was chilled to
a low temperature. He wondered if
they despised him because they had
seen a last fragment of doughnut in
his hand; then he thought that per-
haps it was Duke who had disgraced
him. Duke was certainly no fashion-
able looking dog.
The resilient spirits of youth, how-
ever, presently revived, and, discover-
ing a spider upon one knee and a bee-
tle simultaneously upon the other, Pen-
rod forgot Mrs. Roderick Magsworth
Bitts in the course of some experi-
ments infringing upon the domain of 3
“changed.” Penrod yodeled a response,
and Samuel Williams appeared, a large
bundle under his arm.
“Yay, Penrod!” was his greeting, cas-
ual enough from without; but, having
entered, he stopped short and emitted
a prodigious whistle. "Ya-a-ay!” he
then shouted. “Look at the ’coon!”
“I guess you better say, ‘Look at the
’coon!’ ” Penrod returned proudly.
"They's a good deal more’n him to look
at too. Talk some, Verman.” Verman
complied.
Sam was warmly interested. “What’d
you say his name was?” he asked.
“Verman.”
“How d’you spell it?”
“V-e-r-m-a-n," replied Penrod, having
previously received this information
from Herman.
“Oh!” said Sam.
"Point to sumpthing, Herman,” Pen-
rod commanded, and Sam’s excitement,
when Herman pointed was sufficient to
the occasion.
Penrod, the discoverer, continued his
exploitation of the manifold wonders
of the Sherman, Herman and Verman
collection. With the air of a proprie-
tor he escorted Sam into the alley for
a good look at Queenie (who seemed
not to care for her increasing celebrity)
and proceeded to a dramatic climax—
the recital of the episode of the pitch-
expression of the president—more
neighborly.
That the people of the Latin Ameri-
cas do not speak our language, and
have business customs not in harmony
with our ideas, may in some measure
act as a barrier to greater trade inter-
course, but it is more than probable
that the reason our commerce is not
greater is that we are not sufficiently
well acquainted with each other to
open the way to a wider confidence; in
the language of the president, we are
not neighborly. Language is no bar-
rier, for we are doing business with the
people of Europe, whose language we
do not speak; customs may offer some
slight obstacles, but commerce has
surmounted higher 'barriers than this
and when we have grasped the full
meaning of being neighbors, in its com-
mercial sense, we will then begin to
do business with the countries to the
south of us.
The suggestion of Secretary Redfield,
who spoke the same day as did the
president, that we need more ships if
we are to do more trade, is one that
should engage the thought of the gen-
tlemen»who desire to enlarge our com-
merce with the other countries of this
hemisphere; but even this is not going
to prove much of an impediment after
we have made up our mind that the
trade belongs to us, and is now ours
for the taking.
All this task of building up a larger
trade between the Americas does not
fall properly to the United States. We
may be expected to furnish the ships
in which the traffic .is to be moved,
but according to statistics gathered
and placed before the Pan-American
conference, the countries with which
we expect to trade are permitting us
to purchase in Europe vast quantities
of what they produce, and which under
the right conditions should be sold di-
rectly to us. This would put the mat-
ter up to the South American pro-
ducer to see that he sells us more of
‘The Magsworth Eirtkes were impor-
tant because they were impressive.
’ There was no other reason. And they
were impressive because they believed
themselves important. The adults of
the family were impregnably formal.
They dressed with reticent elegance
and wore the same nose and the same
expression—an expression which indi-
cated that they knew something ex-
quisite and sacred which other people
could never know. Other people in
their presence were apt to feel myste-
riously ignoble and to become secretly
uneasy about ancestors, gloves and
pronunciation. The Magsworth Bitts
manner was withholding and reserved,
though sometimes gracious, granting
small smiles as great favors and giv-
ing off a chilling kind of preciousness.
Naturally when any citizen of the com-
munity did anything unconventional or
improper or made a mistake or had a
relative who went wrong that citizen’s
first and worst fear was that the Mags-
worth Bittses would hear of it. In
fact, this painful family had for years
terrorized the community, though the
community had never realized that it
was terrorized and invariably spoke of
the family as the “most charming cir-
cle in town.” By common consent
Mrs. Roderick Magsworth Bitts offici-
ated as the supreme model as well as
critic in chief of morals and deport-
ment for all the unlucky people pros-
perous enough to be elevated, to her
acquaintance.
Magsworth was the important part
of the name. Mrs. Roderick Mags-
worth Bitts was a Magsworth born
herself, and Jhe Magsworth crest deco-
rated not only Mrs. Magsworth Bitts’
note paper, but was on the china, on
the table linen, on the chimney pieces,
on the opaque glass of the front door,
on the victoria and on the harness,
though omitted from the garden hose
and the lawn mower.
Naturally no sensible person dream-
ed of connecting that illustrious crest
with the unfortunate and notorious
Rena Magsworth, whose name had
grown week by week into larger and
larger type upon the front pages of
newspapers owing to the gradually in-
creasing public and official belief that
she had poisoned a family of eight
However, the statement that no sensi-
ble person could have connected the
Magsworth Bitts family with the ar-
senical Rena takes no account of Pen-
rod Schofield.
