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El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-10-07
Deaths From Bad Air.

HAzELTON, Pa, October THE
deal bodies of Lewis and L7on hao d,
aged 81 and 26 years respectively, W ere
found in an air shaft this morning by
Runner John Betz No marks
were found on their bodies to indicate
the cause of death. The supposition is
that they were killed by bad air.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-10-07
Change of Spanish Ministers.

LONDON, October IA Madrid dis
patcn says the report is current at the
Spanish capital that Senor Depuy de
LONE will be recalled rom Washington
MT belug persona gra.a TO the pre- .ent
ad min nistrAtion, Senor Muruag qua. who
held the post before, will probably be
re al pointed.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-10-07
Peru Adopts the Gold Standard.

LIMA, Peru October the cham
ber Of deplt es has adopted the gold
sta d ara by majority of one vote.
The ca binet believed tn S was the on Y
poss. bic solution of the financial trou-
bles VIII ch beset Peru on every side.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-10-07
COuSulS ADpOin ed.

WASHINGTON, October THE pres
ident mas appo. ted Rufus Fleming, OF
Cincinnati. as consul to Edinburg.
Scotland; Samuel A. McAlister, of Del
aware, as consul to the BarbadOes,
West Indies.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-10-07

Miss Annie Shaw, of>Dai,as, daughter
OF Farmer Shaw, the well known stock
edi Tor, died u. toe Sisters hospital
this mo- rn4ng, a ID the remains will he
taken home tomorrow by Ter mother
who va, with her.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-10-07
Robbed a Jewelry Stare.

CHICAGO, October 7--Rowe brother
jewelry store, at l63 State street, was
robbed of So 900 worth of welry at an
early hour this morning. The rObber
dropped 5000 worth of booty while run
ming away.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-10-07
The Standards surrendered

KEY WEST, Fla. October The
town of Quay abo, attac <ed and cap ur-
ed b, the insurgents is in Pinar de r
province TIE Spanish garrison sur
rendered, after severe fight had oc-
CURED.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-10-07
The President of Venezuela Ill.

CARACAS, VeIezuela, Octoher T.
President Crespo Is seriously i'll, and
grave fea are felt for his recovery.
Wee resident Aware is temporarily
a.tipg president of The epublic.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-10-07
Will Command the Texas.

WASHINGTON, ODcober 7.-C.ptain
John w. s>nlil, p mas been ordered 10
command the Dattleship Texas GA her
arrival at Boston with the North
Atlantic squadron.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-10-07
Challenges Hanna.

COAMBUS, Ohio, October 7.-Gen.
a. j. Waraer today sent challenge 10
Senator Hanna, inviting him 10 io1nt
dsba 1T -uch time and pace as the
latter may choose.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-10-07
Mrs. Russell Dead,

BOSTON, October Mrs. Chas.
Tneoo ore Russell, mother of the late
Ex-Governor VIM. E. Russell, died dur
ing last night.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-10-07
S. q. NEWMAN, Mutual Life

The architects are all busy on new
| work, and as one real ,estate man cb-
serves, ''it seems to me that the town
is on the eve OF boom"
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-10-07

A. III Ho!me was srauted d divorce
this morning by Judge BIuckIer,
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-10-07

Upton is found guilty as charged in
the Indictment, and sentence suspend
ed
The times., 1897-05-16
WATCHING THE FLAMES.

