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El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-12-31

Eager to clasp my Lita, eager to kiss
her lips,
To draw from her girl-soul answer, as
honey the wild bee sips.
1 stood in the street and listened, and
the years were q moments time,
The years that are stained of gcld-lust,
under another cline;
The breath of girl was DER me, she
spoke with the Spanish lisp,
She lesnsd and smiled and touched
me,-her hair-it WAS dark and
crisp.
Lita! Again my Lita! All, no-but a
Msgdalene,
The years are many, the years are
Was it she? All God! If it be so, I
would sooner see her dead:
And II would face quick Justice, at
the price of cone of lead.
I went to my no I'm and dreamed it, and
Lits came with kiss,
The Lita knew long years ago: and
Lita, my sweet, said this:
II lie in my tomb. old sweetheart, your
kiss was the last had;''
And l woke with start. Dead! 'Lita!
but in my heart was glad.
Oh, the hoof play back on the ranges
may greet me again l know,
But the river OF tim runs forward, and
never can back ward flow;
The creak ~ the saddle leather and
the putting dust OF the trail
May be, but<the band can never be
Aught TO ehe mandolin vail.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-12-31
The NESTOR OF THE MAGAZINES.
The North American Review

has been in the van of American
thought for more than three-quarters
of century, ranking always with the
best and most influential periodicals in
the world.
1t is the mouth-piece of the men who
know most about the great topics on
which Americans require to be In
formed from month to month, it's con-
tributors being the leaders of thought
and action in every field.
Those who would take counsel of
of the time, and learn what is to be
said regarding them by the recognized
authorities on both sides, must there
fore read The North American Re-
view, the Nestor of the magazines.
This magazines has for more than
eighty years, within it's well defined
lines, stood at the head of monthly
publications.-Ch Chicago Record.
The Review may we'll be proud of it's
eighty-twO years, for truly it may be
said of It, that ''age cannot whittier nor
time stale its infinite variety. ~.~ For
tunate is the one who can sit down and
feast upon the good things furnished
by the best literary caterers in the
world.-Grand Rapids Democrat.
If any one name in magazine
literature stands for what is author
itative that name is the North Amer
lean Review, which for more than
eighty years has remained at the head
of the monthly Observation-Disclosures
Post.
The Review is filled each month with
articles which should be read by every
true citizen.-Oddfellows Review, ST.
Paul.
The Review has done more for the
better class of readers than any other
publication of this kind in the country.
Christian Advocate, St. Louis.
go Cents Number; $500 year.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-12-31
A Runaway Christmas Tree.

1t was Christmas day, and some
where the otherside of Fargo. We
had been shOw-bound for three days in
Montana, or we'd have all been home.
AT little stat on man got on who
wss soon talking familiary. He SEEM
ed like an honest man: indeed, the
dominic detected a childlike note in
his character which he suspected might
come from the mans long life close to
the great heart of nature After he
found that he could not sell US any lots
in Centrspol;s, he laid aside business
and told the following story. We
should have. doubted parts of it
had it not been for the mans intimate
association with the great heart of ma
ture. He said:
"Queer place to spend Christmas,
gentlemen; but queer things are al
ways happening in a new country.
Makes me think of little occurrence
at. Christmas-time last year out near
where 1 live. There are few Scan
dinavars around there-bang-up class
of settlers. Honest as the day is long,
as guileess as newborn babe. This
thing happened out at the johnson
school-house, near where my friend Ole
Erickson lives. A few days before
Christmas Ole came to me and said:
You see here, Mr. Yackson'-my
name is Jackson-'yOu know mae :a-
der-en-lsw, old man Olesou?'
Yes, said.
"' Veil, haze hat team of vork-hor-
ses aye wants to buy, but hae ask too
mooch for 'em. Aye tank aye feex de
old gentleman so hae sell de horses
scheep. Dare bees going to be a
Chreestmas tree out at de Youson
school house-aye going to poot on
something nice for hcem. Aye tales
mae woman aye poot on vun COW. Eet
mex heem feel good to geet cow.
Aye hat vun COW dat vas dry-she
doan geef no meelk now. Aye tales
mae woman aye pOots on dat COW for
mae fader-en-law. Dis COW not bees
mooch on geefng meek any time-all ]
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-12-31