Neither the opponents nor the friends
of the Gibson bill can have any honest
grounds fot opposing the resolution re-
quiring every senator to disclose his
interest, if any, in the insurance busi-
ness as stockholder, officer, .attorney,
or creditor. Support or opposition to
the Gibson bill, based upon honest con-
victions, is not detrimental to the wel-
fare of the state. But support or op-
position of the measure grounded upon
selfish interest and concealed motives
is certainly not in line with the prin-
ciples of good government. An honest
legislator assuredly can have no ob-
jection to coming clean with his col-
leagues and the general public.
President Wilson in addressing the
Pan-American conference being held at
Washington, made use of the following
expression: “If there is any one happy
circumstance, gentlemen, arising out of
the present distressing circumstance of
the world, it is that it has revealed us
to one another; it has shown us what
it means to be neighbors. And I can-
not help harboring the hope—the very
high hope—that by this commerce of
minds with one another, as well as
commerce in goods, we may show the
world in part the path of peace.” The
Pan-American conference is a gather-
ing of statesmen and leading- business
men of Latin America, and of the
United States, whose purpose is the
finding of new ways of advancing the
commercial intercourse of the western
hemisphere.
The call for this gathering, states
that mutual acquaintance, respect and
confidence is to be advanced, it is
hoped, by this meeting. The Americans
are not yet well enough acquainted for
the most complete understanding of
each other’s customs and methods, and
for the most satisfactory intercourse,
and it is the hope of the promoters of
the conference that our own business
men will be able to gain as well as
to give information, and to open the
way to a much closer commercial re-
lationship than has heretofore existed;
it has been suggested, and with an evi-
dence of being well founded, that
there would be no difficulty in the
Americas doing a very much larger
accordingly. And when a third per-
formance found all of the same invet-
erate patrons once more crowding the
auditorium and seven recruits added
the pleasurable excitement of the part-
ners in their venture will be under-
stood by any one who has seen a met-
ropolitan manager strolling about the
foyer of his theater some evening dur-
ing the earlier stages of an assured
“phenomenal run.”
From the first there was no question
which feature of the entertainment
wwas the attraction extraordinary. Ver-
man—Verman, the savage tattooed wild
boy, speaking only his native foreign
languages—Ver man was a triumph!
Beaming, wreathed in smiles, melodi-
ous, incredibly fluent, he had but to
open his lips and a dead hush fell upon
the audience. Breathless, they leaned
forward, hanging upon his every semi-
syllable, and, when Penrod checked the
flow, burst into thunders of applause,
which Verman received with happy
laughter.
Alas, he delayed not o’er long to dis-
play all the egregiousness of a new
star, but for a time there was no
caprice of his too eccentric to be for-
given. During Penrod’s lecture upon
the other curios the tattooed wild boy
continually stamped his foot, grinned
and gesticulated, tapping his tiny chest
and pointing to himself as it were to
say, “Wait for me; I am the big show.”
So soon they learn; so soon they learn!
And (again alas) this spoiled darling of
public favor, like many another, was
fated to know in good time the fickle-
ness of that favor.
But during all the morning perform-
ances he was the idol of his audience
and looked it. The climax of his pop-
ularity came during the fifth overture
of the Schofield & Williams military
band, when the music was quite drown-
ed in the agitated clamors of Miss
Rennsdale, who was endeavoring to
ascend the stairs in spite of the phys-
ical dissuasion of her governess.
“I won’t go home to lunch!” scream-
ed Miss Rennsdale, her voice accompa-
nied by a sound of ripping. “I will
CHAPTER IX.
The New Star.
(" AM, Penrod, Herman and Ver-
“aa man withdrew in considerable
%} state from nonpaying view and,
repairing to the hay loft, de-
clared the exhibition open to the pub-
lic. Oral proclamation was made by
Sam, and then the loitering multitude
was enticed by the seductive strains of
a band, the two partners performing
upon combs and paper, Herman and
Verman upon tin pans with sticks.
The effect was immediate. Visitors
appeared upon the stairway and sought
admission. Herman and Verman took
position among the exhibits, near the
wall; Sam stood at the entrance offi-
ciating as barker and ticket seller,
while Penrod, with debonair suavity,
acted as curator, master of ceremonies
and lecturer. He greeted the first to
enter with a courtly bow. They con-
sisted of Miss Rennsdale and her nurs-
ery governess, and they paid spot cash
for their admission.
“Walk in, lay-deeze; walk right in.
Pray do not obstruck the passageway,”
said Penrod in a remarkable voice.
“Pray be seated. There is room for
each and all.”
Miss Rennsdale and governess were
followed by Mr. Georgie Basset and
baby sister (which proves the perfec-
tion of Georgie’s character) and six or
seven other neighborhood children, a
most satisfactory audience, although,
subsequent fro Miss Rennsdale and gov-
erness, admission was wholly by pin.