Without the signing OF the wind, that
mimicked an infants wailing. Within, the
flicker OF the eopen fire. that threw grotesque
shadows OF the furnishings upon the walls of
the library. to leap and dance and fade and
return, in wavring diableries, with now and
then n spluttering sound as the flames de-
voured a bit of pitch, or the rustling OF
falling ashes.
Before the fireplace a man, sitting quite
still in low, leathern chair, save for a
nervous but noiseless tattoo that his fingers
played ON its cushioned arm in hardly sup
pressed excitement. He seemed engrossd
in subtle thought. but in every sense was
keenly alert A bronze clock stood on the
Inantel, its goldhands marking the ndnie ht
hour yet moments passed and it die not
chime He had stopped it. Its ticking an
noyel him. The flame in the CRATE annoyed
him, too. il seemed so fickle-now blazing
light, now dying down to a sullen red.
The flickerng flame was a symbol of
life. Life, an atom of primal force, for a
time strangely held in bondage, and for so
short a time manifest.
The flame was gone. The ashes remained.
Death. The release OF the atom. Where does
the atom come from? What is the power
that binds il? Whence does it hasten when
it is freed? Idle questions, all of them.
The click of the latch somewhere in the
house startled him. He sprang to his feet
and approached the door, straning his ears
to lis.el.
There was a muffled football somew here
in the upper hallway; the soft click OF the
latch was repeated, then all was silent
He fingered while by the half open
door, then tiptoed back to his seat. All,
this was weary watching.
Yet we are watchers, all of US. Some
watch the future, some the past; few men
live wholly in the present. And-thougt
unconsciously, perhaps-all Of us watch
for life or for death,
He waited long, but the family heard
cry was not repeated. What could have
caused it, he wondered
He crossed the room to the window drew
back the blinds, raised the curtains and
looked out.
Against The faint ghostliness of the mig Int
the trees stood out like black giants The
moon had dropped behind the hill, but the
morning star shone brightly.
There was no sound to warn him, yet q
sudden impulse compelled him to drop the
curtain and turn toward the balf-open
door Then he sprang toward it quickly
''Tell ine!' he demanded, hoarsely
A woman stoo1in the doorway. The dark
ness concealed the smile she wore.
ut is boy. SIR she answered.
The times., 1897-05-16
Gen. Tbom.s West Point.

There was one, Gen George n. Thomas,
who came to West Point after the war, for
whom hero worship in no degree ahated
among the cadets while he visited them at
the Point. The last named in this little his
tory OF the quartet of great West PCin tiers,
ne came to he idolized as the first Of .'the
four" by the cadets of 1865.
Gen. Thomas, the Rock If Chicxa-
nauga," just sauntered into West Point
off the steamer Mary Powell about mid
day one sunshiny day i'll June, 0f 60.
His comm z, his arrival was unheralded A
strong, s;out-built,' broad-shoaIGered man,
wearing a black slouch hat and linen
duster as long as tail sentry-bOx. ne
strolled off the boat at the south landing,
carrying a gripsack- He refused 10 take
the bus, and, warm, though ne was, he
stTolled up the steep hill from the south
dock so the plain" on which the academy
barracks, and other buildings are situated.
An old cavalry officer. he sticde across
the arid cavalry plain, rather than under
the trec-shaded walk, to ROe's Hotel, look
ing about him and down. as well, at the
pebbles ar his feet, as if ne recognized on
them some traces of his hoTse's hoofs
when he was cadet centsur. He walked
into the hotel and registered Then is
became known that Gen. Thomas " aSat the
Point, and fGIl-Cressed- army Officers were
soon seen in numbers hurTying 90 the hateI
to be met by very plain-appeeriug man,
with brown whissers, close cropped, dressed
in a very ordinary suit of gray tweed All
sorts OF military honoIs were showered
upon him, from the stiff Tight-hand salute
OF subal5erns, the unctuous familiarity nd
good fellowship of superiors, 10 the pToffer
of a review and pa rade by the cadets
"Oh, no, remarked the general Il don't
want the cadets to come out for Ir,. in this
hot weather. The boys have had enough
tramping around of late, / understand I
know they are good soldiers witiiaut seeing
them on parade y
Isitany wonder that the cadets OF 1862
worshiped Pap Thomas, and then and
there eTnbalmed his memory in tie cadet
traditions uf the academy. Not only that
they ovcrhauled the traditions OF the aea.i-
emy, and raked up this story about him
when a cadet: One day his class was taken
out by the mathematical Instructor to do
LOT OF angling-that is, with theodolite
TO survey aD1 map out the West Point reser-
walton. Cadet Thomas sneaked eff from
the class while at this work down about
Kosciusko's s Garden, and returned Just
about the time the class was returning to
barracks.
where have you been, Mr. Thornas?'
said the instructor. II have been angling,
SIR be said, md held up string OF fish
To prove it-Chicago Timcs-lIeralJ
The times., 1897-05-16
Thev Treated Him Gingerly.

