El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-04-24

The fair Mariana set watching a star,
When who should ride up but young Lock-
invar,
Her pulchritude gave him pectoral glow
And he reigned up his boss with a stentorian
whoa!
Then gazed on the maiden a rupturous
grin
Aud modestly asked If he might come in;
With presence OF mind that was marvellous
quite.
The fair maiden replied that he might.
So in throw the portals rode young LoclSin-
var,
Pre-empted the claim and cleaned out the
bar.
Tho the justice owed he wasn't tot ally to
same.
Charley Lawrence was in deep
buglsr got into his store last night and
not being satisfied with stealing cash
he actually carried off the cash regis
ter.
Ell Paso's voting machine" has al
ways heretofore won on a bluff and
when their bluff is called they squirm
and squeel and do any old thing rather
than make show down.
The motorman on the San Antonio
street and Magoff1n avenue electric car
line will please take warning. A man
II years old deliberately shot a motor
man on the streets OF St. Louis yester-
day because he allowed his car to catch
up and run into the old mans buggy.
The old man claimed he had as much
right on the streets as the car had.
The airship is still knocking around
the atmosphere. 1t has lately been
seen down in Louisiana. 1t would
have probably stopped over in Ell Paso.
and taken rest, but heard that the
lawyers in the contested election cases |
were about to argue the question, and
as the air ship was just out for trial, |
the owners did not care to have the |
ship stay in this atmosphere until it
had become purified again.
The Washington Times tells the fol-
lowing pathetic story of an occurrance /
at the white House lately: president
McKlnley-My dear madam, what can
I do for you? The Lady in Black-Mr
have been left widow,
with ten children, none of them able
to work. The only thing I can do is to
sing, and, and if you will let me sing
for you at the white house sometimes
President McKinley-But, madam, Ter
hardly Gee The Lady-One moment,
Mr.. President I can sing Hone,
in hearing will be homesick. And the
day after there was an exodus of Office
seekers"
Some fellow sneered at Ingalls, for
being a reporter, and Gladstone and
Bismarck are very busy reporting for
And coming way down we
find Benny Harrison reporting for the
and Grover may soon be
expected to write an article on pisi-
or "What Know About Min
aors and Suckers
A San Antonio street restaurant ad
Vertised olive broiled quail on toast,
30 cents" The thought of it fairly
makes one quail and wonder if the life
An Oregon street candy dealer has
succeeded after a long time in getting ,
even with candy tasting fend. The
lend has been in the habit of calling {
IN the dealer and tasting all the new |
candy while he entertained the pro-
,rietor. In this way the dealer lost
Ibout $40 worth of candy, so he fixed
up some candy for his fend friend and
yesterday the latter dropped in and
picked up gum drop, caramel, a
chocolate drop and many other fine
elections Of candy. Now the fiend is
epenting his folly-each little. inno-
ent sweet WAS loaded with CHEYENNE
pepper. !
81 have been living IN hopes" said I
n old citizen this morning, that the &
ime would come when the officers in '
Il Paso could unbuckle their pistols
nd lay them aside as relics of by gone
lays, but lately my mind has changed
n the subject, and now see good rea- I
on for the officer to carry large gun q
nd two: belts of cartridges strapped I
round him. 1t would never do for an I
Il Paso officer to lay aside his gun and d
t would put him at disadvantage
7hen the private citizen went down
nto his hip pocket after q mountain e
owitzer. The officer must always b
eep himself on an equality with the b
rivate citizen to be efficient in the dis t.
barge of his duty"
There are more truths than fiction n
ometimes told nns the professional a
tage. Last night when Burt Swor "
7as amusing the audience at the opera h
ouse with experiences on the road, he {
nay have been telling OF actual occur h
ences that were not SO funny at the il
ime they occurred. The audience 7
ees only the glitter and glamor of q
lie on the stage, but there is another b
ide known to the profe: sion that the u
ctOr at times can look back TO and dig "
p "reminiscences that pleases an audi fl
nee and makes them laugh, but to him a
is tale of hardships that he, OF n
ONE other of the profession, cannot
3ok back upon with any degree of
leasure. No matter how good the W
ctor, he or she at any time is liable to b
IN upon the rock of adversely and be b
att stranded in town among strange *