But the facade is constantly changing
it's outlines, although retaining it's gen
eral form. From it are discharged, al
most momently, great masses that
plunge into the sea
The top of the glacier presents an
irreg ular billowy surface as far as the
eye can reach, broken here and there
by deep clefts or crevasses that "look
as if broken by bolts of thunder riven
and driven by turbulent time" One
glance into these terrible chasms, and
the thought of the horrible fate at.
tending an unwary step stills the heart
and tightens tie grasp on the alpen-
stalk as one moves on over the slippery
surface. But no accident has been au
acknowledgements From "Our Dis
tant Colony" in Godey's January.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-12-31
THE FACE OF MUIR GLACIER.

portions and carved by sun and rain
and wind into majestic towers and deli
cate pinnacles, lifts it's gli.tering front
across the ampbithe atre of the bay,
presenting an awe-inspiring spectacle.
Architectural forms first suggest them
selves to the beholder, but of such
transcendent magnificence that the ir
parallel is not found among the works
of man.
Imagine vast cathedral with found
ations of Turquoise and superstructure
of sapphire. the buttresses overlaid
with fairy fretwork of white coral,
the clustered spires and swelling
domes of rock crystal rejecting the
radiance of the sun in thousand lum-
inous shafts, and faint idea of the
glory of the glacier may be realized.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-12-31

Here is the famous Muir Glacier, and
the passengers are landed in small
beats and allowed 10 climb about the
ice cliffs or wander over the morsine
and gather the dainty wild flowers
that grow in profusion almost to the
very brink of the glacier.
The front of this glacier, shaped into
forms OF beauty by the Omniscient Ar
chitect, towers into the air over three
hundred feet and extends below the
water seven hundred feet, while still a
third portion Is beneath the moraine,
thus making, were the rocky detritus
cleared away, perpendicular wall of
ice over a thousand feet high. The
width of the glacier is about three
miles, the central berg-producing por-
ton being about half as broad
This ice cliff, stupe ndous in its pro-
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-12-31
Didn't See the "Vice Versa"

The adroitness of the clerk in this
little story from one of the humorous
papers was greater than his honesty.
Yet we cannot refrain from smiling at
the ignorance of the shopper:
6'Let me see some of your black kid
gloves" said a woman to a clerk in a
store.
"These are not the latest style, are
they?" she asked, when the gloves
were produced.
Eyes, madam" replied the clerk;
"We have had them in stock only two
days"
81 didn't think they were because
the fashion paper says black kids have
tan stitches and vice versa. I see the
tan stitches, but not the vice versa"
The clerk explained that ''vice
versa" was French for seven buttons,
so she bought three pairs
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-12-31

I it's branches, even as [ do now, and
Just then Ole's, cow jerked around her
head, and the door swung open, and
she saw the light, let out one below.
and made jump like kangaroo.
yaukiog that tree out the door butt
end first. Then she went tearing off
down the road towards home, below
ing at the top of her lungs, kicking
like bay mule. and snatching that
tree along behind like plug hat tied
to dogs tail. Ole came in TO tell me
about it the next day. Dat old keeck-
er, she never stop teel she ee t to mae
place. he said, unit de presents all
along e road. Unit de peoples day cay
eef dey can geet de tree, dat day stand
heem Oop, unit day leench Ole on heem.
So me unit mae woman We spend all de
lantern unit carrying them back. But
We tank some of dem geet lost cen de
snow after all
" Dill you take the COW over to
your father-in-'aw's this morning?' 1
said TO him.
"His face got as long as fiddle, and
then he SAID:
i" Yah, aye tex her ofer. Unit he
mex grin on hees face, unt he say,
Oats perty nice, OLE" Den after
while aye say to heen. Chow mooch
for dat team of vork-horses?" Unit
de old faller haze cay, "Two hundred
dollar" but la week bae say vun
hundred seventy-fve. Den aye feel
like ave wish de COW she might keeck
nae forty rod, Ike she do de meelk-
pail
81 always felt rather sorry for Ole
because his scheme failed: bit all of
us slip up on on plans oace in
while. From the Editors Drawer"
in Harper's MAGAZINE for December.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-12-31

NOW is THE TIME TO SUBSCRIBE.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-12-31
A Charming Novelist.

