El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-06-03

what the people want ana not WnaU q
few musical cranks want The major
ity of people want popular music and
care nothing for heavy operate efforts.
The mul titCd care not whether the
music is from Wagner. Pa9erewski, or
Tannahauser, or catchy new song by
Billy O'Brien, just SO long as the music
is pretty and they understand what is
being played. The people don't go to
the park to study music. but go there
to listen and spend "a few of the sum-
mer hours pleasantly. 1t matters not
| what the name of the piece played.
''After the Ball" furnished the music
for Lost After ALL" but the words
are different"
An amusing story is told on two
young lad es from the east, who are
stopping ia Silver City, and who had
never had any dealings with the willy
Chinese iaundryman before thier ad
vent to the wild and woolly west"
The first week of their stay there was
spent at we'll known hotel, aud they
were startled at an early hour one
| morn ng by a light tapping at the bed
room door. Upon opening the same
they were confronted by polite Mon
gOlian, who in tones corresponding to
the taps on the door, uublushingly
said: Me washee you?' WHAT"
Me washee you?'' flow dare you,
you" II like washee you-me
washee you belly good" And then
she slam d the Goor in his face ard
came near fainting away. The land
lady hearing the commotlon, rushed to
the room aud alter quite little con-
versatiUn and eXplan4ti the two
young ladies burst 0to laughter. and
now he three tell the story as one of
the best jokes of the a-On.
The mapayers of the Rochester Base
ball club have issued orders excluding
cler gym. from The Sunday games of
the cub on the ground tGat their pre-
sence tends TO create disorder.
They have a cheerful liar in Eliza
b tutowu, n. J. His name is Arthur
w oigi.ck, and he is only a boy. First
he SHure 4 bicyc.e collision damage
Suitable Phelps VS. r. .. Howell
that the plant II Was in the right.
Then he made an affidavit that Miss
Phelps had brIbed him with the prom
isr OF ii bicycle. and had kept er prom
ise. Then be swCre that he made, or
rather manufactured, Sd d affioavit only
becaus a clerk n the Offic of the de-
PENDANTS fathe gave him glass of
soda water.
The Buffalo Times remarks: "The
professional raciug cycle list starts
off for the season. Bald headed"
Hair raising events are to be expected.
Vincent Del BuOnO, a brother of AL
derman Del Buono, was run over and
injured last evening by butcher wa
gon at the corner OF sec M and StaI-
ton soI It's. Del BuonO was just mount
ing his bike when the driver of the
buEche T. wagon turned and run over
hun from behino, injurinZ his hip and
MASKING the bike. The driver did not
stop TO see what injury he had done,
but drove back up the street to take
uog away from some boys who had
caught it for The oog catcher. Del
Buuno has presented a bill for damages
agdin-t the owner of the butcher cart
aud the driver will be arrested and
punished for fast and reckless driv-
ing.
The fire steamer was out this morn
ing pumping cut flooded cellars and
low places wueIe the water could n 1T
run off in the second ward. The first
work done was in the lot southwest
of the court house where the water had
no escape anu several houses We're I'M
der waller. TINS afternoon tie engine
will pump out several cellars on the
southside Of San Antonio sire ct. Chief
Connors says he will pump out any
ones cellar where coallor running the
engine is furnished and tn ) actual eX-
penses paid by tue owner of tae pro-
perGy. This Is lhs quickest way to get
the water out of The city and prevent
many stagGant, sicAening pools of
water from forming.
The water has so far receded from
around the L. u 2. depot tUat one can
walk over there now dry footed. the
water in the second ward now stands
in pools that will become staguauG and
cause sickness if not pumped out or
drained Off.
Policeman johnson caught a Next
can this mOrniug who was well soak d
with hita ious jag. Tne iel!ow was
run in, but tue officer han 10 almost
carry him to The cooler. At the c, ty
jail he used such foul language that
Jailor Biacker aad Of1ic - johnson
turned pale at the thought of having
to live in that atmosphere.
The FL PasO relief resolution did not
coue up ia the mouse of representa-
tIves at Washington last Monday, be-
cause Il fc pre- enGatINt Ii OH New Ork
Want, d 10 cOcSIGer another mo ion be-
fore tue Ell Paso bill was +, acued Rep
res NATIVE Sayers of Texas. is steer
ing the bill anu as he is the deaa of the
Texas repreSen tativeS he will pro biy
get it through today. There Is nopar-
TITAN feeling over the bill and The req
reseutative from New York took the
stand h. dld through personal motives.
ROUND ABOUT.
w. a, Ha kins is dangerously liable
to win everlasting Ienown. A station
on the Silver City branch of he Santa