El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-10-09
A Difficult Lament.

The melancholy days have Gomez;
Ye poets drop a tear:
Once more YOUR luteS in minor strum,
And sing of autumn drear.
But, as the leaves fore6ake the trees,
In sadness so intense,
We hail with sweet relief the breeze
That comes to blow them hence.
Der places that are ''bare and brown"
IT'S proper to lament;
Yet 10 efface the gloomy frown
A sense of sweet content
Steals through US. No hot wave an
noys,
Mosq uitos hush their lays;
In fact, there's nothing one enjoys
Like melancholy days"
The thunder storm last night was a
sumner Two men walking along the
street were stunned, but whether by
bottled lightning or the natural stun
deponent knOweth not.
The supreme fathers sprlnkl1ng cart
is much better than the two used by
the city fathers. The fourth ward as
we'll as the second was sprinkled well
last night.
A very sensational article could be
written on custom house affairs, but as
the democratic crowd that now reside
in Uncle Sam s pile OF brick and store
at the corner OF Oregon and St. Louis
streets only have one months more
rent paid in advance they Will be let
down easy and nothing will be said OF
the row in official circles.
A New England editor has been tel
ling what he knows about pulque and
com pairing ii in effect to haru cider.
But from what he wrote 1t is evident
tha at he does not know much about
puIque. Pulque is soporlhc; 1T wallis
its victims on downy wings to Nlrvana;
it makes men calm and philOsOphlc I'M
less they are disturbed in their medita-
lions, builds up the system, renews
youth, and keeps the social syste m in
the puloue world revolving at
comfortab BILE rate. 1t will cure Brlght's
disease, if taken in time and 1t Will
even rest the nerves of an 1nvetsrate
newspaper paragrapher. Besides thls
after a person has drank glass Of
pulque he has to walk around olock
twice to break the pulque string that
attaches his mouth to The glass.
An editor after looking over his list
of DELINQUENT subscribers wrote the
IUllOWlQg. ''hOW ooaI ~ Jul hOot 70 Is
the O d silver dollar, when some kind
subscribers present it to view; the
liberty head without neckt CT collar,
and all the strange things which to us
seem so new; the wide spreading eagle,
the arrows b low It. the stars and the
words with the strange things they
tell; the coin of our fathers, ws're
glad that we know IL, for some time or
other twill come in right well; the
spread eagle dollar, the star spangled
dollar, the old silver dollar we all love
it so we'll"
w. G. Brann. ed tor of the IcOuO-
clast, is having lively time at Waco
aud if his head holds out he will have
more fun and sensation crowded into
one weeks existence than is the lot OF
most editors. Between being lariated
by college boys and being raped over
the head with six shooters his path has
been as though through the milk-away |
and his visi has been one OF shooting |
stars. If Brann's head holds out he |
may reform the faculty of Baylor
university, but If his patel is not ire |
papned with armor plate Baylors !
university is likely to reform Brann.
Brann is mighty with the pen, but |
slow on the draw. He is better |
Paper-ball thrower than a slugger.