The January number of Harper's
Round Table contains the first install
ment OF an impor tant ser al story by
II. B. Marriott Watson. Mr.. Watson
was torn in Melbourne in 1863. but his
parents moving later t. Christchurch,
New Zeala nd, he was educated at the
grammar fcbool in that city, and after
wards graduated at Canterbury college.
Preceding to England in 1885,, be
soCn became engaged in jourpa ism,
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-12-31

But hold. L have told the story. The
signal must yet be heard,
Was Lita only Lita, toy at a white
mans word?
And a wife oh the name is sacred
can our Litas be our wives?
Are they only part of ''the romance
hedging our 'better" lives.
Yet the girl ''just over the rivers
Gcd made as he made the wife:
And be gave her SOUL say it-as
he gave her virgin life,
And we, will He call US slayers, that
have played with the souls of these,
Or is it kiss cur wine wasf Our
mem cries, are they the iessf
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-12-31

Dean Hart Of ST. Johns cathedral
in Denver expects to make two million
dollars out of his artificial gusta
percha patents. and says he will spend
all of his gains in religious work in
Denver where he wants to build q
great religious temple. All insinuaa
tions that he intends to return to
merry Hingland" and become sha
blOated haristocrat,' the Dean de.
clares only baseless machin ations.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-12-31

Husband Here's pretty little
thing | bought for you at the church
fair. They charged me s. for it.
Wife-Why, you silly thing, I made
that for the fair myself! Will you ever
learn sense?-Roxbury Gazette.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-12-31

MICHIGAN pastors are moving for res
form in the conduct of fur erals. They
recommend less display, less ex-
travagance, the discarding of som bre
mourning, shorter funeral sermons,
and burials on wesk days instead OF on
Sundays,
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1897-02-04
GRANTS NAME.
How He Came to Adopt "U. s." ~ His
Initials.

How He Came to Adopt ~. s." ~ His
Initials.
Up to the start for West Point, Grant
had been Hiram Ulysses. or H. Ulysses
Grant. The young traveller required a
trunk, and Thomas Walker, local
"genius, twas the man to make it. He
did so. and, to finish it off. he traced on
the cover in big brass tacks the initials
"H. U. g." James Marshall, Ulysses
cousin, went to help him carry the new
trunk home. Ulysses looked at the big,
glaring letters. 81 won't have that SO. I"
he said. 1T spells hug The boys
would plague me about it. And he
thereupon shifted his middle name and
became Ulysses II. Grant, and so he
went forth into the world.
He registered at Roe's hotel, West
Point, on the goth Of May, as ~. II.
Grant" and the same day reported -
the adjutant, George G. Waggaman,
deposited $48 and signed his name
Ulysses Hiram Grant. His name as re-
ported from Washington, however, was
u. S. Grant, and the error arose in this
way D.: The Hon. Thomas Hamer received
the letter of Jesse Grant only the day
before the close of his term, and, being
much hurried, sat down at once and
wrote to Secretary of War Poinsett, ask
ing for the appointment of his neighbor's
son. He knew the boys name to be
Ulysses, and, inferring that his middle
name was Simpson, so filled in the ap-
plication, and thus it stood when Ulysses
faced the adjutant.
He asked to have it changed, but was
told it was impossible without the con-
sent of the secretary of war.
Every well, he said. II came here
to enter the military academy, and en-
ter / shall An initial more or less does
not matter. F" He was known to the gov
eminent thereafter as u. S. Grant -
Hamlin Garland in McClure's.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1897-02-04
REPUBLICAN STATE CONVENTION.