The New Workers treated Sir Julian
Pamcefote very gingerly while he was over
there. and did not get tangled up with his
prerogatives once They had a narrow eS-
cape, however, at the Union League Club
reception where u table with sixteen plates
was arranged in the dining room for the
Presideat aad the most distinguished guests,
II was proposed to put Gen Porter, the
president of the club, atone end, with Presi-
dent Mckinley on his right and Vice Presi-
dent Hobart on his left, and Mr.. Strong.
the mayor OF the city, at the other end, with
Sir Julian Pauncefote at his right and NJ
Patenotre, the French ambassador, on his
left But at the suggestion of a gentleman
who knows Sir Julian's peculiaritles the
committee in charge decided not to take the
risk. The long table was given TO the ortli
nary guests of the club, and the President
and the ambassadors were seated at small
tables that would only hold four each. =
Chicago Record.
The times., 1897-05-16
JOHN cHAMBERL1N,s PAT HAND.
A Poker Game in Which Mr.. Co:ik-
ling Acted as Umpire.

If ever an opti,nist lived, the late John
Chamberlin was one; and yet he had TO
swim through his hours of disgust the
same as men of less cheerful temperament.
He often said that the most dismal eX-
perience of his life was single round of
two-handed poker game that he played
back in 1873 with Kentuckian of ma
tiolal fame at that time.
1t was after dinner at Chamberlin's
hotel one winter evening. Besides Cham
berlin and the Kentuckian, Roscoe Conk
ling and member of Hayes Cabinet hal
Helped TO make away with the dinner
After it had been eaten the four adjourned
to Chamherlin's private smoking room to
enjoy their coffee and cigars. They all felt
pretty well, the only natural feeling for
the proper kind of man after eating his
share OF Chamterlin dinner. They sat
around Chamberlin acknowledgement s ca-.l
table purchased for him in Japan by Gea
Grantl, yarning and dawdling for q while
The Kentuckian, fumbling among the re-
The times., 1897-05-16
HE KNEW THE FAMILY.

/ had been told that could find lodgings
for the night at Uncle Taylor's, and was
within mile Of the house when man
came out of the bushes with gun on his
shoulder / asked him if the next house
was Tayior's, and ne said it was, and in
turn inquired if l was going to stop
there Being answered i'll tie affirmative
he continued:
If was you know ali about them Tay-
lors''
Il was told that they were nice fam
lily"
WAS you? Wall, guess the folks ,lidn t
know 'eni That's d purity good hoss you've
got thar The old man Taylor sor.er
decent about sum things, but If you stop
thar tonight ne Ii git up and steal that hoss
afore midnight as suah's yer born. It's IN
him to steal a good boss and he can t help
it. Did ye n 'ar anythin said about his hoy
Jim?"
Nothing against him."
wall, you take my word fur IL tat
lc amt no better'n he orter be. If the
old man was tied up by the heels snd
couldn't git out to steal yer hoss, Jim
would do IL fur snah. He's about ready
IT, skip the kentry, and would like n Loss
to travel on Anybody say anythin' about
his son Joe?"
Not To his detriment.
~ don't know nothin' bout detriment, "
said the old man, with puzzled look;
but ] wouldn't trust that boy Joe as
fur as ye could sling mewl He don't
keer much fur bosses, but that watch o.
yours would jest fit him, and he'd hev it
if he had to bust yer head. ! knowed him
to foller a man over twenty miles once
in hopes to git his watch, and it was a
pore watch at that. Did ye know that
Uncle John had darter?"
.'Yes, ] heard So"
Ibid We hear that she wanted to git
married mighty bad?"
mo"
Wall she does, and she'd go fur you the
powerfullest kind. If ye said ye didn't
wanter marry, or he'd a wife already,
she'd go inter a tantrum and run yer
outer the house She run Il man over three
miles one night last week. Did them folks
back thar mention ole Missus Taylor"
Yes: they said she was fine woman. ="
THAT was powerful kind o. them, but
she's got faults, same as the rest. I've
knowed some awful liars in my time,
but she does beat the hun crowd And
she's that tired of livin' out in this kentry
that she'd AK ye to eloEe with her be-
fore you'd bin in the house ten minutes
! ain tbraggin' that I'm square man, but
] don't want TO see stranger taken in and
dun fur"
"You can't live so far away?'' L queried
as we walked along together.
.'No not SO fur"
And why can't / lodge with you to-
night?''
with me? Why, haiu't Jest bin warnin'
We all about il? Haint ye got it through
yer head I'm Uncle John Taylor hisself, and
that's the way I cum to know so much
about the family
You ou-are.'
"You bet / ar, aud if I was You I'd
hurry up and git half mile ahead. don
want to see a stranger taken in and dun
fur, hut if we travel together fur another
forty rods it'll be Jest like me 10 hold We
up fur ell ye've got and like huff pop ye
over to bootr'
The times., 1897-05-16


