El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-06-16

An doubled Jack up like a knife,
His long hair, hat an al,
He fell on it, an it on him,
An SIGH a mix an mess
haven't seed sense last saw
A dauce-house row out Wes'.
Jacks legs was stickin' through the
spokes,
The handle bar had dug
Deep down into his manly breast;
The wall had bruised his mug;
He got left-hand uppercut
SOmewhere's about the heart,
And blamed eff l warn't thinkin' then,
We'd have to git a cart,
To haul that Teller outen thar,
An lay him up awh le:-
But up Jack riz, llmpln' Ike,
An with q Sickly smile,
He mounted on that taing agin
An rid it right along,
A keepin' up with all the gang,
An singin' of u song.
Ontil he got too cute an smart,
An lifted up his hat
To give wild Comanche yell;
But while doin' that,
A heavy girl bore down on him,
An raked him fore an aft;
An then the gethered multitude
Jis fell, an rolled, an laughed.
1 didn't see no mo- of Jack,
Ontil some fellers went,
An pulled apart the piie of track,
In which old Jack was blens,
An that was skirts, an hose, an legs,
An red an grayish hair,
An wheels, an arms, an sorted shoes,
'SweeL maiden, hear my prayer.'
But that was bout the blamdest mix
My eyes have ever saw;
But Jack, he even riZ from that,
Without scratch er flaw,
But he was wlnded-tell you now
An then we left the place,
The fellers all hollerin',
Like sin for.saivn' grace;
But Jack, he lows he's got the wheel
Down to the incest pint,
An gwine to ride one if it takes
A leg off at the int.
An now he's gone an writ poem,
"a BrOnchO an Bike,''
An rides the famed Columbia,
A scorchin' on the pike.
WILLIAM LIGHTFOOr VISSCHER.
The Chicago Press club, May l, 1897.
Mayor MagOffin looked all over town
for the greatest flood sufferer among
the white people and at last settled on
Jake Catlin and Immediately appointed
him policeman. Jake lived anywhere
between one hundred aud one Thousand
feet above the h gh water mark and
while the water didn't hurt him the
itch did. Jake has had the political
itch for long time and his appoint
ment to soft job will probably cure
it.
All Mexican laborers are called upon
to quit work and hereafter call at the
public crib for their grub. Many old
promises can now be paid at the ex-
pense of Uncle Sam Poor white peo-
their living. They always vote wrong
The excuse is made that Jake Catlin
was appointed on the police force be-
Mexicans. While Jake was taking the
ceneu. of the flood sufferers did he not
report many names of parties who
speak good Spanish, know the Next
Cans and were qualified for the job? Is
it possible that the whole charity fund
is going to be used as political scheme
and this too, when the $4,000
appropriation was made by
a republican senate, q repub-
lican house AID the bill was signed by
q republican, president? Is it possible
VI eso VIZ Z "CiO liz uoou SUFFERERS OI
the right political persuasion for ap-
pOintment as policeman TO distri butte
grub to Ell Pasos lazy.
1t ia a sham and disgrace.that city
like Ell Paso, that has built up a state
wide reputation as liberal entertain
or, should accept a crumb from the
United States government to feed
lot of people who are as we'll off now as
they ever were in their lives or ever
will be A ldermau COldwell acted right
in refusing to have anything to do
with the government 70 ID funds.
He can sac further abe ad than the rest
81 tbs board IA shapla have wsas