DETROIT MICH Jan. rs, 1897.
To the Republican Electors OF the State OF
Michigan
The Republican electors OF the state OF Mich.
igan, and all others who may desire 10 unite
with them in upholding the principles OF the
Republican party as declared In It's platforms,
state convention OF said party, 10 be held at the
Auditorium, In the city OF Detroit on
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 90, 1897.
Beginning at II o'clock a M, for the purpose OF
terminating candidates for justice OF the su
preme court and two regents OF the university,
and the transaction of such other business a.
may properly come before the convention.
Every county will be entitled 10 one delegate
for each FOO of the total vote cast for governor
at the last state election November, iSg6l, and
one additional delegate TO every fraction
amounting 10 800 but each organized county
will be entitled TO at least two delegates
Under the resolution OF 1888, no delegate will
be entitled 10 "A seat In the convention who does
not reside In the county he proposes 10 repre-
sent.
The delegates from each congressional dis.
trict are requested 10 meet In caucus at III
o'clock a. m, on February % 1897 TO select
candidates, as follows, 10 be presented 10 the
state convention for confirmation: One vice
president. one assistant secretary and one
member for each OF the committees on Gre
den ials" and permanent organization and
order OF busine 5" and resolutions and for
the transaction OF any other business properly
coming before them.
In accordance with resolution adopted June
%. 1890 the officers of each county convention
are requested TO forward to the secretary or the
state central committee lLansingl by the
earliest mail after the delegates TO the state
convention have been chosen, certified list oil
such delegates, and their respective postoffice
I. addresses, from their respective counties, as
are entitled 10 seats in the convention;
DEXTER M. FERRY,
Chairman Republican State Central Com.
DENNIS T.. AWARD, Secretary.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1897-02-04
At THE END or THE ROAD.
Only as "A Last Resort Would He Part
with His Treasures.

Only as "A Last Resort Would He Part
with His Treasures.
A bent old man. shabbily clad, with
. face like the face Of the poet Bryant.
In the evening twilight he stands. be-
side the desk of one who is u stranger
to him, in "A little town in northern
California.
81 ask you to pardon me-" in voice
that trembles and is low.
Something confused as to illness and
WEAKNESS and them
at pains me TO seem q beggar, but
am near the end of the road, and"-
The sentence dies in inarticulate MUIR
muir, and from under the worn coat
comes a small bundle wrapped in bit
Of faded oilcloth.
at is hard to part with them. even
now," slowly removing the oilcloth,
"but il there is some one here who cares
for rare editions Of good books they may
be thought fair exchange for the price
Of shelter and something warm"
A well thumbed Shakespeare, care
fully preserved "Imitatio Christi.
The old man looks at them tenderly
as they are exposed to view and places
them reverently on the desk.
The man at the desk views the books
coldly and denies the plea for aid. Not
that he is consciously unkind, but expe-
rience with vagabonds has made him
suspicious, and he interprets the pathos
as new iI.pCsturo.
Next morning, an hour after sunrise,
q pedestrian finds an aged man, with q
face like that of the poet Bryant, lying
in the shelter Of cypress hedge by the
roadside. The tired heart is still. Rest
must have come about the time the sun
shine touched the valley. Beside the
sleeper, as though it had fallen from be-
meath his coat. we'll thumbed Shakes
peare, clasped in his gaunt hands care
fully preserved "a Kempis. (" The
"a Kenpis" has a sprig of cypress for q
bookmark. OH one of the pages between
which it rests this passage:
80 Father, always to be honored. the
hour is come which from all eternity
thou didst foresee would arrive; that
thy servant for short time should be
oppressed exteriorly, but interiorly
should ever live unto thee; that be
should be for little sighted and hum
bled and should fall in the sight OF
men. San Francisco Call.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1897-02-04
PRINCE and Peasant.

Prince Christian of Denmark, had he
been only king instead of prince,
would certainly outrival the story OF
he had to review some troops at Bierre,
country town of small dimensions.
Riding home, tired and thirsty, he stop.
ped at farmhouse to beg drink. The
old farmers wife babe him welcome and
enter AS she was at the moment pan.
cake making, she asked him if he would
like some Very much, indeed" re-
piled the prince. and soon he was CON-
fortably seated, enjoying his humble
fare at the kitchen table.
Having finished his meal, he asked
the old dame how much he owed her.
Nothing at all" was the answer. On
his persisting that he would prefer pay
ing, she patted his shoulder affection
ately, saying: lyon are a soldier, my
son, and soldiers are always hard up
l never take anything from them" He
suggested he was not quite so "hard
up" as the generality of them. "Oh,
know betterr' and with knowing
wink and nod she turned to her pan
cake making. 1T is quite true, good
mother" said the prince, laughing
heartily, for, you see, my grandfather
happens to be the king. y "What?" cried
his astonished hostess. dropping her
whisk and nearly upsetting the frying
pan in her fright. A second or two she
gazed at him speechlessly, then remark.
ed naively, II should have asked you
into the parlor, shonldn't I?'
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1897-02-04
Did You Ever