“Gen-til-mun and lay-deeze,” shouted
Penrod, “I will first call your at-tain-
shon to our genuine South American
dog, part alligator!” He pointed to the
dachshund, and added, in his ordinary
tone, “That’s him.” Straightway re-
assuming the character of showman,
he bellowed: “Next, you see Duke, the
genuine, full blooded Indian dog from
the far western plains and Rocky
mountains. Next, the trained Michi-
gan rats, captured way up there and
trained to jump and run all around
the box aft the—at the—at the slightest
pre-text!” He paused, partly to take
breath and partly to enjoy his own sur-
President Wilson’s remarks before
the Pan-American congress concerning:
the need of better transportation facili-
ties between the United States and
South American countries have been
taken to forecast another effort to
press the ship purchase bill through
the next congress. And no doubt this
view is entirely correct. If private
corporations are not able adequately to
serve the needs of American commerce
it is up to Uncle Sam to provide for the
deficiency. Japan subsidizes mail and
passenger steamers to Pacific coast
ports to her great advantage. The
United States will not subsidize cor-
porate shipping interests, although the
difference between a subsidy and tariff
protection is not quite clear. Since a
federal merchant marine corporation
would operate only in foreign trade
there is really no grounds for alarm on
the part of private capital at the pos-
sibility of government competition.
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explained Herman. "Mammy an’
Queenie move in town an’ go glt de
house all fix up befo’ pappy git out.”
“Ont of where?”
“Jail. Pappy cut a man, an’ de po-
lice done kep’ him in jail evuh sense
Chris-mus time, but dey goin’ tuhn
him loose ag’in nex’ week.”
“What’d be cut the other man with?”
“Wif a pitchfawk."
Penrod began to feel that a lifetime
spent with this fascinating family
were all too short. The brothers, glow-
ing with amiability, were as enraptur-
ed as he. For the first time in their
lives they moved in the rich glamour
of sensationalism. Herman was prod-
igal of gesture with his right hand,
and Verman, chuckling with delight,
talked fluently, though somewhat con-
sciously. They cheerfully agreed to
keep the raccoon—already beginning to
be mentioned as “our ’coon” by Pen-
rod—In Mr. Schofield’s empty stable,
and when the animal had been chain-
ed to the wall near the box of rats
and supplied with a pan of fair water
they assented to their new friend’s
suggestion (inspired by a fine sense of
the artistic harmonies) that the here-
tofore nameless pet be christened Sher-
man, in honor of their deceased rela-
tive.
At this juncture was heard from the
front yard the sound of that yodellng
which is the peculiar accomplishment
of those whose voices have not
hear the tatooed wild boy talk some
more! It’s lovely—I will hear him talk!
I will! I will! I want to listen to
Verman—I want to—I want to”-
Wailing, she was borne away, of her
sex not the first to be fascinated by
obscurity nor the last to champion its
eloquence.
Verman was almost unendurable aft-
er this, but, like many, many other man-
agers, Schofield & Williams restrained
their choler and even laughed fulsome-
ly when their principal attraction es-
sayed the role of a comedian in private
and capered and squawked in sheer,
fatuous vanity.
The first performance of the after-
noon rivaled the successes of the morn-
ing, and, although Miss Rennsdale was
detained at home, thus drying up the
single source of cash income devel-
oped before lunch, Maurice Levy ap-
peared, escorting Marjorie Jones, and
paid coin for two admissions, dropping
the money into Sam’s hand with a
careless—nay. a contemptuous—gesture.
At sight of Marjorie, Penrod Schofield
flushed under his new mustache (re-
painted since noon) and lectured as he
had never lectured before. A new
grace invested his every gesture, a
new sonorousness rang in his voice, a
simple and manly pomposity marked
his very walk as he passed from curio to
curio, and when he fearlessly handled
the box of rats and hammered upon it
with cool insouciance he beheld, for
the first time in his life, a purl of ad-
miration eddying in Marjorie’s lovely
eye, ascertain softening of that eye.
And then Verman spake—and Penrod
was forgotten. Marjorie’s eye rested
upon him —.....-
(To Be Continued.)
CHAPTER VIII.
The Two Families.
TgENROD never missed a murder,
• a hanging or an electrocution
E in the newspapers. He knew
almost as much about Rena
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Denison Herald.
The New York Herald, its militant
editorial staff wrought to high frenzy
by the Lusitania disaster, exclaims:
“What a pity Theodore Roosevelt is
not president.” It is a pity indeed,
which will be readily admitted by Mr.
Roosevelt himself. But there is no loud
and clamorous wail for Mr. Wilson to
abdicate and turn things over to
Teddy, who is terrible only in print.
Colonel Roosevelt’s performance at
San Juan hill was excellent for adver-
tising purposes, but his self-constructed
halo is not calculated to make the
helmet tremble on the head of the
kaiser.
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