Take long whiff of this camphor and lie
quiet for a few minutes
''Wmt-what was l trying to dor he
whispered between his shifts.
Il think you were trying to skin the
cat as they cali IL, but the cat skun you.
Let me help you downstairs and get youinto
bed"
Next morning Mr. Bowser got up with a
lop in each shoulder, a limpin either leg and
his back hunpedup; but he was game When
Mrs Bowser asked him how he felt he re-
plieI:
Same as usual. why?"
II didn't know tut the fall hurt you.
Fail, fan. What fall?''
From your performing bar last night.
Don't you rememher?''
mo. MA am. + DON'T he stiffly replied.
.If you will allow yourself to become
bilious and hayethe nightmare youneed not
bother me with your fantasies. It's my
opinion that you'd better do some per
forming on the gas and coal bills and not
he so rccklessin your household expenses.
The times., 1897-05-16
A NEW ONE ON BILL.

We were waiting at the Air Line juno
tion for the Southern eXpress--fifteen or
twenty passengers-wbe we saw q man
come running along the country highway
with his hat in his hand. AS he ,rew
nearer tous be waved the hat and shonted,
but no one could make him out until he
reached us, He was a man of fifty years
and very much excited, and he had tc wait
three or four minutes before he could say:
"Gentlemen, nay son Bin has broke loose
and viii be here in ten niinutes"
WHAT'S the matter with your sun BILL"
ask ed one of the passengers.
Hes the awfullest fighter in all this
Statei" was the reply. Hes fit and
licked everytmn' fur goo miles around,
and fur the last week We had hin; tied up
in tire harm, cause he was achin' To fight
and nobody would fight him. He was
Dustin the ropes when / left, and he'll
ctsiw this crowd up as a COW cats cabbage.
Thar he comes nowi''
On the crest OF a hill half n nile away
we saw a man who was headed our way,
and the passengers asked of the excited
father:
What do you think we had better do
in the casc?"
the old man, 'tand mebbe l kin coax Bill
not TO do you any damage! If ! lad a
chunk of raw beef think | could git nim
tofollow me back home agin. Seehimcum!
He's achiIi' fur death and destrucks shYn.''
He isn't foolish or crazy. is heY'
Not a bit, sir. He's jest rip-roarer
of fighter, and if he lights down ON this
crowd suntbn' awful will happen. What
you goin' to do?''
I'm goin' to meet your son Bill, re-
piled the man as he threw off his coat
and pushed up his sleeves
but he'll make cat's-meat OF you in
two boots and a holler, Gentlemen, fur
heavens sake git nside while see If
can coax Bill to spare your livesl"
The passenger leaped off the platform
and went down the read a few yards TO
meet Bill, who was coming on the jump
and yelling every time he lifted his feet
from the earth He was chunky young
man about twenty-five years old, and as
he came up he made straight for the pas
senger
Hold on, Bill-don't kill him-don't kill
him!' shouted the father, as he rushed for
ward. but he was too late. Bill had rushed
at the passenger with his arms going ike
fails, and something had shot out a ndland
ed on his jaw and laid him on his back.
He did not get up for ten minutes He Jay
so quiet That some thought him dead, but
after a dash Of water in his face he opened
his eyes and sat up, and the father queried
of the passenger
Mister, what did you do to my son
Bill?"
"I landed on his Jaw" was the reply.
And is he a licked man?"
ale is. He is signing to go home to
his mother"
Eyes, he looks like it. Say, Bill, the
airth has tipped up and you ar licked
nip roarer Let's go home to ma"
And Bill slowly got up, looked around
as il he had lost something, and lean
ed heavily ON his fathers shoulder while
the pair walked down the dusty highway
and never looked back.
The times., 1897-05-16