Try Electric Bitters rs remedy for
your troubles? If not, get "a bottle
now and get relief. This medicine has
been found to be peculiarly adapted to
the relief and cure of all female com
plants, exerting a wonderfully direct
influence in giving strength and tone
to the organs. II you have loss OF
appetite, constipation. headache, faint
ing spells, or are nervous, sleepless,
excitable, melancholy or troubled with
dizzy spells, Electric Bitters is the
medicine you need. Health and
strength are guaranteed by its use.
Fifty cents and Sl.OO bottles at Fisk
Bangs Drug Store. ,
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1897-02-04

A dandy took my daily paper
And he played me dirty caper
He gave me an order very quick
And said he'd pay me once week.
He looked so smooth and talked so fine
He my paper wanted every time
He was always bound TO help the boys,
Much more an Independent paper boy;
He always helped their enterprise.
His name, the truth to tell l was happy 10
engage,
mean this dandy dudes patronage.
And as trod home that night
was full OF great delight;
had found such lovely dandy,
He seemed to me more than manly.
Yes. my feelings beat high with Joy
AS became his paper boy
This was all and nothing more.
THINGS HAVE CHANGED.
Saturday Monday not one cent
He had TO pay last months rent
Furthermore he stated
Please wait another week;
To you, my son, this may seem rank
But all my change is in the bank.
Second week has gone away,
He won't be back till Monday.
But leave my paper everv morning,
Saturday next I'll be coming;
Sometimes, regret, I've missed IL
When most want TO use 1t.
Please just hang II on the line,
Then I'll get 1t every time.
This he wrote me in a letter
And read IL DER and o'er
Although young nearly swore;
1t was all he stated nothing more.
Monday came, IL was the third one;
Came and went with strained endurance.
This time he had TO pay his life insurance.
was feeling very weak
AT the prospects OF another week;
was sitting and a thinking,
Thinking OF my forty cents.
Monday fifth has gone OF course;
House is vacant what is worse.
For the william owes me fifty cents.
This my history briefly told,
OF my dandy full of gold
was never worsely sold.
MORAL
You may cheat the lawyer and the preacher
Beat the merchant and the teacher
Swindle baker, also grocer.
Shun the miller and the tailor.
Borrow everything you wear,
Borrow coal from the dealer,
Steal potatoes out of cellar,
Borrow whisky and poor brandy,
Smoke cigars and play the dandy,
Run in debt for them all
IT, when you receive the bill,
nervous shock should make you i'll.
Beat the doctor and the nurse.
Although you be growing worse,
Cheat the man who runs the hearse,
Beat the priest and sexton too;
But always pay the paper boy.
PAPER BOYS FRIEND
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1897-02-04

''There is class of people, says a
railroad man, who are always last to
leave the cars-for purpose. This is
especially noticed on suburban trains
They go from one end of the train to the
other, looking IN seats on both sides of
the car. 1t is impossible for our men to
be always on the watch, and presumably
there are many losses that can never re
reclaimed. New York Tribune.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1897-02-04

Use ammonia and water instead of
,oapsuds for washing marble.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1897-02-04

Nearly 5000, 900 OF silver was coined
In the United States mints last month; ;
but there Is no lack-of-coin demand
that promises to put much OF 1t into
circulation. 1t 10 not OF the free kind;
and the starting again OF pent-up in
dustries will be the only way that 1t
may be called out. Coming money
does not constitute all the success OF
finance. There Is a good deal in KIN ow-
ing how to use it after it is coined.
do animals go to Heaven" asked a
little boy OF his Sunday school teacher.
why, no." was the answer, ''at least
we have no reason to think so." "Then
the milk and honey in Heaven must be
canned goods, l suppose" remarked
the young hopeful.
The Prohibitionists OF the state are
early in the field with state ticket.
Noah w. Cheever OF Ana Arbor has
been nominated for Justice of the
Supreme Court, and w. w. Tracy OF
Detroit and Robert N. Mulholland of
Orion regents OF the university.
Clay Tallman, principal of the Sar-
anac schools, was In attendance at the
teachers institute here last Saturday.
BY the way, his name is being men
toned as candidate for school com
missioner.-Lyons Herald.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1897-02-04

Take care OF the nows and the by
lnd-bys will take care of themselves.