El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-04-17

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Its long lane that has no turn
ing" The found alton of Ell Paso's
Tammany is crumbling.
A car load of Easter eggs will arrive
manana.
All those young men who have
'1ent" their jewelry to their uncle"
for the past forty days will now pro-
coed to dig I'D the pawn tickets, as the
trinkets will be useful during the bal
ance of the year.
Let's all 90 to church tomorrow and
see who wears the prettiest Easter bon
net.
Easter and the new city administra-
ton come in at the same time. Let
there be peace.
The loud pop of bursted bicycle
tire yesterday reminded riders that
cold weather was over and that air eX-
pands with the advent of warm wealth
err.
Bicycle riders should petition the
new city administration to caulk up
the leak holes in the tale end of some
of the sprinkling carts.
There was an election in Ell Paso
Tuesday. The fight was between the
SIN-.a oft Il
zens. AS might be expected in that
farmer town the mossbacks won
Lordsburg Liberal. If Don Kidzie
isn't squelched the Ell Paso Tamany
will have to "boycott his business.
''Do you believe that the Red Sea
open and let Moses and the Israelites
pass through and escape the Egyptian
hosts?' said Pat to Patrick. Nav,
that's one of those morning papers
sensational articles. Which paper did
YOU read it in?'' SIN the bible sob.
well. that's different: of course 1 be-
lieve it,
She-';Was there anyone so happy
before?'
He-.No sweetness, never
She-"What have we done to deserve
?"-Advertisement.
Next week will be a week of show.
The Buchanan Farce Company opens
up Monday night and the next night
the McGinties will open the spring
season. Every night afterwatd during
the week will be enlivened by the
amusement makers of the Buchanan
company. 1t is to be hoped that the
audience will be able TO see the one
legged Italian girl on the drop curtain
without sitting on the back of their
Easter bonnets.
Il dropped into a revival tent up in
the Black mountains on my way down
here, and what do you think the
preacher Teller told the round-up,"
said Broncho Buster to Bill Rustler.
Il do no, I'm shuer," said Bill. why
he told them they must quit drinking
whiskey, sbootin' people and stealth
cattle. Wot you think of that" said
Broncho. "Oh, that's nothing. them
preacher fellers are allus trying to cut
off all of q mans amusement" said
Bill.
Ibid you ever take one Of those new
tangled ''masseur'' baths?" mo |
Well then I'll tell you how they 90. |
The first thing a fellow has to do is to
find the place, and then go into the |
ante room. From there you are pas ed |
to the initiation room where you will |
see a whole lot of 'stiffs' laid out who |
have slight signs of life left, and some |
of whom may be recuperating from the |
effects of bath already taken. There |
the boss requests you to 'dOnSe your
duds.' Then you are showed into an |
other room ana fail down on one of |
these biers there for that purpose. |
Then you are ready for business. The
man then pours on some medicine that
loosenS the skin from the flesh and |
after the skin is well loosened he pro-
ceeds to rub all the skin Off and |
leave the flesh raw. After a thorough |
rubbing, pounding and beating; you are
thrown into a sweat box and the stream
turned on just hot enough to cook the
raw flesh, but not to brown it. When
you are just cooked rare and fell as
though an other minute in the modern
hades would be the last, the man
reaches in strong arm and yanks the
almost inanimate body out and throws
t onto a disecting table and rubs the
lalf cooked flesh the wrong way with
coarse brush, all the time pouring on
not water and soap. The next course
5 another cooking in the sweat box,
md then another yank out and you
ire thrown into bath tub
half full of medicated water.
AS you are thrown in this you gasp for
breath and swallow q gallon of the
Medicine that tastes like bilge water
rom an ocean steamer. After one
las been drowned three times and then
pulled out and the life rolled back into
aim, he is told to sit up. and then fine
salt rubbed over the SllnleSS body, and
7ou are given shower bath, ana then
showed out onto one of the biers in the
lext room. where you are left for life
o gradually crawl back into your body.
After fifteen or twenty minutes you be- /
rim to feel around to see if you are
here and then you begin to realize {
hat your skin is like polished marble, !
md you have lived through the terri
lie ordeal and are glad that you are
live. Then the boss comes in and
ubs you down with witch hazel or al
ohOl. then you get up cut jig step, :
nut on your clothes, pay the man for
he beating he gave you, go out and 7
COX for some sickly boy, jump on him, !