mewl she'd and traniped all my garden sass
into the airth, and il hadn't stood right
thar with aclub they'd hey stole alloar soft
soap and hard CIDER
And is that alf?''
us that all Why, what ar yo' iookin'
fur, stranger? Mebbe yo'd druther snlnbody
else would tell yo about this fout- -slnbody
who wasn't yerei''
Yes, mebbe he'd druther!" added the
wife as started for the gate.
The times., 1897-05-16
All of Him.

he evidently was from the rural dis
tricts, and, therefore, his uncasincss upon
what presumably was his first visit to u
photographer could easily be overlooked.
At last, when he was summoned to the
operating room and caught whiff of
chemicals from the dark ROOM" he hesi-
tated on the threshold, half susplciously
Come in; come right liz said the camera
man, reassuringly. DO You want Wig
nette?''
'.N-no, guess not, replied the old man,
~ guess can stand it withou taking any
thing
would you like photograph of your
head only? Or would you prefer one half
length, or full length?" Inquired the pho
tographer.
We'll, now, II tell you how it is, mister, -
remarked the old granger confidentiaily.
"This picter is for widder in Nebraska
who's been writin to me Considerable about
gettin' spliced. 1 reckon she'd ruther
have picter of my whole system if it
don't make any difference to you.'
1t diln t-Chicago Times Herald.
The times., 1897-05-16
THE BATTLE OF CHICAMAUGA

stopped at the farm house on the battle
field Of Chickamauga aud asked the old
farmer sitting ON the door step if he lived
there when the battle was fought and
could give me any particulars about it.
"Yes, sah--lived right yere,' he replied
as he stoodup, land shall never forgit that
fout. When I got up in the mawnin and
went out to milk 1 seen about a million
Yankee soldiers around
Thar was TO million of 'em, Samuel, :
corrected his wife, as she came around the
corner Of the house.
Yes, 70 million, sab, and they had
guns and swords and was powerful mad
about sunthin'. l was lookin' around ful
the cow when a monstrously powerful
gineral rode up TO me and aXed if they
night hevafoutol my land. Itoldhim Idsee
the ole woman and let him know
"And l said l reckon they mought, if
they'd be keerful OF the garden sass andnot
let the pigs out added the woman.
''Yes, that's what you said," contin-
ued the husband, land when / went out to
feed the hawgs | told the gineral so. H,
seemed powerfully pleased about it, and
said he wouldn t forgit my kindness. l was
feeun the calf W hen another monstrously
powerful gineral rode up and wanted 20
know if he could git some breakfast. /
tol him I'd see the ole woman and let him
know
"And said he could, If he paid fur
it, put In the wife.
"Yes, that's exactly what you said,
Hammer, and went out and told him so. He
smiled and bowed and made his hoss
prance around, and bimeby he cum in. He
ate six 'taters, three slices of fried pork
and monstrous sight of bread and butter
/ axe1 him il he was mad al the Confeds.
an ] he said he was. axed llimwhy, and he
said he'd dun forgot, but was mad all ove:
jest the same and was bound TO give 'enl
down the kentry. / told him it was agin the
Bible TO fight
$50 did l. added the wife.
Yes, ! remember you tol J him SO, and he
didn't deny IL. He was jest goin' to pay
fur his breakfast W hen another inonstronsly
powerful gineral rode up and axes fur me
and wants to know if he kin hev fout on
my land. He was a Cenfed, and he was
Dustin mad. told him I'd see the ole worn-
all about it and let him know
"And / says he kin fout if he didn t tip
over the rain barI or break down the plum
trees
That's w hat you said, Hammer, and II
swear to il, and the Yankee was 50 upset
that he went away and didn't pay fur his
breakfast. Then the CoDfed said he was
hungry, and he ate five .taters, 70 slices If
frie pork and heaps and heaps of bread and
butter. / axed him what he was mad at,
an ] he saidthem drafted Yanks had stole his
feather bed. told him it was agin the Bible
to fout, bnt he didn't keer shucks. He was
eatin' away when a man steps in and says
the fout was ready to be fitten, and the
nionstroUsly powerful gineral hurries out
and don't pa fur his breakfast
.'But I .old so to go arter him. said
the wife.
Yes, Hanuer, you did, and went
along. but jest then the fout begun. Sakes
alive. but never want to see another sirh
tine.''
What did you seer asked
why. the awfullest, powerfuilest sights
in the world, sab. They tore down the hog
pen, upset the hen roost, wrecked the
The times., 1897-05-16
rbe Road Hog and Mr.. a stor.

