El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-04-29

There is raging torrent in political
circles The ghost OF compromise WILL
not down and the machine men are
sorely troubled at the thought of not
getting fed at the public crib. Inc
machine leaders are troubled and lay
awake at nights studying up plans 10
allay the troublesome political torrent.
The democrats think that Kitchens,
McGlennon and Nesom hold firm grip
on their jobs, while Judge Kemp has
sure thing for the city attorneyship.
This leaves nothing to give out by the
new administration except the CHIEF OF
police, night captain and positions on
the police force. It is asserted in all
quarters that Con Lockhart, OF Hous-
ton, has a swapping turtles grip on the
chieftaincy, while Bob Ross is slated
for night captain. Those who aspired
10 higher positions have been offered
jobs on the police force.
He dropped in on Justice Bridgers
like hail stone. Great drops OF sweat
were rolling from his agitated brow as
he exclaimed: 81 want to get married
right away" "Have you got the Ii
cense?" asked the justice. mo, 1
thought you kept the license. I'm in a
hurry and we eau get the license after
the ceremony The justice informed
him that this was not regular and that
he had better hurry up to the clerk g
office and arrange matters with EarK
| Pitman. So the hOmbre started OIL In
a gallop for the court house and Clerk
| Putnam, and was loaded on San An
tooio street car. and hurried to his Off
ce. When the court house was reached
the wouldbe matrimonial candidate
did not know the girls age and the
clerk refused to issue the license. This
necessitated another trip down Stanton
street and the girl was interviewer.
She avowed that she could rot remem-
Der back just TO the day she was born,
but from hearsay and other evidence
she was fully convinced that she was
eighteen years of age. With this in
forma ton the hombre hurried back to
the clerks Office and procured the
necessary documents which allowed
him to commit matrimony. The JUS
tice rode his wheel to the brides house
and quickly repeated the words that
made the cCOing couple one-untll
they become satisfied that marriage IS
a failure. The necessity for al this
rush, hurry and bothe-atiOn was the
fact that the girls mother had gone
across the river and it was splendid
time to get married without fight oc-
curing at the wedding ceremony. The
old lady did not return until the cere-
mony was performed, and Justice
Bridgers' had kissed tie bride and quit
the adobe.
Cyclersare. complaining of the amount
of glass that is being thrown on the
streets and are ready to take steps to
prevent the continuation of this nui-
sance. This IL corning six bottles were
thrown out of the up stairs window of
one of the large hotels and the bottles
were broken into thousand pieces on
the street below. This throwing of
glass on the streets is violation OF
city ordinance and the cyclers ask that
the ordinance be enforced. In all
parts of town glass and trash is being
thrown on the streets, which Is not
only offensive to the eye, butau injury
TO property.
A newspaper artist has been telling
some of the woes of the men who make
pictures for the daily papers. He says
1T makes me tired sometimes when l
hear some smart Aleck who couldn't
tell the difference between art and a
side of sole leader criticise newspaper
illustrations. The public doesn't I'M
derstand what handicaps are continual
ly thrown about our work. A few
days before election | was given in
structions to make portrait of one of
the candidates. He gave me an old
doguerreotype, made just after the war,
and said he had no photograph taken
since then. Well, made this picture
all right, but in order to Go it first
had to cut off a full beard and curl his
moustache. Then l gave dim hair
cut, parted his hair on the other side,
gave him a stand up collar ard mod
ern cravat, and added thirty years
worth of wrink les to his face. And
yet they say such work isn't art.''
Lost, strayed or stolen-Pandelete,
the Office cat. The last seen of it was
when making ink tracks across some
high priced printed matter in the job
Office. A liberal reward will be paid
for the cat and the freckled face boy
who is supposed to have stolen it.
Some people are born scavengers,
some are scavengers by nature. while
others have the scavenger's job forced
upon them.
Kentucky repub' leans have elected
United States senator who was so poor
he could not give his friends banquet.
Wonder how the house of millionaires
will receive him?
The airship is still floating around
on the breezes. Sheriff Baylor, of
Uvalde county, has seen the ship and
talked with the men aboard, and the
sheriff of Maverick county, r. w.
Dove, not to be outdone by a brother
officer, says he saw the ship and talked
to the men. The parties on the air.
ship told Sheriff Dove they were en-
route to the DEVILS River country to
locate a herd of buffalo that is supposed
to be roaming about that country,
For the baneft of several of the