El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-08-19
A World of Contradictions.

And Charlie Chump, whom we allowed
natural born" to be.
He's been ten years in Congress-and
it's ali a-beating me.
There was little Lille Leggins, just as
mod st as could be
She is wearing knickerbOckers and she
is a ght to see:
And the girl who held that marriage
is thing that Heaven forbids,
She is now addressed as "Mrs," and
she's ma of seven kids:
And the youth who said he d write his
name with flames eternal crew,
You will fad IT'S largely written, Old
Bill BiggIns, debtor to"
For the things we mostly figure on are
things We do not get.
And the castle we have builded is the
one that's m arked "TO let"
The parson says the heavenly land is
bright and full of bliss,
And 1 hope he's better posted than he
is concerning this,
For he said, ''Tne righteous hunger
not, nor do their seed beg bre I'd y
Perhaps they don't, but, if not
they sometimes starve instead.
And l often almost wonder if the next
world won't surprise,
By being just about the thing we new
err did su rmse:
But l trust that this is error, for L
would not think mayhsp
The man who goes to hales is the one
10 strike the 81 APP.
at is dreadful queer" said the woman
THAT the potatoes you bring should BE-
so much bigger on the top OF the basket
than they are at the bottom" Il tell
you how It's, misses" answered the
Chinese huckster, Diam potatoes
glow so fast now dat before | Rettee
basket full de last one l diggee is
much bigger en- de first onees.'
A man who is going around the
street seeking some woman to lick
should be sure that it is his own wife
and no one else's. TIE other evening
a woman was walking along in front of
the opera house when all of sudden a
man jumped out and commenced
pounding the face off of her, but when
he saw that it wasn't his own wife he
began begging her pardon anu asked to
be excused. The justice doctOred him
to the tone of So and cost and the cost
were the biggestpar of the transac-
ton. He may have had license to
pound his own wife, but his license
didn't extended to others people
wives.
The London Times in late article
reviewing the effects of the closing of
the Indian mint- to silver, has this TO
say: THE closing saved the Indian
government from the losses incident to
q heavy fall in exchange and cOnse-
quen'ly from disastrous increase in
the burden of the gold Obligations. 1t
is undoubtedly true that it also helped
to keep down the gold value of silver
bullion, but may not the question be
is necessarily disastrous to Icdia, which |
purchases it so largely? Since 1893
| India has been the only real wholesale
customer for silver. Other customers
are Of the retail order. The delicate
of the relative prices of the
rul &c and silver formerly existing has
been rudely shattered by recent events.
Since 1896 the rupee has risen and sill
yer has fallen. The fact is, the forces
now acting upon the price of silver have
become too tremendous to be dOmlna at /,
ed by such delicate Influences as pre-
coded the defeat of Bryan's silver party |
and Japan's adoption of the gold stand |
ard. These events have proved causes !
too potent to be withslood. The clos
ing of the minis was justified, and all
that Is now needed to bring a great |
to successful eodlng is a |
Little courage ard patience, as well as |
resource, Ga the part of the fnanciers |
of the Indian empire AT the same |
time, plain and straightforward lam |
guage is advisable upon one point. |
The Indian statesmen tempered too |
long with bime alli5m. This Irritation, |
which seems SO Innocent, has already |
cost them dear. But for that the gov
would have assented to the
clos ing of the mints long before 1893. y
Zone thing is cerain. We
would be very foolish to do anything |
for silver. Even should the United |
States and France agree to adopt BIZ
and England to reopen the |
Indian minis, it would only bolster up |
silver for a brief space, to fall again |
to its proper m arket price. SO that In
dian finances would be in position rs
bad as before, if not worse"
+. Ed. Spooner, the well known BIZ
cycle race promoter, Is now making up |
the southern circuit for rae meets and |
has mapped out circuit from Florida |
to the City of Mexico. In Mexico the |
rey, San Luis Potosi, Guadalaj ara,
Mexico ard Puebla and the teams will |
raturn to New York by steamer from |
Vera Cruz. The circuit as mapped out
is a very interesting one, but FL Paso
will hardly be in it.
1t is a sad day 70 labor when the
rights of workingmeu are trampled |
under foot and free speech is muzzled |
by United States judges, while capital
and trusts a~e pampered and allowed
to arm themselves against the inva-
sion of peaceful labor. Tue courts of
tn country have done this ve'y thing
10 the mining strike and it has Brought
the poor ma 10 believe that there is
no justice for til I'm in the courts. TIE
60 gravaton is enough to induce them
to resort t. force in trying 20 gain a
rightand it is coming to this point. Such
decisions as ,ha- given by the judges
Of West Virginia and Pennsylvania
causes anarchy and drives capital AID
a bon, f IL ~ hen. anart Il will be not h ing!