1t seems that hogs don't al ways travel in
cable cars, but that they have taken 10
bicycling, too. Last week four OF them
were riding along the fine, hard roads Of
Ferncliffe, John Jacob Astor' 6 country seat.
Heretofore Mr.. Astor, who is u bicyclist,
never has made any objections to the use
Of his private roads by outsiders: but this
time the four hogs, when they met him
riding his wheel, would not make roonn
for him to pass, and he was forced into
the gutter, narrowly escaping an ugly fan.
Now all bicyclists are excluded from Fern
cliffe New York Press
The times., 1897-05-16
what Our Boys Learn at college

The grave and reverend seniors of an
Arkansas college have adopted this beau
tiful little college yell:
Boom a-lacka, boom-a-lacka,
Bow, WOW, WOW,
Ching a-lacka, ching-a-acka,
Chow, chow, chow.
Boom-a-lacka, ching -a-lacka,
Who are we?
Who's from Ouachita?
We, we, we.
Whoo ra, whoO-ro,
Dipla, diploo,
Ri, 81, XII, hi,
Hot. cold, wet or dry,
Get there Ell,
Ouachita Fly high.
Chicago Times Herald
The times., 1897-05-16
The Hens Protest.

\ lien recently got into the building OF n
bioomer girls golf cIab, and. making .
nest of two lace pocket handkcrchiefs, pro-
cceded 10 set on some golf balls. The
righteous indignation OF this maternal and
domestic fowl, and the unique method she
employed of administering her stinging re-
proof, ought TO be handed down to an adj
niring posterity. New YORK Press
The times., 1897-05-16
Iimited Consumntion.

.'They say now that bicycle cures con-
SUMPTION "Yes. / can't expect three
meals 3 day until I get mine paid fnr -
Detroit Free Press.
Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1897-05-10

City Carriage Co., j. s. And.
rade, manager. If you want a
hack with good horse and care
full driver ring up Telephone lib,
corner of Fort and Merchant
streets. Hack at all hours. \
Kroeger Pianos, sweetest in tone,
Jas. W. Bergstrom, sole agent, cash
or installments. Warerooms at
G. Vests, Masonic Temple. Of
fee at Thrum's Book Store. Tun-
ing and repairing. Ne Tele-
phone BAT.
Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1897-05-10
BY POLICE AT CALLAO.

Inquiry here confirms the story COM
ing from Lima to the effect that the
State Department has lodged a de-
mand with the United States charge
of legation at Lima for the release of
the mate of the American bark "Uncle
John" He was ashore on December
10 last at Callao, and was arrested be-
cause of his constant demand for "Rai-
nier Beer" On tap or in bottles at the
Criterion Saloon.