El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-06-25

let the clerks know that it Is time to
quit work." said a volunteer fireman
this morning. "Fhere is not a clerk
in town that will not know when
O'Clock comes and the ringing OF the
bell is unnecessary. The bell does not
ring at O'Clock when most of the
mechanics knock off work, neither
does it ring at o'clock when other
laborers quit work. Why should the
bell not tap at 3 o'clock a. IN. when the
butchers go to work or O'Clock when
the milkmen start out, or at O'Clock
for laborers to get up. or at O'Clock
forscl erks to go to work? Isn't it just as
fair to ring the bell for one class of
employees as for another? However, L
am opposed to ringing the fire bell for
any other purpose than for fires and
nope it won be wrung for that purpose
often. The fire bell has peculiar
sound that will awaken any firemen at
night if it is not wrung too often.
That s the reason L am opposed to ring
ing the bell"
Governor Culberson has issued call
for q convention to meet at Rockport,
Texas, August 25, ''for the purpose of
considering the question of the devel-
oping aud opening the chain Of basins,
lakes and bayous laying parallel to the
gulf coast from the month of the Rio
| Grande to the Mississippi" This has
been a subje ct that has been talked of
| in the coast countries for twenty years.
There is chain of bays and bayOus all
the way from the mouth of the Rio Gran
de to the Mississippi river. These bays
are deep in many places and shoal in
others, but a canal could be cut throu9 b
the shoal places and through narrow
strips of land lying between and thus a
continuous inland course of navigation
could be maintained all the way from
the mouth of the Mississippi to the Rio
Grande. This canal would open up
some of the finest and richest agricul-
tural lands in Texas and Louisiana and
give to the world direct water traffic to
parts of Texas that are now neither
reached by rail nor sea board. The
scheme is good one and one that will
develop more country than any other
move now attracting the attention of
Texans.
Why doesn't Mayor Magoffin build
that barbed wire fence dam across til E
mouth of the new channel that is now
flowing into the eastern part CT the
city,. The idea may sound ridiculou:
to some, but if the wires should catch
enough drift it would surely form 6
bar and stop the flow of water.
The following set of "morals fol-
wbeelmen" is given for the cyclist:
benefit:
A reckless coaster makes IA
churhyard.
Admirers of different makes seldom
agree.
You can't ride your wheel and lenG
it, too.
A ell is as good as nod to dea
driver.
AS you gear your wheel. so you mus,
ride it.
Hard words break no bones, but h arc
falls do.
Lock up your stable before your cycle
is stolen.
A poor tourist is better than rich
scOrcher.
A poor rider always finds fault with
No wheel is so poor as not to have
its defender.
| AS FL Paso is now the head of navi
CATION on the Rio Grande it would be {
good idea to send a delegation to Gov
ernor Culberson's develCpme t con.
vention at Rockport and see if the
wires could not be pulled to bring tn,
barges from the Mississippi to E
Paso. This is a dam idea.
A bold, bad, me an and pesticating oil
bachelor has contributed the following
On the cycling girl, but Round AbOu
isn't going to father the article, 81
that no cycliene need come. around t,
the Office and throw verbal brlcx bat
at him. Toe story runs as follows
l"They expected to be gazed at and &C
costed by tne bold and bad. Six girls
all the way from Ii to %, CROWDED
around couple of settees IN park,
} good deal Us flies do around a lump o
sugar at a summer hotel. 'EveryOn,
left her watch at home? How provOK
: ing said one. L do wish L knew wha
time it was Why doesn't somebod.
, ask the man over there? inquired tn,
only pretty one in tae crowd in d way
) | that lei you to imagine she wanted &c
be urged 10 do 1T itself. Not for the
world, interposed the others all in
} breath, and then they began to relate
their experiences. It's just awful,
, said the one with treckles as big as &
quarter and hair tbs color of an agri
cultural implement thai had bsen lief
Tout in the rain for six mOnJhs, 'hov
the men bother Ole. l don't believ
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