El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-05-06

ern DANES made in trying TO do their own
cooking were we'll set forth. 1t came
dreadfully hard to do the work the
blacks had done, but there was no es-
cape for it, aud the hard lesson was
learned.
good story was told of a proud
southern lady who taught school in
his neigh borbood and in whose school
was forced by outside influence, most
unattractive looking man who sought
| to escape conscription by the confeder-
ates and imprisonment by the union
| forces, by being enrollet as pupil.
| She stood off union officers who visited
her school house while the worthless
| fellow (ScrOggins his name was) they
| were after, hid behi d the door. The
union officers were v-ry polite and the
| lea hers determ ned air b uffed them
successfully off. TIE Scroggins was
then invited to make himself scarce by
| he teacher, and he vanished out
! through a window never to be seen
| again.
Young Steele and his father were
| afterwards down ou the river bank
when along came gun boat and began
-helling that neigh borhood. The
,lacrity with which the two got out of
| that country was marvel. DR.. Steele
while lec5uring in Iowa recently was
| Aelcomed by G. a. r. men. one of
| whom said he was on that very gun
boat, and the meeting between the
two was decidedly interesting.
Some of tie shells th@He
y that gun goat failed to explode and
were found about three months ago by
negroes on a picnic. The supposed
dead shells were thrown in to cane
break bonfire and exploded killed
three of the merry makers. DR.. Steele
declared th at the war opened the eyes
Of southern people to the fact that the
United States were never meant to be
dismem bered, and he was now as
strong uuionist as he had been q
rebel during the war. Moreover, the
war taught the southern people the
necessity of depending on their own
exertiOns rather than on the negroes.
He was not sorry that his eyes had
been opened.
The lecturer was very we'll received,
and held the attention of his hearers
firmly to the close. DR.. Steele is an
entertaining speaker, and talks in q
Capt. Jack Crawford. He has made
many friends in Ell Paso.
A MORNING TALK.
DR.. Steele spoke this morning in
Trinity church on the Importance of
the work of the Master among young
people, as instanced in the work of the
Epworth League, the Young Oeople's
Baptist Young Peoples Union, etc.
The great thing is to give the young
folks something TO do. Life and ener-
gy are strong in them They must be
a about doing something. If their ener-
gies are not directed in proper and
right channels there is danger of their
being turned into improper channels.
There is a period where boy, in his
own estimation is beyond the age of
boy, and not as yet a man, and there is
a period in girls life when she is, in
her own estim alton, no longer girl,
while as yet she is not a full grown wo-
man. 1t is at such times in life that
the young should be carefully guarded.
Gve them active work to do in the
Masters vineyard, direct their ener-
gies along that line, and their lives
will be moulded and made firm for good
in this world and lasting happiness in
the next.
The speaker had 10 use at all for the
young oudes who meet before church
time to stand in front of the entrances
to smoke cigarettes and stare at people
as they go in. Every time he sqaw
anything of that kind, DR.. Steele said
he wanted to get strong hickery
switch and WELD it vigorously until the
place was purged OF such nuisauces.
He also had no use either for the card
table, and ref rred to the waste of
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much better it was tt give ones time
to literary work instead of the card
table: and in this connection the doctor
told of young woman in Tennessee
who had been socie-y belle, and had
ben much given to cards. But on
being persuaded to join one of the
literary societies connected with the
League. she became convinced
of the benefit to be d rived from liter
ary associations as against card play
ing, and gave her heart finally to her
maker, and abandoned entirely the
fr vol ii of fa-hiou able life.
DR.. Steele spoke of a couple over
seventy years of age in his state who
had sought for a university diploma,
the reason given being that they want
ed to avoid being ignoramuses in the
ueXt world. The talk was illustrated
with interesting and amusing incidents.
and the speaker was closely listened
to. He left this afternoon for Califor-
mia after pleasant stay in Ell Paso
where he says he has become much
with the sense of the good
that can be accomplished here by we'll
directed, Intelligent effort.
DR.. Steele made a short address yes
terday afternoon before the Mexican
Methodist church on South Camo-
bell street, where a large audience
of the Mexican brethern had gathered
to hear him. Presiding Elder
Corbin translated the address into
Spanish.
The doctors hearers of last night
are still talking of his peroration when
he compared Dixie to a beautiful maid
ed to whom Yankee Doodle was about
to pop and be accepted. The one can
not do without the other.